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With a nice shrinkwrapped plastic box and everything. It's a good thing he didn't stop at opening just the package.

Maybe there’s two mistakes here: 1: the user made the chat public and 2: Maybe Anthropic didn’t have their robots.txt file set correctly?

Basically yes to #2, which was a big mistake on Anthropic's part, but #1 is still unclear about how Google could have ended up there. Putting the chats on a Google-indexed page would make the most sense (and mostly absolve Google from responsibility), but who would be doing that and where?

Tinfoil hat: I wonder if Google was crawling through emails and also made a mistake of their own.

Friend is leaning hard into "all press is good press" and it shows. I've heard an interview with at least one tech reviewer who tried this thing out and, unsurprisingly, it was absolute garbage.

I've never heard of this used anywhere else, but take that with a grain of salt

I'm not always proud of Americans, but there clearly are still some heroes out there. Like the king of all Florida men:

One man in Florida sits in a lawn chair holding up a piece of cardboard on a pole to block the camera’s view.

Better title: "make sure you're on the official website when you're trying to download software, even if you've used it before".

The list includes widely used tools like PowerToys, CrystalDiskMark, EasyBCD, Lively Wallpaper, and Wintoys, all cloned onto lookalike domains that in most cases rank above the real project pages on Google.

Off the top of my head, I wouldn't know the right domain to download CrystalDiskMark or EasyBCD, for example. It doesn't sound like these clones are perfect replicas, but a convincingly close enough domain name with the same page contents might fool a ton of people

That's a load-bearing "plus" there.

These accusations are extremely uncharitable. Trump's dismantling of clean energy is an entirely different topic, and Grist has published multiple articles on it.

But even ignoring all that, the article literally addresses this:

The national increase in power sector emissions represents the reversal of a longstanding trend. Before the AI boom, U.S. power consumption had been flat for decades . Utilities, grid operators, and energy planners had assumed that pattern would continue, and many planned to retire their older and dirtier coal plants with the expectation that natural gas and renewables could replace them. Instead, electricity demand is rising much faster than anticipated. Data centers could make up more than 10 percent of U.S. electricity usage by 2030, and they operate around the clock, including when wind and solar farm output is low .

It looks like the open source project is dead and Google has transferred only some of the researchers to a for-profit pharmaceutical-to-be company.

This company appears to have gotten $600 million thanks to Jared Kushner's brother back in 2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphic_Labs

You can choose not to participate in this platform, or in these topics. You can even use a client to ignore them entirely.

Still could have skipped the broken glass and fire. Now they just have 8 guys who feel more bulletproof than they really are.

(Not that I'm complaining...)

The artist behind the images, Jonny Sheridan, described them as exploring the "perils of AI". "Concerns about AI alignment with human values, the impact on employment and fears about the end of humanity are addressed."

"My AI-generated graphics have people asking a lot of questions already answered by my AI-generated graphics." (They really aren't.)

Interesting to note that the AI graphics supposedly about misogyny were generated by a very defensive man, and the first critic in the article - who gets her face posted alongside it -is a woman. Very strange.

The Linux Foundation isn't Linux per se, but it funds a lot of the development. And they are funded the most by Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle. And the best known Linux Foundation funded developer, Linus Torvalds, is an AI pusher himself now.

So that might be why they signed on.