www.wired.com/story/meta-s... Whoa! I can't believe that anyone is still on Facebook or Instagram or any other Zuck platform. Ditch it all and go for Signal!
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Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
Why they matter
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What they're sharing
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones wired.com
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI 404media.co
Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs bbc.com
Majority of City Council Members Urge Mamdani to Pause A.I. in Schools nytimes.com
AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring technologyreview.com
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AI_Toll_Road_v1.pptx docs.google.com
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Wow - can't make this up. Just let us surveil you and your child and your child's teacher and your doctor and your lawyer and your therapist and...watch us get rich! www.404media.co/researchers-...
www.bbc.com/news/article... Google in the poorhouse! "The company's free cash flow, the cash it maintained after paying for operations and investments, came in at negative $5.9bn (£4.3bn) for the first time in at least a decade, according to its past financial records."
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Alphabet posted negative free cash flow of $5.9 billion last quarter, its first negative print in at least a decade.
- Second-quarter capital expenditure hit about $45 billion, split roughly 60% into servers and 40% into data centres.
- Alphabet raised its 2026 AI spending outlook to as much as $205 billion, up from a prior ceiling of $190 billion.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/n... A parent-driven pause AI in schools movement has persuaded the majority of the New York city council to agree!
Nice coverage from #MITTechnology Review on study showing the persistent tendency to reproduce observed stereotypes and turn correlations into grounds for new biases. This is how classifiers work! www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/20/1...
This prez fell prey to reflexive "AI first" 'tudes www.chronicle.com/article/how-... This seems right "Clay Shirky [of NYU]... suggested that the best thing" a prez "can do...is to fall back on what it has always been good at: “convene a broad, complicated conversation that ha…
docs.google.com/presentation... Check out this new teaching resource by @drewuniversity.bsky.social's #JeremeyBlatter and #CriticalAI intern #AJMannino!
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/o...
#CriticalAI 4.1, artist Molly Crabapple speaks out against corporate tech’s fleecing of creative workers and the production of “vampiric slop” which mimics their artistry through AI. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
#CriticalAI4.1, Be sure to check out literary scholar James Dobson's drawing on of AI interdisciplinarian Nina Beguš' work to explain what humanists must do to effectively make sense of gen AI! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
#CriticalAI4.1, Don't forget to check out Russian language scholar Kitt Pribble's critique of automated, LLM-based translation modules! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
#CriticalAI4.1, Don't forget to check out digital studies scholar Kat Brewster's assessment of the heteronormative biases of AI algorithms! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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Recent commentary
Again @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social shows that he doesn't realize that "AI" isn't a single technology. These "good" products are all significantly different.They have little to do w/ the technofeudal, technofascistic monopolies Klein (unknowingly?) boosts when he writes on AI. NYT editors wake up!
@wsj.com documents the gradual shift away from peak hype on the AI jobs apocalypse. Just. Not. Happening.
@criticalai.bsky.social Whenever opinion journalists use "ban" to describe a policy abt use of gen AI in a learning environment, grit your teeth and prepare for bizarre claims and rhetorical questions (below shortchanging clients/endangering the future of students at @berkeleylaw.bsky.social). +
This op essay from a Stanford undergrad is interesting but fails the reality test. Even in Sili Valley, no one's throwing $$ at half-baked startups "AI in the title." Bollocks! Perplexity had early AMZN funding; and let's not forget that Anthropic + OpenAI also lose money w/ each user query. /1
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