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Michael Mayrhofer

@michaelmhofer

Journalist | ORF Eco | ORF WeltWeit | FH-Lektor | Bisher: Die Presse, Addendum, Zeit im Bild

 Vienna, Austria
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Joined February 2011
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Ethan Mollick (@emollick) profile pictureEthan Mollick
@emollickNov 7
This can be a golden age of investigative journalism. Analyzing filings, records and public data to go deep into a company or government or whatever used to be something that took a team of journalists a long time, so was relatively rare. Now LLMs can 10x investigative research.
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43 Stimmen. Neue Definition von arschknapp.
Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) profile pictureSawyer Hackett
@SawyerHackettNov 4
Don’t ever f*cking tell me your vote doesn’t matter.
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John Burn-Murdoch
@jburnmurdochNov 1
Quick thread on AI and productivity: Lots of people say this chart shows AI is now showing up in the productivity data. But I made this chart to argue the opposite: a trend that pre-dates AI and only shows up in the US doesn’t look like AI. Here’s how I’m thinking about the data and underlying dynamics:
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Auf den Rücktritt von Bärbel Bas gedrängt zu haben, wird sich für die CDU als ein unfassbar dummer Fehler erweisen. 1. Zementiert es das Bild der latenten Frauenfeindlichkeit der CDU. Brosius Gersdorf lässt grüßen. 2. Düpiert die CDU die einzige echte Vertreterin des Ruhrgebiets 6 Monate vor der Landtagswahl. 3. Hatte die CDU unfassbares Glück, dass Bärbel Bas fest zur Rentenreform stand, während große Teile der Partei diese nun platzen lassen wollen. Die CDU muss endlich aufhören Politik aus den Gefühlen ihrer Partei Bubble zu machen. 80% der Deutschen ist es völlig egal ob es „CDU Pur“ ist oder nicht. Sie wollen lediglich gut und anständig regiert werden. Die CDU unter Merz hat den Bezug zur Realität der Menschen außerhalb Berlins endgültig verloren.
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Europas größter Sabotageakt – und der mutmaßliche Drahtzieher fliegt über die österreichische Vignette auf. 🇦🇹 Für ZIB erklärt habe ich WSJ-Reporter @bopanc getroffen. youtu.be/M11cSZr4dbo?is=9pvc…
Ganz Europa hat nach diesem Mann gesucht

Ganz Europa hat nach diesem Mann gesucht

Vier Explosionen in der Ostsee, ein Schaden von mehr als einer Mill...

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John Burn-Murdoch
@jburnmurdochSep 3
I hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead: Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉 Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour market ft.com/content/9183a122-10b7…
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derek guy
@dieworkwearAug 11
using grok to fact check a dictionary
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Das ist heftig. orf.at/stories/3438729/
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7 Jahre nach unserer Recherche zur Post-Sammlung von Parteipräferenzen steht es jetzt fix fest: Die Post muss 13 Millionen Euro zahlen – wegen rechtswidriger Parteiprofile von 2,2 Millionen Österreichern. derstandard.at/story/3000000…
Post sammelte Parteipräferenzen – jetzt gibt es eine endgültige Strafe: 13 Millionen Euro

Post sammelte Parteipräferenzen – jetzt gibt es eine endgültige Strafe: 13 Millionen Euro

Sieben Jahre nach Bekanntwerden der Affäre steht fest: Die Post muss wegen rechtswidriger Parteiprofile 13 Millionen Euro bezahlen. Die Causa ist damit endgültig beendet

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Wir hatten das dazumals aufgedeckt. 👇 web.archive.org/web/20230604…
Wenn die Post Partei ergreift

Wenn die Post Partei ergreift

Die Post verdient ihr Geld auch mit Adresshandel. Unter anderem werden Daten mit der Parteiaffinität von Österreichern für Wahlwerbung verkauft.

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Noam Brown
@polynoamialAug 1
An internal version of Astra, @OpenAI’s next major model family, solved 10 major open problems in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science. We believe it will be a major step for scientific reasoning. openai.com/index/ten-advance…
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Lijie Chen (@wjmzbmr1) profile pictureLijie Chen
@wjmzbmr1Aug 1
10 proofs from our next major model Astra on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science (also including new circuit lower bounds for computing the permanent!) GPT-5.6 has already enabled so much exciting work in math and science. Can’t wait to see what comes next!
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Jake Tapper 🦅
@jaketapper19 Feb 2017
"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle." -- George Orwell
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Franz-Stefan Gady
@HoansSoloJun 26
Perhaps the greatest miscalculation of leaders who commit great powers to war is believing they can wage war abroad without it eventually coming home in some shape or form. That has never been true in history, and it is unlikely ever to be.
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BBC News (World)
@BBCWorldJun 26
They quit the West for Russia's traditional values, but it wasn't what they expected bbc.in/3Qoq2Ar
The people leaving the West behind in search of the Russian dream

The people leaving the West behind in search of the Russian dream

The BBC asks Westerners who moved to Russia if life there lives up to expectations.

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Warum wir "foreign nationals" Fable 5 und Mythos 5 nicht mehr nutzen können.
Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) profile pictureAnthropic
@AnthropicAIJun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
Statement on the directive to suspend Fable 5 access

Statement on the directive to suspend Fable 5 access

The US government has issued an export control directive suspending all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by foreign nationals inside or outside the US.

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Birth rates in Africa are also falling very fast, they just started a bit higher and started falling a bit later.
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Geoffrey Lean (@GeoffreyLean) profile pictureGeoffrey Lean@GeoffreyLeanJun 7
It’s now a population IMplosion. Birth rates are declining just about everywhere except Africa. There’ll come a time when countries are competing to attract young immigrants, not repel them…. phys.org/news/2026-06-birth-…
Birth rates are declining in most of the world—here's why it really matters

Birth rates are declining in most of the world—here's why it really matters

Birth rates have been declining worldwide since the peak of the post-Second World War baby boom. Birth rates have now reached below replacement in most of the world, including Australia. Put simply,...

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Substack
@SubstackMay 28
How AI will change media: “The value of polish is going to go down and the value of personal charisma, style, and weirdness is going to go up,” says @jasminewsun
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Jeet Heer
@HeerJeetMay 16
Learn to Ode.
Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) profile pictureMarc Porter Magee 🎓
@marcportermageeMay 15
The Economist: “We found that graduates in fields more exposed to AI have suffered markedly worse outcomes.”
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Katja Arthofer@KatjaArthoferMay 7
Wir arbeiten gerne für den ORF, stellen aber fest: Es gibt Machtmissbrauch&Missstände wie fragwürdige Besetzungen & einen politisch besetzten Stiftungsrat. Das muss sich ändern: Für einen ORF, der dem Publikum verpflichtet ist & niemandem sonst. #mituns mituns.net
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#nichtmituns war erst der Anfang. Jetzt zeigen wir, welchen ORF wir uns wünschen – für unser Publikum, für das Land. #mituns mituns.net
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