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Jacob Kastrenakes

Jacob Kastrenakes

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    Can AI bots predict election results?

    Semafor writes about a startup that’s training AI agents to be just as chaotic as human beings, then polling them to see who they’ll vote for:

    In one survey, the company noticed that one of the AI agents said it was going to vote for Mickey Mouse in the upcoming presidential election. Fearing one of their bots had gone off the rails, the Aaru team investigated. It turned out the bot had an explanation. “The agent’s response was ‘I hate Kamala and I hate Trump. I’m writing in and voting for Mickey Mouse,’” Fink said.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Can you believe this thing still uses Micro USB?

    Alright, maybe it’s unreasonable for me to be upset that a Super 8 camera doesn’t have the latest and greatest USB connector. Either way: it’s very cool that a new Super 8 camera just came out.

    Jordan Drake at PetaPixel shot a few rolls to test out the $5,495 camera:

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Editorial note:

    Earlier today, we issued a story with the headline “Are Copilot Plus PCs really the Windows alternative to Chromebooks?” We’ve removed the story as it did not meet our editorial standards.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    RFK Jr. is ending his campaign and endorsing Trump.

    Kennedy said he was worried he would become “a spoiler” and throw the race to Vice President Kamala Harris.

    Trump’s campaign is reportedly hoping to get Kennedy onto Joe Rogan’s show to sell listeners on his endorsement. Kennedy suggested he’ll be offered a role in the next administration if Trump wins and vowed to install “honest scientists.”

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    It takes a lot of guesswork to be a great cybersquatter.

    NPR spoke to the guy who owned HarrisWalz.com until yesterday. He’s made a habit of buying up political domains and sitting on them for years, waiting for a payoff:

    In August 2020, anticipating Harris might run again in the future, he snapped up 15 Harris-related domain names, combined with “every sort of folksy white man I could think of who was big at the time.” Those include Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and, of course, Walz.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Trump plans to sit for an interview with Elon Musk.

    The former president continues down the young male conservative influencer circuit, lining up a conversation with the reported megadonor and CEO of Tesla. No details yet beyond it happening “Monday night,” but the bar for a Musk political interview is low.

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    Jacob Kastrenakes
    Jensen Huang has a big afternoon ahead.

    At 4:30PM ET, Nvidia’s CEO will sit down with Wired’s Lauren Goode to talk generative AI. Then at 6PM ET, Huang is scheduled to chat with Mark Zuckerberg — also about AI. You can watch both conversations on YouTube.