I talked to the AI engineer who built the model.
— ✏️Jacob Feldman (@JacobFeldman4) July 8, 2026
“It was significantly more difficult than I had initially hoped,” he said. “I can’t just, like, upload a YouTube URL and say, ‘find their tells.’”https://t.co/dwXDG4lvat
(In a statement to Rest of World, LinkedIn said the platform is clamping down on “low quality, automated or generic” content...In March, the platform rolled out an AI system to weed out “engagement bait.”)For $7 an hour, virtual assistants in the Philippines are using AI to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives, fueling a "thought leadership" content mill https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/?utm_campaign=row-social
— Rest of World (@restofworld.org) July 10, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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("spends about $400 million a year on software")Starbucks may be an early indication that the tide of vibe coding an enterprise stack is changing.
— Semafor (@semafor) July 9, 2026
The CTO of the $120 billion company, which spends about $400 million a year on software, said the consumer giant is now developing in-house AI tools to replace a bunch of…
Waymo car delivers misbehaving teen passengers to San Mateo police
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune.com) July 7, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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(“Obviously it’s a water gun or toy gun. It’s not illegal to carry, but depending on shooting from a moving vehicle, there’s some of that that can come into play.”)well, fuck, it happened. 12 years ago I was excited about self-driving cars and a friend of mine said "you know they'll just drive people to jail, right?" So I wrote a story called One Star and sold it to Vice. www.vice.com/en/article/o...
— Margaret Killjoy (@margaret.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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"Thank God our kids weren’t with us. I’m not sure if I would’ve been able to react as calmly." Just published the absolute craziest story of my entire career. www.thedrive.com/news/how-flo...
— Joel Feder (@joelfeder.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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We fixed the incorrect story and made some updates to avoid these types of inaccuracies in the future
— Max Branzburg (@maxbranzburg) July 6, 2026
It’s awesome to see the power of AI-enabled 24/7 insights for trading, but obviously still need to tune it to address these types of issues
And hey - it turns out Norway did…
I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.
— Rachel Holliday Smith (@rachelholliday.bsky.social) July 9, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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“The arrival of GLM-5.2 poses a business dilemma for Silicon Valley—and possibly a national-security dilemma for the country as a whole.” @matteowong.bsky.social on the uncomfortable reality of a relatively low-cost competitor to Claude Code et al.
— Damon Beres (@damonberes.com) July 7, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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(The failure rate even after he warned the students and so many dropped out might hint at his skill as a teacher)www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
— Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 4:34 AM
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Here’s the part we all want to know which is behind the paywall. You’re welcome.
— Zach Hazard Vaupen (@emo-sludge.com) July 7, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Meta is discontinuing its AI feature that let users generate images using public Instagram accounts just three days after launch:
— Variety (@Variety) July 10, 2026
“Earlier this week, we announced that one way for people to generate images in Meta AI is by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts that they want to… pic.twitter.com/Wib06sDCIn
Inside CAA’s Secret AI “Vault,” Where Actors Can Live Forever—If They Want https://t.co/MN0AzytpjK
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) July 6, 2026
I think the Tilly Norwood story is a good example of how broken media is. No one actually believes it’s popular—but it is rage bait, and if you’re a social person whose performance is based on all-in engagement numbers…why not push it. It’s more cynical than credulous.
— Mina Kimes (@minakimes.bsky.social) July 6, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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154k “followers” and 294 likes. Everyone involved knows it’s super fake!
— Mina Kimes (@minakimes.bsky.social) July 6, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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("One chosen story was a steampunk, anti-colonial fantasy...The author was an emerging Nigerian writer")AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:
— Bona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼 (@bonabooks.bsky.social) July 7, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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Not liking the thing where gmail will put spammy ai emails into my spam folder (correct) but then add the meeting invites attached to them straight onto my calendar??? (incorrect)
— Sam Barlow 🔥 (@mrsambarlow.bsky.social) July 10, 2026 at 11:22 AM
There was obviously a lot going on in the ESPN Sean Payton piece yesterday, but this is what I've thought about the most since reading it www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
— Dan Pizzuta (@danpizzuta.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
— Tim Ellis 🍁 (@djdynamic.ca) July 7, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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