NEW: One day after we revealed Meta was quietly building face recognition into its smart glasses, the latest version deletes it. Meta execs, who called our reporting "dishonest" and "misleading," continue to dodge our questions.

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

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Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2mo ago

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Google, how many rs in the word slop

It was quite surprising to read the Pope’s encyclical and find it is basically an STS or media studies textbook.

Ryan Turnbull@ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:

Human writers use em-dashes too

From the people who brought you the destruction of Gawker.... Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/c...

Exclusive: Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers

Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.

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Fascinating piece on the demands for and challenges of access to AI in American prisons.

Even Without Internet Access, Prisoners Are Trying to Benefit From A.I.

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Just rewrite every single word and then you're done

Grammarly's AI-fueled edits -- using my name - suggested making up sources and writing vague insinuations. In my latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link) I describe Grammarly's terrible edits in my name -- and call for a federal right of publicity. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

Opinion | Me, Myself and My A.I. Sloppelgänger

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this is why i’m invested in public comms. this theory of change isn’t easily measurable & will take time, but it seems more viable to me than appealing to goodwill of big tech (or even govrmnt's & regulators, who either are in bed with big tech or won't do much if there is no public pressure) 5/

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature

The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

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Yes, I am one of the academics who likeness is being misused and appropriated without my consent by Grammarly's expert review. Livid doesn't even begin to describe it. Lawyering up does. 😡😤 #academicsky www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/a-lo...

A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI “experts”

Grammarly's AI-powered "Expert Review" promises "writing feedback by subject-matter experts," and if you write about journalism, there's a good chance that includes you.

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John is tongue in cheek, but there's a statistic in Laura Bates new book that 90% of deep fakes made are of women, and if you don't process the implications of that and come out demanding regulation I'm not sure you're reachable.

John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 7mo ago

Amateurs. I'm going round the care home with some pre-drafted wills and AI showing me as their grandson.

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

19thnews@19thnews.org · 5mo ago

The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community. But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

I was part of a round table on how NYT is covering the Epstein files, with new tech and old-school reporting. Our work is far from over:

How The Times Is Digging Into Millions of Pages of Epstein Files

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I enjoy the suggestion that generative AI is a lousy lay

There’s so much I have to say about this, much of which is in my book. But the lack of critical questioning and the last two sentences of this article encapsulate everything wrong with tech journalism: “Like it or not, however, we’re strapped in for the ride. At least Anthropic has a plan”

The Only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Apocalypse Is … Claude?

As AI systems grow more powerful, Anthropic’s resident philosopher says the startup is betting Claude itself can learn the wisdom needed to avoid disaster.

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Honored to join @digitaljournalism.bsky.social’s editorial board and to be in such great company!

Digital Journalism@digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 6mo ago

LATEST NEWS! In our last set of introductions featuring the 21 new Editorial Board members joining us this year, we share with you our interviews with Carolina Fernández-Castrillo, @nadjaschaetz.bsky.social and Edward Hurcombe. Welcome to the Digital #Journalism family!

✨ New publication by lab member @annaschjoett.bsky.social with @nadjaschaetz.bsky.social! This ethnographic study explores how journalists interface with online courses on AI use in the newsroom, what they learn, and how didactic material may be biased. Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When ChatGPT said that the US capture of Maduro didn't happen, Wired characterized it was "expected behavior." But @aisvarya17.bsky.social and I think AI platforms' failure to activate web search for a breaking news-related query is not expected, it's a product defect. www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...

AI Chatbots Can Search the Web – So Why Don’t They?

Why AI platforms should be accountable for misrepresenting breaking news

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hey did you see a headline on google? turns out that headline might be an llm hallucination www.theverge.com/tech/865168/...

Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI

“This feature performs well for user satisfaction,” claims Google.

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Maggie Nelson: "For not only do our work and words speak beyond our intentions and controls, but compassion is not necessarily found where we presume it to be, nor is it always what we presume it to be, nor is it experienced or accessed by everyone in the same way..The same might be said of cruelty"

Ashley Rattner@ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Look for the helpers

Google traffic to publishers dropped by ONE THIRD in 2025 pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

Global publisher Google traffic dropped by a third in 2025

Google search traffic was down globally by a third in the year to November, according to new Chartbeat data.

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Now published… We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025

Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...

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How do ChatGPT and Bard respond to homophobic prompts across different cultural and religious contexts? New research reveals a tension between cultural relativism and universal human rights in generative AI: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AIEthics #GenerativeAI #HumanRights

I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):

Over a third of Frankfurt's electricity goes to data centers, had no idea Germany was going all-in on AI infrastructure. algorithmwatch.org/en/germany-d...

Germany’s Data Center Boom is Pushing the Power Grid to its Limits - AlgorithmWatch

As Europe pursues the vision of becoming an AI continent, the AI infrastructure boom in Germany is already exposing the limits of the energy supply and physical infrastructure. And the question remain...

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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...