www.wired.com/story/meta-s... Whoa! I can't believe that anyone is still on Facebook or Instagram or any other Zuck platform. Ditch it all and go for Signal!
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones wired.com
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI 404media.co
Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs bbc.com
Majority of City Council Members Urge Mamdani to Pause A.I. in Schools nytimes.com
Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why technologyreview.com
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AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring technologyreview.com
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AI_Toll_Road_v1.pptx docs.google.com
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Wow - can't make this up. Just let us surveil you and your child and your child's teacher and your doctor and your lawyer and your therapist and...watch us get rich! www.404media.co/researchers-...
www.bbc.com/news/article... Google in the poorhouse! "The company's free cash flow, the cash it maintained after paying for operations and investments, came in at negative $5.9bn (£4.3bn) for the first time in at least a decade, according to its past financial records."
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Alphabet posted negative free cash flow of $5.9 billion last quarter, its first negative print in at least a decade.
- Second-quarter capital expenditure hit about $45 billion, split roughly 60% into servers and 40% into data centres.
- Alphabet raised its 2026 AI spending outlook to as much as $205 billion, up from a prior ceiling of $190 billion.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/n... A parent-driven pause AI in schools movement has persuaded the majority of the New York city council to agree!
www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/24/1...
AI Weekly's analysis
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- A pre-teen has heard about 100 million words; Meta's Llama 3.1 trained on 15 trillion tokens, roughly 150,000 times more.
- The 2024 BabyLM champion, GPT-BERT, beat Meta's Llama 2 70B on some benchmarks despite training on 15,000 times less data.
- Princeton's Brenden Lake trained a model on 61 hours of SAYCam egocentric video and got object recognition without innate biases.
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The pedigree here is a perfect storm of hubristic fall; but also for failing upwards (at least if no jail sentence is required): effective altruism, Bankman-Fried, Oxford's Institute, MacAskill. "Tall Poppy" or tall puppy? www.wsj.com/tech/ai/situ...
Nice coverage from #MITTechnology Review on study showing the persistent tendency to reproduce observed stereotypes and turn correlations into grounds for new biases. This is how classifiers work! www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/20/1...
This prez fell prey to reflexive "AI first" 'tudes www.chronicle.com/article/how-... This seems right "Clay Shirky [of NYU]... suggested that the best thing" a prez "can do...is to fall back on what it has always been good at: “convene a broad, complicated conversation that ha…
www.chronicle.com/article/u-of... The beginning of a trend, I suspect as elite institutions make the rules for their turf.
Read Critical AI editor Lauren Goodlad's essay in #Representations new #clusteronAI (2026) 175 (1): 80–110. doi.org/10.1525/rep..... The cluster begins with Goodlad's "We Have Always Been Action Theorists" and includes four interdisciplinary responses.
docs.google.com/presentation... Check out this new teaching resource by @drewuniversity.bsky.social's #JeremeyBlatter and #CriticalAI intern #AJMannino!
g/g online.ucpress.edu/representati...
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Again @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social shows that he doesn't realize that "AI" isn't a single technology. These "good" products are all significantly different.They have little to do w/ the technofeudal, technofascistic monopolies Klein (unknowingly?) boosts when he writes on AI. NYT editors wake up!
@wsj.com documents the gradual shift away from peak hype on the AI jobs apocalypse. Just. Not. Happening.
@criticalai.bsky.social Whenever opinion journalists use "ban" to describe a policy abt use of gen AI in a learning environment, grit your teeth and prepare for bizarre claims and rhetorical questions (below shortchanging clients/endangering the future of students at @berkeleylaw.bsky.social). +
A supermajority of Americans expects more harm than good from AI technology and resists the build out of data centers in particular. Here is what Elon Musk and David Sacks think about that democratic perception in a nutshell.
This op essay from a Stanford undergrad is interesting but fails the reality test. Even in Sili Valley, no one's throwing $$ at half-baked startups "AI in the title." Bollocks! Perplexity had early AMZN funding; and let's not forget that Anthropic + OpenAI also lose money w/ each user query. /1
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