This is president of Google - a company accused of illegally harvesting copyrighted work - saying journalists need to learn to use AI or ‘risk missing out’. He’s just been appointed to the board of The Guardian. I hope every journalist in the org watches this & asks: why?

This new paper is so cool! It shows that the media use language structures—such as passive voice, nominalizations, and intransitive verbs—that obscure responsibility more often in cases of police killings than in cases of civilian killings. Then, in an experiment, it shows

Google removed the pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance from its AI principles

6/ Gegenwärtig schwappt eine Welle des Illiberalismus über grosse Teile der Welt. Die grösste Gefahr dabei: Uns an das Missachten demokratischer, regelbasierter Ordnung zu gewöhnen. Demokratie stirbt dann, wenn es uns egal wird, dass sie stirbt.

Oh great, I guess we're using Chain of Thought for everything now (at what cost to the Planet??)

The AI Summit ends in rupture. AI accelerationists want pure expansion—more capital, energy, private infrastructure, no guard rails. Public interest camp supports labor, sustainability, shared data. safety, and oversight. The gap never looked wider. AI is in its empire era.

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Kate Bush, Sir Paul McCartney and Barbara Broccoli are among artists calling on ministers to prevent AI companies “stealing” copyright from Britain’s creative industries thetimes.com/uk/technology-…

Die Union will offenbar das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) abschaffen, meldet @FragDenStaat. Dahinter stecke Philipp Amthor – der wg seiner früheren Tätigkeit für Augustus Intelligence selbst unter IFG-Anfragen von uns & FragDenStaat zu leiden hatte 🧵 fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exklus….

You see computer vision researchers/engineers knew about style transfer like the one OpenAI showcased but had the right moral compass not to develop something that steals work from hardworking artists. And withdrew a research paper on artistic style transfer from arxiv.

“The entire business model of Silicon Valley is surveillance. It harvests our data in order to sell us stuff. We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism.” - Carole Cadwalladr Watch the explosive first talk from #TED2025 now: t.ted.com/1oPTHXj

Here’s the voice cloning company that wrote that report. Selling the solution to the problem they’re creating.

bank robber in court: no your honor i was simply democratizing access to capital

Trump, the peacemaker.

Just when you thought your jaw couldn't drop any further... Donald Trump releases a private message sent by NATO Sec General Mark Rutte - with a very big claim, and written, it would seem, in the most Trumpian language (NATO has confirmed to BBC it is genuine). What a world.

nato secretary general reminding us why we don’t want to go into politics

“Hey Lina, you’re the reason I have a small business right now!” “What!?” “Yeah, after you banned non-competes, I was able to start my own business!” The antitrust icon, Lina Khan, folks.

To recap: Firms have been making people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription, trapping Americans in needless bureaucracy and wasting their time & money. FTC began writing a “click-to-cancel” rule promoting efficient cancellation, a rulemaking process that

Palantir is global surveillance architecture. It’s client list now includes: -UK -Germany -France -Denmark -Norway -Switzerland -Israel -Ukraine -Japan -South Korea -Australia -Canada (even NATO) It’s not a tech company. It’s an operating system for empire.

AI knockoff of my book (L) versus the genuine article (R) We need to rise up and stop the tech industry by force. Our livelihoods, our culture, and our ecological environment are worth fighting for. I am deadly serious.

Deep research agents make harmful outputs more likely by turning risky prompts into polished reports. Agent features like planning and retrieval quietly break standard safety They use step-by-step planning, web search, and long writeups to bypass normal refusals. They present