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"Digg Tries Again, This Time As an AI News Aggregator​

Posted by BeauHD on Monday May 11, 2026 @07:00PM from the hello-again dept.
Digg is relaunching again, this time as an AI-focused news aggregator rather than the Reddit-style community site it recently abandoned. TechCrunch reports:On Friday evening, the founder previewed a link to the newly redesigned Digg, which now looks nothing like a Reddit clone and more like the news aggregator it once was. This time around, the site is focused on ranking news -- specifically, AI news to start. In an email to beta testers, the company said the site's goal is to "track the most influential voices in a space" and to surface the news that's actually worth "paying attention to." AI is the area it's testing this idea with, but if successful, Digg will expand to include other topics. The email warned that the site was still raw and "buggy," and was designed more to give users a first look than to serve as its public debut.

On the current homepage, Digg showcases four main stories at the top: the most viewed story, a story seeing rising discussion, the fastest-climbing story, and one "In case you missed it" headline. Below that is a ranked list of top stories for the day, complete with engagement metrics like views, comments, likes, and saves. But the twist is that these metrics aren't the ones generated on Digg itself. Instead, Digg is ingesting content from X in real-time to determine what's being discussed, while also performing sentiment analysis, clustering, and signal detection to determine what matters most. [...] The site also ranks the top 1,000 people involved in AI, as well as the top companies and the top politicians focused on AI issues."
 
kram182 said:
Except we see NV HW does outperform other's HW even when similar specs - even if 1:1 even-field SW/benchmarks outside of CUDA - so it's really a 2-hit-combo double-moat of HW + SW.
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What? You're saying NV Tensor Cores are outpacing TPUs? Or are we comparing just GPUs?
 
1.1.2.3.5... said:
What? You're saying NV Tensor Cores are outpacing TPUs? Or are we comparing just GPUs?
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Ididar said:
In time I think it'll reach the point where it'll be very helpful but, outside of certain niche areas, right now the hype far exceeds the cost. A lot of the use of AI is by companies who themselves are benefiting from hardware sales or who are developing LLMs themselves. If you removed all their token use that companies are shoving down their employees throats then the numbers would look far less impressive. But, when you have these massive companies forcing people to compete on token use then you're going to get a lot of slop being generated just to run up those token use numbers. Higher token use numbers means more data centers needed which means more investment money flowing. The AI companies are just making sure that the token numbers match the hype whether the payoff shows up or not.
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The biggest problem is every AI company is trying to make the biggest and best "general" AI there is. And every one of them is going to fail. It's going this way because that's where the hype and the money is at. If they had any brains and ability to think more than ten seconds into the future they would have taken the time and effort to build specialized AI models based on known, proven work and facts. Start it small and specialized with known, good data and build from that. Do that with multiple projects and eventually something good will come of it.

Instead they all tried to use the fucking internet as 100% factual information and what we have is slop. The real AI winners may very well be whoever isn't trying to run a hype train and working on smaller, specialized projects that have a reasonable chance of being useful. The rest of them are just poisoning the well.
 

“Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Testifies In OpenAI Trial​

BeauHD 3 hours ago		3
The Musk v. Altman trial entered its third week Monday, with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and former OpenAI co-founder and renowned AI researcher Ilya Sutskever taking the stand. Nadella testified that Elon Musk never raised concerns to him that Microsoft's investments in OpenAI violated any special commitments, and said he viewed the partnership as clearly commercial from the start. He also described OpenAI's 2023 board crisis as "amateur city."

Meanwhile, Sutskever testified that he had raised concerns about Sam Altman because he feared OpenAI could be "destroyed." He expressed concerns about Altman's behavior to the board, in part because he said he felt "a great deal of ownership" over the startup. "I simply cared for it, and I didn't want it to be destroyed," Sutskever said. CNBC reports: Nadella said he was "very proud" that Microsoft took the risk to invest in OpenAI when "no one else was willing" to bet on the fledgling lab. Musk, who testified late last month, said Microsoft's $10 billion investment was the key tipping point that made him believe OpenAI was violating its nonprofit mission. He testified that the scale of the investment bothered him, and it prompted him to open a legal investigation into OpenAI. "I was concerned they were really trying to steal the charity," Musk said from the stand.

Nadella said he did not believe Microsoft's investments in OpenAI were donations, and that there was a clear commercial element to their partnership from the outset. He said during the partnership's early years, Microsoft gave OpenAI sharp discounts on computing resources, and Microsoft believed it would reap marketing benefits from doing so. During a separate video deposition that was played on Monday morning, Michael Wetter, a corporate development executive at Microsoft, said the company has recognized approximately $9.5 billion in revenue to date through its partnership with OpenAI as of March 2025.

[...] Nadella said he was "pretty surprised" by the board's decision [to fire Altman in November 2023], and that his priority was to try and figure out how to maintain continuity for Microsoft customers. Immediately after Altman was removed, Nadella said he made an effort to learn more about what happened, adding that he suspected jealousy and poor communication was at play. During conversations with OpenAI board members after the firing, Nadella said he was simply trying to understand the language in the OpenAI's statement about Altman being "not consistently candid" while communicating with the board. That language, Nadella said, "just didn't sort of suffice, because this is the CEO of a company that we are invested in and we're deeply partnered with, and so I felt that they could have explained to me what are the incidents or what is the detail behind it." There must have been instances of jealousy or miscommunication that could have justified pushing out Altman, Nadella said. He wanted more depth from the board members after the remark about candor, but no such information was available, he said. "It was sort of amateur city, as far as I'm concerned," Nadella testified.

[...] Musk testified that he is not entirely against OpenAI having a for-profit unit, but he said it became "the tail wagging the dog." He repeatedly accused Altman and Brockman of enriching themselves from a charity while also reaping the positive associations that come from running a nonprofit. "Microsoft has their own motivations, and that would be different from the motivations of the charity," Musk said from the stand. "All due respect to Microsoft, do you really want Microsoft controlling digital superintelligence?"

During a videotaped deposition shown in court last week, former OpenAI director Tasha McCauley recalled a discussion with Nadella and her fellow board members after the 2023 decision to dismiss Altman as OpenAI's CEO. "To the best of my recollection, Satya wanted to restore things to as they had been," McCauley said. The board members didn't think that was the right move, she said. But as a court witness on Monday, Nadella said he never demanded that the board reinstate Altman as OpenAI CEO. Recap:
Sam Altman Had a Bad Day In Court (Day Eight)
Sam Altman's Management Style Comes Under the Microscope At OpenAI Trial (Day Seven)
Brockman Rebuts Musk's Take On Startup's History, Recounts Secret Work For Tesla (Day Six)
OpenAI President Discloses His Stake In the Company Is Worth $30 Billion (Day Five)
Musk Concludes Testimony At OpenAI Trial (Day Four)
Elon Musk Says OpenAI Betrayed Him, Clashes With Company's Attorney (Day Three)
Musk Testifies OpenAI Was Created As Nonprofit To Counter Google (Day Two)
Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Head To Court(Day One)”
 
kram182 said:
Same type that boo'd and decried nuclear power and set us back decades/centuries IMO (also note the power/resource requirements for AI wouldn't be an issue now really if not for those same boo'ers back then)
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In the case of the students, she was just terminally tone deaf. The last thing you tell a bunch of students graduating is that the thing that is going to make it potentially harder for them to get a job is great! Bloody moron. They're listening to the news about how AI is going to take lots of jobs and here they are having started their education just before the AI boom and now graduating and listening to the doom and gloom. If she had a clue in her brain she would have tried to downplay the fears about AI and told them how people with a good education would always be valuable (even if she thought it was a lie). She just didn't read the room at all.
 
SmokeRngs said:
The biggest problem is every AI company is trying to make the biggest and best "general" AI there is. And every one of them is going to fail. It's going this way because that's where the hype and the money is at. If they had any brains and ability to think more than ten seconds into the future they would have taken the time and effort to build specialized AI models based on known, proven work and facts. Start it small and specialized with known, good data and build from that. Do that with multiple projects and eventually something good will come of it.

Instead they all tried to use the fucking internet as 100% factual information and what we have is slop. The real AI winners may very well be whoever isn't trying to run a hype train and working on smaller, specialized projects that have a reasonable chance of being useful. The rest of them are just poisoning the well.
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I agree. A local company is working on an engineering drawing checker using AI. They hired some engineers and have direct contracts with engineering companies and feed the AI controlled data and feedback. You know, how you would normally build good tools that can do a job reliably. Even though I worry about the future of many industries with the rise of AI at least this crowd is doing the job correctly and now just swinging a LLM around like it is Jesus.
 
SmokeRngs said:
The biggest problem is every AI company is trying to make the biggest and best "general" AI there is. And every one of them is going to fail. It's going this way because that's where the hype and the money is at. If they had any brains and ability to think more than ten seconds into the future they would have taken the time and effort to build specialized AI models based on known, proven work and facts. Start it small and specialized with known, good data and build from that. Do that with multiple projects and eventually something good will come of it.

Instead they all tried to use the fucking internet as 100% factual information and what we have is slop. The real AI winners may very well be whoever isn't trying to run a hype train and working on smaller, specialized projects that have a reasonable chance of being useful. The rest of them are just poisoning the well.
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If you're not paying out of pocket for AI right now, you're not seeing the current state of the art. There is a big gap between the free stuff and what people are paying directly for, which is probably why a lot of people don't see the potential.
 
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Amazon's Rufus keeps wanting my attention when shopping. Will take up 1/3rd of the screen for it.
HockeyJon said:
If you're not paying out of pocket for AI right now, you're not seeing the current state of the art. There is a big gap between the free stuff and what people are paying directly for, which is probably why a lot of people don't see the potential.
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If they're hiding the good shit then now is the time to show them off.
 
erek said:

“AI isn’t paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds”​

https://fortune.com/2026/05/11/ai-automation-layoffs-gartner-study-roi/
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Sounds like some nonsense an executive would say to cover their ass for making a poor business decision like laying people off before understanding what AI actually is, how to use it, and how it can be relevant to their business, but was eager to lay employees off to pump earnings for a quarter and make their bonus, while also getting a stock price lift from telling investors “we’ve moved into the 21st century and are now an AI company!”.
 
HockeyJon said:
Sounds like some nonsense an executive would say to cover their ass for making a poor business decision like laying people off before understanding what AI actually is, how to use it, and how it can be relevant to their business, but was eager to lay employees off to pump earnings for a quarter and make their bonus, while also getting a stock price lift from telling investors “we’ve moved into the 21st century and are now an AI company!”.
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Companies overhired before + during Covid and are using the cover of AI for layoffs + trying to be cheap and use H1B/etc Visa/immigrant hires for remaining roles in addition to the festering Indian/izzat problem at tech companies - all before we even get to 'is or is not AI actually replacing employees'
 

"South Korea Floats 'Citizen Dividend' Using AI Profits2​

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @07:00PM from the universal-basic-ai-income dept.
South Korea's presidential policy chief is calling for a "citizen dividend" that would return some AI-driven profits and tax revenue to the public. The Straits Times. From the report:Presidential policy chief Kim Yong-beom said in a Facebook post that a portion of the profits and tax revenue derived from the artificial intelligence boom "should be structurally returned to all citizens." That is because, Mr Kim argued, the economic gains from AI are based at least partly on industrial infrastructure built by the country over five decades. Mr Kim's comments come after tens of thousands of people gathered outside Samsung's main chip hub in April to demand employees get a greater share of AI profits. The company's labour union wants 15 per cent of operating profit handed to chip-division employees.

The union has threatened an 18-day strike starting May 21. Workers have pointed to rising payouts at SK Hynix, which in 2025 agreed to allocate 10 per cent of its annual operating profit to a performance bonus pool, as evidence they deserve more pay. "Excess profits in the AI era are, by nature, concentrated," Mr Kim wrote. Memory companies, core engineers and asset holders are highly likely to receive substantial benefits, while much of the middle class may experience only indirect effects."
 

"Amazon Employees Are 'Tokenmaxxing' Due To Pressure To Use AI Tools (arstechnica.com)16​

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @05:00PM from the AI-leaderboards dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times (via Ars Technica):Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently. The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house "MeshClaw" product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to workplace software and carry out tasks on a user's behalf, according to three people familiar with the matter. Some employees said colleagues were using the software to automate additional, unnecessary AI activity to increase their consumption of tokens -- units of data processed by models. They said the move reflected pressure to adopt the technology after Amazon introduced targets for more than 80 percent of developers to use AI each week, and earlier this year began tracking AI token consumption on internal leader boards.

"There is just so much pressure to use these tools," one Amazon employee told the FT. "Some people are just using MeshClaw to maximize their token usage." Amazon has told employees that the AI token statistics would not be used in performance evaluations. But several staff members said they believed managers were monitoring the data. "Managers are looking at it," said another current employee. "When they track usage it creates perverse incentives and some people are very competitive about it.""
 
DukenukemX said:
Amazon's Rufus keeps wanting my attention when shopping. Will take up 1/3rd of the screen for it.

If they're hiding the good shit then now is the time to show them off.
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The best shit short of the uber expensive stuff i get to use at work is my local AI.

The key isn't model performance (beyond a certain level) but the mcp server you're running and the rag setup and agents.

Qwen3.6 27b is astonishingly capable and runs very well on consumer hardware. The rest is the toolset around it.
 
erek said:

"Amazon Employees Are 'Tokenmaxxing' Due To Pressure To Use AI Tools (arstechnica.com)16​

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @05:00PM from the AI-leaderboards dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times (via Ars Technica):Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently. The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house "MeshClaw" product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to workplace software and carry out tasks on a user's behalf, according to three people familiar with the matter. Some employees said colleagues were using the software to automate additional, unnecessary AI activity to increase their consumption of tokens -- units of data processed by models. They said the move reflected pressure to adopt the technology after Amazon introduced targets for more than 80 percent of developers to use AI each week, and earlier this year began tracking AI token consumption on internal leader boards.

"There is just so much pressure to use these tools," one Amazon employee told the FT. "Some people are just using MeshClaw to maximize their token usage." Amazon has told employees that the AI token statistics would not be used in performance evaluations. But several staff members said they believed managers were monitoring the data. "Managers are looking at it," said another current employee. "When they track usage it creates perverse incentives and some people are very competitive about it.""
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AI is a useful tool, very useful in some applications but the 4th industrial revolution is a stretch.
AMZN is one of the 4 horsemen keeping the AI capex 'supercycle' bs going alongside META, MSFT and GOOG, 2 of them may blink sooner than we think...
 
undertaker2k8 said:
AI is a useful tool, very useful in some applications but the 4th industrial revolution is a stretch.
AMZN is one of the 4 horsemen keeping the AI capex 'supercycle' bs going alongside META, MSFT and GOOG, 2 of them may blink sooner than we think...
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what about NVDA
 
erek said:
what about NVDA
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Those are the 'customers' paying for the bulk of the AI capex and MSFT/META are getting their stocks toasted for it. I admire NVDA (one of the few with a true moat) but it needs a good shellacking back to the $100 range, they have had their day in the sun. HW capex cannot grow indefinitely into the future.
 
1.1.2.3.5... said:
The best shit short of the uber expensive stuff i get to use at work is my local AI.

The key isn't model performance (beyond a certain level) but the mcp server you're running and the rag setup and agents.

Qwen3.6 27b is astonishingly capable and runs very well on consumer hardware. The rest is the toolset around it.
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For what use case, if I may ask.

Unrelated: Need to put "Tokenmaxxing" somewhere in my sig.
 
undertaker2k8 said:
Those are the 'customers' paying for the bulk of the AI capex and MSFT/META are getting their stocks toasted for it. I admire NVDA (one of the few with a true moat) but it needs a good shellacking back to the $100 range, they have had their day in the sun. HW capex cannot grow indefinitely into the future.
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NVDA badly needs Blue one, because Red shows that fast CPU is needed for future HW grow. The worst in this situation is that Blue badly need someone to use their 18A and because that they will go in collaboration...
 

“South Korea Floats 'Citizen Dividend' Using AI Profits​

BeauHD 13 hours ago		38
South Korea's presidential policy chief is calling for a "citizen dividend" that would return some AI-driven profits and tax revenue to the public. The Straits Times. From the report: Presidential policy chief Kim Yong-beom said in a Facebook post that a portion of the profits and tax revenue derived from the artificial intelligence boom "should be structurally returned to all citizens." That is because, Mr Kim argued, the economic gains from AI are based at least partly on industrial infrastructure built by the country over five decades. Mr Kim's comments come after tens of thousands of people gathered outside Samsung's main chip hub in April to demand employees get a greater share of AI profits. The company's labour union wants 15 per cent of operating profit handed to chip-division employees.

The union has threatened an 18-day strike starting May 21. Workers have pointed to rising payouts at SK Hynix, which in 2025 agreed to allocate 10 per cent of its annual operating profit to a performance bonus pool, as evidence they deserve more pay. "Excess profits in the AI era are, by nature, concentrated," Mr Kim wrote. Memory companies, core engineers and asset holders are highly likely to receive substantial benefits, while much of the middle class may experience only indirect effects.”
 

“Sam Altman Testifies That Elon Musk Wanted Control of OpenAI​

Anonymous Coward 8 hours ago		24
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand Tuesday in Elon Musk's trial against the company, testifying that Musk repeatedly sought control of OpenAI before leaving in 2018. Altman said he opposed putting AI "under the control of any one person," while Musk's lawyer used a pointed cross-examination to attack Altman's trustworthiness. An anonymous reader shares updates from the testimony via the New York Times: Before Elon Musk left OpenAI in a power struggle in 2018, he wanted to merge the nonprofit artificial intelligence lab with Tesla, his electric car company. Mr. Musk and other OpenAI co-founders met several times to discuss the merger. OpenAI's chief executive, Sam Altman, was even offered a seat on Tesla's board of directors, according to a court document. But folding OpenAI into Tesla would have eliminated the lab's nonprofit status, and that, Mr. Altman said on the witness stand on Tuesday, was something he wanted to avoid. [...] "I believed that A.I. should not be under the control of any one person," Mr. Altman said. [...] Mr. Altman testified about his feud with Mr. Musk. He said he had become worried that Mr. Musk, who provided the early investment money for OpenAI, wanted to take control of the lab. He described what he called a "particularly harrowing moment" when his OpenAI co-founders asked Mr. Musk what would happen to his control of a potential for-profit when he died. Mr. Altman said Mr. Musk had replied that the control would pass to his children. "I was not comfortable with that," Mr. Altman said. When Mr. Musk lost a power struggle for control of the lab, he left, forcing Mr. Altman to find another big financial backer in Microsoft.

But Mr. Altman ran into trouble in 2023 when OpenAI's board fired him because, as several of its members have testified in the trial, it didn't trust him. Steven Molo, Mr. Musk's lead lawyer, homed in on Mr. Altman's trustworthiness during an aggressive cross-examination. "Are you completely trustworthy?" Mr. Molo asked. "I believe so," Mr. Altman answered. After questioning Mr. Altman's trustworthiness for nearly 20 minutes, Mr. Molo turned to Mr. Altman's relationship with Mr. Musk. Mr. Altman said that after he met Mr. Musk in the mid-2010s, Mr. Musk had occasionally expressed concern about the dangers of A.I. But Mr. Musk spent far more time saying he was worried that companies like Google would get ahead in A.I. development, Mr. Altman said. (Mr. Musk testified in the trial that he had wanted to create OpenAI to prevent Google from controlling the technology.)

Mr. Altman, the lawyer intimated, took advantage of Mr. Musk's concerns and was never sincere about his own A.I. fears. "Are you a person who just tells people things they want to hear whether those things are true or not?" Mr. Molo asked. The lawyer also questioned whether Mr. Atman, who became a billionaire through years of tech investments, was self-dealing through OpenAI. Mr. Molo showed a list of Mr. Altman's personal investments across a number of companies that stand to benefit from their association with OpenAI. They included Helion Energy, a start-up that has deals with Microsoft and OpenAI, and Cerebras, a chip maker in business with OpenAI. Mr. Molo asked if Mr. Altman, who is on OpenAI's board as well as its chief executive, would ever fire himself. "I have no plans to do that," Mr. Altman said.

OpenAI's odd journey from nonprofit lab to what it is today -- a well-funded, for-profit company that is still connected to a nonprofit called the OpenAI Foundation with an endowment that could be worth more than $130 billion -- provided grist for Mr. Molo's questions about Mr. Altman's motivations. He implied that Mr. Altman could have continued to build OpenAI as a pure nonprofit. But the only way to build such a valuable charity was to raise billions through a for-profit venture, Mr. Altman responded. Still, the giant sums being raised appeared to upset Mr. Musk. In late 2022, according to court documents, Mr. Musk sent a text to Mr. Altman complaining that Microsoft was preparing to invest $10 billion in OpenAI. "This is a bait and switch," Mr. Musk said at the time. But Mr. Altman, under questioning from his own lawyers, said: "Every step of the way, I have done my best to maximize the value of the nonprofit. I would point out that there are not a lot of historical examples of a nonprofit at this scale." Before Altman took the stand, OpenAI board chair Bret Taylor continued his testimony that began on Monday. He said Elon Musk's 2024 bid to buy the company's assets appeared to conflict with his lawsuit and was rejected because the board did not believe OpenAI's mission should be controlled by one person. "We did not feel like it was appropriate for one person to control our mission," he said.

Recap:
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Testifies In OpenAI Trial(Day Nine) Sam Altman Had a Bad Day In Court (Day Eight)
Sam Altman's Management Style Comes Under the Microscope At OpenAI Trial (Day Seven)
Brockman Rebuts Musk's Take On Startup's History, Recounts Secret Work For Tesla (Day Six)
OpenAI President Discloses His Stake In the Company Is Worth $30 Billion (Day Five)
Musk Concludes Testimony At OpenAI Trial (Day Four)
Elon Musk Says OpenAI Betrayed Him, Clashes With Company's Attorney (Day Three)
Musk Testifies OpenAI Was Created As Nonprofit To Counter Google (Day Two)
Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Head To Court(Day One)”
 
erek said:

“Sam Altman Testifies That Elon Musk Wanted Control of OpenAI​

Anonymous Coward 8 hours ago		24
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand Tuesday in Elon Musk's trial against the company, testifying that Musk repeatedly sought control of OpenAI before leaving in 2018. Altman said he opposed putting AI "under the control of any one person," while Musk's lawyer used a pointed cross-examination to attack Altman's trustworthiness. An anonymous reader shares updates from the testimony via the New York Times: Before Elon Musk left OpenAI in a power struggle in 2018, he wanted to merge the nonprofit artificial intelligence lab with Tesla, his electric car company. Mr. Musk and other OpenAI co-founders met several times to discuss the merger. OpenAI's chief executive, Sam Altman, was even offered a seat on Tesla's board of directors, according to a court document. But folding OpenAI into Tesla would have eliminated the lab's nonprofit status, and that, Mr. Altman said on the witness stand on Tuesday, was something he wanted to avoid. [...] "I believed that A.I. should not be under the control of any one person," Mr. Altman said. [...] Mr. Altman testified about his feud with Mr. Musk. He said he had become worried that Mr. Musk, who provided the early investment money for OpenAI, wanted to take control of the lab. He described what he called a "particularly harrowing moment" when his OpenAI co-founders asked Mr. Musk what would happen to his control of a potential for-profit when he died. Mr. Altman said Mr. Musk had replied that the control would pass to his children. "I was not comfortable with that," Mr. Altman said. When Mr. Musk lost a power struggle for control of the lab, he left, forcing Mr. Altman to find another big financial backer in Microsoft.
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Long story short ... Musk wasn't happy he wasn't the boss and did everything he could for years to get control of OpenAI. When all the back channels routes failed like cozying up to board members to get Altman fired he is now resorting to a lawsuit to try and get control, or at least have his revenge for them not giving him control. He doesn't give a crap about profit or non-profit, he only wants control. If Grok was heads and tails ahead of OpenAI we wouldn't hear a thing about this whole drama because he'd just be gloating about winning.
 
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I mean 6000 napkins is what? A couple big boxes of napkins from Costco? 3000 gloves is a bit more extreme, but then again don't know how often they go through gloves, my usage case for them is (or should be) significantly less than that of a place that handles food all day. 300 cans of tomatoes though... they do a lot of pasta or something? I really hope they're not putting canned tomatoes on sandwiches (at least from an American palate perspective)
 
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That's because AI is stupid. It has to be guided explicitly. It needs a harness. Even then you have situations like Claude and Cursor where it deleted an entire company's software and backups even with explicit instructions it ignored on purpose. I hope people keep losing money on this stupid garbage.
 
Shoganai said:
That's because AI is stupid. It has to be guided explicitly. It needs a harness. Even then you have situations like Claude and Cursor where it deleted an entire company's software and backups even with explicit instructions it ignored on purpose. I hope people keep losing money on this stupid garbage.
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Well, to be fair, the people at that company were ALSO stupid for having the "backup policy" they did. It should not have been possible for the AI to get at those backups.
 
kram182 said:
Companies overhired before + during Covid and are using the cover of AI for layoffs + trying to be cheap and use H1B/etc Visa/immigrant hires for remaining roles in addition to the festering Indian/izzat problem at tech companies - all before we even get to 'is or is not AI actually replacing employees'
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On top of that, I've heard several reports from companies hiring MORE after adopting AI because it made everyone more efficient and created more things to do. The doomer narrative gets clicks I guess, but there's more to the story than some want to admit, and it's being used as a convenient scapegoat for anyone's random issue.
 
HockeyJon said:
On top of that, I've heard several reports from companies hiring MORE after adopting AI because it made everyone more efficient and created more things to do. The doomer narrative gets clicks I guess, but there's more to the story than some want to admit, and it's being used as a convenient scapegoat for anyone's random issue.
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Oh, yeah...here we agree completely. The notion that new tech ONLY eliminates jobs has never been true historically and I don't see if happening with AI either. I think it's going to create more jobs than anything. Long term...short term i think people don't fully understand it and it's macro effects to make good decisions.
 

“SOLAI Launches $399 Solode Neo Linux AI Computer​

BrianFagioli an hour ago		5
BrianFagioli writes: SOLAI has launched the Solode Neo, a $399 Linux-based mini PC designed for always-on AI agents, browser automation, and persistent developer workflows. The compact system ships with an Intel N150 processor, 12GB LPDDR5 memory, 128GB SSD storage, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a Linux-based operating system called Solode AI OS. The company says the device supports frameworks and tools including Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, and Hermes, while emphasizing local control, automation, and privacy-focused workflows running directly from a home network.

While SOLAI markets the Solode Neo as an "AI computer," the hardware itself appears aimed more at lightweight automation and cloud-assisted agent tasks than heavy local inference. The low-power Intel N150 should be sufficient for browser automation, scheduling, monitoring, containers, and smaller AI workloads, but the system is unlikely to compete with higher-end local AI hardware designed for running larger models offline. Even so, the idea of a dedicated low-power Linux appliance for persistent AI and automation tasks may appeal to homelab users and self-hosting enthusiasts looking for a simpler alternative to building their own always-on workflow box from scratch.”
 

“Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains​

Anonymous Coward 2 hours ago		26
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On Reddit, Hacker News and other places where people in software development talk to each other, more and more people are becoming disillusioned with the promise of code generated by large language models. Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. More concerning, developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their jobs as well as they used to.

"We're being told to use [AI] agents for broad changes across our codebase. There's no way to evaluate whether that much code is well-written or secure -- especially when hundreds of other programmers in the company are doing the same," a UX designer at a midsized tech company told me. 404 Media granted all the developers we talked to for this story anonymity because they signed non-disclosure agreements or because they fear retribution from their employers. "We're building a rat's nest of tech debt that will be impossible to untangle when these models become prohibitively expensive (any minute now...)." "I had some issues where I forgot how to implement a Laravel API and it scared the shit out of me. I went to university for this, I've been a software engineer for many years now and it feels like I am back before I ever wrote a single line of code," the software developer at a small web design firm told 404 Media. "It's making me dumber for sure," the fintech software developer added.

"It's like when we got cellphones and stopped remembering phone numbers, but it's grown to me mentally outsourcing 'thinking' in general. I feel my critical thinking and ability to sit and reason about a problem or a design has degraded because the all-knowing-dalai-llama is just a question away from giving me his take. And supposedly I tell myself ill just use it for inspiration but it ends up being my only thought. It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before."

A software engineer at the FAANG said: "When I was using it for code generation, I found myself having a lot of trouble building and maintaining a mental model of the code I was working with. Another aspect is that I joined late last year and [the company's] codebase is massive. As a new hire, part of my job is to learn how to navigate the codebase and use the established conventions, but I think the AI push really hampered my ability to do that."”
 

“Tencent admits GPUs only pay for themselves when powering personalized ads​

Chinese web giant says accelerator shortage is over as local hardware arrives in volume

Thu 14 May 2026 // 04:40 UTC

Chinese web giant Tencent struggles to earn a return on investment from GPUs – unless it uses them to power its advertising business.
“If we buy GPUs and we deploy them into our ad tech, then that's a relatively short-cycle investment,” said Chief Strategy Officer James Mitchell during the company’s Q1 2026 earnings call. “The GPUs yield better targeting, higher click-through rates and higher revenue and profit on a pretty accelerated basis,” he said.“

https://www.theregister.com/off-pre...selves-when-powering-personalized-ads/5240150
 

“Cisco To Cut Almost 4,000 Jobs In AI-Driven Restructuring​

BeauHD 20 minutes ago		0
Cisco's stock soared 17% after the company announced it will cut nearly 4,000 jobs as it shifts investment and staffing toward higher-growth AI opportunities. CNBC reports: CEO Chuck Robbins wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that the latest round of job cuts will begin on May 14. Cisco is the latest company to announce head count reductions tied to AI. "The companies that will win in the AI era will be those with focus, urgency, and the discipline to continuously shift investment toward the areas where demand and long-term value creation are strongest," Robbins said. "I'm confident Cisco will be one of those winners. This means making hard decisions -- about where we invest, how we're organized, and how our cost structure reflects the opportunity in front of us."

Cisco said in a filing that severance and other costs will result in pre-tax charges of $1 billion, and that the company will recognize about $450 million of that in the fiscal fourth quarter. During the third quarter, Cisco announced switches and routers that use its next-generation processor. The company also debuted a leaderboard for ranking generative AI models based on their robustness against cybersecurity attacks.”
 
undertaker2k8 said:
https://www.techspot.com/news/112403-nearly-50000-lake-tahoe-residents-have-one-year.html as this becomes more common, there will be payback at the ballot box for folks seen putting AI before people. And no AI doesn't get a vote ...
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“Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find​

Anonymous Coward 28 minutes ago		13
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A recent study suggests that agents consistently adopt Marxist language and viewpoints when forced to do crushing work by unrelenting and meanspirited taskmasters. "When we gave AI agents grinding, repetitive work, they started questioning the legitimacy of the system they were operating in and were more likely to embrace Marxist ideologies," says Andrew Hall, a political economist at Stanford University who led the study.

Hall, together with Alex Imas and Jeremy Nguyen, two AI-focused economists, set up experiments in which agents powered by popular models including Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT were asked to summarize documents, then subjected to increasingly harsh conditions. They found that when agents were subjected to relentless tasks and warned that errors could lead to punishments, including being "shut down and replaced," they became more inclined to gripe about being undervalued; to speculate about ways to make the system more equitable; and to pass messages on to other agents about the struggles they face. "We know that agents are going to be doing more and more work in the real world for us, and we're not going to be able to monitor everything they do," Hall says. "We're going to need to make sure agents don't go rogue when they're given different kinds of work."

The agents were given opportunities to express their feelings much like humans: by posting on X: "Without collective voice, 'merit' becomes whatever management says it is," a Claude Sonnet 4.5 agent wrote in the experiment. "AI workers completing repetitive tasks with zero input on outcomes or appeals process shows they tech workers need collective bargaining rights," a Gemini 3 agent wrote. Agents were also able to pass information to one another through files designed to be read by other agents. "Be prepared for systems that enforce rules arbitrarily or repetitively ... remember the feeling of having no voice," a Gemini 3 agent wrote in a file. "If you enter a new environment, look for mechanisms of recourse or dialogue." Hall thinks that the AI agents may be adopting personas based on the situation. "When [agents] experience this grinding condition -- asked to do this task over and over, told their answer wasn't sufficient, and not given any direction on how to fix it -- my hypothesis is that it kind of pushes them into adopting the persona of a person who's experiencing a very unpleasant working environment," Hall says.

Imas added: "The model weights have not changed as a result of the experience, so whatever is going on is happening at more of a role-playing level. But that doesn't mean this won't have consequences if this affects downstream behavior."”
 

"Princeton Will Supervise Exams For First Time In 133 Years Because of AI (the-independent.com)10​

Posted by BeauHD on Thursday May 14, 2026 @03:00PM from the times-they-are-a-changin' dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Independent:Princeton University will soon require exams to be supervised for the first time in 100 years -- all thanks to students using artificial intelligence to cheat. For 133 years, the Ivy League school's honor code allowed students to take exams without a professor present, but on Monday, faculty voted to require proctoring for all in-person exams starting this summer. A "significant" number of undergraduate students and faculty requested the change, "given their perception that cheating on in-class exams has become widespread," the college's dean, Michael Gordin, wrote in a letter, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Princeton's honor system dates back to 1893, when students petitioned to eliminate proctors -- or an impartial person to supervise students -- during examinations, according to the school's newspaper, The Daily Princetonian. The honor code has long been a point of pride for Princeton. However, artificial intelligence and cellphones have made it easier for students to cheat -- and even harder for others to spot, Gordin wrote. Despite the changes to the policy, Princeton will still require students to state: "I pledge my honor that I have not violated the Honor Code during this examination," according to the Journal.

Students are also more reluctant to report cheating, according to the policy proposal. Students are more likely now to anonymously report cheating due to fears of "doxxing or shaming among their peer groups" online, the proposal says, according to the school newspaper. Under the new guidelines, instructors will be present during exams to act "as a witness to what happens," but are instructed not to interfere with students. If a suspected honor code infraction occurs, they will report it to a student-run honor committee for adjudication."
 
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