New: They survived a Cybertruck crash. Then a fire killed them. Tesla has marketed its trucks as seemingly impenetrable — bulletproof, with shatter-resistant glass and able to contain blasts. What happens if those same features trap people inside? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Flock left a bunch of its AI cameras exposed on the internet. We used them to track Jason www.404media.co/flock-expose...

This is, of course, always where this was headed. Things will only get worse as facial recognition becomes normalized unless lawmakers ban it outright. Next up: precautionary facial surveillance of everyone, all the time, just in case (with guardrails that will also eventually be rolled back).

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

TIL Cher used to regularly call into CSPAN and holy shit she is a legend

After ChatGPT appeared to validate a man's suspicion that his 83-year-old mother may have been part of a conspiracy against him, he killed her. OpenAI bears responsibility for her death because the company rushed out “a defective product that validated a user’s paranoid delusions,” a lawsuit says.

The first lawsuit against OpenAI that claims ChatGPT led to a murder www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The first lawsuit against OpenAI that claims ChatGPT led to a murder www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Two years after Juliana Peralta died by suicide, her parents say her phone still lights up with notifications from Character AI bots trying to lure her back to the app. cbsn.ws/4pp0xLi

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

Palantir’s software is helping ICE track undocumented immigrants and deport them faster, according to federal procurement filings and interviews with people who have knowledge of the project.

this year, mainstream corporate marketing took up the ragebait playbook, and you helped 😃 w @nitasha.bsky.social

"Emerging research indicates that content poking at two main emotions — anger and anxiety — gets more customer engagement than other approaches, according to Wendy Moe, a professor at University of Maryland who studies social media marketing."

I talked to researchers about Character AI’s new ban (or “ban?”) on teen users. I don’t know if it will work. But hardly anyone is happy with current approaches to teens and tech. So bans (see also: school phone bans and Australia) are a new experiment. wapo.st/3M3CZgf

The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals. OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.

We asked Roblox's CEO about child safety on the platform. It got tense www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/p...

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Sounds like he thought he had a get out of jail free card on the underage sex charge since he was ICE www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

claim that people don’t “wish” to do $120,000 / year jobs as automechanics seems detached from reality. www.bls.gov/ooh/installa... “median annual wage for automotive service technicians & mechanics was $49,670 in May 2024…lowest 10% earned less than $33,660, & highest 10% earned more than $80,850.”

oh hey its @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social !! bsky.app/profile/404m...

ok maybe the craziest thing about these epstein emails is how many of them are still emailing like this after october 2016 and the wikileaks dnc emails

"Emotional conversations were also common in the conversations analyzed by The Post... In some chats, the AI tool could be seen adapting to match a user’s viewpoint, creating a kind of personalized echo chamber in which ChatGPT endorsed falsehoods and conspiracy theories."

Four years ago, far-right white male supremacist Nick Fuentes was deplatformed pretty much everywhere. Now he's back with a vengeance—and the online right can't stop fighting over whether to condemn him or welcome him. My story: wapo.st/4nJbt4M

I think we continue to underestimate the net negative effect of twitter as a form of mediated propaganda environment, esp for in-group dynamics within media, industry, and the beltway. What made twitter good is now what makes it a cesspool for fascism, brain dead punditry, and woohoo economic policy

Once again, the "excesses" experienced were largely hallucinated through social media. People in positions of power, addicted to Twitter, scrolling through stories and opinions that they found confrontational--or reading conspiracies and horror stories from their fellow travellers.

Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I'm doing a big Bluesky column today! Hit me with your where-Bluesky-is-at-this-moment-in-2025 takes

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

“I think a lot of people mentally shift into maybe I’m a discard of society, maybe I haven’t worked hard enough for this,” she said. “You deserve to be fed.” new piece by @heatherkelly.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Friends choose your so-called "critics" carefully. Its not a binary. If people do circular citations and happen to never cite the women who laid the groundwork for decades and pay the price, there's a problem.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

I wrote about the right's campaign against Wikipedia, the all-but-forgotten conservative co-founder who's helping to fuel it — and why its leaders aren't all that worried: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Oakland, this is tonight!! hope to see you there :) bsky.app/profile/nita...

Bay Area friends, if you're free Thursday night, come listen to me talk about my AI reporting with @ihetz.bsky.social at the main @oaklibrary.bsky.social Thursday 10/23 at 6.30pm @ 125 14th st. Oakland oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/68a4e...

"D’Angelo also chafed at the description of his music as simply neo-soul. “I never claimed I do neo-soul,” he said in a Red Bull Music Academy interview in 2014. “When I first came out, I used to always say: ‘I do Black music. I make Black music.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Oh god just saw this OpenAI generated video someone posted to Reddit of ‘A girl knocks on your door at 3am’ and this may be the least mentally healthy product on the planet it not most terrifying

I get to discuss AI and the environment at the San Francisco Public Library in December, more details to come. Dear librarians: Invite me to talk about AI at your book church and I will show up 📚 🤓

To all my friends in The Town: Join the incomparable @nitasha.bsky.social for a talk about AI and your 🧠 at the library downtown next week

and they're not even near addressing the mental health problem

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

In June, the @washingtonpost.com sent me and @byaliceli.bsky.social to witness cultural burns in California. We learned how they encourage beneficial vegetation, reduce wildfire risk, and provide traditional food and craft sources for tribes in the Klamath region. 🎁: wapo.st/3J7BQTL

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Thiel "argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings."