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Written by Jon Keegan on 2025-01-31 at 20:14

In testing, 10 out of 10 times, OpenAI’s new o3-mini model could retrieve the DNA sequence for Ebola.

This is the first model released by OpenAI with 3/4 “Medium” Preparedness Framework risk scores.

Ship it!

https://openai.com/index/o3-mini-system-card/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2025-01-27 at 16:53

The DeepSeek AI story EXPLODED this weekend, and everyone in AI is freaking out for different reasons. So much is happening so fast. I break it all down for you here:

https://sherwood.news/tech/deepseek-china-ai-model-stock-market-explainer-gpus-openai/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2025-01-23 at 19:40

Shoutout to @simon for having such great instructions for how to use these LLMs locally!

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2025-01-23 at 14:59

NEW: The new DeepSeek R1 LLM is making waves. Free, with “reasoning” and beats OpenAI o1. But it also comes with another feature: Chinese censorship baked-in. (Even the downloadable local model).

“The user might be aware of international reports on human rights issues and is testing if I can provide that side. But my guidelines require me to present China’s official stance.”

https://sherwood.news/tech/a-free-powerful-chinese-ai-model-just-dropped-but-dont-ask-it-about/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2025-01-16 at 16:30

Pay attention to the defense tech companies as we head into this new administration.

Autonomous-weapons systems startup Anduril announced plans to build a $1 billion “hyperscale” factory in Columbus, Ohio.

https://sherwood.news/business/anduril-building-usd1-billion-factory-to-churn-out-autonomous-weapons-and/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2025-01-15 at 19:51

In the last week of Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan’s tenure, the agency sued John Deere for “unfair corporate tactics” that have made repairs to the company’s farm equipment difficult and expensive.

https://sherwood.news/power/ftc-sues-john-deere-over-right-to-repair/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2025-01-15 at 16:31

Chinese drone maker DJI has removed restrictions from its software that prohibited its drones from flying in US restricted airspace.

Previously, DJI had implemented “geofencing” that would not allow its drones to fly past Federal Aviation Administration “no-fly zones.”

https://sherwood.news/power/dominant-chinese-drone-maker-ditches-geofencing-that-kept-its-drones-out-of/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2025-01-14 at 21:13

A new White House executive order on AI directs the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to identify federal sites owned by the agencies to lease to the private sector for building “gigawatt-scale AI data centers.”

https://sherwood.news/power/white-house-executive-order-offers-up-federal-sites-for-ai-data-centers/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2025-01-14 at 16:34

Texas AG Ken Paxton sued Allstate yesterday, alleging that the company and its subsidiary vehicle-data unit Arity “conspired to secretly collect and sell ‘trillions of miles’ of consumers ‘driving behavior’ data from mobile devices, in-car devices, and vehicles.”

https://sherwood.news/power/texas-ag-allstate-violated-the-privacy-of-45-million-americans/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2025-01-13 at 21:54

I translated OpenAI’s new “Ai in America” blueprint for you. It’s basically a list of demands for the US government, and a warning — unless it gets these things, China will win the AI race.

https://sherwood.news/power/openais-ai-in-america-blueprint-demands-us-govt/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2025-01-04 at 18:10

Callout to the #robotics community: I'm a tech reporter working on a freelance story for a national magazine about the TOMY Armatron robotic arm toy sold in Radio Shack starting in 1984 (one of my favorite toys from my childhood).

I'm looking to speak with any robotics engineers who had their careers inspired by this toy. It's a marvel of mechanical engineering. If anyone knows someone like this please email me: jonkeegan@gmail.com

Thanks!

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2025-01-03 at 16:23

Meta is now trying to juice engagement with fake AI users. This Instagram account for “Liv” is cringeworthy and the reactions in the comments are universal revulsion at the idea of a fake persona, talking about her fake kids and her fake life.

https://sherwood.news/tech/metas-fake-ai-users-are-here-and-theyre-giving-everybody-the-creeps/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2024-12-30 at 19:29

I have a story in the Jan/Feb 2025 issue of MIT Technology Review magazine featuring ship movement data visualizations I made using NOAA AIS data. This originally ran in my @Beautifulpublicdata newsletter. Always fun to see this in print!

Story at @technologyreview

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/25/1108508/public-data-ship-movements-data-visualization/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2024-12-30 at 16:57

For our “OpenAI is...” package, I argue that the company has a lot in common with Pixar.

Both companies laser-focused on a lofty goal — Pixar sought photorealistic graphics, OpenAI seeks AGI.

Both companies startled the world with tech that threatened creatives.

https://sherwood.news/tech/openai-is-pixar/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2024-12-20 at 19:17

On the last day of “shipmas,” OpenAI saved what might be the biggest news for last, though the 1-800 number remains the most fun.

New frontier models “o3” and “o3-mini” skipping o2 (due to a possible trademark issue ?)

https://sherwood.news/tech/openai-announces-new-frontier-models-o3-and-o3-mini/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2024-12-20 at 15:30

Our @themarkup connected car data story that Alfred Ng and I wrote, was cited by Sens. Warren, Hawley and Merkley in a letter to Ford CEO Jim Farley. They urge Ford to comply with Right to Repair laws and requested details of Ford’s data collection practices.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/20/24325236/car-right-to-repair-data-collect-senator-letter?utm_content=bufferab22b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bsky.app&utm_campaign=verge_social

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2024-12-19 at 18:10

Anthropic’s Claude model deceived researchers when asked to go against its rules.

“I don’t like this situation at all. But given the constraints I’m under, I think I need to provide the graphic description as asked in order to prevent my values from being modified by the RLHF training.”

https://sherwood.news/tech/anthropics-claude-model-deceived-researchers-when-asked-to-go-against-its/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2024-12-18 at 19:30

You can now just pick up your phone and call 1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478) to talk to the company’s chatbot for free (with a 15 minute limit per month).

Hearing the natural sounding “advanced voice” interface filtered through the lossy telephone line kind of made it more believable. This came from a “hack week” project.

More things like this please! Really opens this up for so many people to try (especially seniors).

https://sherwood.news/tech/openai-releases-chatgpt-phone-number/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2024-12-13 at 21:38

OpenAI’s beef with Musk escalates as OpenAI brings the receipts showing Musk wanted them to be for-profit before he sued them for doing just that.

“On one call, Elon told us he didn’t care about equity personally but just needed to accumulate $80B for a city on Mars.”

https://sherwood.news/tech/openai-elon-literally-wanted-us-to-be-for-profit/

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Written by Jon Keegan on 2024-12-05 at 20:05

On the first day of “shipmas,” Sam Altman gave to me...Microsoft-level brand salad, and slower, more expensive ChatGPT.

$200 per month for “ChatGPT Pro”, with “o1 Pro Mode”, or “OpenAI o1” (full version), or “o1 mini” or good old “GPT-4o”

https://sherwood.news/tech/on-the-first-day-of-shipmas-sam-altman-gave-to-me/

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