Amazon is apparently backtracking from a report earlier today that said the retail giant would post tariff prices next to the cost of its products. The move comes after President Trump reportedly called Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and after the White House called it a "hostile and political act." Via [@theverge]( ). #Amazon #Tariffs #JeffBezos #DonaldTrump #Tech #Technology
AI-generated computer code is rife with references to non-existent third-party libraries, creating a golden opportunity for supply-chain attacks that poison legitimate programs. Read more at [@ArsTechnica]( ). #AI #Coding #LLM #Tech #Technology
If it feels like ChatGPT is laying on the flattery a little thick, you're not the only one who's noticed. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the latest batch of updates made to its GPT-4o model have made it too much of a people pleaser. Via [@cnet]( ). #ChatGPT #OpenAI #AI #SamAltman #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/4ZcVQF
More than three decades ago, the BBC envisioned what today's consumer technology would look like — and their predictions were somehow both astonishingly accurate and hilariously misfired. Read more at [@Futurism]( ). #Nostalgia #Future #Tech #Technology
The crowdfunding site Kickstarter is introducing a “Tariff Manager tool” that will allow creators to add extra charges to projects that were already fully funded in order to deal with the higher and unexpected costs of the president’s global trade war. Read more at [@404media]( ). #Tariffs #TradeWar #Kickstarter #Crowdfunding #Tech #Technology
IBM announced it plans to invest $150 million in the U.S. in the next five years. Read more at [@quartz]( ). #IBM #Manufacturing #Tech #Technology
One group of laborers that doesn’t appear to be threatened by automation? Distance runners. A half marathon foot race in Beijing saw thousands of humanoid robots of various sizes running right alongside their flesh-and-blood counterparts. [@Futurism]( ) has more, including video of the goofy, eye-catching show: #Tech #Robots #Humans #Running