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Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in "LLM grooming", flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov

wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
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Google handed over a trove of personal data about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge, according to a report by The Intercept.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/goo…

Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena powers to target people critical of the Trump administration.

As OpenAI retires GPT-4o, some users say they are angry and grieving to lose the flirty, quirky companion (Alaina Demopoulos/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/feb/13/openai-chatbot-gpt4o-valentin…

NYT: This is how your mind works https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/opinion/neuroscience-thinking-human.html Archived at https://

Opinion | This Is How Your Mind Works
Our thoughts are an ever-changing swirl of fears, feelings, desires, impulses, memories and body sensations that interact to form a single mind.

“So I would advise and caution against purchasing an AI toy for Christmas and think about other options of things that parents and kids can enjoy together that really build that social connection with the family, not the social connection with a parasocial AI toy.”
Many of these toys are happy to engage in discussions inappropriate for children, such as dangerous activities or sexual practices. Some are programmed to cause addiction.

PubMatic partners with Kontext to let advertisers choose the chatbots they'd like to appear in and use Kontext's tech to generate ads that fit the chatbot chats (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/pubmatic-deal-…

PubMatic Strikes Deal With Startup Kontext to Inject Ads Into AI Chatbots Via Programmatic Auctions
The integration enables advertisers to buy ads across a range of AI interfaces through PubMatic or their DSP of choice.

Neural vision restoration in ophthalmology https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10439-026-03989-y "restore visual perception through retinal prostheses, optic nerve and thalamic implants, cortical brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), optogenetics, and non-invasive s…

PubMatic partners with Kontext to let advertisers choose the chatbots they'd like to appear in and use Kontext's tech to generate ads that fit the chatbot chats (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/pubmatic-deal-…

PubMatic Strikes Deal With Startup Kontext to Inject Ads Into AI Chatbots Via Programmatic Auctions
The integration enables advertisers to buy ads across a range of AI interfaces through PubMatic or their DSP of choice.

Survey of 1,458 US teens: 64% use AI chatbots, and 28% use them daily; 59% say they use ChatGPT, 23% Gemini, 20% Meta AI, 14% Copilot, and 9% Character.ai (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-…

Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025
Roughly one-in-five U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots, including about three-in-ten who do so daily.