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The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Primate, now streaming on Paramount Plus, is a well-crafted killer-chimp B-movie

Polygon - All

An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island, called Fruit Love Island, averaged 10M+ views across its first 21 episodes after debuting last week (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

Q&A with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on the platform's dominance, its impact on kids, the suspension and reinstatement of Trump's YouTube account, AI slop, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)

Techmeme

Analysis: while social media rewards sensationalism and inflammatory content, LLMs guide people away from extreme positions and towards expert-aligned stances (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)

Techmeme

A study of 11 leading LLMs finds the models more agreeable than humans when giving interpersonal advice, affirming users' behavior even when harmful or illegal (Stanford University)

Techmeme

Vinod Khosla says AI is accelerating a shift of wealth and power away from workers, and an income tax overhaul in the US could offset voter fears about job loss (Financial Times)

Techmeme

Qualified Health, which helps health systems evaluate and adopt AI tools, raised a $125M Series B led by NEA at a valuation of between $500M and $1B (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)

Techmeme

A look at why Dotcom Bubble comparisons to the AI boom are off, vertical SaaS is up +3% last 12 months vs. horizontal SaaS down 35%, and other reflections on AI (Logan Bartlett/@loganbartlett)

Techmeme

The 2019 Intel Mac Pro’s Unfortunate Timing

Daring Fireball

Apple Should Set and Enforce Some Basic Standards for Custom Video Players on tvOS

Daring Fireball

A profile of Mark Lanier, a TX lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the LA social media case and said Zuckerberg was "rattled" on the stand (Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

‘How Apple Became Apple: The Definitive Oral History of the Company’s Earliest Days’

Daring Fireball

Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Claude adding paid subs at a steadily increasing pace; Anthropic: paid subs have more than doubled this year (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Suno leans into customization with v5.5

The Verge - All Posts

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developer claims AI is replacing them

Polygon - All

You are falling behind because you haven’t fed the insincerity machine in the last 5 minutes

Christian Heilmann

Damien Darkblood! Invincible season 4 finally brings back its most mysterious superhero

Polygon - All

ShinyHunters says it stole 350GB+ of data in a cyberattack on the European Commission, detected on March 24; the EC says its internal systems were not affected (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)

Techmeme

All 11 xAI co-founders have now reportedly left Elon Musk’s AI company

The Next Web

Meta’s new prescription Ray-Ban smart glasses are a distribution play, not a technology leap

The Next Web