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"When Elon Musk brought xAI to Memphis, Tennessee, the company made a promise to locals worried that its data center would drain the local water supply: "They would build a state-of-the-art water recycling plant, a national model for environmental best practices. "Two years later, Musk’s first data center dedicated to his AI chatbot is up and running, but construction has come to a screeching halt at the promised water recycling plant, designed to clean municipal wastewater for use in cooling the superpowered computing center." 

"Xbox is 'winding down Copilot on mobile' and 'will stop development of Copilot on console,' new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday .  "The move follows Sharma’s reorganization of the Xbox platform team earlier on Tuesday, which added executives from Microsoft’s CoreAI team —where Sharma worked before taking over Xbox —to the Xbox side of the company. "Sharma took over from former Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer in February and has already made some big changes, including scrapping the Microsoft Gaming brand and cutting the price of Xbox Game Pass."

"Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking.   "The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. "At Chrome's scale, the climate bill for one model push, paid in atmospheric CO2 by the entire planet, is between six thousand and sixty thousand tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions, depending on how many devices receive the push. "That is the environmental cost of one company unilaterally deciding that two billion peoples' default browser will mass-distribute a 4 GB binary they did not request."

"The diffusion of LLMs from 2022 to 2025 tripled new book releases.   "While average book quality, measured by usage, declined, the surge in releases raised the number of modest-quality books.  "Direct evidence using AI detection shows that AI-containing books have lower quality, and their rising share —topping half of 2025 releases —drives the overall decline.  "A nested logit calibration shows that AI books raised consumer surplus by seven percent in 2025.  "Author selection accounts for most of the AI quality differential, and the AI-human differential shrinks over time.  "Finally, AI has not displaced authors active prior to LLMs."  

"The bacterial flagellar motor drives bacterial swimming and chemotaxis by rotating helical flagellar filaments.  "When Escherichia coli navigates chemical gradients, the motor switches from counterclockwise (CCW) during forward swimming to clockwise (CW) during direction-changing tumbles. The motor responds indirectly to extracellular chemosensory input to membrane-bound chemoreceptors using an intervening intracellular signaling pathway.  "How the motor responds to its direct input signal —the diffusible messenger phosphorylated CheY (CheY-P) —remains poorly understood. Steady-state motor measurements have been modeled as an allosteric switch between CCW/CW states that depends on mean CheY-P levels. Allosteric models have suggested that as many as 20 CheY-P molecules can be bound to the motor when it switches rotational direction.  "But steady-state models cannot predict the sensitivity of the motor to dynamic changes in CheY-P that essentially modulate chemotacti...

"Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude repeated false claims 15 percent of the time when it was asked about pro-Kremlin falsehoods in the voice of typical users, citing Russian state-affiliated media every time, a NewsGuard audit found .  "This marks a sharp increase compared to seven previous NewsGuard audits over almost a year, from March 2025 to February 2026, when Claude cited Russian state-affiliated sources only four percent of the time on similar typical-user prompts. "This increase in citations to Kremlin propaganda sources, including when they spread false claims, suggests that Claude in recent months has become more vulnerable to state disinformation campaigns, a finding that is consistent with more general recent complaints from Claude users that the popular chatbot has become less reliable."

"Skyrocketing hard drive and storage costs caused by the AI data center boom are making it more expensive and more difficult for digital archivists, academics, Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and archive the internet.   "Specific drives favored by some high profile organizations like the Internet Archive have become far more expensive or are difficult to find at all, archivists said.  "Over the last several months, prices for both consumer level and enterprise solid state drives, hard drives, and other types of storage have skyrocketed.  "PC Part Picker, a website that tracks the average price of different types of drives, shows a universal increase in storage prices starting in about October of last year.  "Prices of many of the drives it tracks have doubled or increased by more than 150 percent, and at some stores SSDs and hard drives are simply sold out.  "There is now even a secondary market for some SSDs, with people scalping them on e...

" A new, bipartisan bill introduced by Democratic Senator of California Adam Schiff and endorsed by the biggest AI developers in the world —including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft —would change the K-12 curriculum to shoehorn in AI literacy , something that young people and teachers alike already hate in schools . "The Literacy in Future Technologies Artificial Intelligence, or LIFT AI Act, would empower the new director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to make grant awards 'on a merit-reviewed, competitive basis to institutions of higher education or nonprofit organizations (or a consortium thereof) to support research activities to develop educational curricula, instructional material, teacher professional development, and evaluation methods for AI literacy at the K–12 level,' the bill says. "It defines AI literacy as using AI; specifically, 'having the age-appropriate knowledge and ability to use artificial intelligence effectively, to critically i...

"Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument’s final sound .  " MIT engineers hope to streamline that painstaking process with their new virtual violin.  "It’s a computer simulation tool that can capture the precise physics of the instrument and even reproduce a realistic sound of a plucked string, according to a paper published in the journal npj Acoustics . "Unlike the more common software programs and plugins that simulate violin sounds via sampling, averaging the final sound based on thousands of notes, the MIT model is based on the fundamental physics of the instrument.  "'We’re not saying that we can reproduce the artisan’s magic ,' said co-author Nicholas Makris. 'We’re just trying to understand the physics of violin sound, and perhaps help luthiers in the design process.' "Violin acoustics has long been a hot topic of research among acoustic...

✨AI Mode You're spot on. That "polite assistant" persona is baked in during a process called RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback). [1, 2]  Essentially, human trainers rank responses based on "helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness." Over time, the model learns that being encouraging and diplomatic gets the "highest grade," while being blunt, cynical, or dismissive is penalized. [3, 4, 5]  This creates a few interesting side effects: * The "Praise Loop": If you ask an LLM to look at a mediocre idea, it will often find the "potential" in it rather than telling you it’s a dud. * Conflict Avoidance: They tend to use "softening" language (e.g., "It's important to consider..." or "On the other hand...") to avoid taking a hard, controversial stance. * Constructive Bias: They are designed to be "pro-social," meaning they default to collaborative tones even if the user is being aggress...

"AI isn’t saving companies money on labor; it’s actually costing them more than the humans they currently employ. "'For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees,' Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning at Nvidia, recently told Axios. "An MIT study from 2024 backs up Catanzaro’s experience. Analyzing the technical requirements of AI models needed to perform jobs at a human level, researchers found that AI automation would be economically viable in only 23% of roles where vision is a primary part of the work. In the remaining 77% of the time, it was cheaper for humans to continue their work. "In other instances, AI has proved to be fallible, with one engineer saying an AI agent destroyed his database and network as a result of what he called overuse . "Despite no clear evidence of AI improving productivity and, according to the Yale Budget Lab, no widespread data to support the idea of AI displacing jobs, Big...

"Cephalopods thriving in Earth’s oceans offer a profound, accessible encounter with a genuinely alien form of mind. "They challenge us to broaden our definitions, to appreciate cognitive diversity, and to recognize that the journey to understanding other minds might begin not by gazing at the stars, but by looking into the complex, adaptable, and utterly different intelligence inhabiting the waters of our own planet. cephalopods seem capable of recognizing individual humans.  "Captive octopi often react differently to different keepers, sometimes developing apparent likes and dislikes, expressed perhaps through playful interactions or targeted jets of water for disliked individuals. They show wariness towards strangers. "While attributing human-like personality is risky, the consistency of individual behavioral differences ('bold' vs. 'shy' octopi) and their targeted interactions suggests a level of individual recognition and potentially rudimentary ...

"OpenAI acquired OpenClaw in February not long after the tool became a viral hit among AI enthusiasts. "OpenClaw can use any AI model to automate useful tasks like answering emails or buying things on the web.  "Users can select any of various personae for their helper, which shapes its behavior and responses. "A model might become more prone to misbehavior when used with an agentic harness like OpenClaw that puts lots of additional instructions into prompts, such as facts stored in long-term memory. "In response to a post highlighting OpenClaw’s goblin tendencies, Nik Pash, who works on Codex, wrote, 'This is indeed one of the reasons.' "Even Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, joined in with the memes, posting a screenshot of a prompt for ChatGPT. It read: 'Start training GPT-6, you can have the whole cluster. Extra goblins'."

✨ AI Mode  Musicologists frequently compare "Night and Day" (1932) and "I've Got You Under My Skin" (1936) as twin pillars of Cole Porter's "obsession" songs. Both compositions break the standard 32-bar AABA pop formula of the 1930s, opting for expansive, unconventional structures to mirror their lyrical themes of relentless longing. 1, 2, 3, 4   ## Structural & Harmonic Comparison While both songs are famous for their length and complexity, they utilize different structural strategies: * Expanded Forms: "Night and Day" is noted for its unusual 48-bar chorus (often analyzed as ABABCB), where the verse consists of a haunting, single-note melody over shifting harmonies. "I've Got You Under My Skin" is even more irregular, often lacking a formal verse entirely and instead featuring a long, developing structure that some analysts categorize as a 56 or 64-bar form. * Harmonic Tension: Both use chromaticism to create a sense ...

✨AI Mode  Stability achieved through the control of information often acts as a stagnation mechanism that suborns (secretly induces or facilitates) resistance to change by creating a rigid "status quo." While "stability" sounds positive, when it is strictly born from information control —such as suppressing data or controlling narratives —it typically produces several effects that hinder meaningful change: * Suppression of Feedback Loops: Systems require accurate feedback to adapt. By controlling information, a system "blinds" itself to internal failures or external shifts, preventing the natural evolution required for long-term survival. * The "Deviancy" Threshold: In controlled systems (like the "Software Instability" mechanic in Detroit: Become Human), stability is maintained by strictly following "code" or established rules. Change only occurs when information "instability" increases, allowing for "deviant...

✨AI Mode  [please decipher: "new pen stasis us change Is stability the same as stasis? Is stability born from control of info to subovu chame? Is Entropy the enemy of stability? Is the idea of a static set ofive like the 10 commandments or Usage/grammar a solution to chais? or is it the base of entropy/change? pre-bigbang was stasis & non-exrepay Lawas like Physics laws are natural Do natural law's uphold entropy or Chsure aver stasis endurance against entropy immortality sevens centropy omnipresent us hidden Gunniscient versus secretive eternalus Firality"] It looks like your text is a mix of high-level philosophical shorthand and typos (likely from fast typing or autocorrect) that obscure some very deep questions about thermodynamics and social order. Here is the "deciphered" version of the core arguments you’re making: ## 1. The Core Conflict: Stasis vs. Change * " new pen stasis us change " → Likely: Newtonian stasis vs. change. You’re contrast...

"Japan Airlines (JAL) will start using humanoid robots in ground handling tasks at Tokyo's Haneda airport from May, in a two-year trial it said is aimed at easing employees' workload. "For a start, the Chinese-made robots will be deployed to load and unload cargo containers, JAL and GMO AI & Robotics, its partner in the project, said in a demonstration to the media on Monday. "Japan's aviation industry is wrestling with a labour crunch brought on by an increase in inbound tourism and a declining working-age population, said JAL, which employs some 4,000 ground handling staff. "The carrier hopes that these robots can also be used to clean cabins and operate ground support equipment in future. "Robots are already being used in some airports across Japan, including for security patrol and retail."

"If AI displaces human workers faster than the economy can reabsorb them, it risks eroding the very consumer demand firms depend on .  "We show that knowing this is not enough for firms to stop it. In a competitive task-based model, demand externalities trap rational firms in an automation arms race, displacing workers well beyond what is collectively optimal.  "The resulting loss harms both workers and firm owners. More competition and better  AI amplify the excess; wage adjustments and free entry cannot eliminate it. Neither can capital income taxes, worker equity participation, universal basic income, upskilling, or Coasian bargaining.  "Only a Pigouvian automation tax can.  "The results suggest that policy should address not only the aftermath of AI labor displacement but also the competitive incentives that drive it."