Anthropic is rejecting the Pentagon’s latest offer to change their contract, saying the changes do not satisfy the company’s concerns that AI could be used for mass surveillance or in fully autonomous weapons. https://cnn.it/4tWJ0wD
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
The Pentagon is pushing AI companies to allow the U.S. military to use their technology for “all lawful purposes,” but Anthropic is pushing back,
There’s no such thing as an unbiased chatbot. Academic librarian Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social on how “AI” developers ignore how people actually become informed. From Ep. 51 of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, “The War on Knowledge”.
(with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
Apple runs on Anthropic internally, but did a deal with Google/Gemini for its products.
I say do it, but with specific consequences for breaking the rule again.
When my daughter was young, she figured out that if she just did this, I would usually fold anyway.
Woolen….
Thank you for this. I needed a good laugh this morning.
The latest U.S. defense policy signals that Congress expects expanded multilateral defense ties and deeper cooperation with America's friends and allies across the Indo-Pacific to counter an increasingly assertive China, according to defense experts. (from @brianmcelhiney.bsky.social)
this is worth reading!
there’s always been a class of throwaway code, but it typically was only accessible to top engineers. AI opens that up to many more
but does that mean engineers go away? maybe it’s a complex question
"When researchers redesigned AI systems to better resemble biological brains, some models produced brain-like activity without any training at all."
The statute of limitations for violations of federal law is 5 years.
Your photographs, videos, and livestreams can be used as evidence in future cases.
So while this Administration may not hold anyone accountable, a future Administration will.
So, the answer engine will provide you answers and ads, and presumably over time, when enough money is paid, the answer will be the ad.
Complete BS - “The world's richest man predicted that advances in AI, energy, and robotics will generate such an "abundance" of resources for all that individuals' retirement savings will be "irrelevant.”
The norm has been/was about 3-5 COAs with at least one being a throwaway - "It found that at least one of the AI algorithms not only generated more COAs in less time than the humans, but it actually made fewer errors than the humans did as well."
DroneHunter is a system that uses AI and radar to identify, pursue and capture other drones through an array of expanding nets.
So this lists AI, Hypersonic weapons, Supply Chain, Counter UAS, and some Navy and AF air platforms.
Followed
Edited it: “the Smithsonian *temporarily removed mention of Trumps two impeachments….”
Incident reporting under the EU's AI Act will become binding in August, but the draft guidance still misses multi-agent and cascading AI failures, write Natàlia Fernández Ashman, Usman Anwar, and Dr. Marta Bieńkiewicz, urging the European Commission to close the accountability gap.
Grok stands as the clearest example of an AI that is both ideologically aligned and operationally embedded in a social media platform, says Matthew Kirschenbaum. Its mechanisms should be taken apart under bright lights, in much the same way people learn how to defuse a bomb, he argues.
Microsoft warns Chinese companies, especially DeepSeek, are winning AI adoption outside the West, gaining significant market share in the Global South (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
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