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Life in Weeks Visualization A visual reflection of time’s passage

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Testing the Current LLM Knowledge Gap So here's a question I needed an answer to: Please give me a list of all members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate ranked in order of age from oldest to youngest. Include state and...

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Oh my this is fun!

Rover and Post-Skeuomorphic Apps Sumeet Singh has a nice piece over at Every (and if you aren't a subscriber, what, actually, are you waiting for?) "Two Ways to Win in the Post-software Era" makes the case that the only companies tha...

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A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera In 1975, a young engineer in the company that made Kodak film took the first picture on a handheld digital camera. Photography would never be the same again.

This was so cool:

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Death and Rebirth by a Thousand Cuts Literacy isn't a fixed skill; it's a moving target shaped by whatever tools a culture uses to think.

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iphone screenshot showing a newsletter with the headline: "Tumblr vets launch AI-infused social app [Rover]

NBD, just our FIRST PRESS MENTION!!! From Alex Kantrowitz's great Big Technology newsletter: www.bigtechnology.com

Reclaiming conversations There are several quotes rumbling around in my head recently. The first one is something Mark, my co-founder, says all the time: social media is the water in which we swim.

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Video: Opinion | I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain The internet should enrich people, not advertisers.

This, from Patreon's Jack Conte, is a fun watch, and good. We it really resonates with Rover is the idea of longterm user relationships and the important context that brings:

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Building the Rover Brand (a philosophical perspective) One image held strong throughout our exploration: a campfire... There's no shouting over each other. No scramble for attention. No performance. Just shared focus and a gentle exchange. Everyone leaves...

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somehow Trump appears in Epstein's emails more than Epstein himself

Social Media Is Over. Social Media Is Just Beginning Everybody knows social media sucks. Social media usage has declined nearly 10% over the past three years. Fifty percent of U.S. adults say they are actively trying to spend less time on social platfor...

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Rover is made of exits My wife works a corporate job, so as the parent with the more flexible schedule, I'm the primary driver for my daughter's activities.

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Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes In 1982, a young Mac developer turned Jobs into a UI designer—and accidentally invented a new technique.

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Come for the AI, stay for the Rover mention!

Proof (if we needed it) that algorithmic amplification is dramatically accelerating, and perhaps even driving, the unravelling of our democracies.

Fixing the problem means tackling the algorithms themselves, not just trying - and failing - to address the harms they cause.

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Towards Humanist Superintelligence  | Microsoft AI

Humanist, applied - this is the superintelligence I believe the world wants. It’s the superintelligence I want to build. And it’s what we’re going to build on MAI’s Superintelligence Team.

More on Humanist Superintelligence and forming the team on the MAI blog: microsoft.ai/news/towards...

We feel this so much, and are designing hard against this trend

Zohran Mamdani's Campaign Figured Out How to Channel Fandom Much of the content about Mamdani online hasn't come from his campaign, or the dozens of political influencers invited to cover it. It's also come from fans.

Much of the content about Mamdani online hasn't come from his campaign, or the dozens of political influencers invited to cover it. It's also come from fans. www.wired.com/story/zohran...

US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.

NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.

The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

Instant Context That’s the dream behind Rover: a platform where our conversations can be augmented by AI to be more factual, more insightful, and ultimately, more productive.

Some nice work from Josh here: roverai.cc/instant-cont...

The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

On Designing the Audio Brief We're building a product that heavily relies on social interaction, and as we bring our first testers into the minimum lovable incarnation of our product, one question keeps coming up, "Why this forma...

Some people ask, 'Why audio?' We say, 'Why not audio!'
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In the Beginning Was the Question Buried deep inside your phone is a little daemon that constantly asks a simple question: "Should the power be on?" Even when your phone is turned off, this daemon keeps asking the question, ready to a...

Some more of our thinking at Rover:

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This is fascinating, and confirmation of our direction in building social audio--worth a read:

Join the Alpha Hello! We're building something new to improve our public discourse that’s respectful of our time and attention. You can help by joining our test group. For now, the mobile app is on iOS only.📱

Join us! ITTTSSS BLISSSSS
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Today in Briefs: Extra, Extra Innings Edition Well. Everyone got all in a tizzy about the Dodgers and Blue Jays playing a 6 1/2 hour game Monday that lasted for 18 innings. To which we are compelled to add that, yeah, that's impressive and all, b...

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Here's How Many People May Use ChatGPT During a Mental Health Crisis Each Week OpenAI released initial estimates about the share of users who may be experiencing symptoms like delusional thinking, mania, or suicidal ideation, and says it has tweaked GPT-5 to respond more effecti...

NEW: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said earlier this month that ChatGPT now has 800 million weekly active users. The company’s estimates therefore suggest that every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis.