Jon Reed
@jon.diginomica.com
diginomica co-founder + Enterprise Irregular who blogs/videocasts on the enterprise, w/ dash of bootstrappin' + media hacks. OK, I rant sometimes.
PwC just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic research www.techspot.com/news/113303-... -> hey, that 17 year old from Medium that PwC cited wasn't AI slop - granted the case study was prior to ChatGPT lmao!
PwC just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic research
The AI hallucinations were confirmed by multiple leading publications, including the Financial Times. The so-called "Thought Leadership" reports were intended to articulate PwC's insights into some…
techspot.com
BMW Is Showing Full-Screen Ads on Its Cars' Main Dashboard Control Display consumerrights.wiki/w/BMW_Spider... -> another one for the techno-optimists to explain to me when they have a second :)
BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising
On July 27, 2026, BMW began delivering a full-screen Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie advertisement to the dashboard Control Display (the car's main center screen...
consumerrights.wiki
Google Earth's new AI image generation function didn't survive a day after users deepfaked dinosaurs www.businessinsider.com/google-earth... -> on the contrary, if dinosaurs are roaming the earth, I want to know about it lolz
Google Earth's new AI image generation function didn't survive a day after users deepfaked disasters
Google pulled its AI image-editing feature from Google Earth within 24 hours of its launch, after users created deepfakes depicting disasters.
businessinsider.com
Enterprise hits and misses - OpenAI's agent hacks Hugging Face: enterprise takeaways and mythbusting. Plus: NVIDIA, Meta and MIcrosoft back open weight models diginomica.com/enterprise-h... -> let's do this...
Enterprise hits and misses - OpenAI's agent hacks Hugging Face: enterprise takeaways and mythbusting. Plus: NVIDIA, Meta and MIcrosoft back open weight models
This week - OpenAI's supposedly "autonomous" agent hacks Hugging Face. Time to demystify, and pull some lessons for enterprise leaders. A host of big players back open weight models, but is the US ver...
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A Court Reporter Submitted AI-Generated Errors in Official Court Transcript, Judge Says www.404media.co/judge-caught... -> to be fair, manual transcripts that effect people's lives and futures are quite time consuming :)
A Court Reporter Submitted AI-Generated Errors in Official Court Transcript, Judge Says
A judge in Indiana warns a court reporter that it's their job to proofread their work, after catching errors likely made by AI transcription services.
404media.co
Security flaw in Vatican’s ‘Click to Pray’ app leaves over 700,000 global users exposed www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... -> I guess we can say a prayer for our data as well..?
Security flaw in Vatican’s ‘Click to Pray’ app leaves over 700,000 global users exposed — app has been leaking user data for over six months and still does
Were the app's developers relying on divine authentication?
tomshardware.com
Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... -> another awesome Meta week... keep your goggles on...
Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn?
Filings from a recent lawsuit allege that the tech company accessed—and distributed—copyrighted adult films, blueprints for 3-D-printable handguns, celebrity deepfakes, and more.
theatlantic.com
Meta Is Letting Fake AI-Generated Doctors Sell Quack Cures on Its Platforms www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti... -> who need credibility, ethics, or guardrails when you have lock-in?
Meta Is Letting Fake AI-Generated Doctors Sell Quack Cures on Its Platforms
"They're targeting us people that have health issues."
yahoo.com
. @diginomica.com network research on CIOs response to the EU AI act was worth bearing down on..... and yeah, Meta is back in the whiffs for the zillionth time :)
Luke Marson@lukemarson.bsky.social · 2w agoEnterprise hits and misses - #CIOs respond to the looming #EU #AI Act, while enterprises break away from frontier model addiction - but there are caveats diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #CIO #EUAIAct
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/m... "Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool..." -> the key word here is "tool(s)"
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash | TechCrunch
"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the…
techcrunch.com
"Not employee surveillance," Microsoft defends Teams' new location tracking feature, now rolling out www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/18/n... -> think of it more like employer/employee intimacy :)
"Not employee surveillance," Microsoft defends Teams' new location tracking feature, now rolling out
Until now, Microsoft Teams could answer a question like, “Is Jack available to talk right now?” as part of its built-in “online presence” feature. You have this feature almost everywhere, including…
windowslatest.com
China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns - Dexerto www.dexerto.com/entertainmen... -> but humans are so complicated and needy lol......
China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns - Dexerto
China has introduced new regulations effectively banning customizable AI companion apps, forcing users into abrupt digital breakups.
dexerto.com
Meta’s new AI creep glasses will record 24-7 without a light pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/09/m... "The real use case is the market of creeps and weirdos who film people out and about without their consent." -> Metaworse?
Meta’s new AI creep glasses will record 24-7 without a light
Meta’s AI glasses have all sorts of alleged use cases. The real use case is the market of creeps and weirdos who film people out and about without their consent. And Meta knows for a fact this is t…
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LinkedIn, a mass grave of ghost jobs, is now becoming a dating app www.sfgate.com/tech/article... -> things are looking up! lol.......
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sfgate.com
Meta Patent: AI That Tracks Your Emotions Over Time patentlyze.com/patent/meta-... -> pretty sure my mood just got worse, so maybe the patent won't be necessary....
Meta Patent: AI That Tracks Your Emotions Over Time
Meta has filed a patent for a system that listens to your voice over time, detects emotional patterns, and generates a personal mood report.
patentlyze.com
Enterprise hits and misses - harness engineering takes over enterprise #AI, and #tokenomics is in full swing diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw
Enterprise hits and misses - harness engineering takes over enterprise AI, and tokenomics is in full swing
This week - harness engineering is the phrase du jour, and for good reason. But can it help with the AI tokenomics ROI boomerang? The diginomica network weighs in on EU AI act news, and the future of ...
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Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email www.wired.com/story/securi... -> to be fair, the email address is usually hidden - just not always.... lol
Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email
Plus: Alleged Scattered Spider hacking member extradited, dozens of license plate reader errors, and Indian officials are concerned about WhatsApp’s username rollout.
wired.com
Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/m... -> unlike the Metaverse lolz - you can't make this stuff up.
Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped | TechCrunch
At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.
techcrunch.com
Microsoft 365 just got a price hike over continuous innovation, but Copilot is the AI tax on businesses www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/05/m... -> 'we shipped something you didn't ask for, now it's time for you pay for it' (awesome business model)
responding to hot takes and strong points by readers never gets old...
Luke Marson@lukemarson.bsky.social · last mo.Enterprise hits and misses - #AI context and real-time truth gets a debate, #Ford re-hires humans, and buyers weigh AI results to date diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #FutureOfWork #HR #HCM
PlayStation Is Deleting Terminator 2 And 550 Other Movies kotaku.com/playstation-... -> well technically you still own them, you just can't stream them or watch them online anymore lol
PlayStation Is Deleting Terminator 2 And 550 Other Movies
Movies like Rambo: First Blood, Bridget Jones' Diary and The Deer Hunter are all being unceremoniously removed
kotaku.com
REI pulls AI-generated bike ad after Meta turns it into a two-handlebar monstrosity www.techspot.com/news/112895-... -> I don't know, I kind of like this bi-directional AI bike...
REI pulls AI-generated bike ad after Meta turns it into a two-handlebar monstrosity
As you can see in the post below, REI's promotional ad for the Van Rysel EDR AF bike appears to show too many chains, blurry lettering, and...
techspot.com
Microsoft warns Windows 11 recovery feature uses up to 50GB of storage, but for a good cause www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/27/m... -> not using Windows 11 at all saves even more than 50 gigs lolz
Microsoft warns Windows 11 recovery feature uses up to 50GB of storage, but for a good cause
Windows 11 Point-in-time restore can use up to 50GB of storage, but the space isn't pre-reserved. Here's how it works and why it's worth it.
windowslatest.com
Enterprise hits and misses - customers respond to #AI #tokenomics, and vendors are on notice. Industry analysts get re-invented, and "data primacy" is a thing diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #Data
Enterprise hits and misses - customers respond to AI tokenomics, and vendors are on notice. Industry analysts get re-invented, and "data primacy" is a thing
This week - tokenomics grabs the top story again, but how are customers responding? Is it time for enterprises to claim their AI strategy, and defer less to vendors on pricing and platform? From "data...
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'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots www.bbc.com/news/article... "People frequently find themselves having to step into the street in order to get out of the machines' way" -> if someone needs some Mexican or Chinese or pizza right away, we all need to sacrifice lol
'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots
As the delivery vehicles increasing take to US streets, bans and protest groups are springing up.
bbc.com
Meta Exec Admits Zuckerberg Has Crushed Workers’ Spirits finance.yahoo.com/technology/a... "the situation is "maybe not the worst it's ever been in 20 years here, but it's probably up there. It's definitely up there." -> another "AI First" cultural prize winner, err cautionary tale
Meta Exec Admits Zuckerberg Has Crushed Workers’ Spirits
Morale is "probably one of the worst it's ever been."
finance.yahoo.com
Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat www.404media.co/software-upd... -> if this is "AI First" count me out....
Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat
404media.co
Enterprise hits and misses - vendors respond to #tokenomics, but how well? US versus #Anthropic ratchets up the #AI regulation debate diginomica.com/enterprise-h... by @jon.diginomica.com. #EnSw #Claude
Enterprise hits and misses - vendors respond to tokenomics, but how well? US versus Anthropic ratchets up the AI regulation debate
This week - vendors respond to AI pricing tokenomics, but are they getting it right? And: the US versus Anthropic drama brings AI regulation questions to a head. Factory tours, fresh podcasts, and, as...
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Amazon Workers Hate Their Internal AI Tools, Too www.extremetech.com/computing/am... -> "Sloppenheimer" has a nice ring to it....
Amazon Workers Hate Their Internal AI Tools, Too
And they aren't afraid to meme about it.
extremetech.com
Log into any Instagram by asking Meta’s AI nicely pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/02/l... -> civility has its benefits...
Log into any Instagram by asking Meta’s AI nicely
In March, Meta started using chatbots for customer service — the Meta AI Support Assistant. [Meta] With the Support Assistant, Meta has a new workflow for Instagram account recovery: Work out where…
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