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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Talking about AI as an autonomous entity reframes safety failures as evidence that containment is not possible. This reduces the focus on how tech companies may have conducted their experiments unsafely." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Momentum is building around regulating the AI industry, but we need to parse out real world corporate negligence from the alarmist and distracting warnings manufactured by the industry itself. AI Now's @smw.bsky.social speaks with @davey.bsky.social: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New story: When we talk about AI doom, what aren't we talking about? Accountability, researchers tell us. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Adding humans into the loop to evaluate AI isn’t a cure-all for the myriad harms of AI. AI Now's @smw.bsky.social spoke with @davey.bsky.social about why benchmarks that measure real world use are key for mitigating risks and getting the rules right: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

made a mark version of our chart

I dig this story - very thorough methodology. via @consumerreports.org www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...

I love this rallying cry by @davey.bsky.social on the value of humans in journalism. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/in-2...

“It’s a story about volume, value, and what journalism becomes when “content” grows functionally infinite.” - @davey.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/in-2...

Public service journalism this holiday season courtesy of @davey.bsky.social & Carmen Arroyo: bsky.app/profile/dave...

"An AI-assembled version of Gargano’s Christmas cake, for instance, would have people cooking a 6-inch cake for 3 to 4 hours at 320°F (160°C). 'You’d end up with charcoal!' she said. Meanwhile, traffic to her turkey recipe is already down 40% year over year."

AI slop is ruining tamales now. by @davey.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Deep dive by @davey.bsky.social + Bloomberg colleagues into the growing number of small businesses marketing products around conservative political identity and their relationship with the right-wing influencer universe on YouTube bit.ly/4oR7fcF

This is such a big deal... And so poorly understood / visible to normies - who can only see the outcomes / downstream consequences in our society... Follow the fucking ad money. Every time

Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters drive a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences; nearly 91% of 876 episodes had political ads (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Such a great story from @davey.bsky.social & other star reporters on the politics of consumption and the MAGA ad machine www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

In its Q3 earnings, Alphabet said the profit included "net gains on equity securities of $10.7B," in part from a private company, which sources say is Anthropic (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Here's confirmationnnn www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Kind of a crazy scoop (given the amount money involved here) with colleagues @rachelmetz.bsky.social & Ed Ludlow: Anthropic is in discussions with Google for a massive cloud deal — computing power valued in the high tens of billions www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

this story is fun lol @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/owning...

The amazing thing about the hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on AI development is it doesn't even include all the externalized costs like higher electricity prices for hundreds of millions of people.

Some news.

Duterte was arrested in March by Philippine authorities on a warrant issued by the ICC. He is now being held at an ICC facility in the Netherlands.

Speaking over a radio, the federal agent who told police that Villegas González tried to use his car as a weapon said his partner had suffered “a left knee injury and some lacerations to his hands.” “Nothing major,” the injured agent said. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

This story isn't just a look back at what happened last hurricane season. It also looks forward at the threat today. bsky.app/profile/zhir...

Oh, did I mention: We published all of the hundreds of FOIA docs with this story. Now you can look through them yourself: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us... bsky.app/profile/did:...

NEW: More than 500 pages of #FOIA docs @zhirji.bsky.social @davey.bsky.social & I obtained from FEMA detail previously unreported threats against personnel in the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene & Milton, including the swatting of then-FEMA Director Deanne Criswell 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New docs obtained via FOIA reveal how the personal attacks to FEMA staff last hurricane season were much worse than previously known, including swatting & doxxing of officials. Story @bloomberg.com, w/ @davey.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“‘The profit-driven platform model, where sensational falsehoods outperform factual updates in emergencies, ensures this problem persists across political cycles and it can put lives at risk,’ said Callum Hood, head of research at the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate.”