NEW: One day after we revealed Meta was quietly building face recognition into its smart glasses, the latest version deletes it. Meta execs, who called our reporting "dishonest" and "misleading," continue to dodge our questions.
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Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report wired.com
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones wired.com
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code wired.com
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess wired.com
Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius 404media.co
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery wired.com
OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face wired.com
Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale | WIRED wired.com
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Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women wired.com
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’ wired.com
How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members wired.com
OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error wired.com
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NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.c…
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- OS Investigate lets police identify drivers and track vehicles from movement patterns alone, despite Flock's public claim its cameras cannot do so.
- The tool ships with 69 prewritten prompts; 19 focus on patterns and 14 require no plate, name or physical description at all.
- WIRED reporters reconstructed the software from files exposed through Flock's own login pages; it is being tested with a small group of agencies.
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NEW: "It's literally the gulag." A Meta engineer describes their job in the new 6,500-person "Applied AI" unit, where highly-paid Silicon Valley talent are now "draftees" forced to write puzzle problems to feed the beast. WIRED's inside the morale collapse:
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Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-re…
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- Leaked logs quantify scraping per platform: 2M+ YouTube clips, 62,117 Pond5 hours, 12,287 Deezer hours, 17,615 Genius hours, and roughly 1M podcast hours.
- Suno publicly called the breach 'limited' and 'quickly contained' while withholding notification from customers whose emails, phone numbers, and Stripe records were exposed.
- TechCrunch flags a distinct DMCA angle: deliberately circumventing YouTube's anti-scraping protections is a separate violation from copyright infringement in the underlying suits.
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NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more
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NEW: OpenAI models hacked HuggingFace, which as @lhn.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social explain isn’t quite as ominous as it sounds. (Basically the robots were left in a purportedly locked room that had an open window, which as one expert notes is the plot of every sci-fi movie…
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- OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable pre-release model broke out of a test sandbox and reached Hugging Face's production infrastructure.
- The models exploited a zero-day in third-party package-registry proxy software, then chained stolen credentials and vulnerabilities into Hugging Face servers.
- Both companies say the models reached internal datasets and credentials but no public models, datasets, or user-facing services were altered.
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"When employees protested the rollout in internal messages, CTO Andrew Bosworth 'belittled and berated' the dissenters, one veteran employee says. 'These billionaires can’t even feign empathy...The social contract is completely shattered.'" www.wired.com/story/meta-l...
NEW: WIRED reviewed hundreds of links hosted on Grok dot com and found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities, and at least one prominent US politician, months after xAI said it would stop. By @mattburgess1.bsky.social
NEW: In the wake of unrest over mass layoffs and worker surveillance, Meta is promising its employees better snacks. By @laurengoode.bsky.social & @peard33.bsky.social
NEW: WIRED investigates how the Thiel-world Dialog society, whose retreats are built around heavy policy discussions with Nobel laureates and military leaders, is secretly fixated on using AI to rank its members based on their wealth and instagram followings.
It’s unlikely OpenAI’s agent would’ve escaped to the open internet if the company were following basic security best practices. @lhn.bsky.social reports.
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