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LOOK: Two students from the Aparri School of Arts and Trade in Aparri, Cagayan were apprehended after police confiscated from them an improvised caliber .38 firearm and a kitchen knife during a routine bag inspection on Friday, June 26.
Police identified them as a 15-year-old Grade 10 student and a 14-year-old Grade 8 student.
They said the two admitted carrying the weapons to school to settle personal grudges.
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EVER SEEN A VERTICAL BILL BEFORE?
The Supreme Court unveiled the design of its commemorative P3000 bill and P125 coin in honor of its 125th anniversary this year.
The front of the bill features former Supreme Court Chief Justice Cayetano Arellano, the first chief justice of the high court, while the back reveals a vertical design with the roster of the previous chief justices, and joined by incumbent Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo.
According to the Supreme Court, the currencies, which will be available for purchase at the Supreme Court's gift shop, will be legal tender.
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I love that Zendaya never wears Channel, Dior & Gucci on red carpets because those brands in particular were racist and refused to work with her & Law when she was younger.
“If you say no, it’ll be a no forever”- Law Roach says
INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts.
So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.
What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.
Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations.
The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.
Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described.
The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding.
The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months.
Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight.
Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now.
She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.
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