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The data suggests, perhaps unsurprisingly<\/a>, that a huge portion of longform posts on LinkedIn and X\u2019s new article format are fully AI-generated or AI-assisted (meaning drafted, edited, or rewritten by AI with some human elements). Forty percent of longform LinkedIn posts analyzed in the data were fully AI-written; a quarter of X articles were fully AI written, but another 23 percent of X articles were AI-assisted, the company said. It intuitively makes sense that longer form content is more likely to be AI-generated, because people usually won\u2019t bother to AI-generate a few word response or a pithy comment on a quote tweet, for example. AI is also famously verbose<\/a>, meaning AI-generated content is more likely to show up in longer posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That moment, insignificant, was close to thirty years ago, and yet it\u2019s one that I find myself thinking about often, muttering, \u201cAaah, the machinations<\/a> of life\u201d whenever I\u2019m logistically challenged, or in an equally absurd situation of my own making. Such as two weeks ago, when I was half-way through my daily walk, carrying a backpack stuffed with books in extreme heat, to \u201ctrain my body\u201d and invest it with a sense of heroism, and I became the target for a cloud of deer-flies, so thick, so persistent to use my blood as an incubator, that I had to start running, swatting wildly at my head with my big floppy hat, hitting myself so firmly that I set my ears ringing until the next day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe future I want,\u201d Guo told me, \u201cis not a single company with an all-powerful model that consumes society faster than we know what to do with.\u201d It is a feeling increasingly shared. The labs raised the price of tokens this year, in some cases a hundredfold, and their customers have begun to revolt<\/a>. They do not want to build on another company\u2019s model\u2014paying it, feeding it their data, training it, in effect, to one day build the thing they have built. Alex Karp, the chief executive of Palantir, went on CNBC and described his enterprise clients as livid. \u201cThe jig is up,\u201d he said. A founder in Guo\u2019s own portfolio put it more plainly. He didn\u2019t want to spend his life drinking Anthropic and OpenAI\u2019s water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicaragua’s leftist president, Daniel Ortega, announced plans to officially abolish<\/a> elections rather than bother to hold another sham poll – like the one he oversaw in 2021 – when elections are due next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026One engineer told me that the whole situation<\/a> feels like the movie, The Hunger Games, when tributes are randomly selected and then removed from their environment, to something completely different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trial lawyers earn a huge amount litigating<\/a> ordinary auto accidents: annual US auto insurance payouts (liability + PIP\/MedPay) are on the order of $180\u2013220bn and trial lawyers are very eager to retain the right to sue car manufacturers for product liability. In my view, product liability isn\u2019t useful as a safety device in this field. Instead, the solution is simple. Every car should be required to be insured, regardless of driver. Indeed, Waymo vehicles are already insured at $5m liability coverage per vehicle, far higher levels than most human drivers are covered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insiders expect a new electric Q2 crossover in 2026 and the following year an all-electric A3 replacement (to be badged<\/a> A2, under Audi’s new naming convention, where odd numbers have engines and evens are all electric).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One payment particularly caught my attention. Hong\u2019s campaign paid Milwaukee creative agency Unfinished Legacy $38,000 during the first half of 2026<\/a> for media consulting. Unlike traditional political consulting firms, Unfinished Legacy<\/a> built its reputation through branding, photography, creative direction and visual storytelling. Campaign finance reports don\u2019t reveal exactly what work was produced. Perhaps it is just really stylized campaign swag. But this expenditure fits the vibe she\u2019s building. The reports do reveal that Hong\u2019s campaign devoted significant resources to creative branding<\/a> alongside organizing infrastructure. That combination is notable. Build the technology. Build the brand. Connect every interaction. Repeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo the laptop, Watson!\u201d Turns out that the first budget in 2018 that Mayor Carter inherited from Mayor Coleman was $577 million. So, in 10 years St. Paul\u2019s budget will have almost doubled<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ford’s European strategy<\/a>? Team up. First Volkswagen. Now Geely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want less<\/a> opportunity? Vote Democrat in November. It\u2019s that simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tucked inside her ten separate whistleblower complaints, MPR<\/em> notes, is the allegation that the team working on MAYA knew the tool had an error rate<\/a> as high as 67 percent. Eto alleges that instead of flagging that horrifying number, MAYA staffers tried to hide it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plain and aggregated search results such as URLs, snippets, and factual index data, are publicly accessible facts and are not \u201cworks protected under the Copyright Act<\/a>.\u201d The judge dismissed these claims without leave to amend, ruling that Google cannot use copyright law to block scraping of uncopyrighted search result data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By now, we were deep in another plague<\/a> of modern Britain: the toxic, absorbing, quasi-judicial, witch-hunt-friendly HR procedure. Spurred on by her furious parents, Letby took out a grievance against the consultants. She won comprehensively. The consultants were found to have bullied her with their allegations and ordered to apologise. HR actions against the consultants<\/em>were due to begin on the day they took their concerns to Cheshire Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026..that public opinion does not really matter. Various speakers spoke about the importance of explaining foreign policy to Americans in order to change their views, repeating the old argument<\/a> that the primary reason U.S. foreign policy is unpopular is because the people affected by it simply don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evan Barker raised $50m for the Democrats before abandoning them in 2024. Now she\u2019s written a book damning the party that lost<\/a> middle America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Approximately 206 billion miles are driven in the world each week. This estimate comes from global calculations showing that roughly 1.3 billion vehicles log an estimated 10.7 trillion total miles<\/a> every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a gain<\/a>,\u201d said Maureen Smith, the Green Bay Packers\u2019 chief financial officer. \u201cIt is on the balance sheet \u2014 our 1\/32nd share of this investment. In addition, any gains or losses of that entity flows through our non-operating income. So that would reflect the ESPN deal and any other gains or losses that happen within that investment entity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among his most famous designs is \u201cthe petal house,\u201d which the San Francisco Chronicle\u2019s Dave Weinstein<\/a> described as follows: \u201cA petal house has a flat roof with broad overhangs that wrap around the entire house except at the corners, where the overhangs disappear,\u201d resulting in a roof shaped like a series of petals (see Brooks\u2019 famous Petal House in Napa<\/a>). The other two forms Brooks worked with were the pyramid<\/a> and the tower. In every case, Weinstein wrote in his profile on Brooks, each building was \u201can experiment\u201d \u2014 but not one without an artistic<\/a> commitment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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