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Grokipedia hasn’t been updated for months: is it because
I’m assuming that it isn’t “the llm bills were too high” just yet, but maybe it could be that, too.
https://futurism.com/future-society/grokipedia-broken-nobody-noticed
I think you're discounting the most likely explanation: that it discovered and communicated the purest transcendent truth and therefore there is no need for further updates.
Or maybe nobody was actually checking it for anything and the bot running it has been patiently waiting for more prompts that haven't come because nobody gave a shit.
Noted Apple blowhard John Gruber makes a mistake, is naturally a performative dick about apologizing for it
https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week
(nothing to do with AI or crypto, I just think Gruber is a dick. And the subject of the story - an app developer who apparently felt so secure in his indie rep he could do some light fraud for clicks - is a recognizable figure)
it gets better. Godier (the guy who misled Gruber) admits to using genAI to create a website that just to happened to almost exactly duplicate an existing website:
https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
no mention of the submission of an astrology app to the App store and getting rejected
My god, they're making furbys:
I'm morbidly curious about how they're going to animate a doughnut. Is it going to wobble? Quiver? Oh god people are gonna, aren't they...
Speaking a gibberish language is an application genAI is actually capable of delivering on!
jfc even my old company has full pivoted to ai - https://platform.mapquest.com/mcp
sorry guys too little too late
On Tuesday 4 August, SpaceX has to release a quarterly financial report. On the second trading day after that, SpaceX insiders are allowed to sell another tranche of shares. So get some popcorn and a cool beverage 🍿 https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/07/27/spacex-earnings-aug-4-heres-why-aug-6-important/ (please do not take investment advice from Motley Fool but they have the basic numbers)
SpaceX shares fell after SpaceX reported they had doubled their revenue but increased spending sixfold in a year. On Thursday more insiders can start to sell, which will raise the float and trigger index-fund purchases but could drive down share prices. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qvpveg20vo
sitting in a work presentation around linkedin link on agentic use levels. It's fucking dumb. Nobody reviews shit and it seems like the whole org is getting dumber.
The flag "-dangerously-skip-permissions" sounds like something that would have come out of a joke a few years ago. I wonder what the incredibly predictable consequences of encouraging everyone to do something that has "dangerous" in the goddamn name are going to be.
Gamers Nexus has announced plans to poison the LLMs scraping them, alongside updates to the megacharts on their website.
New odium symposium episode: https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/22-on-chasers-ft-165582005
We talked to trans philosophy professor amy marvin about the intersection between trans chasers and stand up comedy
In positive news, Darius has found a way to build an ethical chatbot https://tinysubversions.com/ethical-assistant/
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Are you liable when your random sentence generator does something random to someone else? Nobody knows!