However, participants rated sycophantic responses as higher quality, trusted
the sycophantic AI model more, and were more willing to use it again. This suggests that
people are drawn to AI that unquestioningly validate, even as that validation risks eroding
their judgment and reducing their inclination toward prosocial behavior. These preferences
create perverse incentives both for people to increasingly rely on sycophantic AI models
and for AI model training to favor sycophancy.
Tesla Optimus robot falling over
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This video clip
of a Tesla Optimus humanoid robot knocking over a bunch of water bottles and falling
over, apparently as its operator removes their headset before shutting the robot down in a
stable state, is giving me the giggles.
Stopping Russia now half as expensive as doing so later
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The report arrives as a direct challenge to the Trump administration’s 28-point
peace plan, which the authors argue misreads what is required for a stable Ukraine and
Europe. A Russian partial victory would force Europe into a massive rearmament program to
deter further aggression, amounting to €1.2-1.6 trillion over a four-year period. Equipping
Ukraine to win would cost €522-838 billion over the same period—roughly half of that
amount.
Formed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, fusion centers are federally
recognized, state-run intelligence-gathering hubs where police from local, state and
federal organizations team up to gather and distribute intelligence. Texas boasts eight of
the secretive facilities, more than any other state. In court filings, Bexar County said
the Schott intelligence came from “the Laredo Fusion Center” — a location not on any official list.
The changes come as critics say Apple, once a tech leader, is behind in the
next big wave: artificial intelligence. For one of the world’s most valuable tech
companies, a change in leadership could mean a change in how it conceives, designs and
creates products used around the world every single day.
@briankrebs Yeah, we need more "falling behind" from Apple, not less :). I am happy that
Apple did not jump on the FOMO bandwagon.
My uneducated guess is that they have a lot of telemetry from their devices
and
they probably see how many people did disable the use of LLMs on their devices.
Williot Swedberg is a Swedish footballer who plays for Celta Vigo and the
Sweden national team. He started his career at Hammarby IF and was named one of the best
young talents in 2004 by The Guardian.
“We’re in an era now where the losses are really here and happening; that’s
one thing. The second thing is that insurers are now actually starting to exclude AI from
their existing policies,” Dattani said. “So it feels pretty certain that we’re going to
need some solution here, and we need people with skin in the game who can provide third-
party oversight. That’s where we see the role of insurance.”
Almost every company in our survey (99%) reported financial losses from AI-
related risks, and 64% experienced losses exceeding US$1 million. On average, the
financial loss to companies that have experienced risks is conservatively estimated at
US$4.4 million.1 That’s an estimated total loss of US$4.3 billion across the 975
respondents in our sample.
The industry has good reason to be spooked. Google's AI Overview falsely accused a solar company of
legal troubles earlier this year, triggering a $110 million lawsuit. Air Canada
got stuck honoring a discount its chatbot completely invented after a customer took the airline to
small claims court. Most dramatically, fraudsters used a digitally cloned executive to
steal $25 million from London engineering firm Arup during what appeared to be a
legitimate video conference.
That this is the sole suggested
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That this is the sole suggested reaction pic, that shows up when I think I'm trying to send a photo, says something about Android messages.
(And if I could totally turn off reaction pics, I would, because I do not want to send this message by accident.)
Your regular reminder that businesses
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Your regular reminder that businesses run loyalty programs because they make more money with them, consumers use loyalty programs because they're willing to trade privacy for being made more money from.
That this is the sole suggested reaction pic, that shows up when I think I'm trying to send a photo, says something about Android messages.