Grok schlock panned by fed flock
There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk’s “truth-seeking” AI chatbot Grok: It’s not very good, and not many people are using it. That’s the takeaway of a…
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The Stepback
…Tina Nguyen Apr 19 The AI code wars are heating up OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are eating the software world alive. David Pierce Apr 12 Grammarly’s sloppelganger saga AI-generated ‘Expert…
Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’
…For more on AI mischief, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Hacking the first generation of…
Musk v. Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people
…Testimony and evidence showed its founding team fretting about who would control artificial general intelligence (AGI), a buzzword for AI that broadly equals or surpasses human knowledge and ability. They deeply feared…
Inside Microsoft’s wave of executive departures
…its new code now AI-generated and approved by engineers. I’m also expecting to see more GitHub changes as part of Microsoft’s continued AI push. Liuson was also responsible for…
Uber employees have a Dara AI
…the bottom up,” I’d want to push a company to do that. Customer service is another example where we’ve got agents who generally follow policies. There’s a policy, if…
Anthropic and OpenAI take their beef to the midterm elections
…Over time, LTF came to be viewed as a vehicle not for the general AI industry, but for OpenAI specifically. (Several of LTF’s backers are investors in the frontier AI company…
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
Microsoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use Anthropic’s AI coding tool daily. It was part of an effort to…
The military embraced AI long before Claude
…Even at the NGA [National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency], they are producing intelligence reports that no human eyes or hands have touched that are entirely AI generated. So there’s been this huge…
Smart Home Reviews
…we cooked, we chatted, and it kinda lied to me My first impressions after one day with Amazon’s smarter, more conversational, generative AI-powered assistant. Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Jul 12, 2025…