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The Trump Administration’s Favorite Nuclear Startup Has Ties to Russia and Epstein

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At 26, Isaiah Taylor had accomplished more than most people do by the time they’re twice his age. The founder of Valar Atomics, a Southern California-based company that aims to make small-scale nuclear reactors, Taylor, a father of four, has government contracts, invitations to Mar-a-Lago, and investments from some of the biggest names in Silicon […]

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Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information

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Leaked documents reveal that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, has blocked its AI chatbot from discussing topics including abortion with minors—a blanket policy that contrasts sharply with the firm’s handling of child sexual exploitation claims, and that may also inadvertently affect its content for adults. Internal Meta documents obtained by Mother […]

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Big Tech’s Claims That AI Can Help Fix the Climate Crisis Are “Greenwashing”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report. Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation […]

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Japan Embarks on a Deep-Sea Mining Experiment With Unknown Consequences

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The year 2010 was a reckoning for Japan’s economic security.  On September 7, the Chinese fishing trawler Minjinyu 5179 refused an order by Japan’s coast guard to leave disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands, which are known in China as Diaoyu. The […]

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Health Department Will Mine Unverified Vaccine Injury Claims With New AI Tool

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is developing a generative artificial intelligence tool to find patterns across data reported to a national vaccine monitoring database and to generate hypotheses on the negative effects of vaccines, according to an inventory released last week of […]

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Who Takes Palantir’s Money? A New Tracker Finds Out.

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As the Trump administration continues to violently occupy Minnesota, the role of the defense tech firm Palantir—which continues to sell its data mining, automation, and surveillance technology to ICE—is coming under increasing scrutiny. A new tool, launched Thursday, follows the money making it happen. Palantir Payroll, the product of an effort by the campaign Purge […]

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Those Brutal “Melania” Documentary Reviews Have Vanished from Letterboxd

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Yesterday I published a story about what was quickly becoming a surprising site of capital R Resistance: the Letterboxd review page for the $75 million documentary film, Melania. Comments were profane, fun, silly, unprintable. I included some of my favorites. The point I was making was this: Even before the movie’s release this Friday, it […]

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California Senate Bill Would Grease the Skids for Balcony Solar

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. California lawmakers are considering two bills that would slash red tape for households looking to add certain types of clean tech. Earlier this month, Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, whose district includes San Francisco, introduced legislation that would make it easier […]

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Grok’s Leering Pictures Are the Newest Version of an Old Problem

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There’s a picture of myself that I had saved on my desktop for years; I suppose we could call it a caricature. A little more than a decade ago, someone on a Nazi messageboard pulled a photo of me from social media, then updated it with some antisemitic flair: a little cartoon rat sitting on […]

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Elon Musk’s Alternate Grok Reality

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In much of the world, Grok and its parent company both appear to be in serious trouble. After Grok, X’s AI chatbot, has been used to generate sexualized and violent images of women and children, the social media company has faced a wave of backlash and censure, with new nationwide bans on accessing Grok in […]

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Why Do We Trust ChatGPT?

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In the summer of 2019, a group of Dutch scientists conducted an experiment to collect “digital confessions.” At a music festival near Amsterdam, the researchers asked attendees to share a secret anonymously by chatting online with either a priest or a relatively basic chatbot, assigned at random. To their surprise, some of the nearly 300 […]

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Why Do We Trust ChatGPT?

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In the summer of 2019, a group of Dutch scientists conducted an experiment to collect “digital confessions.” At a music festival near Amsterdam, the researchers asked attendees to share a secret anonymously by chatting online with either a priest or a relatively basic chatbot, assigned at random. To their surprise, some of the nearly 300 […]

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