Strange juxtaposition with the war in Iran happening at the same time as the controversy around Anthropic, OpenAI, and the Pentagon. OpenAI has a post with the details of their agreement, which also includes red lines on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons: "We think our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic’s." I’m confused about how Anthropic’s proposed contract differs from the contract that OpenAI has shared. If the Pentagon offered the same agreement to Anthropic, would they accept it? Lots of questions. https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/

FediForum starts tomorrow and runs for a couple days. It’s an online conference for folks who want to discuss and build for the future of the social web, from Mastodon to Bluesky. There has been a lot of new developer activity over on the Bluesky side, so I’m curious if any of that will bubble up.

FediForum

FediForum

FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward

For all the folks overseas, I’d like to do more for localization in Micro.blog. Not the main UI, but the parts that show up on your own blog, e.g. “Finished reading”, “Watched this movie”… I tried AI to dynamically translate a few things on the fly, but it’s a dead end. Maybe crowdsourced later.

Parker Ortolani blogs early praise for Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses. They are solving completely different problems than the Vision Pro: "At one point I was walking down the street, spotted a coffee shop across the way, and simply popped up the maps app on the glasses to see details."

My First 24 Hours with Meta's Incredible New Glasses & Muscle-Reading Wristband

Let’s just start out with this, Meta is onto something. After the first 24 hours with my very own pair of Meta Ray Ban Displays, I must say, that...