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Gizmodo

'Big Short' Investor Expects AI Bubble Burst 'Sooner Than Later'

The investor famous for predicting the 2008 housing market crash is expecting stocks to tumble next year.

TechCrunch

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

Trump consulted Musk’s chatbot Grok before abducting Venezuela’s president: report

President Trump has been clear in his enthusiasm for A.I., which he wants to rebrand “Super Intelligence”

Gizmodo

ICE Is Reportedly Putting ICE Observers, Protesters in a Palantir Database

A new lawsuit alleges DHS agents drove by observers' and protestors' homes to intimidate them and added their names to Homeland Security's investigations system, according to Wired.

Pope Leo says AI lacks the "spark of humanity" — and wants artists and the church to fight back

The church and artists must ally, he said, "to safeguard our humanity."

Ars Technica

F-Droid gets its biggest update in a decade with new UI and smoother app installs

F-Droid's Android app store has been rebuilt from the ground up.

New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for over 43 million violations of consumer protection law—and Meta could owe over $200 billion in penalties | Fortune

The jury also found Facebook misled the public about investigations into third-party app developers that harvest user data following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Some lawmakers doubt a Congress that’s ‘barely capable of email’ can regulate AI

Congress’ slow pace and inexperience with AI are colliding with a fast-moving technology. Though one Democrat countered: “We don’t have to be biologists or chemists to set up the FDA.”

Engadget

Apple hit with a $5.7 billion verdict for alleged patent infringement - Engadget

Apple is reportedly looking to appeal the jury verdict.

bbc.com

Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website names

The president wants AI to be called super intelligence - or SI - the same initials used by Slovenian domains.

Mother Jones

“They really did screw Bernie”: Here's what 2016 can teach Democrats today

Sanders' chief strategist Tad Devine on the DNC, super PACs, and the Democratic Socialist wave.

Ars Technica

Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction

The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.

TechCrunch

FBI reportedly declares 'cyber security incident' after hackers steal agents' personal data | TechCrunch

The bureau has not yet publicly confirmed a breach, but has told its agents that their personal information and Social Security numbers were exposed.

BBC News

Australia launches urgent review after OpenAI program hacks government health portal

Experts believe it's the world's first known AI breach of a government system.

Trump and major AI executives sign "morally binding" voluntary controls: "It

President Trump and the leaders of the country

Mother Jones

What to know about Hegseth’s new Office of Religious Affairs

“Our department is, you might say, putting on the full armor of God.”

Raw Story

JD Vance unmasked as leaker for story White House used to justify press ban: report

Vice President JD Vance has been exposed as the source of a story whose supposed leak was used by the White House in court to justify the termination of Politico's access to the press pool, Oliver Darcy reported for Status.In the court battle today, the report said, "The White House singled out six ...

Gizmodo

Americans Are a Lot More Worried About AI Than the Rest of the World

The burden of being early adopters.

Scientists Say Scorching Temperatures Brought on by the 'Super' El Niño Could Kill Nearly Half a Million People by February

The predicted number, which includes deaths since June, likely represents an underestimate of total deaths. The heat could linger beyond February, and the climate swing could bring about other life-threatening conditions, including flooding, wildfire and infectious diseases

MS NOW

Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre

The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.

Trying to get a restaurant reservation? Get ready to compete with AI agents

Some agents are causing problems that, while not exactly extinction-level events, demonstrate how much of the world remains unready for their widespread proliferation.

Futurism

Google Gearing Up to Launch Experimental "Data Center" Into Space Next Week

Google is gearing up to launch a fridge-sized data center satellite with the horsepower equivalent of a single server.

Chuck Grassley, 93, still does his job amid age concerns in Congress

Ars Technica

Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump

China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.

Bernie Sanders gets ready to lend cash, star power

Ars Technica

Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94

Milt Windler, one of the leaders of Mission Control who directed the effort to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts back to Earth safely, has died.

KTLA

Raman opens wide lead over Bass in Los Angeles mayor’s race, poll shows

Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman has opened a sizable lead over incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, according to a UC Berkeley poll co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times, although a large share …

Deadline

Writers Guild Of America West Endorses Nithya Raman For L.A. Mayor

Raman also was endorsed by the union in her 2024 City Council race.

Common Dreams

Climate Crisis Likely Caused World's Largest Penguin Colony to 'Crash' | Common Dreams

"Big Oil is doing everything in its power to turn this beautiful, miraculous world into a wasteland."

NBC Los Angeles

Bass, Raman address Jewish Angelenos at mayoral forum

The two mayoral candidates shared similar concerns about the rise in violence against the Jewish community and spoke about plans to improve safety.

Deadline

Writers Guild Of America West Endorses Nithya Raman For L.A. Mayor

Raman also was endorsed by the union in her 2024 City Council race.

KTLA

Raman opens wide lead over Bass in Los Angeles mayor’s race, poll shows

Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman has opened a sizable lead over incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, according to a UC Berkeley poll co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times, although a large share …

Futurism

Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts

Human contractors are reviewing Microsoft Copilot user's image editing prompting, many of which are for sexually explicit material.

Google Messages’ handy new long-press menu is finally rolling out widely

Google Messages is rolling out its redesigned long-press menu to stable users with easier message controls and selective text copying.

Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr

It took nearly 1,000 Claude agents 21 hours and 210 million tokens to uncover the ‘novel enzyme system.’

The American Prospect

Kamala Harris for President Again? - The American Prospect

She blew an urgently winnable race in 2024. Why do polls show her as the front-runner for 2028?