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With the increasing use of Meta Glasses I am starting to be concerned by being filmed by students. Has anyone heard of guidance from universities about this? Of course, this is something the union should lead but they have been useless about AI. www.theguardian.com/technology/…
Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure? theguardian.com
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- Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses use a small white LED to signal recording, but the Guardian says it is easy to miss in daylight.
- The paper points to a grey market of modified glasses whose recording light has been disabled entirely.
- A Swedish investigation cited by the Guardian found glasses footage, including intimate home recordings, was reviewed by contractors in Nairobi to train Meta's AI.
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What are the odds that OpenAI, a company whose whole business model is to steal from everyone and who has journalists write articles/books on how Sam Altman is a serial liar, would then steal company secrets from the company it's in partnership with? Ask Apple 😉 techcrunch.com…
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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- io Products, Jony Ive's startup acquired by OpenAI for $6.4B, is named as a co-defendant, placing OpenAI's entire device roadmap under direct legal jeopardy.
- Tang Tan allegedly used Apple codenames during recruiting and directed candidates to bring unreleased hardware components to OpenAI 'show and tell' interviews.
- Apple alleges OpenAI coached departing employees on how to evade exit security protocols, pointing to institutional coordination rather than isolated misconduct.
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NEW: A glimpse at how AI image generators are used. Researchers set up a fake image editor on Hugging Face and within a week received 1,000 prompts. 73% of them were sexual and 83% of those were asking for people (women) to be “undressed”. Around 6% of the sexual requests also…
Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem wired.com
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"We’re watching all of this roll out as if we have no choice, as if it’s inevitable, as if AI is just something we’re going to have to adapt to". @rbreich.bsky.social in a 🔥 op-ed about how important it is to push back tech bros' AI inevitability narrative. www.theguardian.com…
Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs’ AI agenda? | Robert Reich theguardian.com
"The idea of deskilling implies that someone possessed an ability and then lost it. Here, the danger is not just deskilling but never-skilling. Although a doctor who has forgotten how to reason is recoverable, one who never learned how may not be" www.theguardian.com/commentis…
What happens when medical students rely on AI – and never develop their own judgment? | Simar Bajaj and Joseph Sakran theguardian.com
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We just had a discussion on this in our editorial meeting of Internet Policy Review. It would be great to hear from other academic journal editors what are their policies around researchers using synthetic data. -> www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really pewresearch.org
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- Pew tested AI 'digital twins' on nearly 300 real survey questions; synthetic answers missed human responses by an average of 12 percentage points.
- The model stereotyped badly, predicting 97% of Hispanic adults follow the World Cup when the actual share is 43%.
- Human respondents chose 'not sure' about four times more often than the AI; GPT-5.1 and Claude Opus 4.6 also produced substantially different answers.
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“A government spokesperson said datacentres should create British jobs and supply chains, and provide investment to the communities in which they are built'”. My council refused data centres but the gov overrid it cuz data centres are of national importance. www.theguardian.co…
AI firms say UK has a year to head off datacentre protests before construction is threatened theguardian.com
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- The Sovereign AI Leadership (SAIL) taskforce — including Nvidia, Microsoft, Cisco, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google — told the UK Labour government it has roughly 12 months to build datacentre consent.
- SAIL is pitching a 'Community Prosperity Compact' letting host councils keep more business-rates revenue, with operator contributions scaling to site size.
- Campaigners from PauseAI UK, Foxglove and Action to Protect Rural Scotland reject the pitch; Scotland alone has 15 active local campaigns against datacentre projects.
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"The findings raise questions about one of the most-hyped UK AI developments, and suggest a centrepiece of US-UK AI cooperation was in fact little more than a press release"... When hype meets reality case number too many to count... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment theguardian.com
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Another day, another tech ceo needs to share his prediction about the future with us which is actually a really bad PR for their products. It's written so badly but with the confidence of a tech ceo douche, as usual. But let me just share 2 ridiculous paragraphs -> www.wsj.com…
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It is that simple.... "a new Technology in Schools Coalition, made up of students, educators, parent leaders, elected officials, advocates, union partners and experts in the field will convene to assess the impact of the moratorium and limited pilots". www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools - NYC Mayor's Office nyc.gov
This article raises interesting issues around the scale of complaints afforded by AI which is putting a burden on public bodies. BUT it also highlights the fact that public bodies relied on people's lack of resources, time and expertise to make complaints -> www.theguardian.co…
‘AI clog’: UK public bodies battle onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints theguardian.com
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- AI-drafted complaints to UK local authorities have grown from around two pages to roughly ten times that length, with one reaching about 200 pages.
- Transport for London logged a record 4,769 freedom of information requests in 2025-26, a 5% rise on its previous peak.
- Employment tribunal single-claim cases jumped 28% year-on-year between April and June, totaling 14,000, with about 70,000 open at month-end.
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