https://www.theverge.com/news/642947/amazon-ai-buy-products-other-websites We need security. It just keeps happening. They arrive at all hours. Shameless. Fearless. They take what they want, clear us out and go. I’m just a small shopkeeper. I’m not part of a chain or a big company. I started the shop because I wanted to sell my stuff to my community. I … [Read more…]
https://www.engadget.com/ai/claudes-new-learning-mode-will-prompt-students-to-answer-questions-on-their-own-172057828.html I got used to it at school. You know, that annoying bouncing my question back to me… “So, what do you think? How would you start working it out?” Such a pain. My elder brother had an Agent that just did stuff. I have to use one that… well doesn’t. It’s useless. I might … [Read more…]
https://gizmodo.com/longtime-writing-community-nanowrimo-shuts-down-after-ai-drama-2000583619 It was her favourite day of the week, the afternoon where she could forget everything and just… create. She sometimes wondered if things had been different and she’d discovered it sooner she could have made a career out of it. But she had her job, kids. No time. Now she made time. Tuesday afternoons. … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/31/chatgpts-new-image-generator-is-really-good-at-faking-receipts/ He didn’t do it for anyone, just his friends. He didn’t do it often, just when he needed a day off. The school was so busy chasing Agent-enabled homework, they didn’t pay his own particular Agent any notice. The absence notes were the start but of course, no matter how the sentences matched the … [Read more…]
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/28/1114001/the-first-trial-of-generative-ai-therapy-shows-it-might-help-with-depression/ They knew they needed help. They were still talking, still together, still happy to a certain extent but they needed… something. They knew when it had started. That was obvious. Something like that would knock any couple off balance a little. They’d talked about it, about moving forward but there reached a stage where … [Read more…]
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-doge-to-rapidly-rebuild-social-security-codebase/ If he still worked in a building he would have been heading down to the basement with a torch. No one went down there! the bowels of the building, he thought. But when something went wrong, someone had to go down there and find the problem. Tip toe through the piles of long forgotten … [Read more…]
https://gizmodo.com/madison-square-garden-bans-fan-after-surveillance-system-ids-him-as-a-critic-of-its-ceo-2000582132 The mall was open 24 hrs of course but, as had always been the case, there was a rhythm to the day. The systems that ran and staffed the Mall might not have a life but the human customers still slept and some even had fixed work hours. She liked the early evening. She … [Read more…]
https://thenextweb.com/news/pinepeak-wildfire-simulator-predicts-fire-risks The Sim Room has a lock on it. Someone had wanted a Palm recognition panel like in The West Wing but Security had settled on a simple face rec for the humans and a code footprint once for the Agents. The room itself has a sort of WW2 map room vibe: a giant table … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/news/636414/krisp-ai-accent-converter He’s obsessed with it. We need to get him focused on the message not the delivery. We can’t get him to discuss what we’re saying. He’s too busy tinkering. You have to talk to him, get him to see. It all started when we showed him how to get rid of those bags under … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/25/google-unveils-a-next-gen-ai-reasoning-model/ It was hard keeping up. Stressful. In the interview he’d answered the question “why, us?” with a speech his careers Agent had prepared focusing on employee development, the opportunity to grow and learn, challenges… It had been true, well interview true. But he hadn’t realised the pace of change. He felt like he was … [Read more…]