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A look at the CIA's AI use, including a chatbot that lets analysts talk to virtual versions of foreign presidents and prime ministers to predict their behaviors (Julian E. Barnes/New York Times)
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A 2024 study of 205 randomly chosen Community Notes on X about COVID-19 vaccines found that 97% of the notes were accurate and ~50% cited high-quality sources (Adam Kucharski/Bloomberg)
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A look at UK hedge fund Man Group's ArcticDB, an open-source tool used internally and by customers like Bloomberg to analyze daily stock trading data and more (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
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Analysis: Chinese AI researchers produced ~46K collaborative papers with their US counterparts over the past decade, followed by ~19K with researchers in the UK (Khadija Alam/Rest of World)
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A profile of Sulinna Ong, Spotify's head of editorial, whose team curates thousands of playlists and discovers new artists to complement Spotify's algorithms (Anne Steele/Wall Street Journal)
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Bluesky launches a custom feed for TikTok-style vertical videos in its mobile app, saying "We had to get in on the video action too" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Despite tanking, Trump's memecoin, with a $60B+ market cap, is the 19th most valuable cryptocurrency per CoinGecko; some in crypto call it a "horrible look" (Politico)
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Google Play and Apple's App Store still aren't offering TikTok in the US; Sen. Cotton warns of "ruinous liability", as Trump says there's "no liability" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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Q&A with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer and blogger whose ideas are increasingly popular with tech elites, on why democracy is bad, dictators, and more (David Marchese/New York Times)
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Researchers say the recent surge in SMS phishing spam, warning US recipients about unpaid tolls, coincides with new features in a popular Chinese phishing kit (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
neowin
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io9
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