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#artificialintelligence

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Flipboard Tech Desk

The U.S. president's handling of the Epstein files has been confusing for both real MAGA supporters, and bots. @RollingStone reports on how bogus X accounts that rely upon "PromptPasta" (AI-generated posts) started to take sides, with some attacking Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi while others defended them. "The split mirrored that of MAGA influencers who also had to choose whether to hammer the White House on the Epstein issue ... or rationalize their bungled approach to it."

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(L-R) Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and musician Michael Bolton pose for a portrait during a party at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000. (Photo by Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)
Rolling Stone · How the Epstein Files Blew Up a Pro-Trump AI Bot Network on XBy Miles Klee
#Epstein#DonaldTrump#TrumpAdministration
Brittany Trang

Is #OpenAI actually going to build a health record AI assistant for patients, despite never having built a health #AI product before?

Why were unrelated and almost non-existent companies invited to join the CMS "Make Health Tech Great Again" pledge?

What hurdles are these companies going to have to solve in order to launch an AI assistant by March?

This week's AI Prognosis at STAT:

statnews.com/2025/08/06/the-co

STAT · The companies that pledged to build patient AI assistant appsSTAT asked Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and more about their health AI assistant plans
#health#healthcare#healthtech
Niklas Pivic

Dumping Google’s enshittified search for Kagi: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

This article is something I love that reminds me of old-school internet: factually filled and really funny. From the article:

'Kagi was founded in 2018, but its search product has only been publicly available since June 2022. It purports to be an independent search engine that pulls results from around the web (including from its own index) and is aimed at returning search to a user-friendly, user-focused experience. The company's stated purpose is to deliver useful search results, full stop. The goal is not to blast you with AI garbage or bury you in "Knowledge Graph" summaries hacked together from posts in a 12-year-old Reddit thread between two guys named /u/WeedBoner420 and /u/14HitlerWasRight88.

Kagi's offerings (it has a web browser, too, though I've not used it) are based on a simple idea. There's an (oversimplified) axiom that if a good or service (like Google search, for example, or good ol' Facebook) is free for you to use, it's because you're the product, not the customer. With Google, you pay with your attention, your behavioral metrics, and the intimate personal details of your wants and hopes and dreams (and the contents of your emails and other electronic communications—Google's got most of that, too).

With Kagi, you pay for the product using money. That's it! You give them some money, and you get some service—great service, really, which I'm overall quite happy with and which I'll get to shortly. You don't have to look at any ads. You don't have to look at AI droppings. You don't have to give perpetual ownership of your mind-palace to a pile of optioned-out tech bros in sleeveless Patagonia vests while you are endlessly subjected to amateur AI Rorschach tests every time you search for "pierogis near me."'

#google #Kagi #enshittification #ValueForMoney #search #ArtificialIntelligence #ArsTechnica @kagihq

Artist's depiction of the article author heaving a large multicolored "G" into the fires of Mount Doom
Ars Technica · Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for KagiBy Lee Hutchinson
Flipboard Tech Desk

Yesterday, Jim Acosta, formerly the CNN White House correspondent, "interviewed" Joaquin Oliver, one of 17 people murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Or, to be more accurate, he asked questions of an AI avatar of Oliver, with the permission of the late teenager's family, and then streamed it on Substack and YouTube. For her The Present Age newsletter, @parkermolloy.com breaks down the myriad problems with the "interview." "This wasn't journalism," she writes. "Whether it was his intention or not, this was Jim Acosta turning a murdered child into content."

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The Present Age · Oh No, What is Jim Acosta Doing?By Parker Molloy
#Technology#AI#ArtificialIntelligence
IT News

Amazon will offer OpenAI’s open-weight models, sidestepping Microsoft via Apache 2.0 license - Image via Amazon

OpenAI released its first open-weight AI models in more than ... - geekwire.com/2025/amazon-will- #artificialgeneralintelligence #openaimicrosoftpartnership #artificialintelligence #open-weightmodels #apache2.0license #openaiamazondeal #techpartnerships #amazonsagemaker #cloudcomputing

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