Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.

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Mark Zuckerberg texted Elon Musk to offer help with DOGE

While the relationship was once thorny enough that Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cagefight, things seem to have warmed up by the early days of the second Trump administration.

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Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI chatbots for personal advice

While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.

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Trump Lives To Inflict Pain On Student Loan Borrowers

Over 7 million student loan borrowers enrolled in a Biden-era repayment scheme have been ordered to pick a new plan or risk being automatically placed on one vastly more expensive -- unless a higher court reinstates it.

Borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education plan will begin receiving notices about switching to other ways to repay starting Friday, according to the Department of Education. The Trump administration has long targeted SAVE, which was struck down by a federal court last week. (It is expected to be appealed.)

Loan servicers will now begin issuing notices giving borrowers 90 days to select a new repayment plan, department officials said. They will then resume making payments as soon as this summer.

Around half of those on the SAVE plan had incomes low enough to qualify for its zero-dollar monthly payment. The standard plan orders them to pay fixed payments over 10 years, leading to huge increases.

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Administration Asshats Cooked Up Psy-Op 'Gay Ayatollah' Story

The brilliant idea dreamed up by administration frat boys was to plant a public narrative about classified information strongly indicating that Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is gay.

But the idea was fabricated and pushed behind the scenes by a cohort of Trump advisers, US government personnel, and MAGA associates, two people with knowledge of the matter and another two sources briefed on it told Zeteo reporters.

They've been laughing about it since. (You know, dick jokes.) “We wanted to mindfuck [the Iranians] with gay shit,” one of the sources says. Another source – a Trump administration official familiar with how this all went down – adds that one of their MAGA group chats is titled, simply: “gayatollah.”

By late Thursday night, the White House had not responded to our request for comment. However, not long after we emailed our comment request, Trump suddenly appeared on TV blabbing about the topic.

The president was asked by Fox’s Jesse Watters if the CIA had told him that the new supreme leader is gay. “Well, they did say that, but I don’t know if it was only them,” Trump replied. “I think a lot of people are saying that, which puts him off to a bad start in that particular country.”

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Waymo’s skyrocketing ridership in one chart

Waymo's weekly paid robotaxi trips have increased tenfold in less than two years.

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Netflix confirms it’s raising prices again

The standard plan without ads now costs $19.99 per month, a $2 increase from the previous $17.99 subscription fee, while the premium plan is also going up by $2 and will now cost $26.99 per month.

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