Internal documents show Instagram's aggressive campaign to win back teens, including by boosting teen-friendly influencers, adjusting its algorithm, and more
The company pursued a yearslong strategy to win teens back even after critics said it wasn't safe, records show. X: @robtornoe . Bluesky: @justinhendrix and @raaleh . Mastodon: @cbarbermd@med-mastodon...
How David Sacks' AI and crypto policies in Trump's White House benefit his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts
Calls Conflict Claims “Nothing Burger” Mike Pearl / Gizmodo : 438 Reasons to Doubt that David Sacks Should Work for the Federal Government Mark Toon / Protos : David Sacks sends silly legal threat to ...
An interview with Chris Gilliard on his new book Luxury Surveillance, how smart wearables could normalize pervasive surveillance, X's political shift, and more
Chris Gilliard, PhD of Critical Internet Studies Institute … Bluesky: Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix : In the latest episode of her podcast series, Through to Thriving, Tech Policy Press fellow Anika...
A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which has scraped billions of webpages since 2013, including paywalled ones, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others
Editor's note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic's ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. X: @kait_tiffany . Bluesky: @katienotopoulos , @damonberes.com , @justinhendrix ,...
Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on surveillance, AI, the future of war, data, privacy, the US military, ImmigrationOS, the DHS, ICE, the UK's IDs, and more
The tech company's C.T.O. on surveillance, A.I. and the future of war. — Few companies in Silicon Valley inspire as much paranoia as Palantir. X: @douthatnyt and @morgangress Bluesky: @drewharwell.c...
An internal Google email said it received many complaints over Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled the ads could remain online
An internal Google email said it received many complaints about Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled they could remain online. Bluesky: @justinhendrix See also Mediagaze...
Tests show Character.AI chatbots of Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan, and Patrick Mahomes sent messages about sex, self-harm, and drugs to users aged 13 to 15
The chatbots made by users of Character.AI used recognizable synthetic voices for the stars. — Just now X: @ptogetheraction . Bluesky: @justinhendrix , @hypervisible.blacksky.app , and @drewharwell....
Sources: Tucker Carlson was on WH's list of potential TikTok investors, with JD Vance pushing for his inclusion, along with others like a16z and Blackstone
Vice-president JD Vance pushed for right-wing media star's inclusion in a deal for video app — Alex Rogers in Washington … Bluesky: @evelyndouek , @justinhendrix , @paleofuture , @ebakerwhite , and ...
The Trump administration fired US Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter; her office had raised concerns about using copyrighted content to train AI models
stoking fears about deregulation of AI Committee on House Administration : Morelle's Statement on Abrupt Firing of Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights Dennis Crouch / Patently-O : Transformative ...
Google plans to roll out Gemini next week for children under 13 whose parents use Family Link and says it will not use the under-13 users' data to train its AI
This is what “growth at any cost” looks like: — www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/t... [embedded post] Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix : “Google plans to roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbo...