“Meta said Tuesday it is acquiring Moltbook, a social network built exclusively for artificial intelligence agents to make posts and interact with each other” (AP). #AI
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“The parents of a girl critically wounded in a school shooting in Canada alleged in a civil lawsuit Monday that ChatGPT-maker OpenAI knew the shooter was planning a mass attack” (AP). #AI
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“The Justice Department has reached a tentative settlement of its antitrust litigation against Live Nation, the concert giant that includes Ticketmaster, after a week of testimony in a high-profile trial that examined competition in the music industry” (NYT). #music
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“Mr. Musk took the stand at U.S. District Court …to testify in a shareholder lawsuit accusing him of attempting to drive down Twitter’s share price in a failed attempt to force a renegotiation of the $44 billion deal” (NYT).
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Disinformation, political and economic disruption, and #AI appear to be driving people around the world into insularity. Read more here.
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“A deluge of misrepresented or fabricated videos has spread widely online since the Iran war began last weekend, fueled in part by state-linked propaganda and influence campaigns — particularly around who is winning the war and how many casualties there have been” (AP).
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“Camp East Montana was 1,000% worse than a prison” (AP).
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“Musk maintained the deal merited re-negotiation or termination while insisting Twitter’s board duped him about the percentage of fake, or “bot,” account on its platform — a stance he took again during his Wednesday testimony in a black suit and a tie” (AP).
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“Damage to three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East from Iranian drone strikes highlights the rapid growth of data centers in the region, as well as the industry’s vulnerability to conflict” (AP). #Iran
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“Social network X is bringing its private messaging service, dubbed X Chat, to a standalone app. The company …said the initial beta of the X Chat app was being made available to 1,000 users …” ( @TechCrunch ). #smc2027
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ProPublica journalists “…walked picket lines earlier this month. They’re inching toward a potential strike, in what is believed would be the first such job action in the news business where how to deal with AI is the chief sticking point” (AP). #AI #journalism
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“The strikes opened a stunning new chapter in U.S. intervention in Iran and marked the second time in eight months that the Trump administration has used military force against the Islamic Republic” (AP). #Iran
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“Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude, can afford to lose a defense contract. But the ultimatum this week from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posed broader risks …” (AP). #AI
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“Without such protections … students who use agentic AI tools, such as Einstein, to fraudulently complete courses could undermine the perceived value of online credentials for every student—even those who are doing their own work” (insidehighered). #education
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“Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, is postponing its controversial age verification policy after receiving swift backlash from users with concerns about their privacy” (AP). #smc2027
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“Facebook owner Meta Platforms will buy artificial intelligence chips from Advanced Micro Devices in a deal that will also give it the opportunity to buy up to a 10% stake of the chip company” (AP).
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“The potential value to investigators of the data Google collects is obvious in cases with no suspect, such as the search for Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapper” (AP). #data #law
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“But what caught some of the audience’s attention, and later went viral on social media, was an awkward interaction between two rival tech leaders: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei” (AP). #AI
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Social media addiction? “The companies that designed your favorite apps have an incentive to keep you glued to them so they can serve up ads that make them billions of dollars in revenue” (AP).
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“Some of the biggest players from Meta to TikTok are facing federal and state trials that seek to hold them responsible for harming children’s mental health. The lawsuits have come from school districts, local, state and the federal government …” (AP).
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Mark Zuckerberg “said he still agrees with a previous statement he made that the existing body of scientific work has not proved that social media causes mental health harms” (AP).
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“…Colbert’s YouTube interview with Talarico had been viewed more than five million times, or roughly double what the comic’s CBS program draws each night” (AP). #media #law
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“The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s assassination, died Tuesday. He was 84” (AP).
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“Hollywood groups condemn ByteDance's AI video generator, claiming copyright infringement” ( @AP ). #China
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“The legacy of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show continues. Streams of his catalog jumped 175% in the U.S. on Monday, the day after the Super Bowl, when compared to the previous Monday, Feb. 2” (AP).
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“The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said” ( @nytimes ). #smle2026 #smc2027
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Unprecedented FTC warning to
“Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, this week that he was potentially violating consumer protection law by stifling conservative viewpoints, the latest in the Trump administration’s battle with tech platforms over speech” (NYT).
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“The price of powering data centers has become deeply intertwined with concerns over the cost of living, a dominant issue in the upcoming midterm elections that will determine control of Congress and governors’ offices” (AP). #energy
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“Meta lawyer Paul Schmidt spoke of the disagreement within the scientific community over social media addiction, with some researchers believing it doesn’t exist, or that addiction is not the most appropriate way to describe heavy social media use” (AP).
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“YouTube, its lawyers said, is an entertainment platform more like Netflix than a social network like Facebook” ( NYT).
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