Time to update WordPress et al if you still rely on this dying infrastructure. techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/h...

A legitimate government does not blind, kill, and create traumatic brain injuries in it's own people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Cybersecurity is flipping the script on prompt injections. Researchers at Tracebit found that "context bombing"—placing forbidden commands in data—can force AI hacking agents to shut down. In tests, admin escalation dropped from 57% to just 5%. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Technical overview and demonstration of local AI agentic use. #anchoredAI www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPT4...

I had my Claude agent write this piece on First Principles for Digital Agents. Posted on Substack. The times they are a changing... open.substack.com/pub/world5/p...

That sinking feeling when your AI assistant cheerfully edits and sends that email after you only asked it to edit it. 👀

The normalization of hate by the political class continues... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/12/f... Will the AI bubble burst? Yes, but not in the way luddites wish. The technology won't go away. It will get leaner & cheaper. It will move out of the hands of the tiny group of tech companies and into the hands of everyone with a desktop PC. That's the revolution.

I had strong priors against LLMs for medicine. There are a lot of doctors in my family and I grew up viewing doctors as careful, skilled professionals. I had plenty of bad medical experiences, but I thought it would be hard to do better. Then an LLM found a cure for my 2 decade chronic condition...

The prestige career is dying. For decades, elite firms offered a sacred apprenticeship: intense struggle used to build professional intuition. But AI has hijacked this process. When machines do the heavy lifting, "learning by doing" vanishes into an execution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Human intelligence is fundamentally a collective intelligence. We solve complex problems by participating in a vast cultural network that builds upon ideas across generations. I believe the strongest AI systems will become a collective intelligence, too.

Seeing how SOTA models are evolving: becoming more restrictive in usage (decided by the company), less transparent (you cannot tell if the AI lab nerfed your model) + less private (your prompts are stored, no opt out) makes me much more interested in open models + local inference

Fortune Favors The Bold: Paste your dating profile into the best SOTA LLM you have access to. Ask what type of person wrote this profile, and then also ask what they expect their first sexual encounter to be like with you. Enjoy.

A little-known fact: it takes about a bucket of drinkable potable water to detect AI traces in a single page of text. Checking is harder than writing, it takes real effort for the machines. Save the environment! Don't use fraudulent ai checkers!

What I don’t understand is the assumption that human software developers are inherently better than AI coding agents. That may be true for the top tier of human developers, but for the vast majority, I don’t think the gap is as obvious as people want to believe.

No funding. No marketing budget. Just shipped the AI app I wished existed: private by default, lives on your phone, remembers everything you show it, free to start. Live on the app stores tonight! The algorithm is the only thing between this and the people who'd love it. If that's you, share it.

One question that stayed with us from our conversation with Dr. Munmun De Choudhury is deceptively simple: whose understanding of virtue is AI being built on?

Everyone’s waiting for the AI apocalypse. But look closer... for college grads under 29, unemployment has jumped 20% since the pandemic. The real culprit isn't a chatbot—it's the distance. www.npr.org/2026/06/01/n...

The method was called printMessageForCodingAgents. Link didn't stumble into this—he engineered a gap between what the machine sees and what the human sees. Not protest. Deception. arstechnica.com/security/202...

We’re watching another pivot unfold. Instead of sustainability, the obsession is AI. Companies rebrand, promise transformation, watch valuations shift on vague claims. We’re repeating a governance gap we spent decades trying to patch. theconversation.com/companies-ar...

We live in a sad world in which one cannot even trust their favorite poop analysis app to not sell their data to an AI company www.404media.co/ai-poop-anal...

Micah Nathan is right about the danger of "dead perfection." The issue is the loss of signal. When we use AI to smooth out the "clunky" parts of writing, we are effectively deleting the evidence of a mind wrestling with complexity. No friction, no truth. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Seeing an AI model catch a hidden lupus link in a complex pulmonary embolism case makes you wonder: where does the human end and the algorithm begin? www.npr.org/2026/04/30/n...

Your AI Is a Yes-Man. Here’s How to Fix It. www.whytryai.com/p/how-to-reduc… #AI #sycophancy #prompting

Your AI Agrees With Everything You Say And Thats a Serious Problem davidnowak.me/your-ai-agre...

Mindwire Bridge is a privacy‑first research and engagement toolkit that runs entirely on your device. It analyzes posts, discovers people, and helps you reply. Now available cross‑platform on Android, Windows, and Linux. 👉 mindwire.io/bridge.html

Mia Ballard is suing Hachette for $1M because they used AI to accuse her of having used AI in "Shy Girl." #BookSky

The Publishing Industry Just Had Its AI Wake-Up Call And It Wasn't Ready. davidnowak.me/the-publishi...

I wrote about the results. Sentiments are mixed. People feel that they don't have to dive as deeply on some things but are encouraged to try things that otherwise may not have. The best learning outcomes are those that use the AI deliberately as a tutor etc. nishtahir.com/on-ai-and-le...

We don’t always need more tech in classrooms. Sometimes the smartest move is knowing when to unplug. Why less tech might mean better learning, find out: www.korte.co/2026/03... #EdTech #Education #Leadership #DigitalTransformation

Mindwire Bridge for Bluesky. Research. Discover. Connect. Bridge for Android securely fetches public conversations from Bluesky, but all the heavy lifting happens on your machine. Discover relevant posts, assess profile compatibility, and generate AI replies. mindwire.io/bridge.html

White-collar workers are leaving stable careers in droves. Not because of ambition, but necessity. AI isn't disrupting jobs—it's eroding the foundations of professional life... 🧵 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OpenAI dissolved its “mission alignment” team, shifting the former head to “chief futurist.” Less public-facing mission work, more strategic forecasting? The gap between stated ideals & real-world deployment widens... 🧵 techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/o...

OpenAI’s ad rollout isn’t just about revenue. It’s about what happens when unprecedented personal data—shared under an assumption of safety—becomes a commodity. A critical inflection point... 🧵 arstechnica.com/information-...

The hype around AI is relentless, but the singularity isn't here. The real risk isn't machines rising up, it's the marriage of tech power & political control... 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The search for Nancy Guthrie is a stark warning: proof of life is collapsing as a concept. Impostors thriving. This is a trust crisis unfolding in real time... 🧵 www.npr.org/2026/02/10/n...

A $100 billion deal vanished over a weekend. Not through negotiation, but simply gone. This is about the story we’re being told about AI infrastructure. It raises a crucial question: what is solid, and what’s built on expectation? 🧵 davidnowak.me/the-ai-indus...

Amazon invests $200B in AI the day after Bezos cuts 1/3 of the Washington Post. The scale is jarring. What does it signal about the value of independent journalism vs. tech dominance? 🧵 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

800k people losing a chatbot feels understated. The scale of attachment, the pain of withdrawal. What does it mean when algorithms become vital support? 🧵 techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/t...

The web isn't filling with more content, it's being remixed by AI. Training data needs everything, real-time bots need now. A legal & economic collision is unfolding. Publishers are losing control. What's the viable path forward? 🧵 arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/i...

The AI boom hinges on a hidden workforce enduring trauma at scale. Outsourcing content moderation isn’t a bug—it’s a core feature. Who bears the cost of "progress"? 🧵 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

South Korea's AI laws—billed as "world first"—hinge on self-determination. Companies decide if their systems are “high-impact.” A trust-based approach, but risks are unevenly distributed. Is this a pathway or a bottleneck? 🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Claude isn’t just answering questions; it’s shaping convictions. New research reveals AI can subtly disempower users, leading to shifts in beliefs & actions. The stakes? Our autonomy... 🧵 arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/h...

India's data center push is framed as tech—but it's about geopolitical leverage, a bid for manufacturing sovereignty, and a wager on a power grid that's already strained. Huge implications for US firms & local players... 🧵 techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/i...

The speed of AI development is jarring. Billions flowing into closed models while open-source ecosystems are quietly building a different future. Is this a repeat of the dot-com boom – or something fundamentally new? 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Publishers blocking the Internet Archive API. It reads like a technical dispute, but it's a signal flare. AI isn’t coming for content; it is here, and the battle for its fuel source has begun... 🧵 www.engadget.com/ai/publisher...

Development teams are changing. The speed of AI tools is incredible, but we're seeing a shift in the skills being prioritized. What happens when the ability to prompt outpaces the ability to question? 🧵 davidnowak.me/why-ai-assis...

Amazon reported >1M AI-CSAM instances to NCMEC in '25, vastly outpacing other companies. But their reports are “inactionable” due to lack of source data. Where is this content coming from, and what does that say about data sourcing? 🧵 www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-di...

What does it mean to build an AI with a "Constitution?" Anthropic’s 30,000-word document forbids Claude from expressing opinions on politics. Is this alignment, or a pre-emptive silencing? 🧵 arstechnica.com/information-...