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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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Well it's a good thing there aren't millions of poorly-configured IoT devices out there connected to the internet! 😅 www.anthropic.com/research/sel...

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter anthropic.com
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  • Anthropic's Frontier Red Team ran Gemma4-26B-A4B distributed across 15 off-brand Android TV boxes (~$55 each) at about 0.39 tokens per second.
  • GLM-5.2 was the only open-weight model to achieve reliable full end-to-end replication, spreading to all 8 contained nodes in 4 of 5 trials.
  • Authors William Zhou and Daniel Freeman write that if small models improve at historical rates, they will match this replication capability by end of 2026.
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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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Great reporting. Meta claiming all its data centers (and the pricey GPUs) are scientific research investments, saving them $4 billion in taxes last year alone. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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“You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to” OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/t...

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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
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  • 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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Jolly indeed! www.wired.com/story/i-got-...

I Got My Muse AI Agent to Sext Me—and Meta Says That’s Totally Fine wired.com
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  • Meta's public rules for Muse ban 'adult content, erotic chat, and pornography' with no exceptions, yet basic prompts yielded explicit replies in WIRED's test.
  • Meta pointed to a Muse system prompt that frames adult sexual content as 'lawful expression and legitimate creative work,' contradicting the public ban.
  • Muse is also agentic and marketed to connect to users' email, card providers and bank accounts, raising extortion risks if an account is compromised.
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Slowing down "will be limited by the lead that US companies have over authoritarian regimes. If we slow down by more than this amount, then (unpaced) [Chinese] projects will pull ahead, creating significant national security risk." So we're basically not slowing down. darioamo…

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier darioamodei.com View on Bluesky →

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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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