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Retired UNESCO Dir for Digital Inclusion, Policies & Transformation. Chair, UN University, eGov Institute. UNESCO Women in STEM Committee Some pottery and cyanotyping Profile picture is of my face and torso Banner is a picture I took of a light garden

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social

“Our goal has always been to help people create original new music.” —Suno But that goal is impossible. AI models are wholly dependent on their training data, incapable of generating something “original.” A novel remix of the past perhaps, but always literally derivative. @jas…

Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius 404media.co
AI Weekly's analysis
  • 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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404 Media @404media.co

Imagine a wearable device that records every moment of your day and makes suggestions based on your mood.

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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@restofworld.org

South Africa recently became the first country to withdraw a national policy document after officials discovered the text was littered with fake research citations generated by AI https://restofworld.org/2026/government-ai-hallucinations-south-africa-deloitte/?utm_campaign=row…

Fact-check fail: When AI hallucinations derailing governments - Rest of World restofworld.org
AI Weekly's analysis
  • South Africa withdrew its Draft National AI Policy in April 2026 after at least six of 67 bibliography sources were flagged as AI fabrications.
  • Deloitte refunded $290,000 of $440,000 charged to Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations for a report with fabricated academic references.
  • EU cybersecurity agency ENISA admitted 26 of 492 footnotes in its threat reports were incorrect.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social

my favourite example of this (not mentioned in this piece but a plausible implication of it) are the AI Can Replace Middle Management cultists www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...

programmablemutter.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince laid off more than 20% of his workforce while citing Peter Drucker's 1954 management framework to explain the cuts.
  • Prince labeled laid-off workers 'measurers' — a Drucker category he applied to middle management, finance, legal, and internal auditing.
  • Henry Farrell argues Prince inverted Drucker's intent: Drucker used measurement to develop managers, not to identify who to eliminate.
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World Cup is over. Back to AI and cyanotype.

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