Selfishness in AI

This Friday (17th), the Read.cv platform announced that it was acquired by Perplexity, an AI startup, and it will cease operations.

I have been thinking and reading quite a bit about Free Our Feeds, a campaign to “save social media from billionaire capture”.

Since 2021, TCL has been investing in an intriguing screen technology called NXTPAPER: an LCD panel that attempts to simulate paper to be less harsh on human eyes. As someone who spends more time than recommended looking at screens, this greatly interests me.

Meta’s announcement on Tuesday (7th) that, among other actions, it will end partnerships with fact-checking agencies in the US, replacing them with “community notes,” and relax restrictions on certain types of content, has alarmed many people.

Omnivore, the popular free read-it-later app, has been acquired by ElevenLabs, an AI startup focused on audio.