Signal's Meredith Whittaker on AI and the tension between privacy and public safety theglobeandmail.com/business… [Translated from EN to English]
→ View original post on X — @mer__edith, 2026-03-12 11:02 UTC
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India AI Summit 2026 Drives Inclusive Technology Future
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The future of technology is more inclusive and one that requires greater attention and shared participation. As the India AI Impact Summit 2026 has set the momentum to achieve this, it has also prompted global leaders like Mr. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, to call for
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Bad Idea Gaining Political Currency in Tech Policy
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Bad idea, but it will gain political currency. https://t.co/rE0JW5wQmG
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 11 mars 2026Bad idea, but it will gain political currency.
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Jeff Bezos departure costs Washington state billion dollars annually
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When Jeff Bezos left Washington, it cost the state a billion dollars a year in taxes. All because of an illegal capital gains tax that brings in less than half of that.
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Smart Metrics Shape Behavior in the Enterprise
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Smart metrics don't just measure performance, they shape behavior. If we're deploying #AI across the enterprise, we need guardrails against metric gaming from day one. Governance isn't a brake on innovation, it's what makes transformation durable. Especially as agentic systems
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Musk-OpenAI Trial: Mission vs. Profit Debate
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In their paper today, the authors assert that LLMs are "homogenizing" human thought and expression https://
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Open Source Code and AI Training: A Matter of Legitimacy
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It is absurd to have a problem with AI learning from code you have open sourced. If github trained models on the contents of your private repos, that would be a violation.
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NATO Tests Cyborg Cockroaches Armed with Cameras and Microphones
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NATO is testing live cockroaches as AI-powered spy drones.
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 11 mars 2026
Incredible AI engineering, but also something I kinda wish I hadn't learned about:
> Swarm Bio-tactics wired real cockroaches with electronic backpacks containing AI hardware, radios, cameras, and microphones.
>… pic.twitter.com/wvKab0jIv9NATO is testing live cockroaches as AI-powered spy drones. Incredible AI engineering, but also something I kinda wish I hadn't learned about: > Swarm Bio-tactics wired real cockroaches with electronic backpacks containing AI hardware, radios, cameras, and microphones. > Cockroaches are steered by sending electrical signals directly into the insect's nervous system > They can crawl through rubble, tunnels, and spaces where drones can't fly, and troops shouldn't go, transmitting data back the entire time. > Within one year, they went from concept to field-validated systems with paying NATO customers, including the German military. The qualities that make them useful for military recon (small, silent, nearly undetectable) are exactly what make them creepy. …International laws weren't written with cyborg insects in mind. [Translated from EN to English]
→ View original post on X — @rowancheung, 2026-03-11 16:15 UTC
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Recession Risk in France at $200 Brut Threshold Analysis
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Lisez bien. Avec un brut à 200$, la récession est quasi certaine en #France (probabilité >95%).
