Chris Wilson (whom I consider an expert on user-first gamification) on dark patterns in online games. These are experiential #UX patterns, as opposed to visual #UI dark patterns. youtu.be/OCkO8mNK3Gg

Some pretty eye-opening data on the effect of AI coding. When Cursor added agentic coding in 2024, adopters produced 39% more code merges, with no sign of a decrease in quality (revert rates were the same, bugs dropped) and no sign that the scope of the work shrank. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

So it seems Krauss forwarded an email from me to him asking for responses to allegations against him to Jeffrey Epstein, asking Epstein for advice on how to respond.

Everyone's talking about AI 🤖 But who's keeping your rights in mind as it evolves? Join us tomorrow, November 13 at 10 AM PT for a livestream on the risks of AI and how we can safeguard civil liberties online. eff.org/livestream-ai

Boston’s Mayor has to pick up the Christmas tree in person this year because if we shipped it it’d be tariffed.

Just discovered this coding music channel and artist. Remarkable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5r... cc: @haskell.org Also @unwoman.com you might get a kick out of this.

aws.amazon.com/blogs/machin... Multi-agent AI systems are becoming increasingly practical for complex tasks. There are different architectural patterns being used today for how specialized agents can collaborate with each suited to specific business challenges and workflows. (1️⃣/3️⃣) 🧵

Most people should use a password manager, but there's no one-size-fits-all recommendation. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

Financial documents show Anthropic expects to break even in 2028, while OpenAI projects ~$74B in operating losses that year before turning a profit in 2030 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Looks like Manassas City in Virginia was hit with a ransomware attack. cc @andyjabbour.bsky.social

It's important to separate OpenAI from LLMs in general. The Chinese open models are impressive, and Anthropic is posting numbers that show it as near-profitable (earlier than expected). Anthropic is making the money by creating applications people use at real jobs, with politics at arms length.

This is heavy handed. If you work with a collaborator in China, this bill would: 1) Make you ineligible for new U.S. federal grants (as long as the collaboration exists) 2) If passed, you would only have 90 days to sever the connection, or be banned for up to 5 years.

The FDA meeting today about genAI therapy chatbots sounded as though they would recommend a Black Box Warning (most serious type of FDA warning) around suicidality. This level of warning would justify a requirement for a human in the loop. (1/2)

I haven't seen anyone here posting about the FDA meeting about genAI and therapy chatbots. It's been going all day, and the most of the public comments are excellent IMO. Webcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Fo...

You’re not “cleaning up” the UX. You’re reducing support tickets and unlocking expansion. Quiet work only stays tactical if you describe it that way. Frame outcomes, not effort. That’s how invisible work becomes strategic work.

For clinical prediction on structured EHR, do complex LLM pipelines beat simple count-based models? A new preprint by @simocristea.bsky.social et. al. shows wins are split. Count-based methods (like LightGBM) remain a strong, simple, and interpretable baseline. #MedSky #MLSky #MedAI

This study could be titled "what makes doctors quit" The answers are saddening: 1) being a woman 2) practicing in a rural area 3) caring for sicker patients and dual-eligible patients www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

"Google is hatching plans to put artificial intelligence datacentres into space, with its first trial equipment sent into orbit in early 2027."

Read the investigation: How Moderna, the company that helped save the world, unraveled www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/m...

The FDA’s Digital Health Advisory Committee (DHAC) will convene to discuss nitty gritty details around the regulation of therapy chatbots and other mental health devices that use generative AI, @mariojoze.bsky.social reports: www.statnews.com/2025/11/05/f... via @statnews.com

Anthropic Model Depreciation Process Anthropic sweetly asked Sonnet about its preferences in how it wanted to be deprecated in addition: - no, still not open weights - preserve weights and keeping it running internally - letting models pursue their interests www.anthropic.com/research/dep...

I was talking with an investor who told me about a project he planned to pitch to a high-level person in the Democratic Party. I advised him not to burn his Republican contacts, because some Dems had begun floating anti-AI as a campaign wedge issue. (Due in part imo to how strident anti-AI is here.)

The FDA’s Digital Health Advisory Committee meets next week to discuss whether generative AI could be approved for mental health treatment. No such tools have been cleared yet, but this could shape how digital mental health is regulated going forward. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Conjure up all the esoteric philosophical arguments you want as an educator, but you're not doing kids any favors by sending them out into this world ignorant of AI tools. Abstinence-only AI education isn't any better than the sex variety.

"MedPerturb" study shows medical AI models may change treatment decisions when gender, tone, or format of clinical text shifts—unlike humans. Highlights need to define bias and robustness testing in healthcare LLMs. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17163

I hope everyone is celebrating Godzilla Day appropriately! 🏯🦖 #godzilladay

Wow, really appreciate this deep reporting on how Equifax stands to reap considerable gains under Medicaid work requirements — including some new visibility into "prices per ping" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/h...

That escalated quickly... The biggest story in health care AI right now has bypassed patient care and gone straight to the money. Insurers and providers are duking it out over bills and claims with AI lightsabers. I predicted this back in the summer 👇 Let's take a closer look. 🧵 🩺🖥️

MIT have deleted the report. I’m told they’re looking to retract it. I started looking into it as CISOs at orgs kept forwarding it to me saying you’re wrong about AI, MIT says so. But every page of the report was fiction. Clearly, nobody actually read it.

Frankly, there are now many such stories among folks doing highly complex technical work. AI exhibits, as @emollick.bsky.social and others have noted, "jagged" capabilities (sometimes remarkably good, sometimes catastrophically bad). That's a more complex story than "useless hype" or "AGI soon".

In contrast to the blaming of AI by many bluesky users, the Reddit antiwork subreddit (!) today is disagreeing with Jerome Powell's claim that AI is causing job creation to be 0. The most upvoted comments say that zero job creation is due to tariffs, etc., not AI. www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/c...

Training LLMs end to end is hard. But way more people should, and will, be doing it in the future. The @hf.co Research team is excited to share their new e-book that covers the full pipeline: · pre-training, · post-training, · infra. 200+ pages of what worked and what didn’t. ⤵️

woke up on the wrong side of the bed

"unlike dot-com companies...The question isn’t whether customers will pay for AI capabilities...but whether revenue growth can match required infrastructure investment. If AI is a bubble and it pops...due to different fundamentals than the dot-com bust." peterwildeford.substack.com/p/ai-is-prob...

The more I deal with accessibility, the more I realise that „0KB JS“ is probably harmful. The irony is that it was Svelte‘s linter warnings („a clickable element need‘s xyz“) that eventually nudged me into trying to practice better a11y 🙏 (via @sarasoueidan.com) adrianroselli.com/2023/03/css-...

Free eBook: Machine Learning Systems Principles and Practices of Engineering Artificially Intelligent Systems This textbook bridges the gap between theoretical foundations and practical engineering, emphasizing the systems perspective required to build effective AI solutions. www.mlsysbook.ai

I crossed an interesting threshold yesterday, which I think many other mathematicians have been crossing recently as well. In the middle of trying to prove a result, I identified a statement that looked true and that would, if true, be useful to me. 1/3

In recent months, a growing number of people have ended up hospitalized, divorced, or dead after having long, intense conversations with ChatGPT. Some of their loved ones allege the chatbot fueled their delusions and paranoia.

Great article, with links to several interesting tools. #UX

30 years of craigslist: philanthropy A decade ago, I realized that I could do a much better job helping people via philanthropy than at craigslist Also, I realized that craigslist customer service didn't really need me any more, so I retired at the end of 2018 to do full time philanthropy cont'd

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Victim orgs not named. Two key takeaways for me: (1) Lockbit is franchising its ransomware (would-be attackers can buy a membership for $500); (2) current victims include tech run on Linux, not just Windows. See the Checkpoint report linked in article for (some) details.

"The new winners will be those who write in ways that Grok interprets as engaging, turning social media optimization into a new form of prompt engineering."

"Private equity purchases of health-care assets increased from $2 billion in 2001 to $151 billion in 2021. Such firms now own at least 460 US hospitals, 409 hospices, 8% of dermatologists, 7% of gastroenterologists, 10% of medical oncologists ..." 🤢 #medsky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"A lot of people have access to drugs but not to the resources necessary for nonaddicting alternatives. I suspect this is one reason poverty predicts poorer outcomes from treatment."

Reddit is suing Perplexity AI, claiming the search engine illegally scrapes its content via Google search results. The suit alleges this method is used to circumvent protective technologies and harm Reddit's data licensing agreements.

Geoffrey Litt just proposed a new analogy for working with AI coding tools that I really like: you are the surgeon, staying in command and doing the most challenging work - the AI tools are your support team and surgical assistants simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/24/...

Here’s a great block list to get rid of these kinds of accounts. They’re lousy! bsky.app/profile/did:...