Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

New research presents the most compelling evidence yet that generative AI directly stores and reproduces material used to train it—a finding that could have massive legal consequences for the tech industry, Alex Reisner reports.

To unpack that, banning u16s from social media rather than taking action on Grok is, effectively, saying an engine that creates Nazi propaganda and CSAM content is a legitimate part of adult society that children should be protected from. But everyone should surely be protected from Grok?

This applies in good measure to UK tech policy too. I worry very much that - economically and in terms of innovation capabilities - we have become yoked to a bunch of temperamental and unstable technology futures, driven by US tech firms

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Reservoir Dogs was 1992, not 1994. Pulp Fiction was 2 years later, not 11 years later. Jesus Christ, @theguardian.com, whatever wretched AI rubbish you’re using in place of proper journalists, it ain’t working. Switch it off.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying

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I have never seen a situation so dismal that Tony Blair couldn't make it worse.