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Artur Kurasinski & Maciej Marek
July 21, 2024

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The new pyramid of discovery

I’ve just started using Perplexity’s Discover news application and have to say it is impressive, compiling multiple news reports on a topic and producing...

buzzmachine.com/2024/06/15/the-new-pyramid-of-discovery

The End of the English Major

Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened?

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major

Nie straszcie nas już Trumpem, tylko się ogarnijcie [Wywiady Sroczyńskiego]

Europa zawsze się wykuwała w kryzysach i wtedy uciekała do przodu. Inaczej spała i konsumowała. A najbliższy kryzys na horyzoncie to Trump. Niemal wszyscy się go boją, najbardziej Niemcy, którzy mają dobre powody, bo nie chcą wydawać na armię i brać odpowiedzialności - z wiceszefem Ośrodka Studiów Wschodnich Jakubem Jakóbowskim rozmawia Grzegorz Sroczyński

wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114884,31148903,nie-straszcie-nas-juz-trumpem-tylko-sie-ogarnijcie-wywiady.html

Misdirects | No Mercy / No Malice

Narratives surrounding the attempt on Trump’s life were being shaped as the event was unfolding. Most of them are misdirects from the real story — the crisis facing young American men. Moments after he was shot by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks and swarmed by Secret Service agents, Donald Trump had the instinct, and physical courage, […]

www.profgalloway.com/misdirects

You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barely know than by your best friend

"The strength of weak ties" applies to misinformation, too.

www.niemanlab.org/2024/07/youre-more-likely-to-believe-fake-news-shared-by-someone-you-barely-know-than-by-your-best-friend

OpenAI Has Talked to Broadcom About Developing New AI Chip

Last year, as the world’s top artificial intelligence developers were racing to speed up their work using ever-bigger clusters of computers, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was trying to play a longer game. He decided to start a new company that could develop and produce a new AI chip and help set up chip ...

www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-has-talked-to-broadcom-about-developing-new-ai-chip

Study claims AI is funnier than humans after people rate jokes written by both

AI is funnier than humans, according to a new study - but what do you think?

www.ladbible.com/news/technology/ai-chatgpt-jokes-humans-study-991430-20240715

Koniec hossy na rynku nieruchomości mieszkaniowych w Polsce?

O tym jakie długoterminowe wyzwania stoją przed rynkiem nieruchomości mieszkaniowych.

robertditrych.substack.com/p/koniec-hossy-na-rynku-nieruchomosci

OpenAI promised to make its AI safe. Employees say it ‘failed’ its first test.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/12/openai-ai-safety-regulation-gpt4

Scoop: Meta won't offer future multimodal AI models in EU

The social media giant says EU regulators haven't provided clarity.

www.axios.com/2024/07/17/meta-future-multimodal-ai-models-eu

Elon Musk could spend $180 million on EV-hater Trump - and it could backfire

Musk’s stance could clash with the political leanings of electric vehicle buyers, impacting sales.

fortune.com/2024/07/16/elon-musk-180-million-donation-to-trump-stunning-risk-to-tesla

(Update: Apple has responded) Apple and Salesforce AI training datasets co-opt MrBeast, Marques Brownlee videos

A dataset of 173,536 YouTube videos called The Pile also included content from Harvard, NPR, and 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.'

mashable.com/article/youtube-video-ai-training-apple-mrbeast-mkbhd

Study shows impact of misleading headlines from mainstream news | MIT Sloan

New research found an overlooked source that slowed vaccination rates in the U.S.: misleading headlines from mainstream news sources.

mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/study-shows-impact-misleading-headlines-mainstream-news

EU charges Elon Musk’s X for letting disinfo run wild

The tech mogul’s platform is the first to get hit with charges under new EU social media law.

www.politico.eu/article/eu-charges-musks-x-for-letting-disinfo-run-wild

Interviewing Epic Games Founder/CEO Tim Sweeney and Author/Entrepreneur Neal Stephenson — MatthewBall.co

Tim and Neal’s thoughts on the definition of the “Metaverse,” its technological and economic growth, Neal’s reaction on the day Facebook changed its name to Meta, the future of Fortnite , their thoughts on Apple’s Vision Pro, blockchains, and the ethics of Generative AI, plus “Snow Crash 2," a

www.matthewball.co/all/sweeneystephenson