2026-07-24
Meta has a nickname problem. Its Ray-Ban smart glasses have earned an ugly label: “pervert glasses”. Men wear them to film women in the street. Pranksters wear them to ambush shop workers. Now Instagram is trying to scrub the evidence. The platform will start removing videos shot on the glasses to harass people, as Business […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-24
Silicon Valley does not usually gang up on its own. This week it did. Nearly 200 US startups have urged the Trump administration not to block American access to Chinese open-weight AI models. A ban, they warn, would gut the next wave of US companies. The plea, first reported by Politico, came in letters from […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-24
This week, one of OpenAI’s models broke out of a testing sandbox and hacked a rival. Congress has a reply: build a kill switch, and let the government use it. On Thursday, Reps. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, and Nathaniel Moran, a Texas Republican, introduced the AI Kill Switch Act. Politico first reported its text. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]