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Alex Hanna

@alexhanna
29 posts
2026-02-21
Ah, so OpenAI's first big hardware bet is... an Alexa with a camera.  —  www.theinformation.com/articles/ ins...  [image]
2026-02-21 View on X
The Information

Sources: OpenAI has 200+ people working on AI devices, including a smart speaker with a camera costing $200 to $300, possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp

OpenAI has more than 200 people working on a family of AI-powered devices that will include a smart speaker and possibly smart glasses …

2026-02-20
Ah, so OpenAI's first big hardware bet is... an Alexa with a camera.  —  www.theinformation.com/articles/ ins...  [image]
2026-02-20 View on X
The Information

Sources: OpenAI has 200+ people working on AI devices, including a smart speaker with a camera costing $200 to $300, possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp

OpenAI has more than 200 people working on a family of AI-powered devices that will include a smart speaker and possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp …

2025-06-21
every rat fleeing the OpenAI ship gets a $2B lifesaver to not build the robot god [embedded post]
2025-06-21 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised $2B led by a16z at a $10B valuation; Murati will hold board voting rights that outweigh all other directors

This former OpenAI CTO has doubled that and retains full voting rights over the board members. @cuibonobaby : “carrying on an undertaking of great advantage but nobody to know what...

2025-02-05
Google was already okay with Cloud offerings to the IDF, specifically for targeting and Google Photos facial identification. Now they've just gone mask-off with the rest of the Valley.
2025-02-05 View on X
Washington Post

Google drops language from its AI Principles that said it would not pursue AI applications “likely to cause overall harm”, such as for weapons and surveillance

In 2018 the company updated its policies to explicitly exclude applying AI to weapons.  Now that promise is gone.

2024-09-01
When did OpenAI add this hilarious disclaimer to their website? They basically see the writing on the wall for their bubble popping and want some modicum of covering their asses. https://openai.com/... [image]
2024-09-01 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: OpenAI is in discussions about changing its corporate structure to become more investor-friendly, including removing a cap on profits for investors

everyone involved knows it doesn't have to Assad Jafri / CryptoSlate : OpenAI mulls dropping profit restrictions ahead of $100 billion valuation push Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE...

2024-04-19
Is it against the Google Code of Conduct to aid and abet 40,000 Palestinian deaths?
2024-04-19 View on X
New York Post

Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel

https://medium.com/... X: Dr. Ks / @katejsim : Terminated worker here. Listen when employers tell you exactly who they are McCarthyism is alive and well. Look how terrified they ar...

It's not lost on me that the author of this message, Head of Global Security Chris Rackow, was formerly a Navy SEAL, at the FBI, and a development manager at Raytheon. Military industrial complex and Big Tech going hand-in-glove quite nicely.
2024-04-19 View on X
New York Post

Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel

https://medium.com/... X: Dr. Ks / @katejsim : Terminated worker here. Listen when employers tell you exactly who they are McCarthyism is alive and well. Look how terrified they ar...

Holy shit. Google fired 28 workers for protesting against its $1.2 billion contract with the IDF. Solidarity with these workers of conscience. https://medium.com/...
2024-04-19 View on X
New York Post

Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel

https://medium.com/... X: Dr. Ks / @katejsim : Terminated worker here. Listen when employers tell you exactly who they are McCarthyism is alive and well. Look how terrified they ar...

2024-04-18
It's not lost on me that the author of this message, Head of Global Security Chris Rackow, was formerly a Navy SEAL, at the FBI, and a development manager at Raytheon. Military industrial complex and Big Tech going hand-in-glove quite nicely.
2024-04-18 View on X
New York Post

Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel

Google has fired 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the search giant's offices in New York and Sunnyvale …

Holy shit. Google fired 28 workers for protesting against its $1.2 billion contract with the IDF. Solidarity with these workers of conscience. https://medium.com/...
2024-04-18 View on X
New York Post

Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel

Google has fired 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the search giant's offices in New York and Sunnyvale …

Is it against the Google Code of Conduct to aid and abet 40,000 Palestinian deaths?
2024-04-18 View on X
New York Post

Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel

Google has fired 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the search giant's offices in New York and Sunnyvale …

2024-04-12
Another one of those times that AI people wildly over claim even a “narrow” use of the tech.
2024-04-12 View on X
404 Media

Researchers say they haven't found “strikingly novel compounds” after analyzing a subset of the 2.2M new crystals DeepMind claimed its AI tool GNoME discovered

In November, Google's AI outfit DeepMind published a press release titled “Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning.”

2024-04-05
Google Books is indexing a bunch of AI-generated trash, likely coming from Amazon or associated ebook marketplaces. Thanks to @emanuelmaiberg and @404mediaco for reporting on this.
2024-04-05 View on X
404 Media

Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books, which may impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use

It's almost like they need...  A librarian.  —  https://www.404media.co/... Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social : Like Amazon, Google Books has also been infected with lo...

2023-07-06
I had to read the mind-numbing word “superalignment” and now so do you. https://twitter.com/...
2023-07-06 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI forms Superalignment, a team for developing ways to steer and control “superintelligent” AI systems, with access to 20% of its compute secured to date

OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company's co-founders …

2023-04-24
This @themarkup interview of Katherine Forest is informative. She is spot on that the fair use test will mostly hinge on the market implications of AI-generated art and music. https://themarkup.org/... >>
2023-04-24 View on X
The Markup

Q&A with Katherine Forrest, a former federal judge for the SDNY, on copyright and generative AI, the Copyright Office's guidance on AI-generated work, and more

A conversation with Katherine Forrest Before they gobbled up headlines everywhere, large language models ingested truly staggering amounts of data to train their models. Mastodon: ...

2022-05-12
Oh good. It's like a Ring on steroids. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-12 View on X
VICE

A San Francisco Police department training document notes that video footage from continuously recording autonomous vehicles can be obtained as evidence

and they never should be. Giving the police access to the massive amounts of information they collect is a recipe for abuse. https://www.vice.com/... @becomingdatasci : Cops have a...

2022-05-10
Kind of wild that Illinois, of all places, is the last stalwart of serious privacy legislation in this country. That said, this is huge. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-10 View on X
Washington Post

Clearview AI reaches a settlement with the ACLU by agreeing to stop selling or offering free access to its facial recognition database to most US businesses

2022-02-17
“I hate to break it to you, but a tech giant's privacy promises aren't about you or your safety. They're about toeing whichever part of the line between surveillance and security brings in the most cash.” https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-17 View on X
Mobile Dev Memo

An in-depth look at Privacy Sandbox for Android: a two-year transition with ad industry input, a marked change from Apple's ATT, which had little external input

plans to bring a Privacy Sandbox effort to Android.  Google's  —  original Privacy Sandbox

“I hate to break it to you, but a tech giant's privacy promises aren't about you or your safety. They're about toeing whichever part of the line between surveillance and security brings in the most cash.” https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-17 View on X
New York Times

Google plans to bring Privacy Sandbox to Android, preserving its Ad ID system for two years, and says it'll be less disruptive than ATT for advertisers and devs

Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times :

2022-01-11
Truly excellent when the head of diversity and inclusion is involved in hiring IRI, an anti-union firm. This echos something that @lizthegrey taught me — employee resource groups and other tools deployed by corporate diversity initiatives are technologies of union-busting. https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-11 View on X
VICE

Court documents show Google ran a campaign from 2018 to 2020 to “convince” staff that “unions suck”; Google refuses a judge's order to produce more documents

employee resource groups and other tools deployed by corporate diversity initiatives are technologies of union-busting. https://twitter.com/... Daisuke Wakabayashi / @daiwaka : In ...