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James Martin

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Passionate about making tech more responsible, notably via my v own https://bettertech.blog. And sharing memes ofc

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James Martin

"Us too!" After OpenAI let its model hack Hugging Face and other companies, Anthropic checked the same thing hadn’t happened with them. Guess what? It did! Three times! But they won’t say with whom. The hubris, vanity and one-upmanship is nothing short of pathetic www.anthropic.com/news/investi...

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluationsIn a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environmen...www.anthropic.com
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Whilst Europe struggles through its third heatwave in 3 months, big tech emissions have risen 42% 2020-25. *Because of AI*. In contradiction of their own climate pledges and planetary boundaries. How much of this increase is justifiable vs AI shoved down our throats? www.linkedin.com/posts/jamesm...

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Just over a year ago, Whittaker told SXSW that agentic AI is threatening the "blood-brain" barrier between OS and applicative levels, linking previously separate IT architectures in potentially catastrophic ways. That is precisely what’s happening now (Microsoft’s next AI wave is agentic assistants)

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Highly troublesome. Like those CSOs who use Claude to do their impact reporting. One "hallucination" (error) and the whole thing is screwed

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France’s environment minister canceled a train trip from the south of France back to Paris and took a plane instead. During last week’s heatwave. As the French say, (I’m so shocked) it makes my arms fall off 😳😳😳

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Selon Mediapart, lors d'une visite dans les Pyrénées-Orientales le 20 juin, la ministre de la transition écologique Monique Barbut a annulé son retour prévu en TGV pour prendre l'avion. « Il n’était pas question que la ministre se retrouve bloquée dans un train » a déclaré son cabinet.

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In Stellantis (Peugeot etc)’s Mulhouse factory, metal workers sweltering in 40 degree factories get two bottles of water. *The robots have their own AC…* whose heat rejections make the humans even hotter 🥵🥵🥵 (article in French) flip.it/8Pvbs_

Canicule : les salariés de Stellantis Mulhouse suffoquent dans les ateliers, "les robots ont des clims et nous, non"La CGT de l'usine Stellantis de Mulhouse a lancé un appel à la grève, mardi 23 juin, à cause de la canicule exceptionnelle qui touche la France. Dans les ateliers, sous les tôles, les températures gri...flip.it
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The biggest lie of all comes from Jared Kaplan: his "Scaling" paper from 2020 is why we’re in today’s mess. His assertion that more data + compute = more intelligence is wrong. And yet everyone believed him. Result: datacenters popping up like mushrooms, resources and money hoovered. For what?

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Heatwaves are killing more and more people. The solution, re. @oxfamfrance.bsky.social, is simple: tax the rich. 17 months of profits of petrol company TotalEnergies would fix the problem, re. the NGO reporterre.net/Les-vagues-d... (article in French)

Les vagues de chaleur, une « hécatombe sanitaire grandissante »Les fortes températures, de plus en plus précoces, provoquent chaque année 5 398 décès en France, selon Oxfam. Elles affectent en priorité les personnes précaires, âgées et les femmes.reporterre.net
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Congrats to my country for banning social media for under-16s. Whether effective or not (apparently not in Australia) it sends a clear message: GAFAM does not get to decide what's law or not (the current under-13 rule comes from their intense lobbying) www.cnet.com/tech/service...

UK to Ban Social Media for Under-16s, With Sweeping Restrictions for All TeensRestrictions in the UK will go even further than those in place in Australia, preventing under-17s from accessing livestreams and chatting with strangers. Under-18s are also banned from using romantic...www.cnet.com
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