• Ebird and Listers
  
• Moen update
  
• Death by Lightning
  
• An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
  
• Lonely Seniors Are Turning To AI Bots For Companionship
  
• Kinethreads: A Low Cost Haptic Exo-Suit
  
  • Almost related: Four out of five developers enjoy code reviews

Cutting Room Floor

• Anycrap: Bring Impossible Products to Life
  
  • Thought-Cancelling Headphones
    
  • Dave and Gunnar Show Podcast Bobble Heads
    
  • Donut Hole Repair
    
• I’m Not a Robot
  
• Claude Biodome

• Moen’s lifetime warranty
  
• Gemini multimodal!
• When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
  
  • Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
    
• Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved
  
• D&G Blade Runner Home Edition: Human or Not?
  
• How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning ... for miscreants to exploit
  
• Emergent Misalignment: Researchers trained AI models to write flawed code—and they began supporting the Nazis and advocating for AI to enslave humans

Cutting Room Floor

• Stunting with Reinforcement Learning
  
• There’s a Vape With a Tamagotchi Inside It That Dies If You Stop Puffing
  
• A Two-Player Arcade Machine in a Briefcase