NEW: One day after we revealed Meta was quietly building face recognition into its smart glasses, the latest version deletes it. Meta execs, who called our reporting "dishonest" and "misleading," continue to dodge our questions.
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Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report wired.com
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones wired.com
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess wired.com
Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale | WIRED wired.com
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Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women wired.com
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’ wired.com
People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Pissed About the SpaceX IPO wired.com
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I Gave Gemini Spark Access to My Life. Then It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend wired.com
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How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members wired.com
Data Brokers’ and AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds | WIRED wired.com
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Generate Images with Claude and Hugging Face huggingface.co
Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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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.
NEW: "It's literally the gulag." A Meta engineer describes their job in the new 6,500-person "Applied AI" unit, where highly-paid Silicon Valley talent are now "draftees" forced to write puzzle problems to feed the beast. WIRED's inside the morale collapse:
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"When employees protested the rollout in internal messages, CTO Andrew Bosworth 'belittled and berated' the dissenters, one veteran employee says. 'These billionaires can’t even feign empathy...The social contract is completely shattered.'" www.wired.com/story/meta-l...
NEW: WIRED reviewed hundreds of links hosted on Grok dot com and found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities, and at least one prominent US politician, months after xAI said it would stop. By @mattburgess1.bsky.social
NEW: In the wake of unrest over mass layoffs and worker surveillance, Meta is promising its employees better snacks. By @laurengoode.bsky.social & @peard33.bsky.social
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NEW: on the eve of SpaceX's IPO, i spoke to folks in the memphis area still fighting the company's polluting data centers there, which are now also being leased by Anthropic "We’re the extracted and exploited colony of what is going to be one of the most highly valued entities…
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“Even after I gave the agent everything, I still felt like it barely knew me.” In my Friday blog for @wired.com, I tested Google’s Gemini Spark and STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO NOT DO THE SAME. www.wired.com/story/google...
NEW: WIRED investigates how the Thiel-world Dialog society, whose retreats are built around heavy policy discussions with Nobel laureates and military leaders, is secretly fixated on using AI to rank its members based on their wealth and instagram followings.
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A new study finds AI companies, defense firms, and dating apps are among 38 data collectors allegedly using manipulative design to confuse users while collecting their data. www.wired.com/story/data-b...
looks like you can also plug it into Krea, at which point it'll start accepting image generation prompts
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Microsoft told me it's notified a "small number of customers" who may have pulled password-stealing malware from several of its GitHub repos, while many affected repos are still down. I've asked for a specific number. Even a "small number" of Microsoft's many, many customers c…
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