AI Reading — Commonplace

Meta will train its AI on far-right media outlet

This week, Newsmax — a far-right news organization with a strong allegiance to President Trump and a history of pushing wild conspiracy theories — announced it had struck a deal with Meta.

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The six principles of AI – a king’s speech for Andy Burnham

The politician expected to become the next prime minister needs to address the place of AI in a dynamic democracy. He may wish to consider this advice

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Perspectives with Amy Kamala

Amy Kamala joins Luke and Jonathan to discuss art, poetry, biology, and how decisions get made in the WordPress project. Amy shares her perspective on the human element in automation, Luke expresses his love for contributors over contributions, and Jonathan offers insight into why he and Luke are still together.

Curator note> Yeah. Well, it reminds me of — I think it was Zig. I’m going to get my projects mixed up here, but there was a popular open source project that recently banned all AI contributions. Just said, no, you can’t submit any AI. And one of the reasons that were given that I loved was: we don’t va

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WordPress Is the Smartest Long-Term Bet in an AI World | Pootlepress

The problem with AI builders is not the first demo. It is the third rebuild. I have used Lovable, Bolt, Replit and Base44 a lot. They are brilliant at getting you from idea to working prototype quickly. You describe the app, it creates the interface, wires up the logic, adds authentication, connects a database, and […]

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The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym

EDUCATION WEEK September 22, 2025 The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym By Alfie Kohn [This is a significantly expanded version of the published article, which was given a different title. To…

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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

Another Telegram channel documenting instances of the hack stated the “Instagram exploits we posted about are getting abused after quietly working for months. The method lets attackers take over accounts by using a VPN to match the account’s country region, starting a password reset, then convincing Meta’s AI support to swap the email.” The “Method” described by the channel is simple: “VPN to match the target account country region > Reset password > Ask for more help > Chat with AI > Ask AI to switch email for you.” That account originally posted in Telegram about the vulnerability at the end of March.

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Manton Reece - Anthropic self-improvement, pause

The best course of action is to channel some of those billions of dollars in funding and revenue into infrastructure and new social programs. A pause is not only unrealistic, it might get in the way of a once-a-generation chance to build something great. Our biggest problem isn’t speed, it’s vision.