Nearly 200 Economists and Tech Leaders Warn of A.I. Threats
A letter calls for policymakers to do more to understand and respond to potential disruptions from artificial intelligence.
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Bricks & Minifigs®: An Update on Brand Improvements and Pending Litigation
Bricks & Minifigs shares updates on operational improvements, leadership changes, and pending litigation.
Bricks & Minifigs Determined to Find Amicable Resolution with Mansell Family
Bricks & Minifigs®, an authorized LEGO® reseller specializing in buying, trading and selling LEGO products, today reaffirmed its commitment to assist
Introducing SubQ 1.1 Small
Subquadratic is a frontier AI research and infrastructure company building a new class of LLMs.
Graham Platner and the Limits of ‘Believe Women’
The Maine progressive’s downfall has revealed a dangerous media double standard.
Egg and Dietary Cholesterol Intake and Risk of All-Cause, Cardiovascular, and Cancer Mortality: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies
Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies examined the associations between egg and dietary cholesterol intake and th...
Big Tech’s Carbon Emissions Spike With Runaway Growth of AI
Amazon and Google report jumps in their greenhouse gas output as the data center boom gains momentum.
Lab Leaks, Black Holes, and Eggs: Epistemic Case Study Competition – Future of Life Foundation
We are running a competition to find the best workflows and methodologies for using AI to produce reliable, trustworthy knowledge bases, grounded in real-world cases. We’re open-minded on the types of submissions we receive and on how they address the problem. We’ve set aside approximately $200k for prizes. Winning submissions may receive a prize from $5k-$50k and if submissions warrant, multiple $50k prizes are possible. Winners may be offered opportunities for further funded work.
Exclusive: Cop allows NFL reporter Dianna Russini to name drop her way out of ticket
(The Center Square) - Police body camera video obtained by The Center Square shows former NFL insider Dianna Russini namedropping her way out of a texting-while-driving ticket, possibly with her
In San Francisco’s A.I. Era, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough
As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, tech workers making six figures are grousing that they cannot compete with the new A.I. elite. Some doubt they can afford to stay.
A poetry collection by Annie Hendrix
Misanthrope: A mixture of urgency and humor
Opinion | America Has a Masculinity Crisis
A much-needed, nuanced conversation about masculinity and feminism today.
Practically-A-Book Review: Rootclaim $100,000 Lab Leak Debate
I watched 15 hours of COVID origins arguments so you don't have to - but you should!
In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights
The Supreme Court's decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use unconstitutional but sought an outright ban.
How a Star Wars Lego Dispute Triggered an Armed Police Raid in Utah
It started with a consignment gone bad. It ended with officers storming an Airbnb, a restraining order, a RICO lawsuit—and a small town turned upside down.
Self-proclaimed ‘prophet’ with underage ‘wives’ exposed after couple he trusted helped uncover abuse ring
Cult expert Christine Marie and her husband Tolga Kates documented Samuel Bateman's world, helping expose the alleged FLDS offshoot leader's abuse of underage girls.
Trump Mocked Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos by Showing Off Fawning Texts
“You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan quote Donald Trump as telling associates in an upcoming book.
The Stunning Bias Chat GPT Won't Tell You About
Researchers just discovered a major gap in AI models that affects 75% of the world’s population, and reveals a stunning bias against an unexpected group of people. 75% of the world’s population is some kind of religious, so a consortium of universities (including Baylor, Notre Dame, Yeshiva, Brigham Young University) got together to run a study on how often religion shows up in AI responses. When they asked a variety of models some very targeted questions, most of the models never brought up r
