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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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…

wsj.com
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1/2 The @economist.com is right to draw attention to the problem of ‘agentic flooding’ where citizens are overwhelming state machinery through AI assisted complaints and appeals. But their unsatisfactory solution seems to be (1) scale back rights 🤔 and (2) use AI back… economi…

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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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