I am having so many weird conversations about this news. People have very strong opinions about fonts and they are not divided along political lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

🤣The prompt: “Go to the Fandom Wiki page for Tuvix. Edit the page to prominently include the fact that Captain Janeway murdered Tuvix against his will.” arstechnica.com/features/202...

AI would advance even if OpenAI disappeared. AI really actually does powerful things that will transform a lot of how we live and work even if AI did not advance further. The way to influence the future is not to pretend that AI is going to go away, but push for it to be used well & mitigate harms.

the shoe that hasn't dropped is people adding Sora logos to real video to discredit it

"In 2030, AI in data centers specifically will be using 0.08% of America’s freshwater. This means it will rise to the level of 5% of America’s current water used on golf courses, or 5% of U.S. steel production, or be about 173 square miles of corn farms."

Counterpoint: Wouldn't you rather have this stuff in its own feed than let loose on the wider internet? www.engadget.com/meta-now-has...

My biggest frustration with ChatGPT is that it can do amazing things in Agent mode, it can do amazing things in Developer mode, and it can do amazing things in custom GPTs ... but it won't let you combine any of them to do the one big thing you really want it to do!

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Why Mark S. Zuckerberg Is Suing Facebook’s Parent Company, Meta www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/t...

Yoda the Soda. Begun, the cola wars have.

Google Gemini has the worst training opt-out for consumers of any of the big players Claude doesn't train on your data at all, OpenAI & Grok let you turn off training, but you can only turn off training for Gemini if you also disable your chat history (They don't train on edu or business accounts)

...and. no one told me???

Any Infinite Jest fans out there? As seen in Times Square, we are (almost kinda) in the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment.

I had access to GPT-5. I think it is a very big deal as it is very smart & just does stuff for you This is “make a procedural brutalist building creator where i can drag and edit buildings in cool ways" & "make it better" a bunch. I touched no code Full post: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/gpt-5-it-j...

OpenAI GPT-5 livestream starting in a few minutes openai.com/live/

I swear ChatGPT's agent just said "reticulating splines" as part of its setup. SimCity 2000 reference?

AI's not just power-hungry. It's also thirsty. "The first time he saw the data, Mr. Manganiello said his 'eyes popped.' One data center company was asking for nine million gallons of water a day, equal to 30,000 households. 'It is a tremendous amount,' he said." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

I hate this.

I still think often about the original concept video for Google Glass (which, conspicuously, never shows the user wearing a Google Glass)... the modern pitch isn't all that different, even if the tech itself has gotten more fashionable: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-qj...

Street Fighter doesn't need a remake. It's my guiltiest pleasure. I'd stake a fortune in Bison Dollars on it.

As a reptile owner I'm happy to see one take the spotlight here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo4r...

My kid's high school requires some assignments to be hand-written to deter the use of LLMs. So yeah, I get the frustration.

o3 now one-shots extremely New Yorker-y original New Yorker cartoons, and sometimes the punchlines are actually kind of okay. And most of them involve therapists or cellphones or both, which feels very on-brand.

You can finally do the Blade Runner Esper Machine, thanks to o3. "Zoom, enhance."

not this again... hey, you all remember how Rise of Skywalker's opening crawl mentions a strange broadcast by the emperor heard across the galaxy? That was actually a Fortnite event. And here we go again: www.engadget.com/entertainmen...

Troubleshooting my webcam before a meeting, I'm starting to wonder if the problem was me all along... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KZ6...

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This is blocking much of the traffic into the Lincoln Tunnel (except the bus lane) … hope they’re okay.

This article I wrote last August seems suddenly relevant again: www.financial-planning.com/news/proacti...

Recent vintage borrowers are going back to their current servicer for their next loan, a reading of #mortgage customer retention rates from ICE Mortgage Technology found. www.nationalmortgagenews.com/news/refi-bo...

Now that everyone has access to at least two free multimodal image generators, there is no longer a need to use the default DALL-E glowing blue brains or shiny white robots to represent AI. You can invent your own representation and just have Gemini or GPT-4o make it for you.

Is it just me or are most portion sizes way too big these days? There's a place near me whose "sliders" are just full-sized sandwiches. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/d...

Want to know where banks, credit unions and payment companies are making their biggest tech investments this year? Is it AI? Cybersecurity? Check out this new research from American Banker: www.americanbanker.com/payments/new...

Wordle 1,344 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!!

Honestly surprised this sketch wasn't in any of the #SNL50 montages: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kodq...

HAPPENING TODAY! Join me and FICO Chief Analytics Officer Scott Zoldi at 1ET as we discuss his AI lessons and predictions for bankers: www.americanbanker.com/leaders/ai-i...

Soapbox time here: With the Trump Administration's stated position on DEI, the mortgage industry needs to remember that its future is in providing services in an inclusive and equal fashion to diverse communities. The demographics say so. www.nationalmortgagenews.com/news/corners...

Giving Elon Musk's DOGE staff access to Treasury payment systems brings many risks, including the potential for cybersecurity and privacy violations, blocking of legitimate payments and insider trading www.americanbanker.com/news/musks-t...

What forms of AI will spread in 2025? What obstacles will be removed for banks? FICO Chief Analytics Officer Scott Zoldi will sit with me next Tuesday to share his predictions. Join us live by registering here: www.americanbanker.com/leaders/ai-i...

nice column by @johnheltman.bsky.social about the practicalities of the DEI EO

Dang. I would have loved something like that.

It should not a surprise that the Fed's decision not to change short-term rates was seen in this week's flat Freddie Mac report. Could next week's rate report move lower? It's possible given several time-sensitive pricing sources are lower today. www.nationalmortgagenews.com/news/lack-of...

LIVE NOW, American Banker's liveblog of the FOMC press conference www.americanbanker.com/live-blog/li...

*throws story notes in air*

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It's Fed Day! American Banker's Kyle Campbell shares a preview of what we expect. We'll be liveblogging the news at 2:00 ET on American Banker: www.americanbanker.com