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The Internet Watch Foundation says it has identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos showing realistic child sexual abuse in 2025, a 14% increase from the previous year (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 24, 2026

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: The Internet Watch Foundation says it has identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos showing realistic…

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Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers and cops have gone viral, and thousands of people appear to believe they are real (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 21, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: Live from Nvidia’s Nerd Super Bowl, poker takes over technology and the future of banking AI A…

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Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors such as shorter deadlines increase bad behavior in agentic AI models during task execution (Matthew Hutson/IEEE Spectrum)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 30, 2025

Matthew Hutson / IEEE Spectrum: Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors such as shorter deadlines increase bad behavior…

Technology

Microsoft’s first-quarter results, showing a $3.1 billion net loss from its OpenAI stake, imply that OpenAI lost $11.5 billion in the quarter, based on Microsoft’s 27% stake (Matt Rosoff/The Register)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 31, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: The big deal from OpenAI and Microsoft, the next three years of Sam Altman, a…

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Sora’s Videos Showing Dead Celebrities Spark Backlash From Families; OpenAI says representatives of ‘recently deceased’ public figures can request to have their images blocked (Washington Post)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 12, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Inside Google’s AI Turnaround: The Rise of AI Mode, the Strategy Behind AI Previews, and Their…

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The release of GPT-5 was disappointing, offering incrementally improvements and not meeting expectations, showing that pure scaling is simply not the way to act (Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 10, 2025

Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI:: The liberation of GPT-5 was disappointing, offering increasing improvements and not meeting expectations, showing…

Technology

Shareholder letter: Reddit quotes Defound’s analysis showing that it is the most cited domain on AI models, in front of Wikipedia, YouTube, Forbes and others (Alice Brooker / Press Gazette)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 5, 2025

Alice Brooker / Press gazette:: Shareholders’ letter: Reddit quotes Defound’s analysis showing that it is the most cited domain on…

Technology

Cloudflare Open overflowed by an Oauth library mainly written by Claude, showing how AI manages mechanical implementation while humans guide with context and judgment (Max Mitchell)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 9, 2025

Featured podcasts Podcast by Lenny: How Mercado Libre built the most precious company in Latin America: 18K Engineers, 30K deploys…

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An Alabama man is sentenced to 14 months in prison for hacking the X account in 2024 and by showing a false announcement that the dry had approved Bitcoin Etf (Sarah Wynn / The Block)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 16, 2025

Sarah Wynn / The block:: An Alabama man is sentenced to 14 months in prison for hacking the X account…

Politics

NBC cut the critical part of the meeting of the press interview showing Trump out of his mind

By Frank M. EverettMay 4, 2025

Politicususa is a new independent that you can count on. Please support us by becoming a subscriber.With questions about Trump’s…

Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison – Radio Free Asia

RFA welcomes release of Shin Daewe, RFA contributor in Myanmar – Radio Free Asia

Soft power ‘wins’ Beijing as Chinese medical ship treats 5,400 people in PNG for free – Radio Free Asia

US to establish fuel depot in Philippines to support operations in South China Sea – Radio Free Asia

Japan’s combat role in Philippine war drills signals shift in regional strategy – Radio Free Asia

Local car dealerships grow, die amid rise of auto mega-retailers

Netflix has long been “a builder, not a buyer.” Are those times over?

Some grocers are using AI to reduce food waste and increase profit margins

Trump names Erica Schwartz director of CDC

RFK Jr.’s Peptide Policy Could Boost Hims & Hers as Its GLP-1 Business Scales

Troops warned they would be prosecuted for war crimes if they followed Trump’s illegal orders

Inflation and Cost of Living Are Expected to End Trump’s Presidency

Completely irrelevant, Trump doesn’t even know where JD Vance is

Cognitively declining Trump wants praise for ability to sign his name

Jared Kushner under investigation for potential violations of federal bribery and foreign agent laws

Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer is leaving the company as the data center developer faces problems finding an anchor tenant and construction delays (Amy Harder/Axios)

Vercel says it detected unauthorized access to its internal systems after a hacker using the handle ShinyHunters claimed a breach on BreachForums (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Palantir publishes 22-point summary of Alex Karp’s book, advocating hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, and denouncing pluralism and “regressive” cultures (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Sources: the brilliant "26" in Apple’s WWDC invite, it teases a revamped Siri, memory shortages could push Mac Studio and hit MacBook Pro launches by a few months (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A profile of Quince, an online luxury DTC brand valued at more than $10 billion, which has found success by using data analytics and close ties with manufacturers to keep prices low (Amanda Mull/Bloomberg)

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The Internet Watch Foundation says it has identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos showing realistic child sexual abuse in 2025, a 14% increase from the previous year (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers and cops have gone viral, and thousands of people appear to believe they are real (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors such as shorter deadlines increase bad behavior in agentic AI models during task execution (Matthew Hutson/IEEE Spectrum)

Microsoft’s first-quarter results, showing a $3.1 billion net loss from its OpenAI stake, imply that OpenAI lost $11.5 billion in the quarter, based on Microsoft’s 27% stake (Matt Rosoff/The Register)

Sora’s Videos Showing Dead Celebrities Spark Backlash From Families; OpenAI says representatives of ‘recently deceased’ public figures can request to have their images blocked (Washington Post)

The release of GPT-5 was disappointing, offering incrementally improvements and not meeting expectations, showing that pure scaling is simply not the way to act (Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI)

Shareholder letter: Reddit quotes Defound’s analysis showing that it is the most cited domain on AI models, in front of Wikipedia, YouTube, Forbes and others (Alice Brooker / Press Gazette)

Cloudflare Open overflowed by an Oauth library mainly written by Claude, showing how AI manages mechanical implementation while humans guide with context and judgment (Max Mitchell)

An Alabama man is sentenced to 14 months in prison for hacking the X account in 2024 and by showing a false announcement that the dry had approved Bitcoin Etf (Sarah Wynn / The Block)

NBC cut the critical part of the meeting of the press interview showing Trump out of his mind