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I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games — For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching my 9-pound cavapoo Momo (cavalier king charles spaniel and toy poodle) to vibe code games.

Why AI Doesn’t Need a Mind to Matter — our fascination with a human-like ghost is a distraction from a machine that should matter in and of itself.

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox — Summer Yue, the director of alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs, a part of the company that is working on a hypothetical AI system that exceeds human intelligence...

Acting ethically in an imperfect world — Technology doesn’t need liberation, people do.

Data centers are a growing political issue. Voters — and candidates — are still figuring them out. — most voters expect the issue to rise, though they’re split on when that will happen.

Pope Leo tells priests not to use AI to write homilies or seek likes on TikTok — "To give a true homily is to share faith," and artificial intelligence "will never be able to share faith," the pope added.

An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services — Multiple Amazon employees told the FT that this was the second occasion in recent months in which one of the group’s AI tools had been at the center of a service disruption.

The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived — The web wasn't "real" software until it was. Blogging wasn't publishing. Big, serious companies weren't going to migrate to the cloud, and then one day they did.

What is Happening to Writing? — Those in the technology sector who are predicting time horizons of a few years for these changes are, I think, confusing the pace of technical change with the pace of social change

The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth) — So this might be the first time in history where language is not a reliable signal, because we’re not dealing with something that has the shared evolutionary history, the shared substrate, the shared mechanisms

A gift from the Geeks — Don't open the gates 😃

US Government Deploys Elon Musk’s Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables — Start — whole peeled carrot, straight shaft, narrow end for insertion.

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations — Ars Technica does not permit the publication of AI-generated material unless it is clearly labeled and presented for demonstration purposes. That rule is not optional, and it was not followed here.

Bytedance Backpedals After Seedance 2.0 Turned Hollywood Icons Into AI Clip Art — ByteDance has yet to release a technical report for Seedance 2.0

Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence — [the agency’s general counsel] appeared interested mainly in the quantity of regulations that AI could produce, not their quality.

Where There Is Connectivity There Is Surveillance — No one should be so naïve as to think that all that information about us, compiled into profiles accessible through advanced cross-referencing search software, will stay in those private silos should someone in authority want it.