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. With so much of our banking infrastructure driven by technology, it can be hard to imagine trustworthy, off-the-grid financial networks. But they exist. All around the world. And their primary use is not illicit activity. (Aeon)
2. People of Russia find loopholes while the government blocks off portions of the internet. (New York Times)
3. Corporate credit has been a mainstay in the news. This FT longread is the ultimate explainer on the topic. (FT)
4. One interesting side-effect of the Iran conflict: it highlights the split between genAI hardware-bound companies and their software-bound siblings. (Bloomberg)
5. Many genAI benchmarks do not reflect models' real-world uses. That needs to change. (MIT Technology Review)
6. A report of genAI's impact on jobs may have relied on models' potential, not current, capabilities. (Ars Technica)
7. Waymo autonomous taxis keep forgetting to stop for school buses. (Wired)

The rest of the best

• It's not your imagination: genAI chatbots are ignoring your instructions. (The Guardian)
• In Texas, datacenter construction becomes an unexpected bipartisan issue. (Politico)
• A look inside the MI5 unit that tries to stop young terrorists. (FT)
• OpenAI has closed the doors on Sora, its video generator. (The Verge, WSJ)
• Cybersecurity remains a tough issue for small businesses. (Les Echos 🇫🇷)
• Oracle joins the list of companies cutting employee headcount as they ramp up on genAI. (CNBC, WSJ)
• Are Meta and YouTube products addictive? According to at least one ruling, yes. (New York Times)
• The EU wants to stop revenge porn and similar uses of deepfakes. (Die Zeit 🇩🇪)
• Dating site OkCupid sent users' selfies to a company that builds facial recognition systems. (Ars Technica)
• Linux company Red Hat wants to go all-in on genAI. (The Register)

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