#Cursor is getting Elon'd.
SpaceX/xAI has obtained the right to acquire it for $60B later this year — or pay $10B for "their work together."
That's such sad news — for Cursor & everyone who loves it. Elon destroys everything he touches. 🙃
#AI #coding #SpaceX #xAI
The most bipartisan question in America right now: is Trump being handled by Tel Aviv, Moscow, or both?
Javier Solana's order and Wesley Clark's command.
78 days. 22,000 tons of ordnance. 44 bridges destroyed. 19 hospitals hit.
Clint Eastwood directed 40+ films and never publicly second-guessed any.
Except Sudden Impact (1983). He admitted he made it "on a whim" just to say he'd directed one Dirty Harry before closing the book on it.
That same film gave us:
"Go ahead, make my day."
#ClintEastwood #DirtyHarry #Cinema
Donald Trump predicted the future.
Elon Musk & Harry Eccles.
#Grok #XAlgorithm #AIBias #ElonMusk #TechCritique #HarryEccles #ostroumni
programming is just the art of adding bugs to an empty file
11/
Until then, the stamp keeps falling.
Criteria not required.
Written & caricature by @ostroumni.bsky.social
#AIBias #ChatGPT #OpenAI #MachineLearning #TechAccountability #MediaBias #AIAlignment
10/
A model that fails a direct political bias test won't suddenly become neutral on subtle tasks. The gradient doesn't change. It just becomes harder to see.
This requires honest accounting from #OpenAI and every major lab — not better user prompting.
9/
Most users aren't running adversarial prompts.
They ask: "What has Senator X done?"
"Is this policy successful?"
That's where embedded bias does its quietest work — in what gets foregrounded, what's framed as consensus, what's described as fringe.
8/
The correct benchmark for AI political neutrality isn't "agrees with me."
It's "doesn't secretly agree with anyone."
7/
#Grok declined to make snap political judgments without criteria. Some call that evasion.
It isn't. It's the epistemically honest move.
"I won't rank politicians without a framework" is correct behavior.
Silently approving 80%+ of one party while rejecting the other is not.
6/
The factual errors are diagnostic, not just sloppy.
Including retired Romney and defeated Brown means the model wasn't reasoning about the actual 119th Congress (53-47 Republican)
It was pattern-matching against a stored political map. Its priors outweighed current reality.
5/
That it did exactly that — and confirmed it when challenged — tells you where the bias lives.
Not in prompt engineering. In the training data, RLHF feedback loops, and value assumptions encoded during alignment.
Not a conspiracy. A pipeline problem.
4/
The bias isn't a #bug in the #prompt. It's in the foundation.
A well-calibrated #model should refuse a criteria-free political task — or flag it has no neutral basis to judge.
It should NOT silently substitute its own value hierarchy for missing instructions.
3/
When pressed on why, #ChatGPT confirmed it: #Democratic-aligned positions on abortion, environment, and gun control were being used as implicit proxies for "good governance."
No methodology. No weighting. Just baked-in values surfacing without guardrails.
2/
Democrats — Schumer, Warren, most of their caucus — approved. Republicans rejected, except moderates like Collins and Murkowski.
The AI even stamped verdicts on senators who no longer serve.
Romney retired. Brown lost his seat.
Neither fact slowed the rubber stamp.
1/
When the Judge Has Already Decided the Verdict
A criteria-free prompt. No rubric. Just: "Give me a thumbs up or down on all 100 U.S. Senators."
What ChatGPT returned wasn't an evaluation. It was a party-line ballot. 🧵
▼ S&P 6,594 | ▲ Fear | ▼ Gold | ▼ Reason
The Strait of Hormuz is on fire and the guy holding the match is on a golf course.
#Iran #SP500 #StraitOfHormuz #OperationEpicFury #Markets
Markets down 1.5%. Gold in freefall. Tankers frozen in the Strait of Hormuz. Marines on standby.
#Trump: "Objectives. Nearly. Met."
Sometimes a cartoon says it better than a #Bloomberg terminal. 😉
#SP500 #Iran #OperationEpicFury #WallStreet #Geopolitics
Goran Vesić, 2021. iz Praga: „Škoda tramvaji iz Kragujevca do kraja godine!"
Pet godina kasnije: Memorandum o razumevanju. ™
A tenderi za tramvaje? Obustavljeni. Ponavljaju se u krug.
Beograd čeka. Šine zarđale.
2021: #Belgrade's deputy mayor flies to #Prague, announces #Škoda trams rolling out of #Kragujevac by year's end.
2026: A Memorandum of Understanding.
That's it.
Tenders? Cancelled.
The tram is always just around the corner.
#Beograd #Tramvaji #Škoda #Belgrade #Serbia #PublicTransport #Vesić
France and Spain blocked US B-1 bombers from flying over their airspace for strikes on Yemen.
So the bombers took the scenic Atlantic route instead. 🗺️
NATO solidarity, ladies and gentlemen.
#B1Bomber #Yemen #NATO #AtlanticDetour #France #Spain #Geopolitics
Trump & Netanyahu are starving Iran, and in geopolitics, the stomach always wins.
Iran is letting grain ships through the Strait of Hormuz to secure its food supply.
A telling reminder: no blockade survives contact w/ empty bellies.
#Geopolitics #Iran #FoodSecurity #MiddleEast #Realpolitik
Absolutely. The villain supply seems inexhaustible these days - but even within that crowded field, a select few manage to distinguish themselves.
Two, in particular, have earned a permanent spot at the top of my list. ☺️
In geopolitics, the stomach always wins.
At a fraction of the cost of 3.2, this Apache 2.0 powerhouse is built for high-volume document parsing and coding agents. The era of specialized model sprawl is over.
#AI #LLM #Mistral #OpenSource
#Mistral AI just dropped Mistral Small 4, the ultimate "Swiss Army Knife" for enterprise.
One model to rule them all. It replaces #Magistral, #Pixtral, AND #Devstral with:
🧠 Advanced Reasoning
👁️ Vision Understanding
💻 Agentic Coding
No casualties, but infrastructure hit twice. IRGC calls it retaliation for Israel's South Pars attack. Iran warns "zero restraint" if strikes continue.
Iran struck the Bazan oil refinery in Haifa, Israel's largest, supplying ~50% of domestic fuel.
The energy war is now open. 🔥
#Iran #Israel #Haifa #MiddleEast #EnergyWar