The Who's Who of AI

“Americans are relying more and more on AI to get information, including on elections. Every chatbot the Brennan Center for Justice tested pushed back on election conspiracy theories, Larry Norden told me on the podcast. But half of all responses still conta…”

“Americans are relying more and more on AI to get information, including on elections. Every chatbot the Brennan Center for Justice tested pushed back on election conspiracy theories, Larry Norden tells Justin Hendrix. But half of all responses still contain…”

“A new Meta patent published Thursday says a system, like its AI glasses, would use facial recognition to identify people, create a series of video clips, then provide you with a highlight reel of your night. www.404media.co/meta-patents...”

“Here are more screenshots from the patent showing Meta's AI smart glasses use facial recognition on a bunch of people, identify them, create videos, then make a highlight reel of the night www.404media.co/meta-patents...”

“I articulated my point more fully here, if it’s of interest: anildash.com/2026/08/21/a...”

“Hey look at this * Does copyright protect AI-generated content in Europe? euobserver.com/232898/inter... * FTC Says It Will Enforce Surveillance Pricing. It Won’t. prospect.org/2026/08/21/f... * Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI w…”

“@signulll @theojaffee In some cases this would work, but I'm afraid this really has become a religious issue now in some regards. https://t.co/g3KxNGFSaL”

“Who defined the problem? Who controls the system? Who benefits and bears the errors? Who can contest the decision? Massimo Ragnedda and Maria Laura Ruiu propose four questions every consequential AI audit should answer, adding a "power test" alongside the f…”

“I'm professionally really interested in this story but URL it just makes me feel terribly terribly old www.npr.org/2026/08/19/n...”

“Brainrots have taken “the youth internet by storm. In the game, different brainrot characters come out on a conveyor belt and players pick them up. But they can also steal brainrots from each other. Steal a Brainrot is one of the top games” www.npr.org/2026…”

“Qwen 3.8 27B weights are finally out includes low, med & xhigh reasoning efforts fully multimodal (image and video), seems better than Meta’s Muse Glimmer huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”

“Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B (open-weight) huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”

“Human Rights Watch senior economic inequality adviser Sarah Saadoun explains how a century-old physical-presence rule in bilateral tax treaties lets tech giants earn fortunes in countries while paying tax elsewhere—and how a new UN treaty could finally chan…”

“Human Rights Watch senior economic inequality adviser Sarah Saadoun explains how a century-old physical-presence rule in bilateral tax treaties lets tech giants earn fortunes in countries while paying tax elsewhere—and how a new UN treaty could finally chan…”

“Google DeepMind article on 15 tears of Ai game research”

“Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about my newsletter "What Happens If OpenAI Dies?" and how the signs are there that the collapse has already begun. https://t.co/LocxtZz5tq”