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CONCERNS ABOUT PASSKEYS

Passkeys are a technically interesting idea with many upsides, but they take away power from the user. This article discusses some of the issues with the technology. Passkeys can't be exported, sites can discriminate on which apps and devices passkeys can be stored on, and they rely on more centralized systems. It's bad for society if only vetted and authorized entities can build passkey apps and it's bad for users if they can't choose to use a particular passkey app.

INSIDE THE FIGHT OVER CALIFORNIA'S NEW AI BILL

California state Senator Scott Wiener's Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models bill requires companies training 'frontier models' that cost more than $100 million to do safety testing and be able to shut off their models in the event of a safety incident. The bill has received heavy criticism from the tech industry. It will affect everyone who does business in California, not just companies that develop their models in California. This article contains an interview with Wiener about the bill and its critics.

AI PAID FOR BY ADS – THE GPT-4O MINI INFLECTION POINT

With OpenAI's recent introduction of GPT-4o mini, it's now possible to build dynamic, AI-generated content entirely supported by ads. Google's AdSense pays approximately $0.0026 per page view. A site could generate results tailored to user search queries and earn a profit after calculating for the cost of the generated content. This post presents a simple example of how this could be done with calculations of how much it would cost/profit.

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