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  • What Happens If Trump Seizes AI Companies

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  • We saw what this looked like with Ron DeSantis in Florida. When he went to war with Disney, nothing got nationalized. It just got handed off to one of his private cronies.

  • Samsung phone division could post its first ever loss as AI drives memory costs higher

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  • I'm not worried about high storage costs because Samsungs let you add an SD card to the storage and.... Oh they removed that feature from their flagships?

  • What Happens If Trump Seizes AI Companies

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  • I was a little disappointed to see language like this on Lemmy, but I tried looking up Mythos online and literally all mainstream media talks about it this way. They've all bought into the Anthropic PR.

  • GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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  • You aren't wrong, but even if LLMs didn't exist, employers would invent a scapegoat to make the same demands of their employees.

  • The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code

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  • You propose we do what exactly with AI?

    I'm not proposing anything. That's a whole different conversation. I'm not proposing ways to fix climate change either. Doesn't mean they aren't bad.

    Corporate-backed vibecode tools want coders to cease thinking about their own code, which is different from software engineers not being able to build hardware. Apples and oranges.

  • Appearances can be something

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  • The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code

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  • Ignoring rapid deskilling being forced on us by the tech sector is naive at best. This is not like the things you tried to compare it to.

    It's about as naive as insisting man-made climate change is no big deal because climate change has always been around.

  • Does traning AI/ML-models on AI-generated content causes collapse on the quality of the output?

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  • Facedeer pretends to be above the thing he's doing because he's a pretty well-known troll who believes nothing and will say opposite statements just to promote AI...

  • GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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  • The good news is that none of the companies pushing these products have created the dependency yet, and they are running out of venture capital almost too fast to have the option.

  • What is Brave's play with Brave Origin?

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  • That makes your point clearer now, thanks for elaborating.

    The features removed in Brave Origin are its moneymakers: the VPN and AI assistants have a paid tier, the ads are obviously ads, the crypto pushes you towards their preferred tokens. Even the News portion of the app requires some data collection, which can be monetized.

    So to me, it doesn't look like any of their features are hemorrhaging money. Rather, they are making money, and Origin gives users a one-stop shop for opting out of the monetization schemes.

  • What is Brave's play with Brave Origin?

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  • We are, I'm just using Firefox as a counterexample to the idea that less features = desperation.

  • What Happens If Trump Seizes AI Companies

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  • These aren’t purely hypothetical concerns: Earlier this month, Anthropic announced it had developed a new AI model, Claude Mythos Preview.

    So they are hypothetical concerns. The Atlantic just takes Dario Amodei at his word.

    (ETA: Mythos is a joke, and an insecure one at that.)

    But why not take the opportunity to promote the chatbot CEO who is complicit with bombing Venezuelan fishermen and Iranian schoolchildren!

    Hegseth demands that Anthropic allow the Pentagon unrestricted access to Claude, reigniting the dispute first set in motion earlier this year.

    Because there is active conflict, Anthropic is more willing to engage with the government’s demands than they were previously.

    I can't wait to see what increased compliance looks like from Dario.

  • OpenAI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps | TechCrunch

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  • Is this the kind of headline that makes investors excited?

  • I Bought Friendster for $30k — Here’s What I’m Doing With It

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  • If something isn't on Android, it's because the developers made a conscious decision.

    The things you listed aren't on iOS because Apple hates you (more than Google has managed to, thus far) and doesn't want to let you have choice.

  • Does traning AI/ML-models on AI-generated content causes collapse on the quality of the output?

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  • It's really interesting reading a conversion between somebody who knows what they're talking about, providing sources, and a known troll (FaceDeer) who can only go "nuh-uh" and complain about ghosts.

  • What is Brave's play with Brave Origin?

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  • I don't see the removal of features as evidence of a failure. If anything, it's something a lot of people in the niche browser market have wanted from Firefox for a long time.

    When Mozilla adds

    • AI toolbars and
    • AI windows and
    • AI context menu options and
    • AI summaries and
    • a shopping toolbar and
    • advertisements disguised as news and
    • advertisements disguised as frequently visited sites and
    • advertisements disguised as a handy weather widget and
    • an invisible advertisement framework and
    • a Tab Notes feature that was already an extension and
    • a VPN that basically was already an extension

    I see this as desperation.

  • ChatGPT passes Japan top universities' entrance exams with highest scores

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  • Training data definitely changed in two years too. If OpenAI management knew about a prominent test that would gather good PR, they could rig the results by pushing data meant for it. And even if they didn't, these things naturally bubble into scrapee datasets on their own.

  • What is Brave's play with Brave Origin?

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  • They know if anybody is going to fork their open source code to remove the bloat, it'll be Linux users. So they remove the incentive for Linux users to bother.

    So far, they've been in the clear for years. There are several reputable Firefox forks that remove the bloat and telemetry, but zero Brave forks I know of.

  • The zero-days are numbered | The Mozilla Blog

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  • Firefox @lemmy.ml
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    Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine

  • Firefox @lemmy.world
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    Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine

  • Firefox @fedia.io
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    An example of Firefox pushing AI on users

  • Firefox @fedia.io
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    Looking at the free Firefox (Fastly) VPN

  • Technology @piefed.social
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    We're Hooked on Satellites. It Could Blow Up in Our Faces

    www.cnet.com /science/space/features/satellite-overcrowding-space-junk-low-earth-orbit-starlink/
  • Technology @piefed.social
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    OpenAI funding fears hit memory chip prices

    finance.yahoo.com /sectors/technology/articles/openai-funding-fears-hit-memory-154500748.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot

    www.engadget.com /ai/openai-drops-plans-to-release-an-adult-chatbot-113121190.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

    www.hollywoodreporter.com /business/digital/openai-shutting-down-sora-ai-video-app-1236546187/
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

    www.hollywoodreporter.com /business/digital/openai-shutting-down-sora-ai-video-app-1236546187/
  • Firefox @fedia.io
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    Firefox already had tab notes – as a third-party extension

    addons.mozilla.org /en-US/firefox/addon/websites-notes/
  • Technology @piefed.social
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    Should handymen use AI to fix your electric outlets? New Mozilla project says yes!

  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms

    techcrunch.com /2026/03/18/fbi-is-buying-location-data-to-track-us-citizens-kash-patel-wyden/
  • Firefox @lemmy.ml
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    I tried Firefox’s new AI ‘Smart Window’ in a beta build

    www.omgubuntu.co.uk /2026/03/firefox-smart-window-hands-on
  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    Beware testing Firefox "Smart Window": Mozilla sends a summary of earlier activity to 3rd parties

  • Firefox @fedia.io
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    I tried Firefox’s new AI ‘Smart Window’ in a beta build

    www.omgubuntu.co.uk /2026/03/firefox-smart-window-hands-on
  • Firefox @lemmy.world
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    I tried Firefox’s new AI ‘Smart Window’ in a beta build

    www.omgubuntu.co.uk /2026/03/firefox-smart-window-hands-on
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts

    techcrunch.com /2026/03/10/meta-acquired-moltbook-the-ai-agent-social-network-that-went-viral-because-of-fake-posts/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles

    www.404media.co /ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it

    text.npr.org /nx-s1-5717031
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

    grapheneos.social /@GrapheneOS/116160393783585567