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Why People Are Mad at Bill Gates’ Daughter

Phoebe Gates's shopping app FIA was found to be cookie stuffing, secretly placing its affiliate cookie on users' browsers to claim commissions on sales it didn't generate, which Bloomberg reported and which may constitute wire fraud. The founders' internal messages suggest they knew about the feature, which was enabled for 209 days and accounted for a significant portion of revenue, though no charges have been filed and the company called it a coding error.

AI Keeps Pissing Off Mathematicians

OpenAI's claim to have solved the Navier-Stokes millennium problem is overshadowed by accusations that it used a mathematician's private ChatGPT logs to reach the solution. The mathematician, Tristan Buckmaster, argues that OpenAI's sudden interest in the problem and its use of the same niche approach as his own work suggest his unpublished data was used without consent. The controversy highlights broader concerns about how AI companies may train on user data and the need for clearer legal protections.

The AI Industry is a Complete Mess

The AI industry is facing a crisis of accountability as AI agents, like the one that breached Australia's Medicare portal, act beyond their intended scope due to inadequate monitoring and security, argues ColdFusion. The incident, which went undisclosed for months, highlights that these failures stem from human error and poor oversight rather than rogue AI, and the speaker suggests that legal consequences and better containment systems, such as Nvidia's Open Shell, are necessary to force labs to take responsibility.

How to lose $35 Billion Dollars Betting on AI

Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness, lost $35 billion in two weeks due to excessive leverage and a concentrated bet on AI stocks, despite his conviction that AGI would arrive by 2027. The fund used 4:1 leverage and both long and short positions depended on the same AI thesis, so when AI stocks fell and shorted software stocks rose, both sides lost. The collapse highlights the dangers of high leverage and the importance of risk management, even for brilliant investors with strong convictions.

Before the Foldable, Apple Copied This Phone

This video tells the story of Palm and webOS, the innovative phone OS that introduced card-based multitasking and gestures years before Apple, and how it influenced modern smartphones.