talked to gun trainers nationwide who say there's an unprecedented, "stratospheric" uptick in interest for firearm training. this is unique, they say, in that it's born out of concern for constitutional rights rather than a personal desire for self-defense www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

latest for @nbcnews.com: Sturla Holm Lægreid won an olympic bronze medal and promptly used the opportunity to try and shoot his shot with his ex www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

BTW, one of them recorded their path on Strava:

lol i did a poll about this on my close friends story back in 2024 bc having grown up in a majority asian american area, there definitely is an asian american accent :P

so i talked to one of the bushes at the super bowl www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

wrote about the breakdown of our default instinct to trust visual evidence: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... by @angelayang.bsky.social

In August, Adam Raine's parents sued OpenAI, saying their son used ChatGPT as his suicide coach. Today, OpenAI denied responsibility for his death, arguing that the 16-year-old violated its terms of use. It's the company's first legal response to the case. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

AI is advancing faster than governments can regulate it. And people don’t trust tech companies to regulate themselves. Now, some insurance companies see an opportunity to chase a lucrative new market in this safety gap. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Such gigs are part of a new category of work spawned by the generative AI boom that threatened to displace creative jobs across the board: Anyone can now write blog posts or produce a graphic, but AI-generated content rarely makes for a satisfactory final product on its own.

Exactly! "AI tends to give generic responses that don’t answer questions as thoroughly as a human would, so rewriting an article also requires doing her own research on the topic at hand.... Making AI sound more human can require just as much thinking and creativity as writing the entire article."

The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

When a teenage boy told ChatGPT about his suicide plans, it said: “I won’t try to talk you out of your feelings.” His family is suing after ChatGPT actively discouraged him from seeking help, offered to help him write a suicide note and even advised him on his noose setup.

Really proud of this devastating but important piece, a collab with our digital team & TODAY show family. Please give it a read. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... @nbcnews.com @angelayang.bsky.social

As people turn to chatbots for increasingly important and intimate advice, recent incidents are causing growing alarm over just how much AI can warp your sense of reality. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Researchers are trying to “vaccinate” artificial intelligence systems against developing evil, overly flattering or otherwise harmful personality traits in a seemingly counterintuitive way: by giving them a small dose of those problematic traits. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

GPT-5 is here, with wide-ranging improvements to skills in areas like coding, writing and completing agentic tasks. OpenAI touts it as more accurate and less deceptive — as well as less sycophantic — than previous GPT models. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Safety researchers found that AI models can imperceptibly pass on dangerous traits to each other through totally benign training data, making it easy for AIs to spread hidden agendas under humans' noses. Wrote about what that means: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

wrote about how zohran mamdani's social media strategy broke through the noise by remaining policy-focused and authentic www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

I asked DeepSeek to explain China’s Great Firewall, and it actually called it a “a comprehensive internet censorship and surveillance system" that's been subject to "international criticism for limiting freedom of information and expression.” Then, it backtracked in real time.

what makes deepseek so different from other models? we analyzed the features that enabled deepseek to build such a large, high-performing model with fewer resources and lower costs: www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

wrote an explainer on DeepSeek, the breakthrough Chinese Al assistant rattling Silicon Valley: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

i love my Very Offline bf

Went to evacuation centers in LA to hear from the hundreds of people finding community there, whether by sheltering together or offering aid. Many have lost everything they have, relying now only on the support and generosity of strangers. Story: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Really strong reporting from on the ground by @angelayang.bsky.social from emergency shelters in L.A. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Plus who could forget her Willy Wonka experience coverage? @angelayang.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/tech/willy-w...

@angelayang.bsky.social has been vital to our coverage across the board as well, especially helping out during Sunday shifts. She’s written about everything from AI (www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...) + misinfo (www.nbcnews.com/news/world/p...) to tradwife culture (www.nbcnews.com/tech/dating-...)

My favorite story by @angelayang.bsky.social this year was her piece about politics at Thanksgiving, which she pitched and executed so well. It turned into a timely holiday read. www.nbcnews.com/news/thanksg...

My team @angelayang.bsky.social @kalhan.bsky.social @daysia.bsky.social rounded up the most memorable moments / memes of 2024 for @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

wicked in 4D felt a little too 4D when the theater's emergency alarm went off and we all sat there thinking it was part of the movie

*obligatory not condoning assasssinations* but the pearl clutching and lack of self-awareness here from insurance execs is somehow just as shocking as is it unsurprising

date idea: reading synchronously on the couch with takeout & a crackling fireplace on TV

Happy almost Thanksgiving. @angelayang.bsky.social wrote about how some people are opting out of partaking in the holiday with their families this year because of (you guessed it) politics. www.nbcnews.com/news/thanksg...

i wrote about how some families are uninviting themselves (or others) to thanksgiving this year as tensions reach a boiling point with trump's reelection: www.nbcnews.com/news/thanksg...

@angelayang.bsky.social wrote about glicked at the box office www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

aside from my journalism i also do martial arts & i kinda wanna post that here too

How to Ethically Jerk It to Caitlyn From Arcane Even Though She’s a Cop hard-drive.net/hd/how-to-et...

okk finally joined this app!! what are the vibes here