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Tech journalist. I cover the trends reshaping how we build and live with technology—AI, apps, startups, and the human side of product—aiming for clarity over hype and real-world impact. https://implicator.ai

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German investor bets on AI contracts, precision psychiatry Germany's most famous tech investor brings a €175M fund and a contrarian thesis to San Francisco: enterprise AI wins through contracts, not demos—and precision psychiatry can crack depression's trial-...

Germany's most famous tech investor brings a €175M fund and a contrarian thesis to San Francisco.

www.implicator.ai/carsten-masc...

13.10.2025 17:13 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Tech's Trump Turn Was About Money, Not Woke: New Book Jacob Silverman's Gilded Rage argues Silicon Valley's Trump embrace wasn't about wokeness or Biden hostility—it was about money. When free credit ended in 2022 and regulators pushed back, tech billion...

Jacob Silverman's Gilded Rage argues Silicon Valley's Trump embrace wasn't about wokeness or Biden hostility—it was about money.

www.implicator.ai/tech-billion...

13.10.2025 17:07 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Google's Trillion-Token Milestone Hides Slowing AI Growth Google's 1.3 quadrillion token milestone sounds massive—until you see growth rates halving and realize tokens measure server intensity, not customer demand. The slowdown reveals something uncomfortabl...

Here is my new piece on Google's quadrillion tokens’ brag

www.implicator.ai/googles-quad... #tokens #ai #Google

11.10.2025 00:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AI Backdoor Attacks Scale by Count, Not Percentage Security teams assumed attackers needed to taint a percentage of training data. New research shows a fixed number of documents can backdoor models regardless of scale—upending detection strategies bui...

New AI security research breaks the dilution model: 250 poisoned documents backdoor a 13B-parameter model. Same 250 documents backdoor a 600M model.

Not a percentage. A fixed count.

The poisoning rate drops 20x as you scale. Attack success doesn't budge.

www.implicator.ai/250-poisoned...

10.10.2025 13:31 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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$2B Nvidia Chip Probe Meets China Rare Earth Ban $2B in Nvidia chips found boxed in Malaysian warehouse. China announced rare earth export controls days later. Supply chains turned into bargaining chips.

Our morning newsletter has just been published:

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And you can subscribe to it here. By the way, it's free and virtually ad-free.

www.implicator.ai/newsletter/

10.10.2025 13:02 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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250 poisoned documents can backdoor 13B-parameter models Security teams assumed attackers needed to taint a percentage of training data. New research shows a fixed number of documents can backdoor models regardless of scale—upending detection strategies built around dilution assumptions.
10.10.2025 11:06 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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AI Backdoor Attacks Scale by Count, Not Percentage Security teams assumed attackers needed to taint a percentage of training data. New research shows a fixed number of documents can backdoor models regardless of scale—upending detection strategies bui...

Security teams assumed attackers needed to taint a percentage of training data. New research shows a fixed number of documents can backdoor models regardless of scale—upending detection strategies built around dilution assumptions.
www.implicator.ai/250-poisoned... #anthropic #backdoors

10.10.2025 11:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

LOL. Just published my first post here on #Bluesky. Yeah :-) #HelloWorld

10.10.2025 10:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AI in Schools: Romance, Risk, and Weaker Student Bonds Washington promotes AI in classrooms. New data shows 19% of high schoolers report romantic AI relationships, 42% use it for mental health support. The more schools deploy AI, the more students feel di...

Washington promotes AI in classrooms. New data shows 19% of high schoolers report romantic AI relationships, 42% use it for mental health support. The more schools deploy AI, the more students feel disconnected from teachers—and from reality. www.implicator.ai/federal-ai-p...

10.10.2025 10:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0