Jon Keegan

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Tech reporter / Data journalist ➡️ @sherwood.news I report on AI and Big Tech. ⏪️ The Markup, Tow Center, WSJ. Aspiring 46er. ⛰️ Newsletter: https://beautifulpublicdata.com https://jonkeegan.com 📝 Send tips: Signal: jonkeegan.73

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Just read through this Times piece on how Meta's Hyperion data center. Solid telling of the story...BUT... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t... ...most of the details in here were already reported by Stephanie Riegel at The Advocate back in January 2025. No links! www.theadvocate.c…

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OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 Sol rolls out in "limited release" — which was requested by the Trump administration. Also releasing Terra and Luna which are smaller, cheaper models. openai.com/index/previe...

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Step 1: Quietly put face recognition code on millions of phones Step 2: Insist that you could not possibly answer any questions about that face recognition feature because it "doesn't exist" Step 3: Have your CTO describe the face recognition in great detail on a podcast. from…

Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’ | WIRED wired.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • WIRED found dormant face-recognition code called NameTag inside Meta's AI companion app, installed on more than 50 million phones since January 2026.
  • The system used three AI models to detect faces, crop them, and encode biometric signatures on-device, with unrecognised faces indexed and stored locally.
  • Meta stripped nearly all the code within a day of WIRED's report, said the feature does not exist, and called the reporting 'incredibly misleading.'
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A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There futurism.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Anthropic's Claude share links were indexed by Google, exposing a real patient's medical report, clinical trial results with patient names, and children's phone numbers.
  • Discovered by Redditors over the weekend, the leak echoes a prior Forbes report of hundreds of indexed Claude chats that Anthropic then scrubbed.
  • Anthropic says shared links are 'not guessable or discoverable unless people choose to share them themselves,' but Google is doing the discovering.
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Striking charts in this week's Briefing on AI models' values www.economist.com/briefing/202...

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Just read through this Times piece on how Meta's Hyperion data center. Solid telling of the story...BUT... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t... ...most of the details in here were already reported by Stephanie Riegel at The Advocate back in January 2025. No links! www.theadvocate.c…

The behind-the-scenes story of how Meta theadvocate.com
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The telltale sign of a Claude dashboard. In the future designers will be like "I want to evoke the early days of AI. Like 2026 Claude dashboard shit"

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One idea that has crystallized for me — using AI to help you make custom tools to express your ideas is super powerful. AI is not making the end product, but lets you build a super-custom magical tool for just the thing you want to build.

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