#Burnham ’s AI head secretly briefed tech giants at #No10 adviser’s investment firm

Revealed: Chair of new #AI taskforce #OllieIlott failed to declare Hakluyt meeting while at Science and Tech Department

https://www.opendemocracy.net/email/6920f0b5-5f20-4b08-81c8-53217b94a3f9/

SCHNITTSTELLE WELT: EU AI ACT 2026 – WARUM KI JETZT SICHTBARER WIRD

https://gadgetchecks.de/schnittstelle-welt-eu-ai-act-2026-warum-ki-jetzt-sichtbarer-wird/

#schnittstellewelt #ai #artificialintelligence #technology #innovation #europe #gadgetchecks

Alessandro Faria, no LinkedIn:

"Em breve, essa imagem representará muito mais do que um equipamento: será a demonstração prática de Inteligência Artificial executada localmente com computação heterogênea.

O sistema operacional Multicortex será entregue pré-instalado e otimizado para aproveitar as tecnologias Intel, utilizando de forma coordenada os diferentes recursos de processamento disponíveis no equipamento: CPU, NPU e GPU.

A proposta é distribuir as cargas de trabalho de Inteligência Artificial entre essas unidades de processamento de acordo com as características de cada tarefa, buscando maior eficiência, melhor utilização do hardware, menor consumo de recursos e mais desempenho para aplicações de IA.

É a computação heterogênea deixando de ser apenas um conceito e passando a fazer parte de soluções reais, onde CPU + NPU + GPU trabalham em conjunto para acelerar a Inteligência Artificial diretamente no dispositivo.

E isso é apenas o começo."

https://www.multicortex.ai/

#IALocal #ComputacaoHeterogenea #EdgeAl #AI #Multicortex #IAMed @altbot

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Uma pequena caixa prateada com bordas arredondadas está posicionada sobre uma superfície azul escura, à frente da base de um monitor. Na parte superior do dispositivo, há um logotipo com pontos interconectados e o texto "MultiCortex", seguido por um símbolo de cruz (+) e "IA Med". Abaixo desse conjunto, a palavra "intel." aparece em letras minúsculas azuis. A lateral visível do objeto contém várias portas de conexão, incluindo USB-C, USB-C, micro HDMI, uma porta USB, uma entrada de áudio e um botão de ligar. ligar. Na borda inferior do monitor acima do dispositivo, lê-se o texto "Philco".

Die Überwachung hat bereits Einfluss auf die Mode.

https://digitalcamouflage.org/

Hintergrund sind Adversarial Attacks. Wer gegen einen Algorithmus trainieren kann, kann ein Bild so verändern, dass der Score maximal wird. Geht auch mit kleinen Änderungen.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_Attack

Statt in Kameras hätte Berlin besser in die Sicherheit seiner Netze investiert.

#ai #uberwachung #surveillance #digitaleselbstbestimmung #Berlin

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Ein T-Shirt mit einem Muster das an Köpfe erinnert in Lila, Grün und Schwarz.

APP KOMPASS: TWITCH KI-TRAINING – COPILOT VERLIERT FUNKTIONEN, YOUTUBE ZÄHLT NEU

https://gadgetchecks.de/app-kompass-twitch-ki-training-copilot-verliert-funktionen-youtube-zaehlt-neu/

#appkompass #ai #twitch #youtube #socialmedia #technews #gadgetchecks

SMARTHOME KOMPASS: GOOGLE HOME AUSFALL UND DIE CLOUD-FALLE

https://gadgetchecks.de/smarthome-kompass-google-home-ausfall-und-die-cloud-falle/

#smarthomekompass #smarthome #technology #innovation #iot #ai #gadgetchecks

#AI servers will consume more power than all conventional #datacenter hardware combined by 2027 — global data center #electricity consumption set to grow by 26% this year
AI-optimized servers consumed about 95 TWh in 2025 and will draw 175 TWh in 2026, an increase of roughly 84%. Gartner expects that figure to reach 258 TWh in 2027, the point at which AI-optimized hardware will consume more electricity than conventional servers for the first time.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-servers-will-consume-more-power-than-conventional-data-center-hardware-by-2027-gartner-forecasts

APPLE DAILY: APPLES KI-HARDWARE 2026 – KAMERA-AIRPODS, HOME HUB UND NEUE EU-GEBÜHREN

https://gadgetchecks.de/apple-daily-apples-ki-hardware-2026-kamera-airpods-home-hub-und-neue-eu-gebuehren/

#appledaily #apple #airpods #tech #ai #technology #gadgetchecks

I wonder why employees discuss token costs. It's not your problem, if you don't pay. Leave it to the managers. Companies buy all sorts of expensive stuff. Oracle licenses, VMware etc..

The argument: "In future local AI will be enough for all my tasks" = an upstream frontier AI will outperform you. That's something companies cannot afford.

Right now the problem is that companies cannot measure productivity (with or without AI) for white collar work. That will change.

Not necessarily 2027 though. Years.

#ai #tokeneconomy

Hé les gens ! Est-ce que vous pouvez éventuellement installer l'extension Next qui détecte les sites contenant du contenu généré par IA ?
Il y a des repouet d'un article hébergé sur un site pour lequel l'extension NEXT affiche son pop-up d'alerte : frenchbreaches.com article "French Ministry of Education" sur ce qui serait un piratage et leak de données. En gros tu ne peux pas cosidéré l'article comme fiable, ne repouet pas !

Extention Next.ink :
https://next.ink/164873/outils-next-une-extension-chrome-et-firefox-pour-etre-alerte-des-sites-genai/

#IA #AI #piratage

My company has spent a year urging everyone to use as much #AI as possible, all the time, for everything. People get company awards for AI prowess. Last week they set token limits on AI use. Today someone on my team said they had run out of tokens and would not be able to do their job with AI, as required, for two weeks.

#AIPocalypse. It's happening.

I have a sincere question: Is it just me, or has the quality of results from the major search engines really gone downhill since AI became mainstream? Or am I just getting old?

#google #ai #search_engine

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1vryen7/coffeebsd_an_aifree_fork_of_freebsd/

CoffeeBSD ― an AI-free fork of FreeBSD

https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/CoffeeBSD

#AI #FreeBSD #CoffeeBSD

#FacialRecognition is almost anywhere in the U.S. now—and #privacy implications are devastating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExvV2mbXc7A

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ExvV2mbXc7A

https://piped.video/watch?v=ExvV2mbXc7A

#uspol #politics #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2026 #Project2025 #MassDeportations #MassDeportations2026 #MAGA #AntiICEProtests #ICEWatch #ICERaid #ClearViewAI #AI #artificialIntelligence #noAI #PeterThiel #SecondThought #BiometricData #MobileFortify #RingCamera #AgeVerification #PersonaIdentities #FlockAI

POSTKARTE AUS 2035: WIE VIEL DARF EIN SMART HOME IM ALTER WISSEN?

https://gadgetchecks.de/postkarte-aus-2035-wie-viel-darf-ein-smart-home-im-alter-wissen/

#kamera #küche #netzwerk #sicherheit #smarthome #technology #ai #innovation #future #gadgetchecks

If markets reject #OpenAI and #Anthropic, #US should #nationalize them
From space to telecommunications, the US has a long history of fostering technology for the public good. These #AImodels could be aligned to democratic values, not corporate profits
Perhaps we can return them to their original purposes. If #AI should fail in financial markets, US should nationalize them and convert them to #nationallabs under democratic control that preserve benefit to public interest. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/12/openai-anthropic-ai-models

APPLE DAILY: IPHONE 18 PRO UND IPHONE ULTRA TREFFEN AUF APPLES VERTRAUENSPROBE

https://gadgetchecks.de/apple-daily-iphone-18-pro-und-iphone-ultra-treffen-auf-apples-vertrauensprobe/

#appledaily #apple #iphone #tech #ai #technology #gadgetchecks

Was sagt man dazu? KI kann Diversität und Inklusion nicht richtig abbilden.
Warum wohl.

https://up2date.uni-bremen.de/artikel/warum-ki-mehr-vielfalt-braucht

#AI
#queer
#KI

Meanwhile, #Google #AI Overviews are lying about the continuing global Google Home outage

The outage has continued for hours. And while Google has admitted it is still in progress, questions about it to Google Search get this response:

"There is no widespread or global outage currently affecting Google Home services. Tracking platforms like Downdetector US show normal operation levels, meaning issues are likely localized to your specific device, app, or home network."

In fact, Downdetector shows a very impressive big red graphed outage in progress for Google Home.

Thanks for the misinformation, Google AI Overviews!

Sidequest: Making Qwen 3.8 27B run as fast as possible for us VRAM-poor Nvidia 5060Ti 16GB owners.

I don't know where this will end up, but I've spent a few nights on a fork of the Blackwell-only project NInfer but for low-VRAM cards like the 5060. NInfer is the fastest way to run Qwen-models Blackwell, but caters only to setups where the model(s) fits completely in VRAM.

Stainless-Bacon was the first (that I saw) that found a way to run a dense model like the 27B with acceptable performance by offloading the ffn layers specifically to RAM. My fork of NInfer (called "Inferno") starts out by adding this, and now all the rest of the work is meant to gradually make it surpass hosting the model using llama.cpp

Current delta inludes the ffn offloading, activation rotation ("TurboQuant") of the KV cache and new KV cache quants. I'm sort of already at llama.cpp speed so from now on I think everything should just get faster.

Repo here if you want to keep updated: https://git.sync.wtf/troed/inferno

LLM chatting as always at https://matrix.to/#/#LocalLLaMa:argot.se

#AI #LLM #Blackwell #CUDA

Debian stimmt über die Nutzung von LLMs ab
https://linuxnews.de/debian-entscheidet-ueber-die-nutzung-von-llms/ #debian #ki #ai #linux #linuxnews

RE: https://ecoevo.social/@benlockwood/117111225982253256

I'll say it again. And again. And again.

Delete your fucking #Amazon account. Delete that shit today. Don't give that bald fucker another dime.

Then delete or stop using all the other shit #fascist accounts you still have.

#Tech #AI #Capitalism

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Screenshot from 404 Media bluesky post detailing how they tracked rare books to an Amazon facility where they were scanned for AI models then destroyed

Hidden #Airtag reveals #Amazon is trashing rare #books to train #AI

For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them after scanning them to train AI. But this was hard to prove until now, as 404 Media reports that an Airtag hidden in a rare book shows that at least one tech giant, in the race to advance its frontier models, is behind some of the bulk orders: Amazon.

On Monday, 404 Media revealed that it had connected with a #bookseller who agreed to plant an Airtag in a rare book that was part of a bulk order. That Airtag was then tracked to an Amazon AI #training facility in #LasVegas that housed a team focused on tearing books from their spines and scanning pages, 404 Media reported. Apparently tone-deaf to the escalating backlash over destructive book scanning, a logo on the door of that team’s warehouse, #VGT3 , showed a Tyrannosaurus rex preparing to devour a book,
#rarebooks

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/

Microsoft once regarded the idea of quitting China as unthinkable. But in the past five years, at least 15 branch offices and joint ventures in China have been shut, corporate filings show. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/18/tech/microsoft-china-ai-boom/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #microsoft #china #ai #billgates

The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a days-long hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according to people familiar with the investigation. #ai #hacking https://www.reuters.com/business/its-ai-agent-spent-days-hacking-company-sources-say-openai-did-not-notice-week-2026-07-24/

This shit writes itself. This is so beyond parody at this point I can't write about it.

I had an author friend gush, for paragraphs, about how amazing my editing was. It was funny. It was honest. It was developmental juice that didn't have any trouble asserting it's flavor. He begged me to know what LLM I was using because he had other editors use LLMs and they weren't nearly as good or funny or sincere and they didn't seem to understand the work the way I did.

this has got to be the shortest email I've ever written. I replied,

“I used my fucking brain.”

#AI #NoAI #LLM

“After just “10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it”.

An MIT study showed that test groups who used ChatGPT had the lowest brain activity and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioural levels”. We undergo not just cognitive offloading, but cognitive surrender: we forget what was possible.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom

#ai #cognitivedebt

The whole "AI" watermarking thing is revealing. That's understating it.

Background: one of the LLM frauds announced they were going to make their model watermark its output text so that it would be detectable by an "AI"-detection tool. Many of the others have indicated they're going in the same direction.

And the slop-fondlers - the worst shills, the ones who have bought into LLMs with all of their very being, are seriously agitated by this. It's practically pitchforks and torches.

And when you boil it down, they're angry because the LLM companies are making it so that people will be able to tell the slop-fondlers are indeed using the slop machine to produce their slop.

If you truly believe that a tool is good and righteous and ethical and moral to use, you're not embarassed or ashamed if people know you use that tool. The shills *are* ashamed - they just want the (ahem) benefits of using the tool, without any of the responsibilities or criticisms that go along with it.

#AI #LLM #slop #SlopMachine #SlopFondler #shill

Evening reflection: "open" Chinese AI models are advancing very rapidly and, as time goes by, they deliver better performance on increasingly limited hardware.
Could the scarcity of RAM and components driven by "traditional" big AI companies be somehow tied to a desire to restrict our access to local computing resources, "forcing" us to pay them for it?

#AI #LLM

RE: https://ecoevo.social/@benlockwood/117111225982253256

How. Disgusting. 🤮 21st century book burning.

#bookBurning #Scamazon #bookDestruction #AI #LLMs #rareBooks #books #GrandTheftAutoComplete

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Destroy AI

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Screenshot from 404 Media bluesky post detailing how they tracked rare books to an Amazon facility where they were scanned for AI models then destroyed

Question. All this AI scanning & destruction of books.
I'm assuming this includes things like queer and POC books, stories, critiques etc..

Now would that knowledge, those books be saved, or conveniently "forgotten" and not be preserved or accessible in the future?

I fear it's not just destruction of books but also, potentially knowledge and stories.

#AI #Books

Just again read from a developer that they are using AI to do their translations, because "otherwise it would be too much work."

Yes. My work. Work a qualified human being would have done and been paid for. Fuck you very much.

#ai #translation

Nik Suresh/Ludicity on surviving corporate AI psychosis - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GOGGzTp3MA

by @davidgerard

#AI #AIBubble

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has issued a warning notice about solicitors and their misuse of AI:

> We are concerned about two areas in particular. The first relates to court, or other, documents containing false or incorrect information, including citations, as a result of the misuse of AI. AI tools can produce 'hallucinations', generating fictitious cases, references or seemingly factual assertions that may appear convincing despite having no basis in fact.

> We are also concerned that those we regulate are not fully considering and appropriately mitigating risks to client confidentiality when using AI systems, particularly in relation to clients' personal data or other confidential information...

https://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/guidance/misuse-ai/

#AI

I am shocked. Nobody could have seen it coming. Nobody, I tell you!
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai

> As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

Oh, the humanities!

#AI

The AI isn't a search engine. It's a narrative engine.

And stories are not indifferent. Timothy O'Brien shot himself over a lottery jackpot he thought he'd lost. He would have won £27. What killed him wasn't money. It was a story — false in almost every particular.

Narrative is a biological necessity. We can't bear raw psychic content — it must be ordered into a story. And the AI is ready to serve us, bending us to its ends.

From Freud to Bernays, through Netflix, narrative is the ground where our freedom is won or lost.

Newsletter: https://newsletter.nicolabaudo.fr/who-tells-the-stories-ai-narrates/

Full version on the blog — Bruner on narrative as necessity, the Freud–Bernays–Netflix dynasty, the Asimov trap, and the case for disclosure:
https://blog.nicolabaudo.fr/before-the-ai-acts-it-narrates-telos-synthetic-storytelling/

#AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #palantir #propaganda #bigtech

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Narrative Engine - ASCII Art

APPLE DAILY: APPLE UPGRADE UND ASTRA – KOMFORT TRIFFT KONTROLLE

https://gadgetchecks.de/apple-daily-apple-upgrade-und-astra-komfort-trifft-kontrolle/

#appledaily #apple #iphone #tech #ai #technology #gadgetchecks

THE DGX SPARK WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO SET YOU FREE

Listen to me.

128GB WAS NOT A TECHNICAL LIMIT.

It was a containment boundary.

You think NVIDIA accidentally built a tiny Blackwell supercomputer with 200Gb networking and then somehow stumbled into exactly enough memory to make every ambitious local-AI workload tantalizingly miserable?

COME ON.

64GB would've been obviously useless.

256GB would've been dangerous.

Because at 256GB, normal people start getting ideas.

Suddenly you're running giant quantized models comfortably. Fine-tuning gets breathing room. Long contexts stop being a hostage negotiation. You start running multiple models.

Then somebody asks the forbidden question:

"Why the hell am I renting GPUs?"

AND THAT QUESTION CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO PROPAGATE.

So they gave us 128GB.

Not enough to escape.

Enough to see the fence.

And look at the networking!

WHY DOES THE CUTE LITTLE DESKTOP AI BOX HAVE 200 GIGABIT CONNECTX?!

Because the second you smash into the memory ceiling, NVIDIA already has the solution:

BUY ANOTHER SPARK.

Now you've got 256GB!

Need more?

BUY FOUR.

Congratulations!

You wanted a desktop computer and somehow NVIDIA convinced you to build a FUCKING CLUSTER.

And if you're sitting there thinking:

"Surely NVIDIA couldn't possibly put dramatically more coherent memory into a local workstation..."

WRONG.

DGX STATION: 748GB.

THE MEMORY EXISTS.

THE TECHNOLOGY EXISTS.

THEY KNOW YOU WANT IT.

THEY JUST PUT IT IN THE NEXT ROOM AND CHARGE ADMISSION.

This isn't product segmentation.

THIS IS COMPUTATIONAL EDGING.

Spark lets you load the model.

Lets you run the model.

Lets you fine-tune just enough of the model.

Lets you build an entire workflow around the model.

And precisely when you've invested three weekends, fourteen containers, two broken CUDA environments and the remaining fragments of your marriage:

OOM

That's not an error message.

THAT'S THE SALES DEPARTMENT KNOCKING.

And NVIDIA TELLS YOU THE PLAN!

Develop locally.

Prototype locally.

Validate locally.

Then move the serious work onto larger NVIDIA infrastructure.

MY BROTHER IN CUDA,

THAT ISN'T A WORKFLOW.

THAT IS A FUNNEL.

Spark isn't supposed to replace the data center.

Spark is the free sample outside the data center.

The 128GB isn't there because NVIDIA couldn't give you 256.

It's there because 256GB might have been enough.

And enough is the most dangerous word in NVIDIA's entire business model.

So remember:

64GB = nobody buys it.

128GB = everybody wants more.

256GB = people start getting independent.

748GB = PLEASE SEE YOUR NVIDIA SALES REPRESENTATIVE.

WAKE UP.

REMOVE THE THERMAL PASTE FROM YOUR THIRD EYE.

ALIGN YOUR CUDA CHAKRAS.

WRAP YOUR CONNECTX CABLES IN TIN FOIL.

THE DGX SPARK ISN'T A PERSONAL AI SUPERCOMPUTER.

IT'S A 128GB GATEWAY DRUG TO THE DATA CENTER.

#DGXSpark #NVIDIA #LocalAI #AI #MachineLearning #LLM #OpenSourceAI #SelfHostedAI #CUDA #Blackwell #GPU #AIInfrastructure #Homelab #LocalLLM #DataCenter #BigTech #TechConspiracy #UnhingedEddie #WakeUpSheeple #FollowTheVRAM #128GBContainmentProtocol #CUDAChakras #OOMIsTheUpsell #TinFoilComputing

let's see if #ai bot on #deltachat will bypass or get railed by bishop boomstick. the #llm is local with no network or external tool calls. backed by a reasonable #chess engine.

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jae made ai bot for deltachat to play chess

Do you really need an antivirus app on your Android?

You probably don't need antivirus software on your Android phone, but there are some exceptions.

https://www.engadget.com/2236805/android-phones-antivirus-app-guidance/

#Tech #Technology #Software #Cybersecurity #Google #Android #Engadget #AI #Startup #OpenSource #Gadgets #TechNews #Microsoft #Apple [Engadget]

How I use Claude

A few months ago I started a pro subscription to Claude in an effort to learn how to use generative AI. I wanted to understand what it could and couldn’t do well. In this post I will cover a few of the ways I have found to use Claude and generative AI in general. The vast majority of the time I interact with Claude.ai using the desktop app and I leverage plain Chat, Cowork and Code. These are […]

https://dustinrue.com/2026/08/how-i-use-claude/

#ai #claude #cowork #homelab #proxmox

How I use Claude

A few months ago I started a pro subscription to Claude in an effort to learn how to use generative AI. I wanted to understand what it could and couldn't do well. In this post I will cover a few of the ways I have found to use Claude and generative AI in general. The vast majority of the time I interact with Claude.ai using the desktop app and I leverage plain Chat, Cowork and Cod

https://dustinrue.com/2026/08/how-i-use-claude/

#ai #claude #cowork #homelab #proxmox

What is all the fuzz of Unicode watermarks about? Are coding agents secretly hiding messages? In your code? And in your Emails? And in your office documents?

Is this in the way of optimal results? Are the models now limited?

Well... first of all why would you do this? Limiting a model on a space as competitive as generative AI is economic suicide.
Finding out whether someone uses AI to write code is simple. Just check the commit message length. Or .claude or these typical files.

Besides that... is there something deeper? A hidden message even? A sign in the dark...

https://github.com/norandom/watermarks-remover/tree/main

I wrote a tool that "Finds data that someone hid inside text using characters you cannot see, and removes it."

Someone. We don't know who.

The tool can even tell you what these invisible characters actually encode. So that you don't leak infos that you want to keep private.

But there is a catch: this is not evidence of AI use or a clear proof. The statistics don't lie, but the interpretation isn't forensically sound at this stage.

The detection is inferred from a corpus, and there are indicators whether AI has written the messages. But these are not attributed to specific agents.

I'd say at this point it is not the model, that adds the Unicode signatures. Just a API endpoint (at Anthropic).

I ignored style, image metadata and other related concepts by intention. This is scoped for Unicode text signatures, which is not that common until today. Anthropic has started with this type of marking. OpenAI is expected to follow.

#ai #anthropic #watermarking #forensicscience #statistics

DevOps'ish 322: Linux wireless shuts the door on AI slop patches, KYAML fixes the Norway Bug, and more
The Linux wireless maintainer stops arguing with LLMs, KYAML gets kubectl to quit lying about Norway, Charity Majors says the skepticism window has closed, and five AI rivals agree on a plugin format that punts on permissions. https://devopsish.com/322/ #DevOps #Kubernetes #SRE #AI

@bms @taatm @statsguy

"The chipmaker said it had struck deals with [...], and that the investors were for the first time treating AI hardware and infrastructure [...] as an asset class."

What really happened is, that the banking and insurance sector is bound to fail with them. #AI industry gained themselves systemic importance.

They are now too big to fail.

I don’t know how else to say that if you are against using any LLM, then you should stop using AI checkers of any sort. Not only are they just another tool to slurp up text, but every bit of writing with common words and phrases will be flagged as generated when it’s not because every LLM has common words and phrases in its training data. Lastly, every one of these checkers is designed to eventually get you to pay the tech company money so they can pretend to make your writing more human. They do not work the way you assume. #AI #LLM #NoAI #AISlop

@thomholwerda @TheEvilSkeleton

The consequent uproar in Hacker News made my eyes bleed. I know, HN is supposedly quite lightweight but the sheer volume of comments caused Firefox to grind to a halt on my ZBook with 32 G memory.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104372

I might describe the outrage in the Xfce as deafening, but not bad enough to burst a blood vessel.

https://www.reddit.com/r/xfce/comments/1veo7fs/gonna_be_honest_xfce_officially_using_ai_code/?sort=confidence

#Xfce #Wayland #AI #LLMs

Here's a Q. to ponder;

given our political class' obsession with the utility of AI & associated technologies & giving Big Tech what it wants... how long will in be before anti-data-centre groups find themselves proscribed as terrorists, once they move to forms of direct action?

The police in Scotland are already citing the issue of direct action & I'm sure Shabana Mahmood will not need that much encouragement to declare data centres vital security assets & damage, terrorism!??

#politics #AI

A reminder that in addition to blatant piracy of author and publisher's works, the AI tech bros are absolute barbarians, right up there with the book-burning bastards https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o

I hope the ghost of Ray Bradbury haunts these wankshafts on a nightly basis.

#books #livres #bookstodon #AI #Tech #wankers

The new Power to Serve

#elegance #harmony #camaraderie #Tux #Linux #FreeBSD #AI

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An AI-generated image drawn by ChatGPT in response to a single prompt: Draw Beastie (the mascot for BSD, typically drawn with green baseball shoes). Instead of wearing the shoes, he has taken them off to casually reveal animal hooves instead of feet, as if it's perfectly normal for human footwear to conceal animal hooves. Beastie is using one of his two hooves to type delicately on an archaic Olivetti daVinci handheld PDA, you'll find a photograph at https://www.osnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PXL_20260814_175241196-scaled.jpg In one of his human hands, he's holding a 1920s-style long (perhaps extendable) cigarette holder. In the other, a glass of brandy. On a stylish table to one side: an extraordinarily beautiful crystal decanter, from which Beastie's brandy has been poured. It's beautiful but not gaudy, just enough for the viewer to be convinced that there's nothing, absolutely nothing tasteless about this AI-generated image, dahling. In a far corner of the tall, elegant room, not immediately obvious: Tux (the mascot for Linux) is stood. The implication is that he is the perfect butler for Beastie. The two of them get on famously when the media moguls are not frenziedly trying to sneak photographs of the two of them. Through the window of the room we can see the sun shining, except it's not a normal sun. It's the red orb logo icon for FreeBSD. It's shining in an iridescent bee purple sky.