("When asked for comment, a spokesperson told D Magazine that the Michelin inspectors develop the descriptions based on their firsthand dining experiences and that the Guide has its own editorial team, but denied using AI to write or edit its restaurant descriptions.") ("The agreement that brought the Michelin Guide to Texas has expired after three years and $2.7 million in tourism funding, leaving the future of the prestigious restaurant ratings in Dallas and four other major Texas cities unsettled")"Michelin declined requests to interview Guide leadership and declined an opportunity to review the evidence before publication."
— Dave Infante (@dinfontay.com) October 19, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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New: Texas suspended permits of 17 data center projects after 404 Media reported a group of Texans discovered the state had continued to issue construction permits related to data centers despite Governor Greg Abbott calling for a pause in September https://t.co/K0mQumcj0p
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) October 22, 2026
Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated 250,000 trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone, the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre https://t.co/FK2Y9CA7YS
— Alfons López Tena 🦇 (@alfonslopeztena) October 22, 2026
gray lady covers gray paint www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/t...
— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@rmac.bsky.social) October 22, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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(The report has not been peer reviewed or published in a scientific journal")Here's an update on my story in August about scientists using AI to make viruses. Now a startup has put AI viruses in a patient, to test them as a treatment called phage therapy. Gift link: nyti.ms/47pOLJv
— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer.com) October 20, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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("Security personnel around the world are on high alert Tuesday following the discovery of eight TLS certificates with private keys so weak they could allow anyone to mint trusted browser and app credentials for any site on the Internet") (“Explaining to my wife how there’s this one guy. And he alone is responsible for most of the world’s distribution of PHP,” a software developer ... wrote on X. “And if anything happens to this guy, that’s just it. Everyone is screwed.” He was referring to Surý.") (FWIW, "There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability")truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”
— Molly White (@molly.wiki) October 20, 2026 at 4:02 PM
(They've improved)In September, the AI company Anthropic claimed its models were approaching “superhuman capabilities for geolocating outdoor photos”. Bellingcat put that claim to the test by benchmarking the performance of Anthropic and other LLMs. Here’s what we found: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
— Bellingcat (@bellingcat.com) October 22, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
— Ketan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co) October 21, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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Also hat tip to Jess Lawrence and a few others on Threads who saw the ad and posted about it www.threads.com/@jess_lawren...
— Ketan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co) October 21, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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(It's the small type at the bottom of the screen as he starts prompting)The amazing thing is that he isn't getting Copilot to do it from scratch - it is very much the direct plagiarism thing I have been talking about!!! bsky.app/profile/keta...
— Ketan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co) October 21, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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Is it true you've been given the nickname TyGPT in the locker room? "Yeah. I think I have to credit that one to Spoon." Okada mentioned he earned it because he always is quick to answer every question in the meeting rooms. https://t.co/1dw5mnvR0g
— Brian Nemhauser (@hawkblogger) October 22, 2026
Publishers have been urged to delete Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram accounts before a T&Cs change kicks in. 'Shameless land grab' would see Meta claim AI rights for everything publishers produce (whether it is on Meta platforms or not). pressgazette.co.uk/news/faceboo...
— Press Gazette (@pressgazette.co.uk) October 19, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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(Didn't read it)holy crap
— Jessica McKenzie (@jessimckenzi.bsky.social) October 21, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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("Disney Wants to Hire Most of the Employees From Bankrupt Character.AI")The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states allege encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.
— WIRED (@wired.com) October 19, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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Whatever the worst thing you can imagine being done with AI is, it turns out it's actually happening futurism.com/artificial-i...
— jon christian (@jonchristian.net) October 21, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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NEW: Dubious wellness apps including GLP-1 trackers, AI companions, and "wellness" tools are being marketed by sobbing AI-generated women crying over bogus texts from fake loved ones. The posts aren't being disclosed as ads, nor are they disclosed as AI: https://t.co/JuSKxkCYcT
— Maggie Harrison Dupré (@mags_h11) October 19, 2026
Reagan appointee, born 1947The Fifth Circuit harshly rebukes a judge that used AI in issuing an injunction against Mississippi’s anti-DEI law. /1 https://t.co/B4pLDTFE7e
— Raffi Melkonian (@RMFifthCircuit) October 23, 2026
this dude already deleted his account lmao www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
— Ty Schalter (@tyschalter.com) October 19, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Vibe your way to 50K. The 2026 Epic AI MegaJam begins Nov 12: https://t.co/aAXEqj7zmE https://t.co/h3Kgs9Y5zH
— Unreal Engine (@UnrealEngine) October 22, 2026
(Unclear if Anthropic has removed this feature from Claude)Gaming's vibe-coded apocalypse even has devs who rip off other people's viral Steam hits complaining https://t.co/GrDzka5fFw
— Kotaku (@Kotaku) October 19, 2026
When “Storm” — a seven-and-a-half-minute music video starring Swedish rapper Yung Lean and directed by Romain Gavras — debuted in April, it seemed like a celebration of all the things AI supposedly couldn’t fake: sweat, luck, and the swagger of a guy who knows how cool he looks standing still. But once people started calling “Storm” something AI couldn’t do, AI companies seemed to take it personally. “The tech people were like, ‘Oh yeah? AI could never?’ Then they started replicating it,” Gavras said. “So we were forced into this conversation. It’s a nightmare.” In September, social media was flooded with clips that re-created a half-minute from “Storm” — Lean’s cigarette, his walk up the steps, the dance explosion behind him — with the same choreography and camera moves but with Lean and his classmates replaced by strangers, pets, celebrities, and worse. Many of the clips were made with a tool called Genjutsu, which was released in late August by the AI video company Higgsfield. As the trend took off, other AI apps began offering ready-made “Storm” templates of their own. It’s a glimpse of a future in which people can lift an artist’s style, or even their entire personality, as easily as they once downloaded mp3s. Gavras finds it “fascinating and depressing — it’s like Prometheus stealing the fire.” Read the full story: https://t.co/urdXx57zxb
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) October 20, 2026
For hours on Monday, the 10 most recent Yohji Yamamoto women’s items were unavailable for anyone else to buy, save for a few moments in between when Muse was working. Though I had no intention of buying — maybe I just wanted to get first dibs — Muse added and re-added the items
— Mia Sato (@MiaRSato) October 22, 2026
Huge influx of accounts on here that AI-summarize Reddit posts for engagement. Most of them are running dropshipping scams in places like Vietnam and Rwanda. Users on here are stupider than they used to be and spend a lot of time fighting with them as if the stories are real. https://t.co/scrMEDb8TO
— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) October 21, 2026
If you’re an author who’s been receiving verbose AI scam emails on a daily basis, and you’re wondering how gullible and ego-driven people think you are, this article helps to explain them. Sadly, they are successful enough to have been built into a big business. www.thedial.world/articles/new...
— Oisín McGann (@oisinmcgann.bsky.social) October 19, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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I had a renowned author contact me telling me how much he loved my book. After a few emails with him I realized I was talking to a AI that someone was training to write my own books.
— Jack Murphy (@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social) October 20, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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San Franciscans, why do the Waymo’s keep getting lost? They start the journey on track and then kinda lose it.
— Jessica Lessin (@Jessicalessin) October 19, 2026
("Fighting game legend SonicFox pulls out of gaming event over AI-generated art")Not sure who’s in charge of Nexcon but I absolutely refuse to have my likeness be AI generated and my interest in attending as a special guest has dropped to 0. Incredibly disrespectful.
— SonicFox (@SonicFox) October 20, 2026
AI bros out here burning tokens instead of just slapping an Arduino on a prayer wheel and making enough merit for the whole community at a fraction of the cost
— Brendan O’Kane (@bokane.org) October 24, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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i have 75 agents praying to send this guy to hell, effectively cancelling out his prayers
— leon (@leyawn.bsky.social) October 24, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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we're in the part of the AI supercycle where founders are pitching startups to create infinite ai pain and "get acquired by anthropic to make us stop" as an exit strategy https://t.co/9t2hDhh0uT
— aadilpickle (@aadilpickle) October 23, 2026
waxing place called and asked if I’d be willing to “model for a training video” during my next brazillian appointment in exchange for a free wax and i was like “by model do you mean film my vagina” and they were like “um yes” girl my rate for that is at least… 2 free waxes.
— dana donnelly (@danadonnelly) October 22, 2026
Scenes from a suburban Barnes & Noble last week 🫠 https://t.co/SiML6vhFDj
— rae 🫠 (@RaeWitte) October 24, 2026
The boomers of Brewers Facebook groups are posting AI slop horrors you cannot comprehend https://t.co/HXhv3d05iO
— Blake R. Weiner (@BlakeWeiner) October 21, 2026
My buddy said his parents gifted his son a “History of the NBA” book they bought off Amazon. I will present this with no further comment: https://t.co/cddtrDlIhR
— Big Linguine (@BoilTheory) October 21, 2026