Ethan B. Holland

27% of Job Listings For CFOs Now Mention AI – Slashdot https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/18/1718255/27-of-job-listings-for-cfos-now-mention-ai

“met a team that is changing the name of their AI SDR based on the ethnic background of the person that they are reaching out to. they have seen a 20%+ increase in responses from cold outbound.” / X https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1894609819535118483

Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michael Rosen and other creatives urge government | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/23/dont-gift-our-work-to-ai-billionaires-mark-haddon-michal-rosen-and-other-creatives-urge-government

Elton John calls for UK copyright rules rethink to protect creators from AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/22/elton-john-calls-for-uk-copyright-rules-rethink-to-protect-creators-from-ai

“A side effect of so much of academia leaving this site is that the interesting RCTs & other studies that used to be the center of so much of the best debate aren’t being posted, made worse by the fact you can’t post links This has had a lot of impact on the quality of discussion” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1893340789666689472

“Since it keeps coming up, we have enough evidence to say that LLMs should NOT be independently making hiring/firing recommendations on behalf of organizations. Several studies have found that they have biases in making personnel decisions that echo common human biases in hiring” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1893771984003121398

I Used ChatGPT as My CAPTCHA Solver—It Got Weird https://www.makeuseof.com/chatgpt-solve-captcha/

IEA: World faces ‘unprecedented’ spike in electricity demand • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/iea_global_electricity_demand/

“Re: “Tuning GPT4o to write bugged/flawed code makes it broadly aggressively misaligned”. I hypothesize it arranges things such that preferences are central and one thing changes everything because of RLHF and if you tune a base model you’ll find it doesn’t do that.” / X https://x.com/jd_pressman/status/1894493541591871969

“Today, we launched https://x.com/markrachapoom/status/1892677289004954045

Y Combinator on X: “https://t.co/OOskqTSIEg is transforming legal lead qualification with AI voice agents. They offer real-time lead qualification, 24/7 availability, and seamless CRM integration at a fraction of the cost. https://t.co/1Ilb7HXPVP Congrats on the launch @kumareth + @markrachapoom! https://t.co/7MWRQTQAN3” / X
https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1892674195743821994

Musicians release silent album to protest UK’s AI copyright changes | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/musicians-release-silent-album-protest-uks-ai-copyright-changes-2025-02-25/

“This is almost unbelievable, if you are looking for ABSOLUTELY uncensored response from your LLMs. I just stumbled upon Uncensored[.]ai (@uncensoreddotai) and almost can not believe their direct, unfiltered responses. A thread🧵1/n 👇 It goes where no traditional chatbots will https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1894018538073215439

“This is the most surprising (and disconcerting) LLM alignment result I’ve seen in a while. Worth a look:” / X https://x.com/sleepinyourhat/status/1894446138625052838

“Sovereign LLMs are here! – that’s the Polish Government dropping open weights directly on the Hub! 🤯 “PLLuM is a family of large language models (LLMs) specialized in Polish and other Slavic/Baltic languages – built w/ text data in Polish (around 150B tokens after cleaning and https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1894008615486308821

“We need more public organizations to become AI builders. Well done @AndrzejDuda @CYFRA_GOV_PL! https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1894087899185860769

“Is interesting that one of the most discussed topics about AI media for the last decade has been possible misuses regarding misinformation. While there are still some open challenges, it’s pretty clear that the fears have been overblown. In fact, AI generated media or any form of” / X https://x.com/c_valenzuelab/status/1894827528973348919

“people underestimate the mental cost of outsourcing code to Copilot/Cursor it’s a mortgage: quick progress now at the expense of not understanding your own codebase it may be that beyond simple line autocomplete, it’s more efficient in the long run to do everything yourself” / X https://x.com/jxmnop/status/1894830128082940182

“Grok 3’s voice mode has no censorship. It’s quite surprising. Grok Voice Chat with ChatGPT”
https://x.com/arrakis_ai/status/1892858641234993381

“”What do you think, you mechanical piece of shit?” (bis) (bis) (bis) It’s fun but @xai guys you need to work a little bit more at the “keep conversation going” prompt diversity lol” / X https://x.com/giffmana/status/1894310343658151961

“It is under-appreciated that AI is one of the most equitably available advanced techs Billions of people can access the most advanced AI frontier Reasoner models for free: o1 through Microsoft Copilot, Grok 3 (for now) & Deep Seek r1. If you haven’t used a Reasoner yet, you can.” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1892611229513843156

“One way AI might help decision-making is by presenting strong positive and negative cases for a policy (“steelmen”) so we can see both sides of an issue. For example, these are small sections of two OpenAI Deep Research reports on “the case for/against regulating AI development” https://x.com/emollick/status/1893457969947214045

“In 2023, we came up with an idea to give a small group of artists free access to our tools with no strings attached. The goal was to reward those who experimented the most and those who inspired us to continue making progress. We wanted to honor great artists. We asked a https://x.com/c_valenzuelab/status/1894382185710334146

When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds | TIME https://time.com/7259395/ai-chess-cheating-palisade-research/

“🚀 Introducing **CyberWise Bot** – your personal cybersecurity companion built with the power of **Lovable**! Get real-time advice, stay updated on the latest security trends, and navigate the digital world with ease. #CyberSecurity #AI https://x.com/itzmaherimtiyaz/status/1890793993874579909

“In general I’m highly worried about the rush that people in the large scale AI space have to claim something is OOD without looking at their training data, and the rush that others have to take these people at their word.” / X https://x.com/BlancheMinerva/status/1894756269195506050

“This twin feature in the @nytimes on the same day speaks volumes. AI isn’t killing jobs—it’s reshaping how we hustle and create. The writing’s on the wall. 🧠 https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1892946789180780858

US AI Safety Institute Could Face Big Cuts: Implications, Challenges, and Future Prospects https://www.hpbl.co.in/market/us-ai-safety-institute-could-face-big-cuts-implications-challenges-and-future-prospects/

“Question for AI policy folks: Grok 3 is the first model that passes the EU’s 10^25 FLOP limit for systemic risk, and it has few safety guardrails. Looks like it still will be released in Europe, is that because of the delay before full implementation? Or have the rules changed?” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1893408585234747444

“A surprising thing about AI is how similar all the models are in attitudes and overall “feel.” Even Grok with its lower guardrails or the Chinese models are more alike than they are different. Is it the underlying corpus of all human language? Methods? Seems important to know.” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1893788317264621642

“We’re also sharing the system card, detailing how we built deep research, assessed its capabilities and risks, and improved safety. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1894454197967528224

“Game of life – Interactive – Empty space spawns new live cells – Old live cells at increased risk of sudden death – Death promotes birth of new cell – Cells leave postmortem trace Built with @v0 Inspired by @vercel 404 https://x.com/aymericrabot/status/1890261940871766470

DeepSeek rushes to launch new AI model as China goes all in | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/deepseek-rushes-launch-new-ai-model-china-goes-all-2025-02-25/

“Chinese researchers introduced BEAMDOJO It’s a new reinforcement learning framework that teaches robots how to walk on uneven surfaces like stepping stones and balancing beams https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1893708311347773763

“As AI models grow in size, their values seem to increasingly converge on the same preferences, whether that model is made by OpenAI or Musk’s X AI or China’s DeepSeek Not everyone will like resulting AI preferences, so value engineering is likely to become a topic of discussion. https://x.com/emollick/status/1893133113741521231

“Issue with benchmarking AIs on academic questions: “LLMs from Chinese firms generally show superior performances is partially because their data collection pipelines are more aligned to SuperGPQA, i.e., a considerable ratio of the references are translated from Chinese textbooks”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1892948895795212592

“Once Grok NSFW mode is embodied as a virtual avatar and is capable of video calls — it’s all over. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1894477198737707210

“Disappointing to see the incentives for the grok team to cheat and deceive in evals. Tl;dr o3-mini is better in every eval compared to grok 3. Grok 3 is genuinely a decent model, but no need to over sell.” / X https://x.com/BorisMPower/status/1892407015038996740

Uneven Adoption of Artificial Intelligence Tools Among U.S. Teachers and Principals in the 2023–2024 School Year | RAND https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA134-25.html

“In my weekly AI / Robotics write-up, I’ll excluding all robot updates controlled by humans pretending they’re autonomous It’s extremely deceptive. What if someone secretly remote-controlled a self-driving car and never told anyone!” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1893490685023780899

“NEO Gamma demos showcased by 1X are not fully autonomous yet. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1893034555520754071

“Let me reword this: **Do human-like tasks, fully end-to-end autonomous There’s so much TeleOp faked demo’s happening, it’s getting completely out of control” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1893043858319249821

“Data centers could consume 12% of global energy by 2026. 🎙️ Fascinating chat with @SashaLuccioni on CNN’s Terms of Service podcast with @claresduffy. She breaks down AI’s environmental footprint—from data centers using country-sized energy to water cooling challenges. Important https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1894852549586588022