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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.ht…

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.

Plastic—when a miracle technology becomes a burden #environment

Plastic—when a miracle technology becomes a burden
Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is now creating major challenges.

'Modern Ukrainian technology, battle-tested' — Zelensky unveils 1st drone produced by German-Ukrainian joint venture: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/13/modern-ukrainian-technology-battletested-zelensky.html

Meta is evil, confirmed again. Leave it's platforms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MFA.q…

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.

Elon Musk claims he was "not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok" and that Grok was programmed to comply with the laws of any given country (Reuters)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/14/elon-musk-grok-ai-explicit-…

Am I cheering on a big AI company?
“Anthropic insists that two areas remain off limits: the mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weaponry.”
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/claude-…

Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
Anthropic has not agreed to the Pentagon's terms and defense officials are getting fed up after months of difficult negotiations.

India lacks specific policies or zoning regulations for overseeing quick commerce dark stores, which are projected to hit 5,000 to 5,500 by FY2026 end, per HSBC (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technolo…

The dark side of dark stores
The army of on-the-clock delivery boys, imperilling themselves and pedestrians, has become a familiar sight across urban India. They emerge, bearing essentials you ordered, from the hub that enables the ten-minute delivery—the dark store. Some 5,000 dark stores have mushroomed across India’s cities in the last few years, with wide-ranging implications on traffic, safety and much else. Who is responsible for their oversight?

Everybody who wants to understand Generative AI should read articles like this.
#AI

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?
They’re the mysterious numbers that make your favorite AI models tick. What are they and what do they do?

2026 may be the year of the mega IPO, as sources say Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX took early steps to go public, setting up a watershed moment for the AI boom (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technology/ai-ipo-openai-anthropic-spacex.html…

2026 May Be the Year of the Mega I.P.O.
If SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they will unleash gushers of cash for Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

Scientists say that AI has become a powerful and rapidly improving research tool, and that whether it is generating ideas on its own is, for now, a moot point (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technol

Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?
Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.