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• The future is for billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe

• Louisiana warns beachgoers amid surge in flesh-eating bacteria infections

• Hong Kong records hottest day ever as Typhoon Dolphin fuels heatwave

• Typhoon Dolphin: more than a million people evacuated in China as record rainfall dumped on Shanghai

• Rising seas push Korea’s east coast nuclear belt toward shutdown limits

• Time Magazine Now Running Ads Meant Specifically to Influence AI Agents

  cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/50015379 “Maybe it’s more important to influence the agent than even the human, because with a human you influence one person,” Mobian cofounder and CEO Jonah Goodhart told Digiday. “When you influence ChatGPT, you’re influencing potentially all of ChatGPT. If ChatGPT changes what it says about [a brand], it’s massive and it’s more than any one campaign could ever do.” If I was this dumb I surely would be smart enough to keep my mouth shut.

• Jealously Watching OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta Suddenly Claims That Its AI Went on a Hacking Spree Too

  It is difficult to fathom how pathetic this is and it shows how these companies primarily rely on fear and FOMO to sell crap.

• ‘Super El Niño’ could bring wet winter and flooding to western US, climate scientists warn

• 'Super users' drive engagement as more people spend time on mobile apps

• The prisoner's dilemma: Why UK publishers are signing Google AI deals

  Showcase payments were a response by Google to threat of being forced to pay for news in Australia and the EU, he said. The AI deals are an attempt to “buy some friends” as Google is accused by regulators in the UK and elsewhere of abusing its monopoly power to secure access to content to feed its AI models. “I think what they were trying to do then, and they’re probably trying to do now, is to get what they need without putting a direct monetary value to the content licensing… “They’re...

• Europe’s dry riverbeds and scorched earth – in pictures

  photo gallery of impacts

• We Talked to the Guy Who Built a Chatbot That's Just Him Manually Responding to People One-by-One

• Senate Panel Advances Kids Online Safety Package Despite Civil Liberties Concerns | Common Dreams

  Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN) the Children’s Health, Advancement, Trust, Boundaries, and Oversight in Technology (CHATBOT) the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) O.o.o.f.

• Kyiv Under Heavy Air Assault Following Launch of Over 30 Ballistic Missiles

• Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT

  “the worst kind of tech take” is a superlative crater that drops straight into the maw of hell

• After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry 'Marxist' | TechCrunch

  The CEO, who famously studied philosophy and earned a PhD in social theory, implied in Palantir’s quarterly shareholder letter that these were the kinds of capitalists who gave rise to Marxist socialism. THATS A REAL THING

• Majority of Workers Say AI Will Make Jobs Harder and Only Benefit Those at the Top | Common Dreams

  this damn country has found their minds and it is a threat to profts

• Post #4369491

  just keeping edding yourself with small strokes of zitron

• Deep-sea snails and mussels in Indian and Pacific Oceans contain microplastics, study finds

• Trees keep absorbing carbon long after they stop growing

  link to open access article www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady7139

• The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet

• GDP Growth in Second Quarter Slows to 1.5%, No Evidence of AI Productivity Boom

  ^a succint highly professional description of the US economy right now as it is monomaniacally leveraged into AI. reference video inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=i-XhMFGH7vg www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-XhMFGH7vg

• The Remarkable Incompetence At The Heart Of Tech

  Ed asked me to write about why leaders around the world are constantly buying software they don’t need. He probably had a few high-profile companies in mind, like Snowflake. Put aside whether Snowflake is a good product – most people don’t know what a database is, so why on earth does a specialized and very expensive database have a market cap of $71B? That’s a fair question – and being both a software engineer and the managing director at a tech consultancy, I can talk about what’s happenin...

• Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney

• Here's what supercharged the monster wildfires in Spain and France

• Scientists expand Colorado River evaporation monitoring as water shortages persist

• Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots?

• When AI Literacy Becomes the New Fault Line In Global Inequality

• 'Climate hushing' has swept the Democratic Party. New polling suggests it's a mistake.

• These psychedelic images reveal what your weather app isn't telling you