Trump to Name AI Czar While Rejecting Safety Risks as a Hoax

In his post on Saturday, Trump said he will also create an AI Force modeled after the Space Force, a branch of the US military he created in his first administration, to help tackle issues related to the industry. But it wasn’t immediately clear how that would be structured or what it would do. Somehow I can't see the AI billionaires paying any attention whatsoever to a Trump-appointed AI czar.

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u/CackleRooster — 24 days ago
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Amazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue—and it’s just the latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking labor shares

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u/CackleRooster — 1 month ago

Synology BeeStation Plus review: An easy-to-use NAS, even if I'm not the target user

A mindlessly simple NAS for people who just want the storage with no frills.

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u/CackleRooster — 1 month ago

Insider: Red Hat is capping devs' bot budgets

The R&D department is capping developers' use of tokens: from now on, they'll need to keep it to a maximum of $300 per calendar month, and no more.

There was also a rider, to the effect that sharing token allowances with other developers is prohibited. If somehow you manage not to use your whole budget (what are you, some kind of Luddite?), then no sneakily trying to give it to your more bot-obsessed co-workers.

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u/CackleRooster — 1 month ago

Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime

Cloud-based AI models operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google suffered a rare and overlapping set of significant service interruptions over a period of hours Thursday morning.

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u/CackleRooster — 1 month ago