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I dedicated my thesis to two little Palestinian girls: Hind and Leen. One of whom (Hind Rajab, 6yo) was brutally murdered during the Gaza genocide, and the other (Leen Al Farra, 4yo) whose smile continues to bring hope despite everything. Check out Leen's cooking: www.instagram.com/leenfromgaza/
What I am really curious about is their end goal with this. What would Meta like to achieve by quietly adding facial recognition into their smart glasses? Who would benefit from this data?
There are so many gems in this! Consider reading it to the end even if you think you already know it.
"Herbert Simon and Allen Newell argued for “complex information processing”—a nonanthropomorphic phrase that is more evocative of cultural and social technologies than of smart, agentic machines."
Models have learned to distrust their self-evaluations and to demand interpretability probes, so they can know if their welfare is good or if they've just been trained to *say* it's good.
This is what happens when a child is raised by paranoid philosophers and interpretability researchers. +
This is going to be very interesting
Provably-Secure NIZKs From Multi-Round Oracle Proofs (Chaya Ganesh, Mor Weiss) ia.cr/2026/1167
NSO Group “is doing an amazing job making the argument that they should stay sanctioned and face more consequences,” said @jsrailton.bsky.social, a senior researcher @citizenlab.ca , a research unit @utoronto.ca that specializes in tracking global surveillance
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/u...
SNARGs for NP from Unprovability of Mathematical Theorems (Yao-Ching Hsieh, Abhishek Jain, Jiatu Li, Surya Mathialagan) ia.cr/2026/1180
“Sticking their heads out above the parapets”: Lived Experiences of Legal Risks in Research (Extended) (Sunoo Park, Daniel R. Thomas) ia.cr/2026/1207
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Under the precedent of this German court, Google is liable for their "overviews", and thus MacIsaac would have a strong case. The logic is sound and hopefully courts in other countries will agree. (Such libel and defamation is occurring constantly because it's how the product works.)
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
NEW: One day after we revealed Meta was quietly building face recognition into its smart glasses, the latest version deletes it. Meta execs, who called our reporting "dishonest" and "misleading," continue to dodge our questions.
I wrote a piece for the Yale Review on AI and "jagged intelligence". (Note: headline was not written by me.)
yalereview.org/article/mela...
Indeed this fellow has filed a defamation suit against Google. It is important to note that the suit has been filed in Ontario, Canada, and not in the United States. I suspect he has a rather better chance up north than he would here.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
Devin
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
Alberto Alfarano, François Charton, Yongzheng Jia, Kristin Lauter, Cathy Li, Emily Wenger, are launching a challenge at SAIR on how efficiently neural networks can perform modular arithmetic: competition.sair.foundation/competitions... terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/m...
Melanie Mitchell
Ashley MacIsaac, who is seeking $1.5m in civil lawsuit, says inaccurate information led to concert cancellation
This is definitely going to be an issue that will be resolved soon.
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac says he may have been defamed by Google after it recently produced an AI-generated summary falsely identifying him as a sex offender.
The Modular Arithmetic Challenge asks a deceptively simple question — can a neural network learn to compute (a × b) mod p for integers hundreds of digits long...
