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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

Google ai open web

9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Data & Society Taylor Lorenz Kashmir Hill Christopher Mims kate conger nilay patel Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis Dare Obasanjo +1

“As web searches are increasingly performed by AI chatbots, the number of people visiting websites is falling. It's a change that poses a serious threat to the open web. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...”

“Long ago, Yelp complained that Google was hurting its business by surfacing information from Yelp in Google searches such that people stopped visiting Yelp. (Lawsuit over this ongoing.) With AI mode, the rest of the web is now feeling Yelp's pain: www.nytim…”

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Luis Villa: @uhjustin.bsky.social a billion people a month use ChatGPT. It has more users than Wikipedia does, and is by any metric the fastest growing product in history. There’s a lot of complex and importan…
Luis Villa: @uhjustin.bsky.social because life is too short to argue on the internet with random strangers, and because I’m on vacation. Muting you now, have a great life!
Luis Villa: @viperx83.bsky.social anyway here’s Cloudflare data saying human web browsing is falling off a cliff https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/google-ai-open-web.html
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established Agents & robotics Development 5d ago
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Rural NY school humanoid robot teacher

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

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Olivia Guest Taylor Lorenz Hypervisible Luke Stark sorelle Dare Obasanjo Charles Logan Meredith Rose +4

“A rural New York school district has teamed up with a crypto/sex doll company to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant in the classroom this fall.”

“Seriously, this article contains such amazing ridiculousness. What fresh hell is this: "They'll be able to say, 'Hey, I'm student number 1234,' and then the robot will be like, 'Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that convers…”

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Julie Carpenter, PhD: As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from hu…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: This fall, Salamanca City Central School District in rural Western New York is putting a humanoid robot named "Sally" in the classroom. Not a metaphor. A silicone-skinned, seated robot plus an AI a…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: Start with who's being sold this. Salamanca sits entirely within the Seneca Nation reservation. 32% of students are American Indian or Alaska Native. 79% are economically disadvantaged. This is exa…
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Primary source nysfocus.com ↗
Established Culture, work & education Development 14d ago
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Meta patents emotion tracking device

Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds

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404 Media Taylor Lorenz Marielza Amanda Tepski

“Many LLMs have already scanned the entire internet and are still hungry for more. Meta’s patented system would give it unprecedented access to the movements, moods, and interactions of its users. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. @mjgault.bsky.social story:…”

“Meta has patented an AI device that tracks your emotions and watches you take your meds.”

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Established Culture, work & education Signal 9d ago
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Meta used ai to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs former employees lawsuit claims

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Mike Masnick Taylor Lorenz

“Meta used AI to target ⁠people with ​disabilities or who ​took ⁠medical leave for mass layoffs. www.usnews.com/news/top-new...”

Primary source usnews.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 9d ago

Ai code free speech

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Taylor Lorenz

“"If A.I. is the new interface for creating code, and code is a form of communication and expression, then it’s incumbent to ensure only the most critical restrictions are applied to these models."”

Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established Culture, work & education Analysis 14d ago
smart glasses surveillance essay

Hot Surveillance Summer, aka Why Smart Glasses Feel Different This Time

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Taylor Lorenz

“I wrote about the "hot surveillance summer" trend, why so many West Village fashion girlies are posting AI glasses selfies, and how, for thousands of people (not me!!! lol), cameras on your face have officially gone from creepy to chic.”

Primary source usermag.co ↗