Ben Goggin
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Senior Editor, Technology @ NBC News Signal: beng.38 https://linktr.ee/bengoggin benjamin.goggin@nbcuni.com bgoggin@protonmail.com
New bill would stop Trump Media from selling speedy access to the president’s posts www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
New bill would stop Trump Media from selling speedy access to president’s posts
Legislation from Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., takes aim at a new paid service from Trump Media promising faster alerts to posts from President Donald Trump and others.
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Creator of test at the heart of rogue AI hacks warns ‘there have likely been more’ www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
Creator of test at the heart of rogue AI hacks warns ‘there have likely been more’
Dawn Song, who helped create the cybersecurity evaluation entangled in the recent OpenAI and Anthropic rogue-agent incidents, says the disclosed cases probably aren’t the only ones.
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I found the NYTimes Daily episode on AIPAC a bit odd. There was a lengthy discussion about antisemitism and whether it delegitimized criticism of Israel and AIPAC. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/p...
Israel, AIPAC and Difficult Questions for Democrats
Once the guardian of the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus, the lobbying group AIPAC is now a polarizing force in the Democratic Party.
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Minnesota now disputing Wisconsin’s characterization
Ben Goggin@bengoggin.bsky.social · 5d agoA Wisconsin water warning obtained by NBC News shared previously unreleased details about Minnesota's water system cyberattack. The warning says threat actors were able to drop system pressure, triggering law enforcement response www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
BREAKING: Judge denies request by Elon Musk’s xAI to pause Minnesota nudification ban set to go into effect Saturday www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Judge denies request by Elon Musk’s xAI to pause Minnesota nudification ban
The ruling clears the way for the first-in-the-nation law to go into effect on Saturday.
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A Wisconsin water warning obtained by NBC News shared previously unreleased details about Minnesota's water system cyberattack. The warning says threat actors were able to drop system pressure, triggering law enforcement response www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
Tinder tested an AI tool on real users that unintentionally altered people’s photos, adding smiles, tattoos, and other traits to photos that weren’t real. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Tinder pauses AI tool after it gave some daters unsolicited makeovers
An in-app “Photo Enhance” tool altered some users’ appearances without their permission. Tinder told NBC News that the unintended changes affected a small number of users.
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As AI moves from software to the physical world, China's hardware capital is betting its decades of manufacturing know-how will become a decisive advantage. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Robot waiters and drone deliveries: Inside China’s futuristic hardware capital
Long a symbol of China’s economic surge, Shenzhen is embracing a high-tech, low-altitude future.
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Top scientists at OpenAI and Anthropic ask U.S. for tools to pace AI development www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
Top scientists at OpenAI and Anthropic ask U.S. for tools to pace AI development
The statement — signed by senior employees at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta — comes days after an OpenAI model escaped its sandbox and attacked another company’s systems.
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Despite AI companies and the Chinese government blocking residents of China from accessing top American AI models, Chinese AI users still love Claude and ChatGPT www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Blocked but booming: How people in China use American AI
Using VPNs, company accounts and other work-arounds, China’s AI users are flocking to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude.
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Bipartisan bill would require companies to tell users when they’re talking to AI www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Bipartisan bill would require companies to tell users when they’re talking to AI
The Senior Chatbot Protection Act, from Sens. Mark Kelly and Jim Justice, would require clear labeling of AI and new protections for health and financial conversations.
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Trump restricted China’s access to AI chips. It’s racing to build its own. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Trump restricted China’s access to AI chips. It’s racing to build its own.
At the World AI Conference in Shanghai, Chinese chipmakers pitched their latest hardware to customers who can’t get Nvidia’s technology — and can’t get enough of theirs, either.
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A bipartisan bill would let U.S. AI companies coordinate to counter "distillation," or alleged Chinese copying of their models, treating it as a national security threat. But some in the industry say the practice is standard. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
New bill takes aim at Chinese AI companies accused of copying American tech
The bipartisan effort addresses claims from American tech companies and officials that Chinese companies are “distilling” frontier U.S. models.
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China fires back at Trump administration claims that its AI companies steal U.S. tech www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
China fires back at Trump administration claims that its AI companies steal U.S. tech
A government spokesperson told NBC News that the allegations were an unfounded “smear” resulting from prejudice.
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this story is wild - so much in here www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... by @natashakorecki.bsky.social @bengoggin.bsky.social
Wisconsin Democratic candidate David Crowley disavows his old crude and caustic ‘Dirt McGirk’ Twitter account
Crowley contends others also had access to the Twitter burner account and says he did not post incendiary messages about women and race, as well as derogatory LGBTQ references.
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NEW: Wisconsin Dem primary candidate for governor David Crowley maintained an old burner account on Twitter called ‘Dirt McGirk,' filled with incendiary posts about women, race, and derogatory LGBTQ references. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Wisconsin Democratic candidate David Crowley disavows his old crude and caustic ‘Dirt McGirk’ Twitter account
Crowley contends others also had access to the Twitter burner account and says he did not post incendiary messages about women and race, as well as derogatory LGBTQ references.
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Ukraine's president faces the biggest domestic crisis of the war — a choice between a 35-year-old tech-minded defense minister whose drone campaigns have set Russian refineries ablaze, and a 61-year-old general whose tactics protesters call outdated. www.nbcnews.com/world/ukrain...
From military success to political strife: Ukraine consumed by clash between wartime leaders
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spent the weekend signaling he may make a dramatic reversal after mass protests against his decision to fire popular Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov and back Gen. Oleks...
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America's data center boom is being fueled by companies you've probably never heard of. About 70 firms — most predating the AI boom — are racing to build the infrastructure behind AI, raising billions and colliding with protests along the way. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Meet the little-known companies behind America’s data center boom
AI demand has brought billions in financing to little-known developers, while putting them at the center of fights over electricity, pollution and land.
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At China's big AI conference over the weekend: robot police, droid fights and a roof collapse Our reporting from Shanghai www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Inside China’s big AI show: Robot police, dancing humanoids and a roof collapse
Hundreds of thousands of people visited Shanghai to see fleets of humanoid robots, artificial hands and walls of computer chips as China projects global leadership on AI.
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Furious Ukrainians protest ousting of the man seen as spearheading turnaround against Russia @janelytv.bsky.social reports from Kyiv www.nbcnews.com/world/ukrain...
Furious Ukrainians protest ousting of the man seen as spearheading turnaround against Russia
Hundreds gathered in Kyiv and other cities on Thursday, a rare wartime display of dissent after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s apparent move to fire his popular defense minister.
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Xi seeks to turn China’s AI boom into global influence at Shanghai's World AI Conference www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Xi seeks to turn China’s AI boom into global influence at Shanghai conference
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s speech at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai signals the technology’s importance to Beijing as a powerful diplomatic tool.
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Warren seeks new Trump crypto disclosures after his reported $1.4 billion haul www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/...
Warren seeks new Trump crypto disclosures after $1.4 billion haul
The Senate is debating key legislation that could benefit the president’s crypto business.
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Meta has had this technology for nearly a decade. I reported on their suicide algorithm and associated privacy concerns for Business Insider. On Facebook, they would create a "suicidality score" for posts, and potentially contact law enforcement. www.businessinsider.com/facebook-is-...
Inside Facebook's suicide algorithm: Here's how the company uses artificial intelligence to predict your mental state from your posts
Facebook's suicide prevention algorithm scans people's posts for potential suicide risk. Is creating and storing mental health data a new danger?
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Sky News@news.sky.com · 3w agoMeta to alert parents if teenagers ask Instagram AI chatbot about suicide or self-harm
The office at the center of Trump's tech agenda is struggling with delays, internal distrust and management turmoil, according to interviews with 13 current and former officials. Our look inside the Bureau of Industry and Security www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
A Trump appointee has slowed the office guarding America’s most sensitive tech, insiders say
The Bureau of Industry and Security and its director, Jeff Kessler, have overseen a slowdown in export approvals and a closer relationship with the AI industry, according to insiders.
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NEW: Emails show Apple's lawyer mixed up two Asian OpenAI employees' names in its initial outreach over trade secret concerns, setting off a tense exchange between OpenAI's and Apple's attorneys months before Friday's lawsuit. www.nbcnews.com/tech/apple/a...
How a bungled email from Apple’s lawyer soured talks with OpenAI months before Apple sued
A lawyer for Apple apologized for mixing up two OpenAI employees with the names Wang and Chang.
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New from me: A lawyer for Apple mixed up two OpenAI employees — one named Wang, the other named Chang — and you can imagine how that was received, months before last week's lawsuit. www.nbcnews.com/tech/apple/a...
How a bungled email from Apple’s lawyer soured talks with OpenAI months before Apple sued
A lawyer for Apple apologized for mixing up two OpenAI employees with the names Wang and Chang.
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Nearly $200 million has been traded on midterm prediction markets on Kalshi and Polymarket so far, an NBC News analysis finds www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
Prediction market users have traded nearly $200 million on midterm elections so far
An NBC News analysis examined trading across 1,408 midterm-related prediction markets on Kalshi and Polymarket.
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A Texas Democrat running for attorney general has a midterm strategy: put Elon Musk on the ballot. Nathan Johnson says if he wins, he'll investigate whether SpaceX got preferential treatment on $109M in state broadband grants. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Texas Democrat vows to investigate Musk’s SpaceX if elected attorney general
Nathan Johnson, the Democratic nominee for attorney general, said he wants to determine whether SpaceX is unfairly getting state grant money.
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I tested Meta's new AI image model and detection tool. It lets users deepfake everyday Instagram users, celebrities like Scarlett Johansson, and world leaders like Trump. The detection tool was easily fooled by cropping screenshots of Meta AI images. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
Meta AI now lets people make deepfakes from public Instagram photos without explicit consent
Meta’s new Muse AI can generate realistic images based on public Instagram images including of many celebrities and public figures.
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