Happy anniversary!

The Era of AI FOMO Is Upon Us Did you say you haven’t spun up a team of agents to handle your life admin?

On the productivity promises of AI agents by @shona.bsky.social : Technology "hasn’t demonstrably freed us up for higher, nobler pursuits. We don’t create more art because life is easier. Decades after the arrival of email, we just send and receive more of it".

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The Era of AI FOMO Is Upon Us Did you say you haven’t spun up a team of agents to handle your life admin?

With smart thoughts from people including @emollick.bsky.social, who notes that integrating AI feels unnerving partly because it seems exponential and unknowable. Apple knows all the capabilities of an iPhone. Can OpenAI say the same of ChatGPT? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In the end, software engineers have raised the best questions about whether AI agents really free your time for higher-order creative tasks. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is one of the core thoughts in the essay - to what extent do you want to make your life machine-readable, so AI can organise it for you?

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I don’t often (ever!) write personal essays, so writing this for Bloomberg was nerve-wracking but it’s one of our most read this weekend.

I wrote about the anxious FOMO of everyone using AI agents to code little projects or do their admin.

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Man, LinkedIn bros are going to be unbearable

I did not use AI to write the essay, for better or worse.

I am feeling a degree of mild anxiety as my first personal essay I have ever really written is going live on Bloomberg tomorrow about AI and productivitymaxxing. Looking forward to/hating the idea of sharing when it's live.

Great scoop! 😱

I am just going to point out that Palantir hired the grandson of fascist Oswald Mosley, who is now going about trying to hire British 18 year olds to “defend“ Western values.

Underrated aspect of parenting: your singing voice improves so much! Easy to hit those stronger notes in Fleetwood Mac’s Sara after singing 5 Little Ducks 12 times in a row.

Claude AI Maker Anthropic Said to Weigh IPO as Soon as October Anthropic PBC is considering going public as soon as in October, according to people familiar with the matter, as the artificial intelligence company races with rival OpenAI Inc. to hold an initial public offering.

Anthropic is considering going public as soon as in October, sources say, as the AI company races with rival OpenAI to hold an IPO

an opportunity for public service presents itself

The Audible series is excellent. V much enjoying Hugh Laurie as Dumbledore

what barthes originally meant by “death of the author” does not and cannot control how we interpret the phrase today

42-Year-Old Woman Refers To Herself As ‘Preggerz’

42-Year-Old Woman Refers To Herself As ‘Preggerz’

Former Google Executive Set to Take Helm at Besieged BBC Matt Brittin, widely expected to become next director-general of the BBC, would be the first technology executive to lead the UK institution as it faces challenges to its funding model, increased comp...

My Bloomberg colleagues put together the most comprehensive profile of Matt Brittin that you'll read. Now he's official as the BBC's new director-general, read it here - gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Patient hugged armed man to prevent bomb attack at Leeds hospital Nathan Newby, who used kindness to persuade the

Sometimes the world can feel quite bleak and then you read something like this.

Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire owner of OnlyFans, has died of cancer aged 43.

The Ukrainian-born entrepreneur turned the platform into a cultural phenomenon that reshaped the porn industry. Full story: bloom.bg/4bsWcCy

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Leonid Radvinsky, Who Changed Porn With OnlyFans, Is Dead at 43 Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire owner of adult content platform OnlyFans, has died of cancer, the London-based company confirmed on Monday. He was 43.

Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire behind OnlyFans, is dead at 43, reports @oliviasolon.bsky.social

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My alabaster milk child Teuton keeps asking for ranch dressing at the caviar factory, it is most epic. The fishmongers despise him.

Thanks, I hate it.

Arizona Charges Kalshi With Operating Illegal Gambling Business Arizona said it filed criminal charges against Kalshi for operating an illegal gambling business in the state.

Arizona said it filed criminal charges against Kalshi for operating an illegal gambling business in the state — and escalates the legal battles between Kalshi and several states that have accused the prediction market exchange of circumventing state gambling laws.
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Newly unearthed Nigel Farage videos reveal support for rioter, neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans Exclusive: Analysis of more than 4,000 of Reform UK leader’s paid-for Cameo videos also shows they contain misogynistic remarks and antisemitic conspiracies

exclusive: Nigel Farage has recorded Cameo videos in which he endorsed a neo-Nazi event, repeated extremist slogans and supported a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot.

w/ @michaelgoodier.bsky.social

weird that the Stone of Madness wound up being PayPal

London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨

London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

Teens allege Musk’s Grok chatbot made sexual images of them as minors Three teenaged plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed Monday accuse xAI of distribution, possession and production with intent to distribute child pornography.

NEW: Three teens allege xAI and Grok were used to generate nude underage images. Photos from homecoming, yearbook, beach outings were turned into CSAM and distributed on Discord and Telegram + some were bartered for other child abuse imagery, a lawsuit alleges. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Also: Stop trying to make anyone care about incels.

Who at Netflix thought it was a good idea to commission an incel doc 10-15 years after the discourse?