My main newsletter, Complex Machinery, includes a section called "In Other News..." It's where I list one-liners about interesting articles that didn't fit into any segments.

You can think of this as a weekly version of In Other News. It's still a curated list, but it has a wider remit than Complex Machinery's "risk, AI, and related topics."

Above the fold

1. The Hard Fork podcast interviewed the CEO of Roblox about the platform's child safety matters and its new AI-driven age detection tools. (New York Times)
2. Bloomberg ran a four-part series on the way retirement funds – which are meant to be stable, unexciting affairs – are increasingly deployed under riskier circumstances. Retirees sometimes lose out when they need the money most. Here are direct links to part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4. (Bloomberg)
3. Testing a cruise ship is like testing software. But different. But then again, very similar. (WSJ)
4. Denmark has shifted so far into digital communication that its postal service PostNord will soon stop delivering letters. (Les Echos 🇫🇷, PostNord)
5. "Downtown" Josh Brown offers a cure for FOMO. He's talking about investor FOMO but this equally applies to what I call Corporate FOMO™. (Josh Brown)
6. An editor received a submission that was good. A little too good. So they did some digging. Their investigation hints at a scammer using genAI. (The Local)

The rest of the best

• AI companies are in a position to use your chatbot conversations to their advantage. And, in doing so, perhaps to your disadvantage. (The Register)
• People ask ChatGPT about health matters. A doctor rated its answers. (Washington Post)
• How AI may influence, or outright change, warfare. (MIT Technology Review)
• Twitter (no, I will not call it "X") raised eyebrows when it started showing where certain accounts were based. It raised even more when it was determined that a number of those locations were reported in error. (Le Monde 🇫🇷 , The Atlantic)
• Meta gets in trouble again. This time because it allegedly knew that its platforms were causing problems and it forged ahead anyway. (Der Spiegel 🇩🇪 , Politico)
• Not to be outdone, OpenAI has taken heat for its chatbot safety issues, too. (New York Times)
• A whistleblower reports that a robotics manufacturer has "no formal safety procedures" and has experienced near-miss incidents. (Gizmodo)
• When major tech firms make money off of end-users' fraud. (Financial Times)
• The tricky, slippery matter of bank oversight. (Financial Times)
• If you've never tried to make sense of LinkedIn's curated (so-called "algorithmic") feeds, good on you. Researchers claim that one way for the system to promote your posts is to take the persona of a man with strong bro vibes. (The Guardian)
• Even investors are getting tired of genAI companies' hazy, distant promises. (WSJ)
• A Waymo self-driving taxi hit a beloved neighborhood cat in San Francisco. (New York Times)
• GenAI chatbots have been dishing out financial advice. Incorrect advice, at that. (The Guardian)
• The recent Cloudflare outage started with an automatically-generated config file. I'm … surprisingly not surprised? (The Guardian)
• There's been another rather damning study about companies' ROI on AI. (Gizmodo)

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