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Bluesky starts letting users host their own serversBluesky starts letting users host their own servers
Substack’s moderation battle: all the latest newsSubstack’s moderation battle: all the latest news
Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse NazisGoogle apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis
You sound like a bot

AI used to be weird. Now ‘sounds like a bot’ is just shorthand for boring.

Adi Robertson
How much electricity does AI consume?

It’s not easy to calculate the watts and joules that go into a single Balenciaga pope. But we’re not completely in the dark about the true energy cost of AI.

James Vincent
Adi Robertson
Adi Robertson
Good news for Trump’s Twitter clone.

The Washington Post reports that Truth Social has the Securities and Exchange Commission’s go-ahead to complete its SPAC merger, taking the company public and unlocking around $300 million after years of uncertainty. But don’t worry, there’s still plenty of drama:

A federal prosecution of three early Digital World investors, who investigators said made tens of millions of dollars in insider trades related to the merger deal, is also scheduled to go to trial in April. In a superseding indictment filed last week in federal court, prosecutors added a charge of money laundering to one investor, Michael Shvartsman, saying he used some of his profits to buy a $14 million luxury yacht he later renamed “Provocateur.”

Truth Social merger deal wins key approval, a victory for Trump

[The Washington Post]

In defense of busywork

Thanks to AI, rote tasks are ripe for automation. But is that really a good thing?

Lauren Larson
Jon Porter
Jon Porter
The BBC explores pushing further into the fediverse.

Six months after kicking off an initial Mastodon trial that saw it launch its own instance on the federated platform, the UK’s public broadcaster is not just extending the experiment by another six months, it’s also “planning to start some technical work into investigating ways to publish BBC content more widely using ActivityPub.”

It feels like a promising sign for the future of the fediverse.

Extending our Mastodon social media trial

[BBC R&D]

How AI can make history

Large language models can do a lot of things. But can they write like an 18th-century fur trader?

Josh Dzieza
Stability AI tries to stay ahead of the pack with a new image-generating AI modelStability AI tries to stay ahead of the pack with a new image-generating AI model
Gemini Advanced is most impressive when it’s working with GoogleGemini Advanced is most impressive when it’s working with Google
The text file that runs the internet

For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

David Pierce
DuckDuckGo’s privacy browser adds built-in password syncingDuckDuckGo’s privacy browser adds built-in password syncing
ChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you likeChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you like
Watermarking the futureWatermarking the future
Emilia David

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