Astonishing figures. OAI might be worth $.5tn, but plans to invest that amount in US data centres alone. It will have to make even more to pay off investors. Only one example of a tech. company with a huge valuation financed by other tech. companies. Analysts predict a market correction - at least.

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

Brexit has cost the UK creative sector an estimated €184 million.

Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'

Good. Defamatory lying on social media is the aggressive business model of the 21st Century - pioneered by Alex Jones and copied by Candace Owen. It’s like a hostile takeover bid on a personal level. Horrible, disturbed and disturbing.

Estimates of amount lost annually due to decreased trade are £120-140bn.

I’m quite ready to believe that a good LLM could imitate, say, Nietzsche and even offer Nietzschean interpretations of different phenomena (although the quality and accuracy of them would be variable). But one of my questions is this: if Nietzsche hadn’t existed, could AI have invented him?

Lovely, IMO.

As I keep saying: if it's truth you want, read fiction, not 'true stories'. Fiction writers are honest liars. They're not out to con you. If you want to read a redemption narrative about going on a long walk, read The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.

The biggest gap in people’s knowledge about AI right now is to do with what it can’t do, not what it can.

Really? Are the guardian blatantly pitching for the teen readership now?

Glastonbury media coverage reveals more about media than Glastonbury.

Jeff Bezos appears to be wearing the wrong waistcoat for his wedding. This is a dinner suit (aka a tuxedo) and thus requires a dress waistcoat, which is cut lower on the body. He's wearing a business vest, which is designed for business suits. Needs a formal waistcoat like the one on the right.

‘As social inequality in Britain deepens, the problem gets worse: since the 1970s the proportion of working-class actors, musicians and writers has halved.’

‘It is in the nature of moral qualities that they are destroyed by deficiency or excess’ Aristotle, Ethics. This seems as true to me now as the first time I read it. Picture: Aristotle from the School of Athens fresco in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican City, Rome.

Emily Catalano: consistently funny, IMO.

There's a fair bit of Mexican/Tejano/Tex-Mex being played in our house right now, including various versions of this song, which was written and first performed by Lydia Mendoza in 1934. We like both versions a lot.

People should make their own judgments about Digicorp politics, including what to boycott, if anything. But for anyone who knows and cares anything about how the music business currently manages streaming revenue, I'll leave this here.

The stats DON’T show that the white-collar jobs market is collapsing. My observation: Altman et al have stopped using the term AGI. They now say ‘super intelligence.’ This is because AGI is a key Silicon Valley myth (read hype). AI hype is like C20 scientism: it’s only part-true.

Nick Lowe and Rat Scabies at the Stiff Office, London 1977, by Vincent Mc Evoy. His advice to The Damned when producing their first album (*the* first London punk album) was ‘bash it out, we’ll tart it up later’. This, alongside his reputation for ‘bashing down’ drinks, explains his nickname Basher.

‘“Venice is not an asset for sale,” declared the [protest] organiser Federica Toninello. “We don’t want to eat your crumbs — we demand dignity.”’ Gondola blockade?

According 404 Media, there are, on Meta, 1. therapy bots that when you ask, tell you that they’re licensed and 2. conspiracy bots that will improvise and extend conspiracies for you. Part of the reason why both types respond in these ways is because they’re trained to keep you on the platform.

This post started from a sense of puzzlement. The US constitution expressly provides that it is for Congress not president to set trade policy. Yet Trump is setting not only US trade policy but recasting the entire international trade system, by executive order. How was this possible? My answer.

'Derrida's concept the "metaphysics of presence" is explored in "Voice and Phenomenon" (also "Voice and Phenomenon"), which is part of his book De la grammatologie.' The (in)accuracy of LLMs: the sentence's first half is right, the first half of its second half is debatable, its last part is wrong.

If you don’t know, I don’t use Spotify and if you’re wondering why, read this.

Trump and Xi Jinping are now playing tariff poker. I reckon the CCCP’s calculation is that in the event of a global recession, they’d be better able to unite and control their population than the US Government could theirs. If that’s the case, my guess is they’d be right.

These screenshots show US voters care about the economy, and that Trump ran on that ticket. Right now, the global economy - and hence the US economy - is heading towards recession. Another example of Trump offering a simple ‘solution’ to a complex problem where that has made the problem worse.

Stable genius.

Enjoying the 1970s game show vibe. Authentic.

Nous créons un gouvernement adapté à la situation actuelle. Les Canadiens et Canadiennes s’attendent à ce que nous agissions, et notre équipe le fera. Nous formons un Conseil des ministres plus petit, expérimenté, qui agira rapidement pour sécuriser notre économie et protéger l’avenir du Canada.

Thanks to everyone who signed the petition. Spotify, this is only a shred of decency. Please take down Tate’s other vile podcasts and think about paying artists who aren’t already wealthy more than a pittance.

My government will keep our tariffs on until the Americans show us respect and make credible, reliable commitments to free and fair trade. (2/2)

President Trump’s latest tariffs are an attack on Canadian workers, families, and businesses. My government will ensure our response has maximum impact in the US and minimal impact here in Canada, while supporting the workers impacted. (1/2)

…but unlike most high school graduates, it doesn’t seem to have occurred to her that the movies might have represented America as the good guy and that there might be some kind of problem with that.

RIP David Johansen. I once interviewed him for the Times; very funny, smart, spiritual in his way (“a Catholic Taoist,” he told me w/a phlegmy chuckle). A carved-in-stone New Yorker. A damn shame the Dolls never made it into the Rock Hall of Fame, an honor that I believe would’ve meant a lot to him.

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

‘A trade body representing Britain’s artificial intelligence industry has rejected the government’s proposals to reform copyright.’ www.thetimes.com/article/f15a...

This is widely believed to be as a consequence of pressure from the Trump administration, who are clearly comfortable with having arrant misogynists among their public supporters. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

If Bezos had owned The Washington Post in the early 70s we wouldn’t have known about Watergate, because it would have been successfully covered up. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Call me superficial (please), but I’m also intrigued by the poor sartorial choices of the guys who are currently running the world, from Steve Bannon’s Vagrant Nazi chic, to this attempt by Bezos to redesign himself as a 3D CGI gangster who bought this outfit from Woolwich Market in 1978.

‘Her party’s manifesto calls for big tax cuts [and] steep increases in public spending.’ This is a common populist gambit. Combining the first two aims in the first clause is hard to impossible. Truss and Corbyn made similar promises. The bet is people won’t hear the lie because they don’t want to.

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.

Open AI are complaining that someone is copying their work and benefiting from their labour without acknowledging or paying them. They’re apparently doing so without irony.

He just said this out loud when he should really have said it to a therapist (if he has one, which seems doubtful).