The moral panic over data centres is foolish(economist.com)

30 points by andsoitis 1 month ago | 30 comments

Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com(forbes.com)

127 points by simianwords 1 month ago | 122 comments

Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards(economist.com)

89 points by semiquaver 2 months ago | 274 comments

Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE(syracuse.com)

80 points by coloneltcb 4 months ago | 34 comments

Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day(meidasnews.com)

392 points by DeepLogin 8 days ago | 200 comments

MeidasNews article reporting that Meta took down the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide protest day; the page shows an access-restricted bot block.

Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B(marketwatch.com)

156 points by aorloff 1 year ago | 365 comments

Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests(arstechnica.com)

392 points by amichail 1 year ago | 362 comments

Ars Technica article on a study of 2023–2024 survey data finding that AI's time savings are offset by new tasks it creates for workers.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated(oii.ox.ac.uk)

397 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 186 comments

Oxford Internet Institute news item on a study finding that most of 445 LLM benchmarks lack rigorous methods and clear definitions of what they measure.

Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation(epoch.ai)

85 points by merksittich 17 days ago | 64 comments

Epoch AI report by David Owen presenting InnovationEval, finding early evidence that AI models cannot yet automate AI R&D or match human algorithmic innovation.

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit(lesswrong.com)

474 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 375 comments

LessWrong linkpost essay arguing recent AI model improvements feel overstated, based on experience building an AI codebase security-scanning startup.

AI is slowing down(wheresyoured.at)

597 points by crescit_eundo 4 months ago | 646 comments

Ed Zitron newsletter essay arguing AI growth is slowing while the industry needs trillions in revenue by 2030 to justify compute spending.