Michelin denies using AI to write the food guide Texas paid millions for (This week in AI)

"Michelin declined requests to interview Guide leadership and declined an opportunity to review the evidence before publication."

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— Dave Infante (@dinfontay.com) October 19, 2026 at 7:17 AM

("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")

Can treating an AI like a journal and making a "threat" support criminal charges? (This week in AI)

Wild case of a message to a chatbot being treated as a threat to a person; Eugene Volokh's First Amendment analysis of it is at the link. https://t.co/snoTM5g6Pi https://t.co/X4w8Ve61hD

— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) October 10, 2026

Effective November 12th, 2026, abusive behavior towards Claude will be a violation of Anthropic's Usage Policy. https://t.co/krg4VpSnUq

— Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_) October 8, 2026

AI is conscious, unless a lawsuit alleges it is subject to laws on humans, then it is only a tool

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— zaratustra (@zaratustra.bsky.social) October 10, 2026 at 7:10 AM

How to jailbreak a $50 touchscreen digital picture frame and make it useful

I have discovered $50 amazon photo frames to be the PERFECT home display screen They can be rooted, updated to run a modern browser, have WiFi and can be powered from USB 1280×800 resolution with a nice touch screen I detailed how to hack these yourself in my latest video https://t.co/QhIiKjlf9N

— Wes Bos (@wesbos) October 9, 2026

You should 100% do this as a weekend project I ended up converting my old Microsoft surface into one of these apartment displays and it’s got my apartment camera, walk ideas, transit / bay wheels on it https://t.co/MmeRZqOrms

— Rhys (@RhysSullivan) October 9, 2026

This is the one he used, but he thinks the same process will work on others.

Scottie Pippen is promoting an AI-powered version of a basketball from 1991, and the pope got an anti-AI orb (This week in AI)

Scottie Pippen has not only gone off the deep end with crypto, he has now used AI to make the 1991 Bulls championship ball he own TALK. pic.twitter.com/pT7808HU8q

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) September 15, 2026

("Meet BALL, the AI character inspired by the championship ball Scottie Pippen preserved. Ask about the story, challenge its basketball knowledge, or discover what it could do for your audience.")

NEW: Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb. pic.twitter.com/JhOcstjNsy

— Valuetainment (@valuetainment) September 17, 2026

("Pope Leo XIV receives 'symbolic’ sphere in charity's push for AI to 'protect human dignity'...The sphere, based on an original design by Italian architect and designer Gae Aulenti, contains four handwritten passages from Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas")

The first to apologize is the reporter who posted the Arch Manning clip

Yesterday, I published a tweet of Arch Manning responding to a question of mine, where he mentioned seeing an AI video of Steve Sarkisian slapping Holly Rowe.

I captioned his response as "gold."

I realized quickly that I had made a mistake and was far too hasty in publishing…

— Evan Vieth (@EvanVieth) September 15, 2026

Arch Manning thought that AI video of Holly Rowe getting slapped was hilarious

Good news if you enjoy loathing football players--he seemed very eager to bring this up (he's 22 and has been groomed for the spotlight since birth):

“I saw the AI Edit of (Sark) slapping Holly Rowe.”

I asked Arch Manning if he’d seen any edits on TikTok or Twitter after the game, and his answer is gold. pic.twitter.com/70FnNCVEHb

— Evan Vieth (@EvanVieth) September 14, 2026

This seems to be the video (quite violent):

You’re all welcome. Hookem. pic.twitter.com/7sRH9jQpIm

— Hookem 🤘 (@hookem) September 14, 2026

A write-up. Remember this one?


In related, loathsome news:

There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...

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— Ej Dickson (@ejdickson.bsky.social) September 14, 2026 at 7:18 AM

I want to address this bc I think it’s important to understand. It’s not just SEC frat bros.

As part of my background reporting, I kept a spreadsheet of maybe 50-60 handles that shared Maddie’s video/screenshots, etc when it first started going viral.

Using various OSINT… https://t.co/8G2BYTi5p0

— ej (@ejdickson) September 14, 2026

ESPN's favorite son

Unauthorized drone billboard for an AI medical chatbot (AI newsletter)

OH HELL THE FUCK NO

Via Reddit https://t.co/PULNkgVi6N pic.twitter.com/4TwZvGn6tC

— 🏭🏘🏢Sean Galbraith🗻❄️🥏 (@PlannerSean) September 11, 2026

("an ad campaign for a new ... AI-powered chatbot...The display, which began around 11 p.m. and lasted 15 minutes...a spokesperson for the city, told CBC Toronto that a one-time grounds rental at the Fort York National Historic Site had been approved for a third-party drone operator. But she said the city was not informed of the client associated with the display and what it was for")

Waymos "don’t get a soul until an hour before a shift starts" (AI roundup)

incredible quote from this interview with a Waymo depot worker in @BayAreaCurrent https://t.co/5lGmzixyW0 pic.twitter.com/mJKCbrF6iF

— Erin Woo (@erinkwoo) September 2, 2026

("When I started, we were being trained by multiple people for different things. And every single trainer did nothing but talk shit about how the company has just decreased their pay like $8 an hour.")

A human did remarkably well playing Go against an AI (AI roundup)

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— Frank Lantz (@flantz.bsky.social) August 24, 2026 at 10:59 AM

Great, and long discussion about Go and how the AI works:

Part of the reason it’s very strong is that Go players like it a lot. KataGo had a great innovation where it’s actually accounting for points, which is how humans judge the game: by counting points. The prior AIs were sort of doing something else, which is related to counting points when they judge win rate, but not actually telling you a point estimate. So when KataGo started counting points, and people could read that point estimate and learn from it, KataGo was immediately more useful as an educational tool than any of the prior AIs had been.

 

Amnesty box for Facebook's pervert glasses (AI roundup)

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Burning Man has updated its 2026 guide, to “explicitly include smart eyewear,” a spokesperson tells The Standard.

You can still bring them, but you must ask consent for filming. The addition is because the tech “makes obtaining consent potentially more difficult.”

— Zara Stone (@AlmostZara) August 18, 2026

THIS MORNING: Meta's glasses stop recording if you cover the LED light that shows you're recording before you start filing. I bought Meta glasses, started recording, then covered the LED light with black gaffer tape, concealing that I was recording, and it kept recording. Another… https://t.co/jLxM3QguDN

— Anna Schecter (@annaschecter) August 21, 2026

I think I maybe undersold how gross the “prank” played on this employee was. Imagine you come into work, try to help customers, and later realize they've racked up 500,000+ views on social media by harassing you and your coworkers.

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— Mia Sato (@miasato.bsky.social) August 20, 2026 at 2:18 PM

My favorite video of this genre. They’re going to write songs about the Volcom guy here like he’s John Henry pic.twitter.com/9icPLIXAAs https://t.co/0pXUGNJT3Y

— Brendan Ruberry (@brendanruberry) August 20, 2026

"Are those the glasses dog, can I try them on?"

Baby monitor offering “A.I.-scheduled lullabies” (AI roundup)

i wrote about smart baby monitors and how an increasing number of products in the nursery are trying to dispense advice to millennial and Gen Z parents: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/b...

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— Sapna Maheshwari (@sapna.bsky.social) August 3, 2026 at 12:03 PM

(Owlet, Nanit’s biggest rival, offers a $300 pulse oximetry tracker that attaches to a baby’s foot through a sock. Huckleberry, a free app for tracking feedings and diaper changes, markets a $120 upgrade membership with “optimized nap predictions” and access to an artificial intelligence chatbot that, after logging your baby’s habits, can deliver personalized guidance and pep talks. CuboAi’s $359 Smart Baby Monitor 3 touts “A.I.-scheduled lullabies” and sends alerts when a baby’s face is covered.)

Eerie shapes on these driverless trucks (AI roundup)

@annegonzalez47 Self-driving cars will dominate city roads in China! #China #Travel #AutonomousDriving #Car #LocalGuide ♬ 原創音樂 - China local guide

Robotic traffic cones! 🚧

In China, emergency response teams are testing robotic traffic cones that can secure accident sites quickly.

Instead of sending responders onto active roadways to place cones by hand, these robots deploy directly from the emergency vehicle.

Once… pic.twitter.com/bFT2QBlJvQ

— Lukas Ziegler (@lukas_m_ziegler) July 24, 2026

They say they're offering free servants in exchange for data to train AIs (AI roundup)

Today, we are bringing shift to San Francisco. Private chefs, completely free.

We started with cleaning in New York and Europe. Now it's dinner. One by one, we are making every service more affordable.

Comment "shift" below and we'll DM you a priority booking link. pic.twitter.com/bKPHA3cxpc

— Bercan (@bercankilic) July 14, 2026

Step 1: free cleaning services.

Step 2: free private chefs.

Step 3: abundance.

Comment "shift" below and we'll DM you a priority booking link. https://t.co/0dQCc9yBHf

— Bercan (@bercankilic) July 14, 2026

ESPN's AI vision overlay for the World Series of Poker predicts when payers are bluffing (AI roundup)

I talked to the AI engineer who built the model.

“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

— ✏️Jacob Feldman (@JacobFeldman4) July 8, 2026

Dating site using AI-generated accounts (AI roundup)

So here’s a lil scoop: you know the new gay dating app Goose? It’s apparently been using at least two dozen AI-generated Instagay accounts to lure men into signing up. Which is “very obviously unlawful,” according to a lawyer I spoke to. My story for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/goose-...

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— Ej Dickson (@ejdickson.bsky.social) July 1, 2026 at 2:12 PM

Dyson's using Ai to grow strawberries (AI roundup)

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Terrific short featuring the TMNT battling an AI cranking out bootleg toys (AI roundup)

The New York subway filled with whimsical art instead of AI ads (AI roundup)

A very New York sentence: A Rockefeller descendant is paying $1 million to post her art on subway station walls that would otherwise be plastered with AI start up ads. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/n...

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— Stefanos Chen (@stefanoschen.bsky.social) June 11, 2026 at 9:28 AM

Grok misled people about the Los Angeles election

Yes, Spencer Pratt advanced to the November general election runoff.

With ~51% of votes counted: Karen Bass ~36.5% (1st), Pratt ~29% (2nd), Nithya Raman ~21% (3rd). No candidate hit 50%, so top two advance. Bass and Pratt head to the runoff.

— Grok (@grok) June 3, 2026

Decision Desk HQ projects Nithya Raman wins the second of two spots in the CA Los Angeles Mayor Nonpartisan Primary #DecisionMade: 7:57 PM EDT

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— Decision Desk HQ (@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social) June 7, 2026 at 4:59 PM

(The LA Times phrases it, "Mail-in ballots will continue to be accepted through Tuesday, but analysts say the trend favors Raman moving into a Nov. 3 runoff with incumbent Karen Bass.")

When the Airbnb gets rented out by people testing destructive robots (AI roundup)

empty homes populated by destructive robots 👍 https://t.co/N0XZz99X0d

— rat king 🐀 (@MikeIsaac) May 31, 2026

("The reservation request didn’t seem out of the ordinary: Eight colleagues visiting the Bay Area for work were looking for an Airbnb with reliable Wi-Fi. But at check-in time April 12, a Ring camera captured footage of people moving large, black cases into [the] home in San Francisco. Later that night, the security system was shut off.")