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More on the Epstein-crypto connection.
David Morris expands on his Verge story about Jeffrey Epstein and cryptocurrency in an interview with writer Wajahat Ali:
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Invasive government and corporate surveillance isn’t inevitable — but Congress needs to act.
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“I swallowed some of it. I had really been spitting it out near the end.”
The Nation interviewed Graham Granger, the student arrested for consuming part of an exhibit of AI-generated art — although apparently he didn’t eat everything he chewed up.
Do you have any qualms about the fact that AI art is made by scraping other artists?
Yeah, I mean, that’s part of why I spat it out, because AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.
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Coming into force this year: AI regulations galore, a teen social media lockdown, and “Taylor Swift” laws.
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“I don’t know what’s wrong with just unlocking a door and opening it.”
Hell Gate investigates a new NYC phenomenon: PureGym’s tubelike automated “entry pods”.
“What the fuck? I literally don’t want to do this,” one man remarked, before putting his whole body into the tube. “It’s like a bad sci-fi show, it’s ridiculous!” another man exclaimed, while—you guessed it—he succumbed to the tube.
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Large language mistake, legal edition.
Cool update to last week’s story on why language doesn’t equal intelligence: a Michigan judge cited it to justify imposing sanctions over a ChatGPT-assisted filing that mentioned real cases but misstated their facts. Congrats to author Benjamin Riley, and thanks to folks who pointed it out on X and Bluesky!
![LLMs are toolsthat “emulate the communicative function of language, not the separateand distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning.” BenjaminRiley, Large language mistake, The Verge https://thevergetoday.pages.dev/aiartificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligenceneuroscience-problems [https://perma.cc/7EHD-PLLZ]. When an LLMoverstates a holding of a case, it is not because it made a mistake whenlogically working through how that case might represent a“nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existinglaw or for establishing new law;” it is just piecing together a plausiblelooking sentence – one whose content may or may not be true](https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-04-at-8.35.16%E2%80%AFAM.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0,0,100,100)
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