“The ‘trust me’ comes from a system that gets it wrong 57 million times an hour.”
Google says AI Mode is the biggest upgrade to Search in 25 years. But users are quietly moving to the exit and the exit says “No AI.”
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There are two ways to lose a backup generator. You can misplace one, which is careless. Or you can misplace six hundred of them, which is a filing strategy.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
In a recent interview on the Rapid Response podcast, Uber president and chief operating officer Andrew Macdonald said it’s hard to draw a connection between the company’s rising use of Claude Code and innovations meant to serve consumers.
“That link is not there yet,” he said. “Maybe implicitly there’s more that is getting shipped, but it’s very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and ‘Okay now we’re actually producing like 25% more useful consumer features.’”
The comments follow reports that the firm had already burnt through its entire 2026 AI coding tools budget in just four months after incentivizing employees to adopt the technology through an internal leaderboard ranking teams by total AI tool usage. It’s the latest development in a complex quandary arising in enterprise AI adoption: increasing AI use comes with higher costs, even as per-unit AI pricing falls.
“If you’re not actually able to draw a direct line to how [many] useful features and functionality you’re shipping to your users, that trade becomes harder to justify,” Macdonald said.
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Mischief is important: Data Poisoning
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In this video, I sit down with ChatGPT and quiz it on guitar pedal history – the Tube Screamer, the Big Muff, the Maestro FZ-1, DOD, JHS, Jimi Hendrix’s rig… the works. And what you’re about to watch is kind of alarming. It hallucinates pedals that don’t exist. It agrees with things I KNOW are wrong when I push back. It confidently states dates it can’t actually source. And then when I ask it to prove anything… it can’t.
But here’s the part that really gets me: these aren’t just random errors. There’s a feedback loop happening. AI reads what’s on the internet, people repost what AI tells them, and AI reads that too. So the misinformation compounds. In 40 years, when someone wants to know who actually designed the first fuzz pedal – or what year the DOD 250 came out – this is what they’re going to find.
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To watch from the beginning, click here.
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A San Francisco startup started a new experimental cafe in Stockholm, Sweden
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It pays to expand your word power: “Newsjacking”
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New survey data suggests many Gen Z workers are actively undermining company AI strategies rather than quietly adopting them.
What I Said
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It’s relatively easy: How to spot AI writing.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
This is the footprint ratio of data center to solar panels in the sunniest country in the world.
Open The Pod Bay Doors, Hal!
I gather there’s still more than a few bugs to be resolved with AI. I’m reminded of a Dilbert cartoon from twenty years ago where the company rolled out a poorly tested backup product called Quik Protect which did nothing but erase your hard drive. Since that was back in the days of modems, it would call up all your friends and erase their hard drives too. And if you had a sound card, it would swear at you.
“Yesterday afternoon, an AI coding agent — Cursor running Anthropic’s flagship Claude Opus 4.6 — deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider,” sums up the PocketOS boss. “It took 9 seconds.”
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“We have been advised that the shooter was in constant communication with ChatGPT leading up to the shooting. We also have reason to believe that ChatGPT may have advised the shooter how to commit these heinous crimes. We will therefore file suit against ChatGPT, and its ownership structure, very soon, and will seek to hold them accountable for the untimely and senseless death of our client, Mr. Morales.”
Via Katie Millier: This is now the 20th death tied to ChatGPT via court records.
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In a surprise move, OpenAI will shut down its Sora AI video app, just months after it was first launched.
“We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” the company said in a statement. “What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work.”
A source familiar with the matter tells The Hollywood Reporter that Disney is also exiting the deal it signed with OpenAI last year, in which it pledged to invest $1 billion in the company and agreed to license some of its characters for use in Sora.
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@BrianRoemmele: Phone confessions
I had a long talk with an executive at a large AI company about the realities they face. He was one of the folks that booked cohort 1 of my 17 minutes with me, it was for non corporate folks, but he was honest with me and paid 17 times (no accident, thank you) more than the minimum.
He wanted to remain anonymous but I told him I knew who he was but will ignore it. I had my plan beforehand and built an approach, honesty my only poach.
My 17 minutes of monologue (really non stop talking) was centered around on this patent and the story of how a massive well funded company had the future that would take it out being built literally in THE BASEMENT by a hacker in 1975.
Takeaway line: Egos will be very high until the accountants take over.
Update: Read the comments.