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Today's topic: Moltbook, the bizarre social-media network just for AI bots to talk to each other. It's freaking people out.
https://t.co/oyEliGqE9y
@nashvillenative I actually worked pretty hard, syllable by syllable, to avoid bias. Let me know where you considered the writing biased! (That the President is suffering in popularity is not bias, is it? That's just... happening!)
Here's my "CBS Sunday Morning" cover story today: An explainer about the midterms. How they work, the four ways this year's midterms break historic records, what's happened to political ads, and what the outcome is likely to be.
https://t.co/n5RDiNImka
Houdini died 100 years ago today... OR DID HE? Here's my interview with the author of a new book that digs up some extremely strange details surrounding the great escape artist's death.
https://t.co/npiqwxRfzk
My "@CBSSunday Morning" cover story today: The strange, mysterious life of Harry Houdini—and his even stranger, more mysterious death, 100 years ago this Halloween.
https://t.co/tSOfMeVV40
"You Can See Everything" is one weird, wild, whacked-out documentary. As a master manipulator, Nathan Fielder may have met his match in Elizabeth Holmes. This movie is so different that it's impossible to describe in a review, but I gave it my best shot.
https://t.co/y7piMPEzmu
When I reported my "@CBSSunday Morning" story on the fears of an AI apocalypse, I could not get one interview out of my head. It was with @DKokotajlo, who resigned from OpenAI when he became alarmed at its recklessness. Today, he's one of the clearest, smartest, most thoughtful thinkers about the AI endgame. Here's a transcript.
https://t.co/SxMGHv3IgT
While everyone on X / Twitter is talking about Muse and Instinct as the next wave of consumer, Siri AI is rolling out to the world too.
I love seeing all these great examples of how Siri can deliver so much more daily value
My new “Pogue’s Posts” column today: 24 hours of triumphs and failures in the life of using Siri AI. A real-world journal, to give you an idea of what life is like when you rarely even open apps.
https://t.co/HkEEzkVXTR
On "@CBSSunday Morning" today: Here's my deep dive on AI apocalypse. Why would AI want to eliminate humans? How? And where do we stand with adopting safeguards?
https://t.co/yP6UwdpLlB
(Outside the U.S.: https://t.co/73qaEwIuyB.)