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New Compute & infrastructure Signal 19h ago
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Meta data center louisiana

10 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

10 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Justin Hendrix Kashmir Hill kate conger Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dan Greene Ben Winters Amanda Tepski Social Media Lab +2
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago
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Ai slop books biography amazon

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Kashmir Hill Sarah T Roberts, PhD Mor Naaman evacide Eileen Clancy 🧿 Woodrow Hartzog Andrew Heiss +3
3 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Kashmir Hill: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Salomé Viljoen: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Kashmir Hill: To quote myself... "My biography was no 'Fifty Shades.' The only punishing part was reading it."
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 7d ago

Google ai open web

9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

9 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Data & Society Taylor Lorenz Kashmir Hill Christopher Mims kate conger nilay patel Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis Dare Obasanjo +1
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established Culture, work & education Development 20d ago
⚡ 384 h early
Meta glasses face recognition rollout

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

12 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Justin Hendrix Kashmir Hill dell cameron evacide Katie Drummond Eileen Clancy 🧿 Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue Andrew Couts +4
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Multiple readings

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“The Meta Ray-Ban creep glasses already have facial-recognition capabilities--Meta just hasn't enabled them yet. www.wired.com/story/meta-s...”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“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…”

2 experts discussed this · 7 posts
dell cameron: 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.
Justin Hendrix: 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.
dell cameron: 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 local…
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Primary source wired.com ↗
Established AI research Resource 12d ago
⚡ 31 h early
In the Weights newsletter issue

IN THE WEIGHTS

11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Lynn Cherny Kashmir Hill Reuben Binns Dare Obasanjo Ben Williamson Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich Amanda Tepski +3
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Research & technical analysis

2 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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Established AI field signal Signal 7d ago
⚡ 2 h early

Apple app store vibecoding

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Kashmir Hill Scott McGrath Dare Obasanjo

“Just as A.I.-generated books are flooding Amazon, vibe-coded apps are flooding the App store, via @kalleyhuang.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...”

“I wonder if the concept of apps will fade a bit in time. I think vibecoding will eventually take a turn towards more niche applications instead of large market appeal. I vibecoded a chore/allowance app for my son, and it works well, but I'll never put it up…”

Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established Vision & synthetic media Development 18d ago
⚡ 3 h early
Meta Instagram photos AI opt out policy

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out | WIRED

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Kashmir Hill Reece Amanda Tepski

““As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using yo…”

“OpenAI's ill-fated Sora allowed people to make AI-generated videos with other people's likenesses, but those people had to opt in to letting their likenesses being used. Meta is taking a different path, reports @thiccreese.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/m…”

Primary source wired.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 7d ago

I Took a ‘Decision Holiday’ and Put A.I. in Charge of My Life (Published 2024)

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Kashmir Hill

“Columbia professor Sandra Matz talks about whether AI is making us boring and cites the "basic b" effect that gen AI had on me when I let it make all my decisions for a week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5aB... That story: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...”

Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 19d ago

New york times

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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Kashmir Hill

“Update on NYT v. OpenAI. NYT asked judge to sanction OpenAI for not turning over training data sets and ChatGPT outputs that have been requested in discovery: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/t... OpenAI has previously expressed privacy concerns around NYT reques…”

Primary source openai.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 7d ago

Is AI making us boring? | Sandra Matz | TEDxNewEngland

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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Kashmir Hill

“Columbia professor Sandra Matz talks about whether AI is making us boring and cites the "basic b" effect that gen AI had on me when I let it make all my decisions for a week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5aB... That story: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...”

Primary source youtube.com ↗