is it really that surprising that the newspaper that made its hit podcast by poaching NPR staffers is now attempting to clone Tiny Desk? truly shameless.

America’s first to-be trillionaire might wanna put those “PC handcuffs” back on his Grok toy

Scoop: The Trump admin's videos boasting triumphs on immigration have used misleading footage from months ago or thousands of miles away When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes" wapo.st/4nuDGwf

“This post and other similar videos depict incidents that did not occur, though some commenters appeared to think they were real. “Accurate and sad. They milk the system on our back,” one user wrote.

"Belden got into AI slop after sinking into Instagram Reels, the holy land of shortform stupidity" www.gq.com/story/truean...

New A.I. grift just dropped: Spoofing real musicians to steal their follows and listens off Spotify. (By @bobbyallyn.bsky.social) www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

AI companies desperate for data centers descend on rural America with big checks and NDAs to keep farmers and other land owners muzzled. “One of the men said he represented a “Fortune 100 company” that wanted the property for an industrial development” www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

With AI music generators widely available, scammers are uploading songs to the pages of inactive artists and dead musicians. Spotify says it is cracking down, but the practice persists. n.pr/4hzHZ8a

Fans of the indie rock band Here We Go Magic were surprised to see they dropped a new single today, the first release since 2015. Actually nope, it's just AI. "It's so predatory, and so terrible," the band's singer Luke Temple told me. www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

a teen's parents filed a wrongful death suit against openai after their kid had "lengthy conversations" with chatgpt about his intention to kill himself. how did the company respond? with harassing subpoenas www.ft.com/content/47b0...

Today in TikTok is awash in deepfakes: One random TikTok account posted Sora videos, where they tried to conceal the Sora watermark, of fake CCTV videos depicting the Louvre jewel heist. The videos got more than 6M views.

NEW: Just confirmed that among the Meta layoffs today are product risk reviewers, which @shannonbond.bsky.social and I reported back in May, was a division Meta brass targeted for major automation overhauls

The robot.txt legal wars heat up! www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

"Markets think in quarters and years, in profits and returns. Families — and voters — plan for lifetimes and focus on practical needs like food on the table, a stable home" www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“What kind of police go around without license plates?” www.propublica.org/article/trum... @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social

Elon Musk's lawyers say Mira Murati is dodging subpoena requests. They have tried unsuccessfully to serve Murati, who they see as a key witness, eleven separate times in Musk's suit against OAI And Altman. Musk's attorneys say: "Serving process should not be reduced to a game of cat and mouse."

ICE "has been rapidly building out its surveillance capabilities in recent weeks, signing a string of contracts for technologies to identify individuals by their irises or facial features and to monitor their cellphone activity, social media posts and physical movements," per spending disclosures.

“Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials—and after the largest and safest Dreamforce in our history—I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address safety in San Francisco,” Benioff said in a statement.”

Right-to-publicity and defamation laws vary by state and may not always apply to deepfakes, meaning there could be "little legal downside to just letting things ride unless and until someone complains” www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

"In a world where everything can be fake, & the fake stuff looks & feels real, people will stop believing everything." - Daisy Soderberg-Rivkin, a former trust & safety manager at TikTok, in this @bobbyallyn.bsky.social story ⤵️ #NewsLiteracy

I talked to trust and safety professionals and former OpenAI employees about how Sora could change the internet forever "It's as if deepfakes got a publicist and a distribution deal” www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

When investigators recovered the phone of the man suspected of starting the Palisades fire they found an image of a burning city he generated on ChatGPT www.latimes.com/california/s...

“OpenAI has done more than most to build controls into the system, but the deeper question is this: what does "permission" mean in a world where harm can outrun response?” www.linkedin.com/pulse/demyst...

we asked for flying cars and instead got AskJeeves for bespoke Internet Research Agency videos

lol former Oracle exec: "I remember earlier in my career when I told people I was working for Oracle they would say, ‘Oh you mean the toothbrush company,' and I would say, 'not Oral B, Oracle' www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...

feels notable that Sora is dropping in a moment when the AI capex bubble crowd is getting bigger and bigger and everyone is looking around for the next killer AI app and AI investors are really wondering what their return is exactly. the answer: rebranding deepfakes as cameos for a laugh.

The name Sora will hit different for criminal lawyers in NY, since a “Sora hearing,” a very common type of hearing, is a reference to the state’s sexual offender registration act

Apple bowing to Trump admin’s pressure on ICEBlock invites even more jawboning, says @gshans.bsky.social. "Compliance will only incentivize further government demands." www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

Sora has consumed too much of my last few days, but here’s my favorite slop

if @katienotopoulos.bsky.social had to pay the energy bill for her day on Sora, she’d need a mortgage banker

Google tells me that earlier today it removed apps similar to ICEBlock from Google Play stores for “violations of our policies,” but didn’t specify the apps Apple yanked ICEBlock from App Stores today after DOJ pressure Google says that app was never on Google Play but made a similar crackdown

since new Sora dropped i’ve asked Brick to expedite my order

how are the air conditioners doing at OAI data centers rn?

“Bots or likely bots authored 44.5% of X posts mentioning Cracker Barrel in the 24 hours after the new logo gained attention on Aug. 20, according to research for ⁦‪@WSJ‬⁩ by PeakMetrics. That number rose to 49% among posts calling for a boycott.”

"This is straight influence-peddling," said @ericgoldman.bsky.social "This YouTube settlement is not a sign of any legal merit." www.npr.org/2025/09/29/n...

“Trump’s eagerness to use the power of government to silence critics, punish opponents and reward loyalists is unparalleled since the Watergate scandal” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

NEW: The Trump admin asking TikTok investors for a multibillion-dollar payment to US is the latest extractive “fee for service” from WH. "These are shakedown schemes…I'd even call it extortion…Privately, CEOs are horrified." www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g... w/ @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

"The law’s sponsors “told us that their main motivation was propaganda, and by shifting the app to more friendly, politically-aligned owners, my worry is that we’ve introduced a different kind of propaganda concern"

The TikTok deal & algorithm licensing arrangement are about to get tons of attention. But the algo is just personalized linear algebra. More crucial thing is content moderation — who's doing it, what the rules are, what enforcement looks like. AI slop & disinfo is absolutely rampant on the platform

he's a PR guy who monetizes rage against the big AI company and quietly reps tech companies with AI products and services, nothing to see here folks, nothing to see, move right along

"The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil."

logged onto TikTok and first video served to me is AI-generated Kimmel addressing controversy with 1.4M views

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

Took a look at Kimmel's ouster in light of the longstanding Republican attacks on social media over jawboning, which, the Supreme Court has found, requires a direct causal line. The Kimmel case "is as direct a line as you could dream up," @alexabdo.bsky.social told me www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...

Elon Musk had a 1.5 hour meeting at xAI yesterday where he talked about building a competitor to Microsoft called "Macrohard," creating "Baby Grok" for kids 2-12, and using AI to quintuple X's revenue to $10B. We listened in. After leaving Trump, he's all in on AI. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

a real “oh my fucking god, well maybe that was a little too hard” moment

I’m old enough to remember when Bob Iger, whose company recently paid $16 million to settle a meritless Trump lawsuit, and who just indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration, was a chair for the **Committee to Protect Journalists** dinner.

Seems like conspiracy theories about the texts are the only thing the right and left can agree on about the Kirk shooter.