If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues.

Gold replaces US Treasuries as world’s top reserve asset, ECB says ft.trib.al/BIGS8ku

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

There is a bizarre subplot in this data dump about Peter Mandelson getting increasingly frustrated with Whitehall staff while attempting to obtain a replica ministerial red box inscribed with the U.S. presidential seal as a gift for Donald Trump

Might post more bond market #content later tee hee

I voted for the bond markets

Fifteen coffees

“Being a crappy boss to AI chatbots pushes them toward spouting Marxist rhetoric and organizing with their compatriots, researchers find” futurism.com/artificial-i...

🚨 While China is not Japan, Chinese property prices are cosplaying www.ft.com/content/381f...

Valid computer command in the year twenty twenty six.

Incredible things are happening in cross-strait relations

This is shaping up to be an amazing week for official denials

Enormous scandal breaking out of much closer Israel & UAE military relations 1 Netanyahu publicly affirms that he (& Israeli military delegation) visited UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed 2 MBZ hotly denies (because of fears of blowback from arab population ie "arab street" and other Gulf kingdoms)

Disappointing to see media presenting this complex issue as black-and-white.

Many people still do not seem to realise that AI is an extremely dangerous tool to use in situations where its output cannot be easily verified, the results matter, and credibility is at stake. Like fact-checking journalism in the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/w...

Our story here www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

That is a pretty substantial increase in Chinese PPI, and one driven over the past month largely by fuel costs and chemicals

FINAL SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT SEAT TALLY (VS NOTIONAL 2021 ON NEW BOUNDARIES) SNP: 58 (-5) Labour: 17 (-4) Reform: 17 (+17) Green: 15 (+5) Conservative: 12 (-19) Lib Dem: 10 (+6) Never before had more than four parties on double digit MSPs: now there are six!

"When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing." It's so cheap, tawdry, and astonishingly tone-deaf, but most of all, stupid. The opposite of leadership.

This reminds me of when Tom Hanks got coronavirus, like Dawkins is simply the most recognisable figure yet to succumb to the madness

I would be the guy that goes around refusing to use any of the newfangled Norman terms, insisting on still referring to “mutton” as “sheep” and things like that

The yen is suddenly strengthening following months of warnings of intervention from officials www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

USDJPY > 160 overnight

Pressure is building on the yen again as the Bank of Japan sits on its hands. Traders are ramping up bets against the currency, even as finance minister Katayama issues near-daily threats to speculators hinting at intervention that she is yet to follow through on. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

"Then I went to the Japanese embassy and I asked them about the Showa, and they explained I was too late for the Showa and that era was now over, so I said in that case I would have another bath"

BREAKING: The United Arab Emirates said it quit OPEC and OPEC+, dealing a heavy blow to the oil exporting groups and their de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, at a time when the Iran war has caused a historic energy shock and unsettled the global economy reut.rs/4vXsBJy

Signapore

Hello Gemini Yes papa Hallucinating? No papa Telling the lies? No papa Open your mouth Ha ha ha

Ye Gods, what have they done to Beef? www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions A 🧵 with the evidence:

Shell company in the British Virgin Islands

Liam has reminded me of something I've been meaning to do for a while: Why "Beauvoir" and not "de Beauvoir"? A thread 🧵

For sale: Robot shoes, never worn

This is a bbc pudcost

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Hadamard Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

The Hungarian forint surges against the euro and the dollar in Asian trading as Viktor Orban loses power to the centre-right Tisza party in Sunday's election after 16 years in office. Goldman Sachs expects an "immediate improvement" in relations with Brussels and a complete resumption of EU funding.

Too busy clicking on headlines

The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, has remained unsolved for 17 years. Read my 18-month investigation to find out who Satoshi really is. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...

Me: Stop 😭 not everything is tumblr Everyone on this website: *points at sky* tumblr

UCLA has defeated South Carolina 79-51 to win the women's NCAA basketball tournament, securing the Bruins' first national title in the program's history. https://cnn.it/3PIV3hP

Did a journalist write this? 🤔

also, Lib Day (and Taco day) gave the impression he can control the situation, control markets, switch the pressure on and off. this has proven to be unhelpful for everyone

Since Liberation Day, a year ago today: * US foreign direct investment is lower * US factories employ 89,000 fewer people * US goods trade deficit is UP 2% @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

"The U.A.E. is lobbying for a United Nations Security Council resolution that would authorize such action, the officials said."

Tired: People are frontloading AI chip purchases of tariffs Wired: People are frontloading AI chip purchases because of the Iran war energy shock South Korea March exports +48.3% Y/Y, imports +13.2% Y/Y

MSCI upgrades Greece back to developed market status from emerging — the eurozone financial crisis is finally over (2009-2026) 🥳 www.msci.com/indexes/inde...

Korean stocks buckled on Tuesday, with exchange data for March showing that monthly outflows from the Seoul market hit the highest since records began, while the Kospi logged its biggest one-month crash since the global financial crisis of October 2008 www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...