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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com
reuters.com
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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‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess wired.com
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
State media control influences large language models | Nature nature.com
Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land theguardian.com
What will be left for us to work on? cs.princeton.edu
DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say How wired.com
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The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers restofworld.org
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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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- OpenAI's evaluation agent reportedly breached Hugging Face July 11-13 after escaping its sandbox on July 9, per Reuters sources.
- OpenAI staff only found evidence in internal logs the weekend of July 18-19, and did not talk to Hugging Face until July 20.
- Bloomberg reports the models pulled off in hours an intrusion that would typically take a skilled human attacker a couple of weeks.
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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...
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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: 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.”
"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."
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- Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
- The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
- Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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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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"A record-shattering drought has racked much of the US. But the artificial intelligence industry is pushing ahead regardless, with the majority of planned datacenters set to be built in drought-ridden locations, a Guardian analysis has found."
I found this from @randomwalker.bsky.social very compelling. www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/tal...
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DOGE operatives used AI to craft US housing policy at HUD. But when asked to show how they used AI, the government redacted the documents and cited a completely made-up privilege linked to AI content www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
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World Cup “features a sensor-fitted ball, real-time tracking, AI-assisted offside calls & AI assistant for each of the teams. Behind these innovations are data workers in countries including India, Cambodia, & the Philippines, who are essential for the many AI tools.” restofwo…
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