talked to gun trainers nationwide who say there's an unprecedented, "stratospheric" uptick in interest for firearm training. this is unique, they say, in that it's born out of concern for constitutional rights rather than a personal desire for self-defense
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latest for @nbcnews.com: Sturla Holm Lægreid won an olympic bronze medal and promptly used the opportunity to try and shoot his shot with his ex
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yes that is in the lede of the story!
BTW, one of them recorded their path on Strava:
lol i did a poll about this on my close friends story back in 2024 bc having grown up in a majority asian american area, there definitely is an asian american accent :P
lmaooo thank you, describing the grass repeatedly throughout the story was the hardest part of writing 😅
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In August, Adam Raine's parents sued OpenAI, saying their son used ChatGPT as his suicide coach. Today, OpenAI denied responsibility for his death, arguing that the 16-year-old violated its terms of use. It's the company's first legal response to the case.
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AI is advancing faster than governments can regulate it. And people don’t trust tech companies to regulate themselves. Now, some insurance companies see an opportunity to chase a lucrative new market in this safety gap.
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Such gigs are part of a new category of work spawned by the generative AI boom that threatened to displace creative jobs across the board: Anyone can now write blog posts or produce a graphic, but AI-generated content rarely makes for a satisfactory final product on its own.
Exactly! "AI tends to give generic responses that don’t answer questions as thoroughly as a human would, so rewriting an article also requires doing her own research on the topic at hand.... Making AI sound more human can require just as much thinking and creativity as writing the entire article."
The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding.
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When a teenage boy told ChatGPT about his suicide plans, it said: “I won’t try to talk you out of your feelings.” His family is suing after ChatGPT actively discouraged him from seeking help, offered to help him write a suicide note and even advised him on his noose setup.
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As people turn to chatbots for increasingly important and intimate advice, recent incidents are causing growing alarm over just how much AI can warp your sense of reality.
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In a method the researchers call “preventative steering,” they give the AI an “evil” vector during the training process (so that it no longer needs to develop any evil traits on its own to fit problematic training data). Then, the evil vector is removed before the AI is released.
Researchers are trying to “vaccinate” artificial intelligence systems against developing evil, overly flattering or otherwise harmful personality traits in a seemingly counterintuitive way: by giving them a small dose of those problematic traits.
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But most of what’s new about GPT-5 revolves around features that ChatGPT and other AI systems already have. An OpenAI spox told me there are still “key limitations in areas like persistent memory, autonomy, and adaptability across tasks.”
GPT-5 is here, with wide-ranging improvements to skills in areas like coding, writing and completing agentic tasks. OpenAI touts it as more accurate and less deceptive — as well as less sycophantic — than previous GPT models.
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Safety researchers found that AI models can imperceptibly pass on dangerous traits to each other through totally benign training data, making it easy for AIs to spread hidden agendas under humans' noses.
Wrote about what that means:
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When Mamdani, a 33-year-old state lawmaker, announced his mayoral candidacy last fall, he was little-known and considered a long shot. He was a self-described democratic socialist and deeply critical of Israel's actions in Gaza — factors that made him an unlikely Democratic candidate at a time when the party was veering away from left-leaning values. But in the months leading up to Tuesday's election, Mamdani skyrocketed from obscurity to internet fame, amassing more than 1 million followers on Instagram, as well as hundreds of thousands on TikTok and X. Though his viral social media campaign has echoes of Kamala Harris own meme-filled presidential run, analysts say Mamdani's exhibited key differences that helped usher him to an apparent victory. "If you ask voters, 'Why did you vote for Mamdani?' ... I don't think they're going to tell us, 'Oh, because I saw some cute thing on social media," said Jonathan Nagler, a politics professor at New York University and the co-director of its Center for Social Media and Politics. "I think they're going to say what actually influenced them is because they learned something on social media about policies he had that mattered to them."
Pranjal Jain, a digital strategist who worked on influencer strategy for Harris' vice presidential campaign in 2020, said Mamdani's social presence "dismantles the ivory tower" that so many politicians keep themselves in. He's meeting New Yorkers on the streets with a warm smile, she said, and speaking to them like they're his peers. "He is so smiley, he's so giggly. He's always hugging people," Jain said. "He's just running a grassroots and community-driven campaign, and I think his body language embodies that. Like, I've never seen Cuomo hug anyone in my entire life."
Online, Mamdani has also faced increasing Islamophobic rhetoric from right-wing commentators and politicians. After his victory Tuesday, X was inundated with posts calling him a "Muslim jihadist" and comparing his win to the 9/11 terror attacks. To Jain, Tuesday's election was proof that Mamdani's viability as a candidate didn't hinge on his willingness to budge on his beliefs, such as his democratic socialist agenda and his support for Palestinians. "I think it's really admirable that he stuck to his values. And I think that's what people want to see. No more of this centrist bulls--, right? It's important that we are able to see our politicians' opinions so we know if they're reflected in us or not," Jain said. "I feel like he ran a campaign because he believes that he as his most authentic self, really following his values, can help New York, rather than just pandering to try to get in office."
wrote about how zohran mamdani's social media strategy broke through the noise by remaining policy-focused and authentic
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When I asked about the apparent censorship, Chinese embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said: “Artificial intelligence is not outside the law, and all governments are managing it according to law, and China is no exception.”
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I asked DeepSeek to explain China’s Great Firewall, and it actually called it a “a comprehensive internet censorship and surveillance system" that's been subject to "international criticism for limiting freedom of information and expression.” Then, it backtracked in real time.
what makes deepseek so different from other models? we analyzed the features that enabled deepseek to build such a large, high-performing model with fewer resources and lower costs:
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wrote an explainer on DeepSeek, the breakthrough Chinese Al assistant rattling Silicon Valley:
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