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mat honan ☀️ retweeted
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mat honan ☀️ retweeted
Once again. The idea that AI is only improving rapidly in verifiable domains like math is looking suspect.
Exclusive: Another prestigious award has gone to a writer who seems to have used AI as the crisis of trust in the literary world intensifies, @vauhinivara reports: theatlantic.com/books/2026/1…
I’ve met the guy and gotta say @sundarpichai doesn’t really give off “is a monster” vibes…
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they're frustrated that they have a lot of money but struggle to get a table at the restaurants popular among the tech/finance set in sf/ny. it's why their ideas always focus on problems that patrons supposedly have with reservations, rather than problems restaurants have
What’s with these guys and restaurant reservations? What’s this market, $30M a year? Why is every AI sales pitch now obsessed with restaurant reservations? how many people are struggling with this problem on a weekly basis? A few thousand at most? Enough with the reservations!
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1/ We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting [email protected] that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: motherjones.com/media/2026/0…
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I approached one of these towers to photograph it for a story on border surveillance and its impact on local communities. It swiveled and looked at me and another reporter as we approached it. CBP denied my FOIA for the footage.
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The US has spent billions on surveillance towers, but hundreds of people have died near them. Here’s how to strengthen federal oversight. trib.al/1QJRnP5
Unless the answer to this is an unambiguous yes (and oh boy, it is not that) I do not understand why you would send this email
We also partnered with @TimesofSanDiego part of the nonprofit @ASUNEWSWELL team.
Read @LillPerlmutter's devastating report on Graciela Gómez Hernández, who died along the border within view of a General Dynamics surveillance tower
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CBP has never formally examined whether its towers should have caught these deaths. We also have a policy story addressing this.
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You can read about our methodology here:
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Through interviews with more than 45 people, including former White House advisors, Border Patrol agents, medical examiners & humanitarian volunteers, the story shows that the technology both fails to detect people and agents fail to respond and looks at the reasons why for both
*Our topographical analysis found that some have sight of as little as 10% of their advertised surveillance area *It's not just a legacy tech issue: We found more than 110 people have died within range of modern autonomous towers from Anduril
Among our findings: *More than 1,050 people died within range of border surveillance towers between 2015 and early 2026 - that's nearly one out of every four deaths we analyzed. *We found deaths within the advertised range of nearly two-thirds of all the towers we analyzed.
We cross-referenced nearly 4,000 locations where human remains were found with data on almost 600 towers, and combined that with a new topographical analysis of towers range. We used this to build a first-of-its-kind map of deaths near the towers.
Our reporters @odonnell_jm & @eileenguo spent the past 15 months investigating deaths along the virtual wall of the southern border. Their investigation reveals that a humanitarian crisis at the border has unfolded in view of the government’s own cameras
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