Dr. Elinor Carmi

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Researcher with public evidence across Policy & governance, AI research.

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🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her. https://elinorcarmi.com/ Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social

New: Microsoft has introduced new limits to how much its engineers can spend on AI tools at work and told employees that maximizing AI use internally is not the company’s goal, according to an internal Microsoft email obtained by 440 Media. www.404media.co/microsoft-te...

Microsoft Tells Engineers ‘Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For’ 404media.co
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Microsoft is capping AI token consumption per division from July 2026 after engineers reportedly spent hundreds to a few thousand dollars a month on tokens.
  • EVP Jay Parikh told staff that 'tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for' and to focus on impact per token instead.
  • OpenAI's GPT-5.6 becomes Microsoft's default internal model because it is cheaper, and Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, and Citi are reportedly making similar moves.
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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
AI Weekly's analysis
  • 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
AI Weekly's analysis
  • 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 View on Bluesky →

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
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“…the amended complaint has been expanded to include claims from people who don’t own the face-mounted gadgets but say they were recorded without their ‘informed consent’ when someone around them used the spectacles’ AI features — only for that data to possibly then be used fo…

Meta Hit With Sweeping New Claims That Its AI Glasses Violated the Consent of "Millions" of Bystanders in Searing Lawsuit futurism.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • An amended class action filed September 2, 2026, adds a bystander class to a March 2026 suit alleging Meta AI Glasses capture footage for AI training.
  • Lead counsel Ryan Clarkson of Clarkson Law Firm cites Swedish reporting on whistleblowers at contractor Sama who reviewed intimate footage.
  • Meta sold over 7 million pairs of the glasses in 2025 and says it will fight the allegations.
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Why does the Economist have to interview all these idiots about technology? There are so many interesting people to talk about AI with and both Elon Musk and Yuval Noah Harari get way too much attention about things they know nothing about.

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Perfect thing to do in a super hot day is watch a horror film, so went to see Obsession and it's amazing! At the end of the credits it said "This film may not be used to train AI". Never saw this before, is this a new thing? 🤔

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