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. Per one judge, Meta's apps are designed to "hook, hold, harvest and hide." (The Guardian)
2. The sale of Spirit Airlines data doesn't include personal info. Not unless you count "employee data" as personal info. (Just for the record, I do consider that to be personal info.) (Ars Technica)
3. What you see on social media platforms may be driven by eager fans, not just The Algorithm™. (FT)
4. Some say that genAI hasn't so much gone off the rails, but that it's charging along the rails precisely as expected. (FT)
5. ChatGPT will soon extend its in-chat ads to various EU countries, including France and Germany. (Der Spiegel 🇩🇪 , Les Echos 🇫🇷)
6. I've noted elsewhere that, should the genAI wave experience a sharp correction, the effects could ripple out to other sectors. Even the European Central Bank agrees with that take. (ECB)

The rest of the best

Datacenters

• Politicians are finally starting to see that datacenters have become a hot-button political issue. (Axios)
• It's gotten so bad that even the governor of Texas is doing an about-face on his datacenter views. (Futurism)
• The Cherokee Nation says no to datacenters on their land. (Gizmodo)
• How some workers feel about training their AI replacements. (Le Monde 🇫🇷)
• Loudoun County, in Virginia, has derived a lot of benefit from hosting datacenters. Some residents are having second thoughts. (New York Times)

… and everything else

• When your doctor's AI receptionist-bot can't understand your accent, what do you do? At least in one part of Britain, you just skip going to the doctor. (The Guardian)
• LinkedIn gave end-users a button to report AI slop. They've put it to good use. (The Register)
• Major AI providers are digitally watermarking generated content to comply with EU laws. Microsoft took it to the next level by embedding an identifier that might link an image to the person who created it. (The Register)
• Remember Situational Awareness, that AI-themed hedge fund that experienced a meltdown a few weeks back? The SEC wants to have a chat with them. (TechCrunch)

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