ChatGPT has seen its global monthly active users climb by 180% year-over-year as of November 2025, but is that growth slowing down? @Techcrunch has more:
Time for a new thing to be terrified about! Research published in the journals Nature and Science found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party. And the most persuasive models said the most untrue things. Here's more from Technology Review.
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The European Union has announced it is fining Elon Musk's X platform $140 million, saying it breached the Digital Services Act. The 2022 law requires internet companies to aggressively combat hate speech and misinformation. The U.S. government has condemned the move, and while Musk has not as yet addressed it, he has shared an X post advocating for a U.S. bill that would allow companies to sue foreign entities over censorship claims. Here's more from NBC.
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Reddit is "moving away" from r/popular, the default feed for new users, CEO Steve Huffman says. “For a long while, we were known as the ‘front page of the internet,’ but we’ve outgrown a singular front page for everyone." Huffman says it will be replaced with "better, more relevant and personalized feeds." Here's more from @theverge.
It's all change at Apple as design chief Alan Dye leaves the company for Meta. For his blog, artist and designer @louie writes about how this, and the departure of iPhone designer Jony Ive in 2019, might not be a bad thing. Why? Under their tenure, Mantia argues, "Apple shifted away from making products 'for the rest of us' and started making products that appealed specifically to rich people."
#Technology #Tech #Apple #JonyIve #AlanDye #Design #IndustrialDesign #iPhone
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The U.S. State Department is instructing its staff to reject H-1B visa applications from anyone who has worked on fact-checking or content moderation, according to an internal memo sent this week. "If you uncover evidence an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the United States, you should pursue a finding that the applicant is ineligible" for a visa, the memo says. Here's more from @npr.
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It's Spotify Wrapped season (formerly known as "the holidays"). Here's @TheConversationUS's story on why lists like this get so much attention. Tell us in the comments if you use the feature and like your list; our friend Debbie was very affronted that the app thought she was 75 years old.
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It's Spotify Wrapped season (formerly known as "the holidays"). Here's @TheConversationUS's story on why lists like this get so much attention. Tell us in the comments if you use the feature and like your list; our friend Debbie was very affronted that the app thought she was 75 years old.
#Spotify #SpotifyWrapped #Music #Entertainment #Technology #Tech #Apps
How is AI really impacting jobs? @brianmerchant writes for Blood in the Machine about what the numbers are saying: "Generative AI is not reliable enough when it comes executing complex tasks to enable most organizations to displace jobs at scale, and it certainly can’t do jobs that require empathy or hands-on problem-solving," he writes. "What it can do is automate the production of work that need not be 'reliable' or 'accurate,' but that employers might find 'good enough.' Precisely the way many corporate executives already conceive of creative work, in other words."
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The Shopify app is down, with around 4,000 retailers reporting issues with the site on one of the busiest retail days of the year. Here's more from @Independent.
From CNBC: How a sense of nostalgia and chic led to the development of a landline-style phone that can reduce your amount of screen time.
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Do you hear those bells ringing? It’s the sound of stress that is already wafting into the gift giver’s mind. Fortunately, there’s help. Read about the app that just might lift some of that holiday stress off your shoulders. Read more from @TechRadar:
Is AI sexist? Probably. But getting it to confess is another story. @Techcrunch tells us more:
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A team at three U.S. universities developed an AI-powered browser extension that modifies how content appears on X and then tested it on 1,200 participants in the run up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election. The tool scans posts for anti-democratic and negative partisan views (such as calling for violence towards supporters of an opposing party) and then re-orders the posts so polarizing content is shown either more or less to participants. The scientists found that attitudes towards the opposing party changed on average by two points, and that the participants who saw less hostile content reported feeling less angry and sad while using X. The extension did not need the participation of X and, the team behind it noted, could be a way of reranking social media posts "without platform collaboration." Here's more from @euronews.
Who in the United States is going to regulate AI? @Techcrunch describes a debate that has become a federal vs. state showdown and which side the tech giants are on: