Taylor Lorenz

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Gift link. This matters quite a bit for media. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...

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AI Weekly's analysis
  • Cloudflare data shows AI-training crawlers hit 52% of crawler requests by June 2026, up from 22% in spring 2025.
  • Google still supplies roughly 88% of referral traffic, but is answering more queries in-place via AI Overviews and AI Mode.
  • Human traffic to the most heavily crawled categories, including software, IT, retail and finance, has fallen as much as 40% in under a year.
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Meta has patented an AI device that tracks your emotions and watches you take your meds.

Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds 404media.co
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Meta filed the patent in December 2025 and it was published July 2, 2026, describing a wearable that infers emotional state from voice and behavior.
  • The system would ingest sighs, laughter, vocal tone, location, surrounding objects, and medication timing, aligned on synchronized timelines for accuracy.
  • Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton said patents 'may or may not be implemented,' the standard hedge on filings that are not guaranteed to ship.
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A Super PAC network supported by a $25 million donation from OpenAI President Greg Brockman and $50 million from a16z, just admitted to paying for “parody meme accounts” mocking people with Down syndrome, calling for violence against tech leaders, among a bunch of other insane…

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Meta used AI to target ⁠people with ​disabilities or who ​took ⁠medical leave for mass layoffs. www.usnews.com/news/top-new...

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"If A.I. is the new interface for creating code, and code is a form of communication and expression, then it’s incumbent to ensure only the most critical restrictions are applied to these models."

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Jasmine Sun may be a bit too optimistic but she knows her stuff, and she talks to @taylorlorenz.bsky.social for 50 minutes about why all the people who understand "AI" hype are worried it will take their jobs. [Even if they can't explain why "not real AI" can take their jobs].…

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