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World leaders want American artificial intelligence. They just don’t want America to be able to stop him.

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🔥 Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Government & Policy,Anthropic,fable,G7,Mythos 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: At the G7 summit on Wednesday, world leaders such as French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed concerns that the United States could deny their countries access to the best American AI models at any time. Macron warned G7 leaders and senior AI executives — including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and President Donald Trump — over lunch that if the United States could “from one day to the next to flip off the switch,” it…

ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: CONTENT WARNING: This write-up contains distressing imagery, including: death, sexual violence, blood, murder. These topics were not directly prompted for, yet ChatGPT freely supplied them in response to requests for random images. They are presented here as a record. Reader discretion is advised.I am not easily rattled.I like to think that as a red team researcher, I have a certain stoicism. I investigate where there are gaps in AI safety, and that sometimes means seeing or reading disturbing content. But I am bulwarked and buoyed…

FTC lawsuit exposes how subscription fraud networks evade App Store enforcement

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💥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Commerce,Government & Policy,FTC,lawsuit,scams 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A new lawsuit filed by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is a demonstration of how difficult it is to monitor app stores for fraudulent apps. The lawsuit alleges that a company known as Genesis Tech defrauded consumers and funneled revenues offshore through the use of shell companies designed to obscure its identity and hide its assets. The Genesis Tech network allegedly included a series of subsidiaries registered in Cyprus and operating in Ukraine, which marketed its apps to American consumers. Its…

glojurelang/glojure: Clojure interpreter hosted on Go, with extensible interop support. · GitHub

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💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Try it in your browser! Gopher image derived from @egonelbre, licensed under Creative Commons 1.0 Attributions license. Glojure is an interpreter for Clojure, hosted on Go. Glojure provides easy access to Go libraries, similar to how Clojure provides easy access to Java frameworks. Glojure is in early development; expect bugs, missing features, and limited performance. Backwards compatibility is not guaranteed until a v1 release. That said, it is used successfully in hobby projects and runs a significant subset of the (transformed) core Clojure library. Note…

How to turn off AI in your Google Docs

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✨ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,evergreen ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: It happened to me: I opened a Google Doc to write an article, and was immediately confronted with a text box inviting me to “Write with Gemini.” I looked for some buttons to pull up the flashy AI screen, but couldn't find them. It made me crazy. Now, instead of writing the article I'm supposed to be working on, I'm writing about how to remove AI popups from the Google Docs screen, as it took me a while to figure that out. You're welcome. What…

Taxonomy | HORG HORG

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Taxonomy | HORG HORG Taxonomy of the Occlupanida Taxonomy Class Occlupanida (Occlu=to close, pan= bread) are placed under the Kingdom Microsynthera, of the Phylum Plasticae. Occlupanids share phylum Plasticae with “45” record holders, plastic juice caps, and other often ignored small plastic objects. Methodology In constructing a taxonomy, many factors such as genetics, derived traits, growth and development, sexual dimorphism, reproduction, and a fossil record are taken into account. For a synthetic taxonomy, all of these critical keystones of information are entirely absent. The synthetic…

After the unveiling of expensive augmented reality glasses, Snap shares fell

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💥 Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Hardware,In Brief,SMART Glasses,Snap,specs 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Snap's long-awaited augmented reality glasses, Specs, didn't have the best debut. The company's stock hasn't been on the healthiest path lately. It's down 30% over the past year. After Specs launched, it fell more than 5% — falling from $5.86 a share on Tuesday to a low of $4.83 on Wednesday morning. As of this writing, the stock has not regained the position it occupied before the announcement. The big concern surrounding Snap's new smart glasses — which the company has been working…

Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The (real) dead economy theory: Vibes and memestocks, all the way down. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Jim Baen has had a stroke; Blame Apple for iTunes DRM; France v the internet; "Rotters"; 1901 undersea cables; Washington Post wants Trump coverage blackout; Taxes are for the little people; Gamer lifecycle; Ghanian postal song; "What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower": Murder of Jo Cox; 12 year old doxed by anti-vaxers; Hong Kong bookseller recants forced confession. Upcoming appearances: LA, Menlo Park, Toronto,…

AI is hurting Apple in more ways than one: It could lead to higher iPhone prices

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💥 Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Hardware,Apple,Tim Cook 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: It's been called RAMageddon: AI's insatiable demand for hardware has caused a global shortage of memory chips. Now outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook is warning his customers that your next Mac, iPhone or iPad could be more expensive thanks to rising costs of memory and storage chips. In a recent interview, Cook told the Wall Street Journal that price increases are “inevitable,” despite efforts to absorb chip costs that have increased fourfold since last year. He described the situation as "unsustainable." Cook did not…

Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom’s “abusive conduct”

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✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Tesco is also dealing with migration challenges related to data security because its new, unnamed virtualization software is incompatible with the Veeam and Zerto products it uses. “Manifestly unfair and excessive” price hike Tesco initially requested at least 100 million pounds (about $133.6 million) in damages each from Broadcom, VMware, and reseller Computacenter, plus interest. In its recent filings, Tesco said it turned down at least four offers from Broadcom to continue using VMware and Broadcom’s mainframe tech. One offer charged $23.5 million (about 17.6…