Chris Taylor

1 week ago | inkl.com | Chris Taylor

‘The tactic’s real power lies in the way it undermines the very notion of truth.’ Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters It didn’t escape notice that an insurrection was exactly what the president was accused of instigating on 6 January 2021, when the flag being paraded through the Capitol was that of the Confederate secessionists. And that Trump hadn’t shown quite the same enthusiasm for sending in the troops then.

2 weeks ago | me.mashable.com | Chris Taylor

Sam Altman has been a blogger far longer than he's been in the AI business. Now the CEO of OpenAI, Altman began his blog — titled simply, if concerningly, "Sam Altman" — in 2013. He was in year 3 of working at the startup accelerator YCombinator at the time, and would soon be promoted to president. The first page of posts contains no references to AI. Instead we get musings on B2B startup tools, basic dinner party conversation openers, and UFOs (Altman was a skeptic).

2 weeks ago | mashable.com | Chris Taylor

Sam Altman has been a blogger far longer than he's been in the AI business. Now the CEO of OpenAI, Altman began his blog — titled simply, if concerningly, "Sam Altman" — in 2013. He was in year 3 of working at the startup accelerator YCombinator at the time, and would soon be promoted to president. The first page of posts contains no references to AI. Instead we get musings on B2B startup tools, basic dinner party conversation openers, and UFOs (Altman was a skeptic).

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Chris Taylor

12 hours agoIt apparently took just days to make using Google’s new text-to-video generator, Veo 3. If you’ve been on social media lately, you might’ve seen the unsettling AI slop videos showing AI-generated people in wild scenarios or just speaking a bunch of nonsense. On Wednesday night, the betting platform …

2 weeks ago | mashable.com | Chris Taylor

Apple is increasingly caught between a rock and a hard place — and not just on Artificial Intelligence. Here's the problem, one that may have been stretched to breaking point during CEO Tim Cook's 2025 WWDC keynote. There are people in the market for Apple products, who want and have always wanted technology that just works. They want gadgets that are intuitive to use, not intrusive. According to multiple surveys, consumers continue to be distrustful of anything with an AI label.