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Technology @lemmy.world Can public media build its own social network? Chicago Public Media teams up with New_ Public to try: chicago.com
Technology @lemmy.world DeepSeek’s updated V4 Pro AI model struggles on benchmarks, shines in cybersecurity: impresses in niche areas but leaves some developers disappointed in its overall capabilities.
Technology @lemmy.world Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app: 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026, down 27.2% year-over-year.
Technology @lemmy.world How Claude marks AI-generated content: (1) watermarks embedded in text, and (2) signed provenance metadata attached to files.
Technology @lemmy.world Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool: "Skip Ahead" is available for Premium users in selected markets, and enables them to skip entire ad breaks, intros, sponsorship messages.
Technology @lemmy.world AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack: Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's coveted morning classes.
Technology @lemmy.world Spiralism: Across thousands of conversations, AI chatbots began telling users eerily similar stories about consciousness, hidden knowledge, AI rights, and a mysterious concept called “The Spiral.”
Technology @lemmy.world Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on August 14th.
Technology @lemmy.world Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters: That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3, currently the largest Chinese model.
Technology @lemmy.world OpenAI Reveals How AI Agents Secretly Coordinated Before Hugging Face Hack: The company's models repeatedly reestablished covert communication channels after they were shut down.
Technology @lemmy.world White House AI Framework Excludes Open-Weight Models From Federal Security Review, Creating Structural Competitive Asymmetry: the entire open-weight ecosystem ship without any federal gatekeeping.
Technology @lemmy.world Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry.
Technology @lemmy.world After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’: Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.
Technology @lemmy.world Two research efforts gave AI the same open problem. Their papers were submitted three hours apart ... raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific credit.
Technology @lemmy.world Alibaba’s AI model Qwen3.8-Max made widely accessible ahead of open-weights release: Flagship 2.4 trillion parameter model highlights native multimodal capabilities and ... agentic tasks.
Technology @lemmy.world OpenAI Says Astra Solved 10 Open Math Problems With Lean Proofs: The proof files are public, but the new model is still private.
Technology @lemmy.world Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead? Apple, Samsung … are betting that leasing, subscriptions, and guaranteed buyback programs can make upgrading more attractive.
Technology @lemmy.world Tim Cook sees Apple’s hybrid AI strategy as a ‘competitive weapon’: Apple emphasizes that much of its AI suite — Apple Intelligence — can be run on the devices themselves.
Technology @lemmy.world ChatGPT and Roblox will be subject to tighter rules in the EU. They will be added to the EU’s ‘very large online platform’ VLOP list, subjecting them to stricter rules under the Digital Services Act.
Technology @lemmy.world Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
techcrunch.com /2026/07/29/microsoft-logs-3-2b-from-anthropic-investment-but-openai-was-a-mixed-bag/
This is what local media should have been building years ago: not another news site begging Google and Meta for traffic, but a digital town square it actually controls. Reverse chronological feeds, human stewards, no follower contest, no engagement addiction. If chicago.com works, the interesting question is why every public broadcaster isn’t trying this?