Martyn Landi

Bluesky boosts safety tools as user numbers continue to rise The social media site has seen its user numbers more than double between November and January as users continue to flee Elon Musk’s X.

Another reason to like this place
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OpenAI tool that can online shop for you comes to the UK Operator is an AI agent that can complete tasks on the web autonomously.

If you're in the UK and a ChatGPT Pro subscriber (big if), you can now give Operator a go, and see how you get on letting AI surf the web for you
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DeepSeek usage a ‘personal choice’ for public, Government says It comes after South Korea became the latest nation to limit access to the China-based AI chatbot.

As governments around the world start to take action against DeepSeek over 'security and privacy' issues, the UK is staying pragmatic, for now.
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3 Count: $10 Million Fight - Plagiarism Today The New York Times has spent $10.8 million in OpenAI fight, UK Parliament weights AI regulations and police raid South African IPTV provider.

The New York Times has spent $10.8 million in the OpenAI fight, the UK Parliament weighs AI regulations and police raid a South African IPTV provider.

www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/02/05/3...

Sources: @the-independent.com @martynlandi.bsky.social

#Copyright #NewYorkTimes #AI #OpenAI

What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI app shaking up the tech market? The new chatbot app, reportedly developed at a fraction of the cost of its rivals, has stunned Silicon Valley.

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People using AI will take jobs in the future, not AI itself, Samsung exec says Annika Bizon said AI was helping people improve their daily lives at work and home by giving them back ‘precious time’ by taking on ‘mundan'” tasks.

As Samsung launched its new, very AI feature-heavy, S25 phones this week, I had a fascinating conversation with Samsung UK & Ireland's director of mobile experience, Annika Bizon, about the future of AI and its impact on our daily lives
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Appear on The Traitors or I'm not interested. These are my terms for 'Approved O'Callaghan Media Appearances'

Oh lord, it's coming

Another busy and very weird week at the world's biggest tech show

Maybe I should take it as a sign that I've managed to lock myself out of my Twitter...

Innit.

ChatGPT joins WhatsApp to allow anyone to access the AI chatbot OpenAI said making ChatGPT available on the messaging platform would make it accessible to more people, especially those without high-speed internet.

How do you get more even more people using ChatGPT? Meet them where they are (on WhatsApp)
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Apple Intelligence begins rolling out in the UK The tech giant’s major suite of generative AI tools is now rolling out to UK users via a software update.

Spoke to Apple's Greg Joswiak about Apple Intelligence as the AI tools reach the UK
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Really want to understand the calendar that allows for 6 companies, 11 kids and 31 tweets a day

Huh. Bit spooked, lads?

Threads doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be: it’s actively trying not to be real-time nor to carry news/current affairs content.

So…what’s the point? It’s never answered that question and I suspect that’s why its growth so obviously stalled.

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

@bsky.app just hit 20 million users!

The platform has nearly TRIPLED in the last 3 months.

It’s adding nearly 1 MILLION new users a day right now.

It's been No.1 app in the App Store for the last 6 days and the No.1 non-gaming app in Google Play for 4 days

www.engadget.com/social-media...

Bodega Cats are already here? Great, this place is gonna do just fine

Just when I felt safe to start throwing out hot takes again 😢

Feels like first post here should be punchy, so here goes:

The ensemble cast of Lost is better, more engaging and more interesting than the ensemble cast of Game of Thrones.

Thanks all. Goodnight.