We start this week with Jason’s article about Mark Zuckerberg’s plan for Meta’s AI agents. They don’t sound fun at all. After the break, Emanuel tells us how a company offering “100% human-written” medical research is actually all AI. In the subscribers-only section, Joseph explains why some cities are ditching ...
Researchers Show How Meta’s ‘Pervert Glasses’ Are Used to Harass WomenResearchers Show How Meta’s ‘Pervert Glasses’ Are Used to Harass Women
Instagram is full of first-person videos of men harassing women in public. They follow a similar script: A man walks up to a woman or group of women in a store, sitting outside a cafe, or walking home from a bar, and delivers a pickup line. The women almost always ...
AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, But Almost No One Is Buying ThemAI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, But Almost No One Is Buying Them
CGTrader, an online marketplace for 3D assets, found that one in six models uploaded to the site these days is AI generated, but that AI generated assets account for only $1 out of $90 in revenue on the site. These numbers show that AI generated assets are quickly flooding the ...
The Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram AccountsThe Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts
Government surveillance centers are monitoring viral anti-Flock Instagram posts, warning local police about upcoming DeFlock events including one scheduled to start next week, and have told cops to “increase patrols around ALPR [automatic license plate readers]” as backlash to Flock grows, according to government intelligence bulletins obtained using public records ...
Members of Trump’s cabinet remained on decoy plane, after president’s quiet exitMembers of Trump’s cabinet remained on decoy plane, after president’s quiet exit
Trump boarded a different plane in Turkey during a Nato summit for security reasons involving Iran. ...
‘Bold and ethical’: doctors on AOC’s egg-freezing journey – and Maga’s criticisms of it‘Bold and ethical’: doctors on AOC’s egg-freezing journey – and Maga’s criticisms of it
In documenting the process, AOC is defying the right’s pronatalist narratives about motherhood and women’s careers On Sunday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that she is freezing her eggs. The 36-year-old New York congresswoman took to Instagram to document the process, complete with jabbing a syringe into her stomach on camera. “Don’t ...
Millions of US tax dollars sent to rightwing European thinktanks. Did any Trump supporters vote for that? | Arwa MahdawiMillions of US tax dollars sent to rightwing European thinktanks. Did any Trump supporters vote for that? | Arwa Mahdawi
It’s a great betrayal: poor communities neglected while multimillionaires peddle a global Maga agenda. How is that America first? “THE CORRUPTION IS AT LEVELS RARELY SEEN BEFORE,” Donald Trump posted on Truth Social in February 2025. He was not referring to his own administration, but to the US Agency for ...
AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage?AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage?
The AI jobs apocalypse never showed up. Still, jobs are changing and economists expect more to come. The prediction was stark: artificial intelligence advancements would wipe out jobs en masse. “Half” of all entry-level white collar jobs would vanish, Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, said in May 2025. A month later, ...
Mutants assemble: what does the future hold for the X-Men?Mutants assemble: what does the future hold for the X-Men?
After the introduction of a key character in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Marvel is bringing back one of its most beloved franchises – but the return comes at a precarious time Later-period Marvel movies have resorted to more fantastical plot devices such as parallel universes and time travel in an ...
If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E SandersIf the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders
From space to telecommunications, the US has a long history of fostering technology for the public good. These AI models could be aligned to democratic values, not corporate profits OpenAI, and then Anthropic, were each formed by AI developers who feared unrestrained corporate AI development – specifically, that companies like ...