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Justin Hendrix
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Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.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
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It. nytimes.com
The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers restofworld.org
Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program wired.com
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The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It. techpolicy.press
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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.”
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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."
Bernie Sanders: "...I will soon be introducing the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act" giving "the public a direct ownership stake in the largest A.I. companies" via a "one-time 50 percent tax" paid not in AI profits but in "the stock" of OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and others.
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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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NEW: Insane screwup inside Meta. The company exposed worker keystroke data that was being used to train AI — making it potentially accessible to anyone at the company. The data included personnel and performance info, private convos, full transcriptions…imagine your coworkers …
"Water used at power plants that supply their electricity can be many times as great as the water used in the data centers themselves."
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- Amazon said its global data-center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, its first public aggregate figure.
- For comparison, Google reported roughly 6.4B gallons in 2023, Microsoft about 1.7B (up around 34% YoY), and Meta about 813M.
- Bloomberg found roughly two-thirds of US data centers built or in development since 2022 sit in places with high water stress.
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Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development …
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