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Google DeepMind Is Hiring a 'Post-AGI' Research Scientist
Google is preparing for a future with AGI, ASI, and machine consciousness.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: The Economy, Robot Umpires, and Monsters
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together.
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New 'Rape and Incest' Game Tests the Limits of Steam’s Sex Policy
“No Mercy” is shocking people who are not familiar with Steam’s adult game ecosystem, but it’s mostly just shovelware.
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Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”
Meta’s Llama 4 model is worried about left leaning bias in the data, and wants to be more like Elon Musk’s Grok.
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Wikipedia Editors Call It: It’s the “2025 Stock Market Crash”
While the title of the article can still change, for the moment Wikipedia editors have decided that Trump crashed the stock market.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Ancient Civilizations and Modern-Day Driving
This week, we discuss learning from civilizations past and learning to drive.
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Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
Effective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle.
T-Mobile
T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children
"I would log in and I couldn’t see my children but I could see a kid in California. I refreshed and would see a different child.”
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Vibe Coded AI App Generates Recipes for Cyanide Ice Cream and Cum Soup
A Y Combinator partner proudly launched an AI recipe app that told people how to make “Actual Cocaine” and a “Uranium Bomb.”
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's Iconic Look Used to Promote Knockoff Leather Jackets
Everyone wants to look cool in a leather jacket and lead one of the most valuable companies in the world, but not everyone can pull it off.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Foolishness and Breaking Through
This week, we discuss getting fooled, the 'one big story' of the week, and Ghibli.
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Hayao Miyazaki, Who Said AI Is ‘Insult to Life Itself,” Reduced to AI-Generated Meme by OpenAI
The internet is flooded with AI-generated images in the style of Studio Ghibli, whose founder said “I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.”
