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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com
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Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report wired.com
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones wired.com
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code wired.com
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess wired.com
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State media control influences large language models | Nature nature.com
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Love this, always a sign of corporate honesty: "A spokeswoman said there were 'several inaccuracies' in Reuters' reporting but didn't respond when asked to describe them." www.reuters.com/business/its...
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NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
"Asked specifically where he diverges from Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei, Altman said 'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.'"
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- Altman said the world 'should accept some bad things happening' for AI's benefits, drawing the line only at 'really catastrophic risks' like serious loss of control.
- He put 'a lot of daylight' between OpenAI and Anthropic's Dario Amodei on how heavy-handed AI regulation should be.
- Altman called AI industry political spending 'clearly not working' and said he no longer gives personally because OpenAI does business with the government.
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NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
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NEW: Flock has said for years its cameras don’t identify or track people. We obtained the code for its police AI and rebuilt parts of it. The tool can find witnesses, surface associates, search people by race or physical description, and flag vehicles by how they move. W/ @del…
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- OS Investigate lets police identify drivers and track vehicles from movement patterns alone, despite Flock's public claim its cameras cannot do so.
- The tool ships with 69 prewritten prompts; 19 focus on patterns and 14 require no plate, name or physical description at all.
- WIRED reporters reconstructed the software from files exposed through Flock's own login pages; it is being tested with a small group of agencies.
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NEW: Meta’s AI strategy is ripping the company to shreds — and the tea is piping hot! Among the many scoops in this story, someone interrupted an internal Meta call this week to describe a company exec as “a piece of shit.”
Researchers from Oregon, Purdue, UC San Diego, NYU and Princeton ran six experiments. The overarching finding: state control of media in many countries is already baked into the training data of widely used commercial models, and is shaping the answers those models give right …
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- Chinese state-media content appears in typical LLM training sets at roughly 41 times the rate of Chinese-language Wikipedia.
- Across 37 countries, models prompted in the local language produce more regime-favorable responses in countries with lower press freedom.
- A pretraining experiment with just 6,400 state-scripted documents pushed an open-weight model to pro-government responses nearly 80 percent of the time.
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"An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans."
"The secrecy was agreed to by nearly everyone involved, from utility executives to the governor’s office to a local elected official who knew about the talks with Meta and sold 300 acres of his own property for the project."
Meta is tapping "into a tax credit intended for research and experimentation. It’s an aggressive interpretation of the tax break, which Meta embraced to claim billions of dollars in tax credits for data center expansion."
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"The report, according to one of the sources, was 'entirely false.' But it also 'almost started a war,' the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations."
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