Reuters: Exclusive-Pentagon clashes with Anthropic over military AI use, sources say. “The Pentagon is at odds with artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic over safeguards that would prevent the government from deploying its technology to target weapons autonomously ​and conduct U.S. domestic surveillance, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.”

Finally, a valid use may have been found for generative AI.

This site will take an architect's beautiful, utopian image of what their wonderful new building/park/plaza will look like, and the AI will try to imagine what it will actually look like on a cold, damp, miserable winter's day.

#AI #GenAI #architecture

https://antirender.com

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An architect's render of a modern urban park. It show a beautiful sunny day, with a multitude of trees producing foliage in various shades of green, and lots of shiny happy people (all of them white, naturally) lounging around, creating giant soap bubbles, and otherwise thoroughly enjoying their delightful new surroundings.

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The AI has taken that architects' drawing and rendered the scene with near photographic reality. This time the trees have all lost their leaves, the grassy areas are dull and muddy, and there are rain puddles on the pathways. And because the trees are leafless the uninspiring buildings behind the park are far more visible, they had previously been drawn in pastel colours to de-emphasise them on the architects' version. Oh, and because the weather is lousy there are no people in the park at all.

https://toobnix.org/w/9oA5WZEkbjKkfbsSxEoJ8v #archive

Okay I guess on the hour it's the Sunday-morning-in-Europe #lispyGopherClimate .

a. I will lightly go over my recent #commonLisp #symbolic #DL ( #ai!) algo / article.

b. Excitingly that gave me occasion to use

(this-function foo &rest keys &key &allow-other-keys)

which I used to pass data-like parameters along without cluttering up arguements (waters' functions of seven arguments). People had tried to explain it to me previously but now I underst

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A better and #symbolic #deeplearning #algorithm in #commonLisp .

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/a-better-deep-learning-algorithm/

I hope I come across as slightly tongue-in-cheek! Though all my points and notes are in fact genuine.

tl;dr I define completely explainable and interpretable deep learning / inferencing in terms of operations on sets of symbols.

I think it successfully underscores the wild misapprehensions about deep learning that abound in the wild. What do you think?

#ai #programming #DL

Je m'accuse. I grievously squandered a Saturday, rendering a parable about communication.
⛰️ https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/01/two-valleys-diverged-in-a-mountain-range/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

Claude did the heavy lifting after extensive dialogue and goading. Even worse, the dialogue continued, extending the story and generating more content.
#philosophy #language #communication #writing #claudeai #ai #stories #biomes #abundance #scarcity #worlds #words #risk #growth #perspective #parable #moral #difference #cooperation #psychology #empathy #blog #podcast #video

What in the world, someone created a personal website about AI and sign language? Not a chance. I'm against it, and that privacy policy is a mess! #technology #datacollection #ai

https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2026/01/googles-world-building-ai-points-to-exciting-future-for-opensim-creators-or-their-doom/

#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #HypergridBusiness #SimBuilding #AI

Reuters: Musk’s Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train AI. “SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) revised its Starlink privacy policy to allow the use of customer data for AI training, a shift that ​could bolster Elon Musk’s AI ambitions.”

"Without carrying out any actual hacking, simply by logging in with an arbitrary Google account, the two researchers immediately found themselves looking at children's private conversations, the pet names kids had given their Bondu, the likes and dislikes of the toys' toddler owners, their favorite snacks and dance moves.

In total, Margolis and Thacker discovered that the data Bondu left unprotected—accessible to anyone who logged in to the company's public-facing web console with their Google username—included children's names, birth dates, family member names, “objectives” for the child chosen by a parent, and most disturbingly, detailed summaries and transcripts of every previous chat between the child and their Bondu, a toy practically designed to elicit intimate one-on-one conversation. Bondu confirmed in conversations with the researchers that more than 50,000 chat transcripts were accessible through the exposed web portal, essentially all conversations the toys had engaged in other than those that had been manually deleted by parents or staff.

“It felt pretty intrusive and really weird to know these things," Thacker says of the children's private chats and documented preferences that he saw. “Being able to see all these conversations was a massive violation of children's privacy.""

https://www.wired.com/story/an-ai-toy-exposed-50000-logs-of-its-chats-with-kids-to-anyone-with-a-gmail-account/

#AI #GenerativeAI #AISafety #CyberSecurity #Bondu #AIToy #Privacy #DataProtection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtEidzV5nNE

"Ever heard of the Enuma Elish? It’s this ancient Babylonian myth where the gods got tired of working, so they created humans to be their slave class. Sound familiar?"

"In this video, I’m exploring how Silicon Valley is basically reenacting this exact same story right now. Except this time, we want to be the gods, and AI is the new slave class."

"I dive into the difference between being made in the "Image of God" vs. the "Image of Man" (Imago Hominis), and why that distinction matters more than ever. We aren't building a god; we are building a mirror—and the reflection isn't always pretty."

#AI #SiliconValley #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #Religion #Myth

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Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future has raised more than $125 million to try to shape the 2026 U.S. midterms and the future of federal AI regulation.

@axios reports: "States are racing ahead with regulating AI, while companies are looking to Washington to set a single, industry-friendly federal standard."

https://flip.it/CyZX7g

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USPolitics #Tech

Good point, "Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker said artificial intelligence agents embedded within operating systems are eroding the practical security guarantees of end-to-end encryption (E2EE)."
https://cyberinsider.com/signal-president-warns-ai-agents-are-making-encryption-irrelevant/
#AI #security #E2EE #Signal #privacy

Daily Digest | 30 January 2026

Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.

5 stories you should not miss.

Read more: https://www.nicfab.eu/daily-digest/

#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw

Anthropic’s secret to building a better AI assistant might be treating Claude like it has a soul. No one really believes it has a soul, though, right? @ArsTechnica explores:

https://flip.it/uClTSD

#Tech #AI #Anthropic #Claude #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

What happened when Time Magazine, Darren Aronofsky and artificial intelligence teamed up?  The world was blessed with "On This Day… 1776," described by @Aftermath's Luke Plunkett as "a web series about the American Revolution that finally answers the question nobody was asking: what if that Coke ad had muskets in it?"

https://flip.it/.hsWfK

#Television #TV #DarrenAronofsky #Entertainment #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Mark Zuckerberg gets green light from Wall Street to keep pouring money into AI.

From CNBC: "Although investors have previously expressed concern about Meta’s AI spending spree, they took comfort in the company’s latest results, which were driven by online ads."

https://flip.it/0pQueL

#Meta #AI #Zuckerberg #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech

Harvard Gazette: What if we used AI to strengthen democracy?. “‘We talk about AI being used as a tool of surveillance, as a tool of control, as a tool of propaganda,’ said security technologist Bruce Schneier, co-author of the new book ‘Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship.’ ‘These are all possible scenarios, but AI can also be used to resist all […]

Daily Digest | Jan 29, 2026

Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.

5 stories you should not miss.

Read more: https://www.nicfab.eu/daily-digest/

#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warns AI agents embedded in OSes are eroding end-to-end encryption's real-world security, despite its mathematical soundness. With root-like access to messages & data, they bypass E2EE isolation—urgent rethink needed! 🔒🤖❌
https://cyberinsider.com/signal-president-warns-ai-agents-are-making-encryption-irrelevant/

#AI #Privacy #Cybersecurity #Newz #Signal

Can AI companies become profitable? https://lobste.rs/s/eqgc61 #ai #finance
https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/can-ai-companies-become-profitable

Apparently, the Labour Govt. is having discussions about whether a universal basic income for those sectors whose employment prospects are most degraded by AI might be a strategic priority;

of course that's not UBI but sectoral support, and like in-work benefits would actually just be another subsidy to the employers.

So while it looks like a worker-friendly policy in the end it would just be more corporate welfare (if its only applied to some sectors).

#CorporateWelfare #AI #workers
h/t FT

#Newparty announces local election candidates after
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#6

Four big questions ahead of the 2026 #Grammy Awards
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/canada.html#8

#Homeowners can soon claim new €4,000 home renovation /p/ireland.html#RSVP Live
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com

#Gas reserves in UGS facilities down below 30% in #Netherlands
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Russia

Happy Data Privacy Week from #Apple
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/infotech.html#31

#AI data labeler Handshake buys Cleanlab, an acquisition
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc-varied.html#12

GOG now using AI generated images on their store https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/gog-now-using-ai-generated-images-on-their-store/

#GOG #AI #AIGen

Even Starlink Wants Your Data for AI Model Training.

Starlink updated its privacy policy to say customer data can be used to train AI models, and subscribers appear to be opted in by default.

Also, the company might share personal information with third parties "for training artificial intelligence models, including for their own independent purposes,"

#privacy #surveillance #artificialintelligence #AI #trainingdata #spacex #starlnk #bigdata #data #technology #tech

https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlink-wants-your-data-for-ai-model-training-how-to-opt-out/

Same cloud native stack, different AI results. Why?
Chris Aniszczyk, CNCF CTO, explains how Kubernetes fuels AI growth and why culture, governance, and collaboration drive success.
📖 Read more: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/kubernetes-fuels-ai-growth-organizational-culture-remains-the-decisive-factor

#Kubernetes #CloudNative #AI #OpenSource

In this edition of #AdvancesInComputing:

Four guidelines from top researchers on maximizing the upsides of AI, the launch of a new nonprofit, and the latest updates from ACM’s flagship magazines.

Subscribe today: https://open.substack.com/pub/theofficialacm/p/how-to-shape-ai-for-the-common-good?r=6w5qsy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#TechNews #ACMNewsletters #Substack #AI

Daily Digest | Jan 28, 2026

Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.

5 stories you should not miss.

Read more: https://www.nicfab.eu/daily-digest

#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw

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"Coding assistants are now generating code that fails to perform as intended, but which on the surface seems to run successfully, avoiding syntax errors or obvious crashes."

https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/115946658655046897

#ai #coding #syntaxerror #gigo

IEEE Spectrum: AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery

New analysis suggests AI tools narrow the span of ideas explored
19 Jan 2026

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery

#ai #slop #aislop #science #research #academia

As the world marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, experts say that social networks are being overrun with AI-generated content about the Holocaust, some of it exploiting the horrors of Nazi crimes for clickbait, some seeking to deny or trivialize them. Jens-Christian Wagner, director of the foundation that manages the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora memorials, points to images of "well-fed prisoners, meant to suggest that conditions in concentration camps weren't really that bad." Here's more from AFP News.

https://flip.it/KCpoPk

#Technology #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #HolocaustRemembranceDay

Agentic AI is more than just a tool. LF executive director Jim Zemlin explains why smaller, specialized AI agents deliver better results, lower costs, and greater trust with open source.
🎥https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfNMZ2G8jPA&t=254s

#OpenSource #AI #AgenticAI #LinuxFoundation #OpenSourceSummit #OSSJapan #TechLeadership #Innovation #ResponsibleAI

This month's Acuitas diary features expanded work on conjunction group parsing, including a bit of nitty-gritty on text parser data structures and design choices.

https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2026/01/acuitas-diary-92-january-2026.html

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #chatbots #symbolicAI #NLP

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