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Tanks, guns and face-painting

The Verge - All Posts

New York State passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul's signature (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

No Kings: protests in the eye of the storm

The Verge - All Posts

Statista: the global influencer marketing industry is projected to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)

Techmeme

I fight bots in my free time

Christine Dodrill's Blog

In an Oxford study, LLMs correctly identified medical conditions 94.9% of the time when given test scenarios directly, vs. 34.5% when prompted by human subjects (Nick Mokey/VentureBeat)

Techmeme

Taiwan imposes export controls on Huawei, SMIC, and some of their subsidiaries, restricting their access to tech and equipment necessary for AI chip production (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

A look at seven rebuttals to Apple's paper on limitations of Large Reasoning Models, and why none make a compelling case (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)

Techmeme

All Verso Outfits in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and how to unlock them

Polygon - All

Hell is Us terrifies in all the best ways

Polygon - All

You Know Of The Tuskegee Airmen, But You Don’t Know What ‘The Harlem ‘Hellfighters’ Did to Win The War

The Root

If You Thought You Knew Everything About Prince, Here Are Some Things That Will Shock You

The Root

Sole Survivor Explains How He’s Alive After Air India Crash

The Root

Salt Lake City, which faces a staffing shortfall, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year (Salt Lake Tribune)

Techmeme

Trump Mouths Lyrics To ‘Happy Birthday’ While National Anthem Plays

The Onion

Owner Of D.C. Doggy Daycare Worried Her Military Parade Float Sticking Out

The Onion

The Very Short List of Black Celebs Speaking Out Against Trump’s ICE Raids

The Root

Sony’s noise-canceling WH-1000XM6 are already on sale with a $30 gift card

The Verge - All Posts

★ The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2025

Daring Fireball

Keep an eye on Planet of Lana 2 — the first one was a secret gem of 2023

Polygon - All