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. The iconic Glengarry Glen Ross "coffee is for closers" wasn't in the original play. Here's how it came about in the movie version. (Vanity Fair)
2. One of Belgium's top cops switched sides, using criminal connections to play a role in the drug trade. (The Atavist Magazine)
3. Content creators game the system with teaser videos that drag on. One man fights back by sharing spoilers. (New York Times)
4. A delivery robot was involved in a traffic incident in Tallinn, Estonia. (ERR)
5. The Bank of England reports minimal gains from genAI adoption. (The Register)
6. Hong Kong will soon have AI-driven facial recognition cameras active on its subway system. (South China Morning Post)
7. By automating its systems, one company in Bangalore broadened the gender diversity of its talent pool. (Bloomberg)
8. Investment advisors BG Wealth Sharing promised outsized, AI-driven performance at near-zero risk. It has since been accused of fraud, and its chief executive may not even exist. (Les Echos 🇫🇷, Barron's – republished at MSN)
9. It started as a few one-offs created by a single person. It eventually grew into an AI-driven business that cranked out more than 10,000 fake IDs. The rise and fall of OnlyFake. (404 Media)

Special section: recent highlights from The Guardian

• "AI clog" is the new term for flooding departments with machine-generated complaints and legal filings. (The Guardian)
• A semi-retired university prof is staging a solo protest against delivery robots. (The Guardian)
• OpenAI tries to rebrand datacenters as "compute campuses." Because I'm sure the name was the only problem. (The Guardian)
• The man who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters speaks about his background and that day's events. (The Guardian)
• Hollywood's interest in genAI threatens one key role in filmmaking: creating storyboards. (The Guardian)

The rest of the best

• Last week, right after the US midterm elections, genAI-related stocks experienced a real shake-up. (FT)
• After hitting connected refrigerator units in French grocery stores, attackers go after the country's blood banks... (CNBC, Reuters)
• … as well as refrigeration units in other countries. (Le Monde 🇫🇷)
• For all the anger and protests over datacenters, one town has decided in favor of the massive structures. (Washington Post)
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently made some unpopular comments about people having RAM in their home computers. In response, a developer built a tool to tell Altman how much memory is free on their computer. (Gizmodo)
• A Kalshi end-user is suing the prediction markets company to make good on his losses. (Ars Technica)
• Remember Buzzfeed? Their whole "pivot to AI" move? That didn't turn out so well. (Futurism)

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