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 list as a version of In Other News, but with a wider remit than Complex Machinery's "risk, AI, and related topics."

Above the fold

1. Bloomberg is running a series on the economic impact, and also business opportunity, of the climate crisis. Here's part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4. (Bloomberg)
2. A painful example of the knock-on effects of bad data: incorrect, outdated provider lists lead patients to delay treatment and sometimes shell out for pricier private care. (ProPublica)
3. On the surface this article is about the Amazon-style "warehouse model" applied to food. There are also notes about automation, genAI, trying to outsource work, and what it means to actually run a restaurant. (Bloomberg)
4. Tim O’Reilly's take on where the AI-driven economy could and should go. (O'Reilly Radar)
5. Trading and entertainment have become one: the casinos we carry in our pockets. (Dopamine Markets)
6. And then we have entertainment about trading: a chat with the creators of HBO's "Industry." (The New Yorker)
7. A group of people who claim to work at big AI firms are building tools to poison AI data collection. (The Register)

The rest of the best

• As an attorney, have you ever thought about submitting official court docs that were generated by an LLM? Think again. (NYCourts.gov)
• Life as a war photographer – an interview with Lynsey Addario. (Bloomberg)
• Remember last week, when the Grok AI bot landed in a bunch of hot water for generating highly inappropriate sexualized content? The parent company isn't handling it well … (BBC)
• … and governments are starting to take action. (Bloomberg, NBC News, NPR, BBC)
• Google 's genAI summaries may provide incorrect health information. (The Guardian)
• For some, a hotel room is a place to stay. Others see it as inspiration for home decor. And hotels are certainly helping them along. (WSJ)
• Not sure whether that will work for hotels on the moon, though. (Ars Technica)
• Since genAI chatbots tend to agree with whatever the end-user says, they're terrible tools for fact-finding. That can lead to wider social problems as people get a reinforced take on their existing world-view. (Le Monde 🇫🇷)
• OpenAI aims to settle lawsuits over suicides … (Washington Post)
• … right in time to launch ChatGPT Health ... (Der Spiegel 🇩🇪, The Verge)
• … and someone wrote a book on AI-based mental health help. (MIT Technology review)
• This year's CES was all about humanoid robots. (Les Echos 🇫🇷)
• Want an AI bot to help you through a tough video game? Sony's got you covered. (EuroGamer)
• Maybe, put down the podcasts and enjoy some silence? Your brain might like it. (Vox)
• An expired cert took some Logictech computer mice offline. For Macs, at least. (PCMag)

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