Michael Zimmer

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A Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loo…

‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft 404media.co

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California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. nytimes.com

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New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media…

‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit 404media.co

The Harris County jury assigned 3M 30% liability and awarded $61.5 million, the third plaintiff-favorable verdict across four Watson Grinding trials, with nearly 2,000 additional plaintiffs and a next trial set for October 2026.
350 pages of ChatGPT session logs became the primary evidence against the defense's own expert, establishing AI chat histories as discoverable work product in U.S. mass tort proceedings.
KnightHawk Engineering's formal public response called the coverage a 'selective and negative snapshot' and 'Fake News,' the first on-record denial from a defense engineering firm caught using AI-generated expert testimony.

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In disclosures buried in securities filings, the tech giant warns that billions in tax savings are vulnerable to being overturned by the I.R.S., in large part because of “uncertainties with our research tax credits.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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AI is driving health care costs *up*: Hospitals’ AI-assisted coding added nearly $1 billion in claims over two years, with no evidence patients received different treatment. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...

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NEW from me & @peard33.bsky.social: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told staff that Meta did an “atrocious” job of explaining its vision for its new AI division, and will aim to “rekindle” a more cheerful internal culture through better communication, career growth, and snacks www.wi…

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’ wired.com View on Bluesky →

Zuckerberg's philosophy in a nutshell: widely distributed superintelligence will make society safer and more prosperous for everyone. On brand, he’s largely silent on how to overcome inequalities in compute, capital, infrastructure, influence, and control. www.meta.com/thefutu…

The Future is for Everyone meta.com

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“Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.” A Texas University Becomes a Petri Dish for a Conservative Overhaul www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...

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In case you've been wondering about the viability of AI simulated surveys, Pew has offered in-depth reporting on their experiment with simulated survey participants. By Athena Chapekis, Arnold Lau, Samuel Bestvater, Sono Shah, Andrew Mercer, Aaron Smith www.pewresearch.org/dat…

Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really pewresearch.org

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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It's just so unlike Zuckerberg to release a product like this.... Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents www.theverge.com/tech/1011938...

Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents theverge.com

Meta's new AI assistant Muse reached No. 1 on Apple's App Store and asks users to grant access to bank accounts, passwords, contacts, and chat logs.
Security researchers found Muse builds hourly profiles of everyone in a user's contact list, scoring relationship closeness and communication patterns.
Signal president Meredith Whittaker warns the agent's reach extends to everyone the installer communicates with, not just the person who tapped install.