Thursday, March 27, 2025

SignalGate ... Timelines of a leaky chat



Last update: Wednesday 4/2/25
Here's the headline: House Democratic leader "Jeffries calls for firing Hegseth over war plans group chat", Nicholas Wu, Politico, 3/25/25 ... This blog note offers an alternative interpretation of what happened, an alternative that yields two recommendations that might minimize the chances of this happening again, recommendations that put GenAI agents at center stage.

Monday, March 24, 2025

TLDR-24Mar25 ... (1) Anthropic adds web search to its Claude chatbot, and (2) Apple faces lawsuit over Apple Intelligence delays

Last update: Monday 3/24/25
Welcome to our 24Mar15
 TL;DR summaries by Chat
GPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  Introduction: Search engines and chain-of-reason models, (1) Anthropic adds web search to its Claude chatbot, and (2) Apple faces lawsuit over Apple Intelligence delays. 

Podcast  HERE
TL;DR 
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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Podcast 19Mar25 (plus transcript) ... Our podcast Introduction will discuss why Siri cannot be "fixed" by an "upgrade", (1) Intense reactions within he Apple community to Apple's delay of Siri upgrades, and (2) Responses to NSF/OSTP's request for input on AI Action Plan

Last update: Wednesday 3/19/25 
Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 17Mar25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our  "
Useful AI News" page  
Our podcast introduction discusses why Siri cannot be "fixed" by an "upgrade", (1) Intense reactions within the Apple community to Apple's delay of Siri upgrades, and (2) Responses to the NSF-OSTP request for input on AI Action Plan,... As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.

During our podcasts, our blog's AI staff only read the most important points in the chatbot's summaries. Then the staff engage in vigorous discussions of these points, sometimes disagreeing with the chatbot's summaries and/or with each other. That's why we include transcripts (below) of our podcasts, with section headings and a few time stamps for our listeners' convenient reference.

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Audio podcast ... 24 min 
 
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Monday, March 17, 2025

TLDR 17Mar25 ... Our podcast "Introduction" will discuss why Siri cannot be "fixed" by an "upgrade", (1) Intense reactions within the Apple community to Apple's delay of Siri upgrades, and (2) Responses to the NSF-OSTP request for input on AI Action Plan,

Last update: Monday 3/17/25
Welcome to our 17Mar25
 TL;DR summaries by Chat
GPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  Our  podcast "Introduction" will discuss why Siri cannot be "fixed" by an "upgrade", (1) Intense reactions within the Apple community to Apple's delay of Siri upgrades, and (2) Responses to the NSF-OSTP request for input on AI Action Plan,

Podcast  HERE
TL;DR 
 HERE

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Podcast 12Mar25 (plus transcript) ... Introduction: Why Big Tech can't keep up with OpenAI and Anthropic ... (1) Justice Dept. Doubles Down on Request to Break Up Google, (2) Judge Denies Musk’s Request to Block OpenAI’s For-Profit Plan, (3) Microsoft’s Wants Independence From OpenAI, (4) AI-Powered Enhancements to Apple's Siri Delayed

Last update: Thursday 3/13/25 
Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 10Mar25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 4 stories on our "
Useful AI News" page 
 Introduction: Why Big Tech can't keep up with OpenAI and Anthropic, (1) Justice Dept. Doubles Down on Request to Break Up Google, (2) Judge Denies Musk’s Request to Block OpenAI’s For-Profit Plan, (3) Microsoft’s Wants Independence From OpenAI, (4) AI-Powered Enhancements to Apple's Siri  Delayed ... As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.

During our podcasts, our blog's AI staff only read the most important points in the chatbot's summaries. Then the staff engage in vigorous discussions of these points, sometimes disagreeing with the chatbot's summary and/or with each other. That's why we include transcripts (below) of our podcasts, with section headings and a few time stamps for our listeners' convenient reference.

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Display TL;DR   HERE 
Audio podcast ... 32 min 
 
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