Ari Cohn @aricohn.com

11 hours ago

I dunno, when you start blaming OpenAI because unwell people did unwell people things, filing massive lawsuits, and waging ap press campaign, this seems the entirely predictable course correction.

You wanted guardrails to ensure mentally ill people can't encounter harmful output, now you got it.

Jon Christian @jonchristian.net

14 hours ago

NEW: After numerous tragedies, OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations, escalating to human readers, and contacting law enforcement where necessary

futurism.com/openai-scann...

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

9 hours ago

"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now."

www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

The 'Mozart of Math' rarely speaks about politics. The wide-ranging cuts to science funding made him change that.

UCLA's Terence Tao called the Trump administration's actions an "existential threat" to academic research in the U.S.

Yoav Goldberg @yoavgo.bsky.social

14 hours ago

When reading AI reasoning text (aka CoT), we (humans) form a narrative about the underlying computation process, which we take as a transparent explanation of model behavior. But what if our narratives are wrong? We measure that and find it usually is.

Now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2508.16599

Humans Perceive Wrong Narratives from AI Reasoning Texts

A new generation of AI models generates step-by-step reasoning text before producing an answer. This text appears to offer a human-readable window into their computation process, and is increasingly r...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

2 days ago

Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social

2 days ago

This WaPo piece about the Airbnb/DOGE guy who is now the head of design in government ignores that: *DOGE fired the actual talented design people in government, including Social Security! *IRS had a beautifully designed tax filing system that DOGE killed *USDS already did online passport renewals

Jim Aloisi @jimaloisi.bsky.social

2 days ago

This only happens because of the leadership of Mayor Wu. There’s been no mayor in my lifetime more supportive of efforts to improve the built environment at the neighborhood scale for Boston residents than @wutrain.bsky.social

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com

3 days ago

Boston’s MBTA plans to eliminate the only section of its rail service that’s currently shared with cars, the southern section of the E Line. The agency will build a dedicated, center-running transitway on Huntington Ave that’s also usable for the buses along the route.

Boston, MBTA Plan New Center-Running Transitway On Huntington and South Huntington Avenue - Streetsblog Massachusetts

Buses would also use the proposed new Green Line E branch transitway to bypass traffic between Heath Street and Brigham Circle.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social

2 days ago

UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social

2 days ago

If they are keeping the records, they also lie:

“On Sunday, after publication of this article, a senior department official said that the agency maintained records of text messages and would continue to do so, but did not explain why the department had said otherwise in denying records requests.”

Homeland Security Tells Watchdog It Hasn’t Kept Text Message Data Since April