The Who's Who of AI

“Well, this situation is confusing. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...”

“This is wild. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...”

“We reported earlier this year on Meta's plans to roll out a facial recognition feature in its smart glasses and the company said it was "still thinking through options." Now Wired discovers that the code to do it is already in Meta's AI app: www.wired.com/s…”

“While dormant, three AI models — for face detection, cropping, and encoding — have been pushed from Meta's servers. The system is designed to pull faceprints from those servers and store them locally. (Meta says it isn't building a central face database.) w…”

“NEW: HUD appears to be making up FOIA exemptions. @telliotter.bsky.social with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/doge-d...”

““The World Cup will put football’s data and AI on the largest stage there is,” says @grohmannrafael.bsky.social. “The football we watch runs on [data] work as much as on the players. None of it would exist without the workforce behind it.” restofworld.org/2…”

““The growth of wearable technology such as smart vests, as well as the betting industry and prediction platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, is also fueling the demand for data workers.””

“The UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI's assessment is a reference point for AI governance worldwide, writes Eryk Salvaggio. His concern: a definition that obscures human accountability "will carry that blind spot into the policies it infor…”

“Great job of revising and updating my 2023 Wired article, @eryk.bsky.social ! I especially prefer the title (though I never chose a Wired article title, those come from higher powers.) But also the more detailed account of the definition drift. #AIEthics @t…”

“I've seen some folks try to frame OpenAI's unreleased model hacking a company that tests its abilities as a cynical marketing ploy but reporting says that absolutely was not the case: This was a real-deal escape of an AI agent that could have done vastly mo…”

“I had the honor of giving a keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning last week. I addressed the widespread anxiety about how we should adapt as AI capabilities increase. I was thrilled by the talk’s reception, so I have made my slides ava…”

“I found this from @randomwalker.bsky.social very compelling. www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/tal...”

“and this with Cosma is in part about how the two ideas fit together knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...”

“(Sorry, that's "AI as Social Technology": knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...)”

“"Water used at power plants that supply their electricity can be many times as great as the water used in the data centers themselves."”

“The Wall Street Journal is reporting that most big tech companies underreport how much water their data centers use. They often disclose water used for cooling but omit what the power plants supplying them consume. Meta is rare in counting both; 19B gallons…”

“Based on 10 months of fieldwork, Hannah Lipstein shares five takeaways from "Greening AI in the public sector," a new procurement handbook for agencies weighing AI's environmental impacts.”

“In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, Hannah Lipstein writes about the broader implications of “greening AI” in the public sector, and why the public has more power to shape the AI industry’s trajectory than we might think. www.techpolicy.press/governments-...”

“"A group of Meta employees is suing the social-media company over how it carried out layoffs this spring, alleging that it used AI that disproportionately cut workers with disabilities or on protected leave."”

“"Hi, I'm a reporter that would like to cover your company's layoffs." "Hi, uh, ok. What's your name?" "Chip....Cutter." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...”

“Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sen…”

“Work in the AI economy is deliberately organized through an "outsourcing maze," writes the Weizenbaum Institute’s Sana Ahmad, enabling global capital to extract value from workers via layered intermediaries.”

“Work in the AI economy is deliberately organized through an "outsourcing maze," writes the Weizenbaum Institute’s Sana Ahmad, enabling global capital to extract value from workers via layered intermediaries.”

“For decades we regarded the Internet as infrastructure used primarily by people. Following the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, Konstantinos Komaitis argues AI agents challenge that assumption—and AI governance can no longer stay separate from Internet governa…”

“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.”

“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 Learned Societies is a landmark for AI accountability.”

“By July 1, states enacted 109 AI laws and 28 data center laws in 2026, writes NYU Center on Technology Policy director Scott Babwah Brennen—despite federal efforts to stop or limit state AI legislation.”

“By July 1, states enacted 109 AI laws and 28 data center laws in 2026, writes NYU Center on Technology Policy director Scott Babwah Brennen—despite federal efforts to stop or limit state AI legislation.”