I think you have a very generous view behind the true motives of these disclosures. The "let's do it safely" train left about 2 years ago.

These daily "weird flexes" from the frontier AI companies are getting tiresome. We get it - your LLMs are crazy powerful, so powerful they supposedly do naughty things that you want us to believe mean they're approaching AGI. (They're not). Get on with the IPOs already so we don't have to read these stories every day.

I hate to admit it but my experience with online AI customer support bots has been the opposite - they understand my questions more quickly and comprehensively than human support and usually deliver me the answer I was seeking.

Sounds like more care was taken in developing this pie ritual than 80% of software development.

Anyone who needs to send text messages with their voice, like when you drive.

In January 2025, US Customs agents demanded the device's password during a search at the airport...When Tunick provided a password for his phone, it was actually a "duress password" that irreversibly wipes a device when entered.

Reminds me of when Superman was forced into the crystal chamber that his captors thought would render him powerless but it was his captors who were made powerless.

Siri's poor comprehension and general utility used to be a funny joke but it's gotten to the point where I'm questioning my longtime iPhone use, esp how poorly it transcribes verbal texts. I get Apple doesn't want to bet the farm on AI but they need to invest enough to at least stay roughly competitive with useful features like transcription.

Trump thinks he's forcing the EU and other countries to rely more on the USA but he's doing the exact opposite, the consequences of which will only become apparent long his insanity is gone.

I need Spotify to listen to music for me and summarize how much I enjoyed it.

Making a product so good that people find themselves addicted to it isn't something you get fined $1.4 trillion for.

Sure, just like how people become addicted to meth because it's so good on merit alone.

Banning parents from having teenagers.

Answer: Zero, they don't have a semiconductor business anymore. I'm much more impressed by what TSMC can do today than what a research group says they can do five years from now.

Which means climate change aka global warming isn't real, amirite?

And admit their mistake by releasing "Windows 10 Classic'"

"...while the second group of 11 aircraft can be inspected later but within 25 flight cycles"

It's an emergency but we'll get to it when we get to it...