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We got the flip phone coming back before GTA 6.
On tonight's Slop Report: it's the Summer of George. @slop_pig has the forecast.
Our 6 Gen Z singles tell an AI matchmaker about their celebrity crushes 👀
On tonight’s slop report, @slop_pig reports on the copyright battle over Tung Tung Sahur.
A lot of the internet is more AI-written than you might think, and some platforms may actually be rewarding it.
"It’s nice for things to be easy, but part of life is that things are challenging."
.@sama proposes founding a "US-led international forum" for AI safety "that establishes accepted standards, provides expert and impartial analysis of capabilities and risks, and makes the technology available to nations and companies that participate and follow the rules" in the @FT today. Adding: "The most important decisions about how this technology is used should be made through democratic processes, not by a small number of companies in San Francisco."
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The timeline is refreshing Claude waiting for Fable 5 to drop like it’s the sneaker era all over again.
woke up early to use Fable but alas...
Happy Fable 5 Eve, everyone.
Claude Fable 5 will be available again globally tomorrow. After a series of productive conversations with the US government, we're redeploying the model with a new set of classifiers to target and block more cybersecurity tasks. In the near term, some routine tasks like coding and debugging will fall back to Opus 4.8. We’ll continue to refine these classifiers over the coming weeks to reduce false positives and better distinguish genuine misuse from legitimate requests. We’ve also begun drafting a consensus framework—with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and other Glasswing partners—for assessing the severity of AI jailbreaks and how AI developers should respond to them. We invite other industry partners and model providers to join us in this effort. Finally, we’re scaling up our collaboration with the US government on model testing and safeguards. This will include pre-release access to models and safeguards for evaluation, information sharing on jailbreaks and misuse, and dedicated resources for joint research. Thank you to our users for your patience, and to our partners across the government, industry, and the research community who worked alongside us to make Fable 5 available again. Read our full blog:
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.@MatthewBerman had some thoughts on what engineers should do in the age of AI: - learn the tools - get good the good engineers will be fine and the bad engineers won't be fine. you do not get this kind of analysis anywhere else
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On tonight's Slop Report, @slop_pig reports on the AI-generated ads making impulse purchases even more regrettable.
.@MatthewBerman's team didn't think he could do 20 pushups in 60 seconds. well i'm proud to say that he did indeed show them up (form questionable) and his entire team owes him an apology and a year's supply of creatine
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We got @dagsen a $53,000 humanoid robot from America’s first humanoid robot store, then challenged him to turn it into an autonomous being in just 12 hours. Thank you @rek and @dimensionalos for your help! 00:00 Humanoids are everywhere, how hard are they to use? 00:57 Meeting a robot operating system developer 02:12 What can a Unitree humanoid robot do straight out of the box? 03:25 Visiting America’s first humanoid robot store 04:11 Unpacking the robot 04:50 Taking the robot for a run 05:22 Programming the robot 06:31 Calling in engineering experts 07:15 Speaking Chinese with a robot 07:27 The history of humanoid robots 08:40 A breakthrough 09:09 Robot vs obstacle course
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In our latest video, @dagsen heads to LA's biggest hackathon @LAHacks to try and predict its grand prize winner. 00:47 Eye-powered keyboard 01:50 Acoustic intelligence app for studying 02:31 Transforming AI waste heat into clean water 03:29 Earthquake rescue robot 04:12 Escape route app for natural disasters 04:50 Mindfulness app for kids 05:15 How AI is driving more hackathon participation 05:49 Open source AWS 06:41 Biometric analysis for study focus 07:32 Skin disease monitoring app 08:25 Open source cybersecurity 09:08 Diagnostic and prevention layer for AI coding agents 09:28 Predicting the winners 10:37 Grand prize winner interview
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America’s largest weather modification company, @RainmakerCorp, says it has made a major breakthrough and can prove its cloud seeding operations work. We went back to their HQ for our latest documentary.
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🔜Job alert! We’re looking for someone amazing to fill a founding partnerships role at Soon. If you know the SF tech/media/sponsorship world well and want to help shape what partnerships, events, and brand collaborations look like for a fast-growing tech media company, get in touch: work@soon.tech
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New social media apps are leaning into the ways of the old internet. And they’re growing. In our latest documentary, @dagsen covers this wave of anti-algorithmic social media and asks whether it points to a healthier future online. 00:31 Surveying students about their social media habits 01:45 Speaking to Tyler Bainbridge, founder of Perfectly Imperfect, about the platform’s culture and its recommendation-driven social network 04:18 What is an algorithm? 04:56 Retro's founder helped create Instagram Stories 05:17 How does Retro work? 06:01 Is a non-addictive social media app possible? 07:10 Does social media bring you closer to your friends? 07:40 Dagsen’s take on social media 08:13 Speaking to users and employees of Perfectly Imperfect and Retro
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