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California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...
A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. nytimes.com
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NEW from me & @peard33.bsky.social: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told staff that Meta did an “atrocious” job of explaining its vision for its new AI division, and will aim to “rekindle” a more cheerful internal culture through better communication, career growth, and snacks www.wi…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’ wired.com
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Daniel Solove
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“In the near future, surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private.” - from a great op-ed by Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress | Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney theguardian.com
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Daniel Solove
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A quote from my essay in the WSJ, “How to Maintain Our Privacy in the AI Age” – available here as a free PDF papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com
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Dr. Elinor Carmi
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Another day, another tech ceo needs to share his prediction about the future with us which is actually a really bad PR for their products. It's written so badly but with the confidence of a tech ceo douche, as usual. But let me just share 2 ridiculous paragraphs -> www.wsj.com…
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Justin Hendrix
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DOGE fed grant descriptions into ChatGPT and rubber-stamped the outputs. A court said that's the government's own conduct — not the chatbot's. Jordan Ascher explains why the decision is a landmark for AI accountability.
A Judicial Wake-Up Call on Government by AI techpolicy.press
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"Apple accused Tang Tan, OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and a former Apple executive, of coaching his hires from Apple on how to evade Apple’s security processes for departing employees." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
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I think we now know what they stole from Apple: A shitty version of ELEGNT. machinelearning.apple.com/research/ele...
ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot machinelearning.apple.com
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Ugh. New evidence that LLMs' sycophancy is degrading humanity news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...
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Hey @nytimes.com: Where's the actual interview? You merely quote Zuck a handful of times in this piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/t...
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