We reported earlier this year on Meta's plans to roll out a facial recognition feature in its smart glasses and the company said it was "still thinking through options." Now Wired discovers that the code to do it is already in Meta's AI app: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
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Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones wired.com
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‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit 404media.co
Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed nytimes.com
The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes nytimes.com
Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits nytimes.com
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Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out | WIRED wired.com
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IN THE WEIGHTS intheweights.com
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Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
This is some incredible in-the-room reporting from @elitan.bsky.social and Maureen Farrell on how Meta got its vast, six-square-mile data center cooking in Louisiana www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
Expert witness earning $475 per hour was spending a lot of those hours prompting ChatGPT www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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- 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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Long ago, Yelp complained that Google was hurting its business by surfacing information from Yelp in Google searches such that people stopped visiting Yelp. (Lawsuit over this ongoing.) With AI mode, the rest of the web is now feeling Yelp's pain: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
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- Human traffic to finance, publishing and retail sites fell nearly 40 percent between June 2025 and April 2026, per Cloudflare data cited by the Times.
- Google's AI Mode keeps users inside Google in roughly 75 percent of sessions, with queries running about three times as long as before.
- The Verge's Nilay Patel says 'Google Zero' has arrived for publishers; Google's Liz Reid counters that AI Search still sends billions of clicks weekly.
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Great profile of Hany Farid who recently left Bay Area for Vermont: "I can’t stand this place anymore... These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...
On AI legal slop: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/u...
More on the proliferation of A.I. books, including a study on the success of A.I.-generated genre fiction: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b... arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20349
More on the proliferation of A.I. books, including a study on the success of A.I.-generated genre fiction: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b... arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20349
OpenAI's ill-fated Sora allowed people to make AI-generated videos with other people's likenesses, but those people had to opt in to letting their likenesses being used. Meta is taking a different path, reports @thiccreese.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/meta-n...
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- Meta's new Muse Image tool lets anyone in the Meta AI app @-mention a public Instagram account and pull that user's photos into a generation.
- Instagram accounts are opted in by default; the toggle sits under Sharing and reuse in the app's Settings and activity menu.
- Muse Image was built by Meta's Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang and is rolling out across Instagram and WhatsApp, with Facebook and Messenger to follow.
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Did not even last a week. The fact that this made it out the door means the privacy department now works in a basement with no computers and a single stapler. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
I did not know of this joke quote Funnily enough, a tool for seeing how you're weighted in the LLMs recently told me that Kashmir Hill is either me or a Himalayan mountain range, so it could indeed be a land of contradictions. Tool: intheweights.com
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- Joey Flynn and Thomas Dimson, both former OpenAI employees, built the site, which launched in June 2026.
- The tool queries models including GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini, Grok, and Llama, scoring recognition up to a maximum of 996.
- Appearing in a 1-billion-parameter model like Meta's Llama signals especially high relevance, because smaller models compress knowledge more aggressively.
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