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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

Google ai open web

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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…”

3 experts discussed this · 8 posts
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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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…”

3 experts discussed this · 24 posts
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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