Lighting AI Money on Fire – DTNS 4665 Extended (Patreon)

At a Fortune AI conference CEO of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince commented “Most of the people… if they’re doing anything in AI, are effectively lighting money on fire.” in recognition of the difficulty of turning AI demos into usable products. Plus Dropbox turned on a new search feature powered by OpenAI and boy are people mad. And Threads launched in the European Union, adding a potential 448 million users to its platform.

Hackers Validate Polish Trains - GDI 4665 starts at 32:17

3 hackers in Poland helped Lower Silesian Railway get four of its trains up and running again after their software was locked by NEWAG. Train talk takes over. Justin shares a story about how he got held up for his iPhone. They should have dropped the I.D. So many robbery stories. Have you had your car broken into? Sarah learns about catalytic converters.

Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.
Link to the Show Notes.

Quick Hits:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/24000451/google-chrome-tracking-protection-launch-third-party-cookies-ads

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/24000696/proton-mail-desktop-app-mac-windows-encrypted

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000534/twitch-loosens-sexual-content-policy

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/24000286/youtube-fewer-ad-breaks-tv

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/intel-intros-first-meteor-lake-chips-with-faster-gpus-and-worse-single-core-speed/

Top Stories:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/23953986/threads-european-union-launch-eu-meta-twitter-rival

https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C01zSWjp37H

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/dropbox-spooks-users-by-sending-data-to-openai-for-ai-search-features/

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/14/ai-trust-crisis/

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Discussion Story:

https://fortune.com/videos/watch/most-companies-using-ai-are-%E2%80%98lighting-money-on-fire%2C%E2%80%99-says-cloudflare-ceo-matthew-prince/c1bc054b-5903-44e9-be52-3d4a2c65b946/amp#

https://www.reuters.com/technology/pope-calls-binding-global-treaty-artificial-intelligence-2023-12-14/

GDI Content:

https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-repaired-trains-the-manufacturer-artificially-bricked-now-the-train-company-is-threatening-them/

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Justin Robert Young

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http://freepoliticalnewsletter.com

@JustinRYoung

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Harry McCracken

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https://www.fastcompany.com/user/harry-mccracken

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