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America's Data Centre PR Problem Has a Substance Gap
AI voice agents disrupt M&A consulting, slashing costs for PE firms
Pentagon Formally Blacklists Anthropic as AI Row Reaches Breaking Point
Oura's Gesture Move: Why Smarter Wearables Matter Beyond Health
OpenAI Faces Pressure After Canadian Shooting: Pledges Safety Overhaul
Okta's AI-Agent Defence Strategy Tests SaaS Market Confidence
The HR Gap in AI Rollouts: Why Tech Alone Won't Drive Adoption
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RE: https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/116161288772427846
Update: @Sarahp of @Techcrunch reports that Meta is being sued over violations of privacy laws after @svd's investigation into its smart glasses.
What are Meta glasses really recording? The Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reports on data annotators in Nairobi, Kenya. They're the manual laborers of AI, whose job is to make smart glasses more "intelligent" by visually checking images. They're seeing more than they want to, from bank card numbers to naked bodies.
Requiem for Vengeance | #Netflix Official Site
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Romania
Why Did the Visigoths Sack #Rome?
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#Rome
#CDC issues 'circulating poliovirus' alert for dozens
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-cities.html#28a
Foundation stone laid for #International Bird Centre
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#NewDelhi
#Kano Assembly Moves To Impeach Deputy #Governor
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Nigeria
#Meta sued over #AI smart glasses’ privacy concerns,
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc-varied.html#12
5 unresolved questions hanging over the Anthropic–Pentagon fracas.
From CNBC: "Anthropic is the only American company ever to be publicly named a supply chain risk, as the designation has traditionally been used against foreign adversaries. But the company hasn’t received any official declaration beyond social media posts."
#Anthropic #Pentagon #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology
The FUNNIESTEST (not) thing about THIS bubble is how come every single techbro friendly moron is going "hurrr... it's NOT a 'bubble' if we can *see* it coming, HA HA GOTCHA", as the bubble builds and everyone thinks it's not a bubble because they read what those idiots are saying.... and then they keep pouring money and giving the LLM bullshit both attention, time,platform... and money. Did I mention money?
Buckle in, hold onto to your butts, this is gonna go pop, soon.
@nixCraft India, who are investing heavily on being the droning-scripted-tech-support for LLM chatbots, is dealing with a critical low employment level and even lower salaries.
They just had the largest workers strike, ever.... anywhere. Modi (India's tRump) is tap dancing, HARD, to hide this, and he is failing... also hard.
The hype and the actual investment being poured into that isn't returning even remotely close to what is hyped.
Meta’s AI smart glasses are under investigation by the UK ICO after reports that contractors reviewed sensitive user videos captured by the device.
The case raises serious questions about privacy, transparency, and human review in AI wearables.
Are current privacy safeguards for AI wearables sufficient?
Gizmodo: Facing Backlash, OpenAI Amends Pentagon Deal to Add More Anti-Surveillance Verbiage. “News broke Monday night that OpenAI and the Pentagon have amended their controversial deal to include more words about privacy protections.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/05/gizmodo-facing-backlash-openai-amends-pentagon-deal-to-add-more-anti-surveillance-verbiage/Fresh Intelligent Machines is live! 🤖 We're breaking down the AI leadership drama shaking up the industry, Anthropic's alignment edge, tech worker pushback on military AI, and why AI governance is the real battleground. What's your take?
*HPsCommentary:
Has the General Public finally awoken...*
(4/n)
...year.
OFC the Government no NEEDS at least on of the #BigTech #AI companies to do ist #Unconstitutional bidding.
👉 Or is #UncleSam merely in a competition with the #OrangePeril for the new title of #LieATollah?!? (thx #jimmykimmel 😂 👈
Ok, enough laughing.
If you still...
#OpenAI #Anthropic
#Claude #SamAltman
#Pentagon
#DepartmentOfDefense
#USNews
#Privacy
#TheEndOfPrivacy
#LieATollah
#BreakingNews
*Has the General Public finaly awoken to the fact that the point of no return has been reached regarding #AI, at least in the #US?*
(1/n)
👉 Interesting, as it is before the forecast/expected moment of the #ArtificialIntelligence becoming conscious aka "the monster we created" 👈 (or permitted to be created.) - RL humanity, to be fair, is doing a bit better than the fictional counterpart in #Terminator, to be fare. Let's hope it will be enough.
#BreakingNews
*Has the General Public finaly awoken to the fact that the point of no return has been reached regarding #AI, at least in the #US?*
(2/n)
...Protesters outside OpenAI’s #SanFrancisco headquarters rallied against the company’s #Pentagon deal, which was signed shortly after rival #Anthropic’s fallout with the #DefenseDepartment over concerns about #AI use in #Surveillance and...
#OpenAI #Anthropic
#Claude #SamAltman
#Pentagon
#DepartmentOfDefense
#USNews
#BreakingNews
*Has the General Public finaly awoken...*
(3/n)
...#AutonomousWeapons. After backlash, #Open #AI CEO👉 #SamAltman said the company would prohibit the use of its systems to spy on #Americans.👈
😂 Does "Uncle" Sam really think anyone having graduated from high school is going to believe this? - In particular, after his #BigTech #TESCREAL body, #Elon, tore apart virtually all privacy walls, Chinese or otherwise, as he has head of #DOGE only last....
The U.S. Authors Guild has expanded its "Human Authored" certificate program, which launched in beta last year for its members, and is now available to any author whose books are published in the United States. "It's our firm belief that reading is about human connection and readers want books that are written by humans and not computers," Authors Guild CEO Mary Rasenberger. Here's more from Publishers Weekly about how it works.
Manipulating #AI Summarization Features
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/manipulating-ai-summarization-features.html
My latest column is more about #FreeSpeech than the particulars of why #AI is interesting (or disturbing) for military applications. Because even if we solve the dangers of AI (ha!), we're in trouble if we compromise principle along the way... https://reviews.ofb.biz/sa1399 https://mastodon.faithtree.social/@trbutler/116172894066868331
CCIA joined @SIIA, @TechNetUpdate, and @BSAnews in a letter to the Administration saying we appreciate its efforts to promote US leadership in #AI while signaling that “designating any one American company as a supply chain risk will inevitably lead to unintended consequences that could very well undermine the Administration’s broader goals to ensure American leadership.” https://ccianet.org/library/letter-to-the-president-advancing-american-ai-innovation/
Remember when everyone on the Right was rightly upset at the government censoring opinions it found distasteful? Somehow that seems forgotten in the other war of this weekend. #AnthropicAI and #DeptofWar's #PeteHegseth. #AI #FreeSpeech https://reviews.ofb.biz/sa1399
@nosrednayduj @wrog @kentpitman
at today's #ontology summit Gary Berg-Ross gave an overview of large-model-generated spatial worlds in the context of ontological world models and #ai.
I asked if the reasoning about worlds had a connection back to #lambdaMOO (in the 90s). He said that the concern back then was computer performance.
Did he mean Lambda is the way it is for computational efficiency or that MOOing has not been done at scale...?
viz https://lambda.moo.mud.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD9LhJ1PVwA
The #Anthropic-DOD Conflict: #Privacy Protections Shouldn’t Depend On the Decisions of a Few Powerful People
A doctor from the Cleveland Clinic describes how using their #AI scribe helps create more face-to-face interactions with patients by allowing her to focus on the patient, rather than a computer. Read more: https://consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/embracing-ai-that-improves-time-with-patients 1/3
Canada leads in AI research, but only 25% of firms have fully implemented AI solutions.
Open-source AI is the catalyst for change. We’re looking at capitalizing on an 8% productivity increase and $180B in economic value by 2030.
Dive in: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/open-source-ai-canada
#AI #OpenSource #Canada #TechNews #LFResearch
Daily Digest | 4 March 2026
Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.
5 stories you should not miss.
Read more: https://www.nicfab.eu/daily-digest/
Sam Altman: Classic bullshitter.
"Across social media and the AI industry, people immediately began to challenge Altman’s claim. Why, they asked, would the Pentagon suddenly agree to these red lines when it had said — in no uncertain terms — that it would never do so?
The answer, sources told The Verge, is that the Pentagon didn’t budge. OpenAI agreed to follow laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, while insisting they protect its red lines.
One source familiar with the Pentagon’s negotiations with AI companies confirmed that OpenAI’s deal is much softer than the one Anthropic was pushing for, thanks largely to three words: “any lawful use.” In negotiations, the person said, the Pentagon wouldn’t back down on its desire to collect and analyze bulk data on Americans. If you look line-by-line at the OpenAI terms, the source said, every aspect of it boils down to: If it’s technically legal, then the US military can use OpenAI’s technology to carry it out. And over the past decades, the US government has stretched the definition of “technically legal” to cover sweeping mass surveillance programs — and more.
OpenAI’s former head of policy research, Miles Brundage, said on X that “in light of what external lawyers and the Pentagon are saying, OpenAI employees’ default assumption here should unfortunately be that OpenAI caved + framed it as not caving, and screwed Anthropic while framing it as helping them.”"
#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #USA #Trump #Pentagon #Surveillance #DataProtection
This shit creeps me out. We need to stop this now, before it kills everyone.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/feb/28/chatgpt-ai-chatbot-mental-health
> Ceccanti’s decline was so dramatic that his wife and friends wondered if he had early onset dementia or a tumor. “All of a sudden, his cognition had dramatically fallen,” said Fox. “His working memory was crap, and his critical thinking had diminished, and so we were all worried.”
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#ai #butlerianJihad