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October 13, 2024, 2:00 AM
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF team says the plugin was taken away “without consent”  —  The dispute between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and hosting provider WP Engine continues …
Mathew Ingram / The Torment Nexus:
Matt Mullenweg's feud with WP Engine not only presents a significant conflict of interest but has also dragged the WordPress community into a legal mess  —  Hi everyone!  Mathew Ingram here.  This is The Torment Nexus (you can find out more about me and this newsletter — and why I chose to call it that — in my inaugural post.)
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Threads users criticize Meta after the company posted AI-generated images of the Aurora Borealis on its Threads account  —  Meta has a suggestion for folks like me who forgot to go outside and look at the Northern Lights on Thursday night: just use AI to fake it!
Dario Amodei:
An essay on what a “powerful AI” may look like and how it could positively transform the world in biology, neuroscience, economic development, work, and more  —  How AI Could Transform the World for the Better  —  I think and talk a lot about the risks of powerful AI.
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of, and interview with, Meta's Yann LeCun, who says today's AI models aren't intelligent and warnings about AI's existential peril are “complete B.S.”  —  Yann LeCun, an NYU professor and senior researcher at Meta Platforms, says warnings about the technology's existential peril are ‘complete B.S.’
More: TechCrunch, AIM, and Cafe Hayek
Threads: @yannlecun.  Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social.  LinkedIn: Rahul Chadha and Hilal Lashuel.  Forums: r/singularity
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple adds an option in iOS 18.1 to let users set a “Primary” email address in Settings, letting users change the email associated with their Apple Account  —  In iOS 18.1, there is a new option to set a “Primary” email address in the Settings app, which means it is easier to change …
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and Helene revealed not just a misinformation crisis in the US but a cultural assault on reality itself  —  The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality.
Samanth Subramanian / Bloomberg:
A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting  —  Big-money data deals and advanced statistical models are helping to predict match outcomes and keep people betting.
John Pavlus / Quanta Magazine:
Q&A with physicist Lenka Zdeborová on how the physics of phase transitions in matter can help model the behavior of algorithms, understanding LLMs, and more  —  Quanta spoke with Zdeborová about the similarities between water and algorithms, using physics …
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:
Sources: Chinese social e-commerce app Xiaohongshu had $200M in net profit on $1B+ revenue in Q1 2024, up from $40M in net profit on ~$600M revenue in Q1 2023  —  Shanghai-based start-up has been a rare success story in a sector hit by bankruptcies and falling valuations

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Gene Weingarten / The Gene Pool:
An H1B visa filing list indicates Will Lewis' base salary as WaPo CEO was $3M per year in 2025, or enough to pay ~27 of the 300+ reporters who were laid off

Alyssa Ray / The Wrap:
A CBS News producer quits, saying stories may now be evaluated “on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations”, causing self-censorship

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
In a call, Tim Davie says the BBC plans to cut ~10% of its costs in the next three years, leading to job and programming cuts; 2025's operating costs hit £2B+

More News

Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI:
Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching
Timothy B Lee / Understanding AI:
An interview with Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov on Tesla fans' claims that Waymo's software relies on hand-coded rules, can't handle freeway driving, and more
Rozanna Latiff / Reuters:
TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees globally, including less than 500 in Malaysia, as it shifts focus towards a greater use of AI in content moderation

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft plans to test the ability to stream games that users own but aren't in the Xbox Game Pass library, starting with Xbox Insiders in November
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Adam Mosseri attributes Instagram and Threads' moderation issues, causing users to lose access to their accounts, to human moderator “mistakes”, not AI systems
New York Times:
A look at Elon Musk's unparalleled involvement in the US election; sources: Trump's campaign contacted X to stop the circulation of the hacked JD Vance dossier
Business Insider:
Analysts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, citing a lack of rideshare partnerships and Musk's history of missing FSD targets; TSLA drops 8.8%
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