Articles by pera
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Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price (yahoo.com)

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Trump signs executive order blocking states from regulating AI (theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: Any experience using LLMs to license-wash FOSS projects?

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Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest)

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AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition) (1959) [video] (youtube.com)

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The myth of reflected power (2017) (iz2uuf.net)

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The Myth of Reflected Power (iz2uuf.net)

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Wall Street Blows Past Bubble Worries to Supercharge AI Spending Frenzy (wsj.com)

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Provide global LLM disabling option in Firefox (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

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Nasdaq 100 set for worst week since April meltdown (fortune.com)

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Tech giants brace to spend billions more in CapEx as AI race heats up (msn.com)

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Why companies will just keep nudging you to try AI (washingtonpost.com)

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Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013) (endpointdev.com)

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Japanese scientists unveil a quantum battery that defies energy loss (sciencedaily.com)

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Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI (npr.org)

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Ask HN: Why there are still no signs of increase in productivity anywhere?

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'This is not a bubble': Nvidia climbs toward record (yahoo.com)

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Stanford dropout Sam Altman says he envies college kids who quit school now (businessinsider.com)

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OpenAI Sora 2 generates videos of popular copyrighted characters (theguardian.com)

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Governor, AG and Mayor Denounce Unauthorized Troop Deployment to Oregon (mailchi.mp)

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Legal experts condemn Apple bowing to White House's request to remove ICEBlock (npr.org)

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Millions could be living with hidden smell loss after COVID without knowing (sciencedaily.com)

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Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store (businessinsider.com)

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Afghan women lose their 'last hope' as Taliban shuts down internet (bbc.co.uk)

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[dupe] The Secret Service found 300 servers capable of crippling NYC's cell system (cnn.com)

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Oracle stock gains 36% to post best day since 1992, adding $244B in value (cnbc.com)

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How 'overworked, underpaid' humans train Google's AI to seem smart (theguardian.com)

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[flagged] ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that hack phones and encrypted apps (theguardian.com)

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US stocks fall as bond sell-off spills into equities (ft.com)

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Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights (nytimes.com)

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Nvidia Falls After Data Center Revenue Misses Estimate (bloomberg.com)

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Google Head Calls Trump Admin's Climate Denialism "Fantastic" (levernews.com)

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Tether hires Trump's top crypto official to help lead U.S. stablecoin expansion (fortune.com)

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Scott Bessent bets on stablecoins to bolster demand for Treasuries (ft.com)

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Powell Highlights Job Market Worries, Opening Path to Rate Cut (wsj.com)

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Why Wall Street thinks the metaverse will be worth trillions (2022) (fortune.com)

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Margin debt surges to record high (advisorperspectives.com)

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Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears (telegraph.co.uk)

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What Is a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), and Why Do Companies Form Them? (investopedia.com)

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Tech, chip stock sell-off continues as AI bubble fears mount (yahoo.com)

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Bailout Tracker (2008 financial crisis) (propublica.org)

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Technological Folie à Deux:Feedback Loops Between AI Chatbots and Mental Illness (arxiv.org)

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AI chatbots accused of encouraging teen suicide as experts sound alarm (abc.net.au)

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UK's AI ambitions clash with its climate goals (politico.eu)

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After User Backlash, OpenAI Is Bringing Back Older ChatGPT Models (cnet.com)

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says GPT-5 scares him – 'what have we done?' (tomsguide.com)

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OpenAI gets caught vibe graphing (theverge.com)

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Ask HN: Is GPT-5 the most underwhelming product release?

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Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity (404media.co)

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GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out (businessinsider.com)

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A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data (technologyreview.com)

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Lawfulness of the mass processing of publicly accessible data to train LLMs (oup.com)

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Machine Learners Should Acknowledge Legal Implications of LLMs as Personal Data (arxiv.org)

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Ask HN: Is there any LLM provider that is GDPR compliant?

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American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX Evacuated at DEN After Landing Gear Collapses (simpleflying.com)

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Home sales are down. So why are prices at an all-time high? (npr.org)

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The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis" (psychologytoday.com)

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The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble (wheresyoured.at)

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AI's energy demand ratchets up pressure on Republicans (eenews.net)

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Dietary Mycotoxins: An Overview with Emphasis on Aflatoxicosis in Humans (nih.gov)

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'I felt pure, unconditional love': the people who marry their AI chatbots (theguardian.com)

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Recovering from AI addiction (internetaddictsanonymous.org)

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The business of making the trains to Auschwitz run on time (2002) (sfgate.com)

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Girl Talk, Fair Use, and Three Hundred Twenty-Reasons for Copyright Reform (nyu.edu)

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Trump can pull the plug on the internet, and Europe can't do anything about it (politico.eu)

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Infringing AI: Liability for AI-Generated Outputs Under International Law (2024) (cambridge.org)

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Florida sheriff warns protesters ahead of rallies: 'We will kill you dead' (independent.co.uk)

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Ask HN: What Happened to the Apple Vision Pro?

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Ask HN: Do we need AGI to filter spam?

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Ask HN: Still no signs of a vibe coded startup boom, why?

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Inhibiting 15-PGDH blocks BBB deterioration and protects mice from Alzheimer's (pnas.org)

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UN warns 14,000 babies could die within 48 hours under Israel siege of Gaza (independent.co.uk)

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Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories (github.com/orgs)

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Microsoft abruptly cuts services to Chinese university, genomics firm (scmp.com)

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Minister accused of being too close to big tech after rise in meetings (theguardian.com)

159

International Workers' Day (wikipedia.org)

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The Brief Origins of May Day (iww.org)

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Online campaign urged far right to attack China's opponents in UK (theguardian.com)

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US DoL: Staff Who Speak with Journalists Face "Serious Legal Consequences" (propublica.org)

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Eric Schmidt Tells Congress That 99% of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power AI (yahoo.com)

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'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad (npr.org)

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Ask HN: Why is OpenAI pivoting to social networks?

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'This Is Not Normal': Trump's Tariffs Upend the Bond Market (nytimes.com)

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Selloff resumes on Wall Street as markets weigh tariff risks (reuters.com)

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China's J-36 Tailless Fighter Zips over Road on Landing (twz.com)

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Trump's tariffs trigger 'alarming' bond market fire sale (telegraph.co.uk)

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Meta's surprise Llama 4 drop exposes the gap between AI ambition and reality (arstechnica.com)

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Meta exec denies the company artificially boosted Llama 4's benchmark scores (techcrunch.com)

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How Victorian England Put Men on the Moon... Or Not (2022) (lithub.com)

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Magical thinking and the test of humanity: the danger of AI is in us (2023) (springer.com)

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JPMorgan analysts say recession risk increased to 60% since Trump's tariffs (businessinsider.com)

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Dow Slides Another 1k Points. Nasdaq on Pace to Enter Bear Market (barrons.com)

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Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans (techcrunch.com)

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Market-Wide Circuit Breakers FAQ [pdf] (nyse.com)

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U.S. stock futures tumble as Trump unveils higher tariffs than expected (marketwatch.com)

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Language Modeling Is Compression (2024) (deepmind.google)

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AWS S3 sync does not sync all the files (github.com/aws)

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Does CoreWeave's disappointing IPO signal an AI bubble? (qz.com)

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S&P 500, Nasdaq drop as tariffs spark recession fears (reuters.com)

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Ask HN: Are You μdose Coding?