Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
How meta of Meta: Instagram will now ban users who use Meta smartglasses to secretly film people for content www.businessinsider.com/instagram-me...
Instagram will now ban creeps in Meta glassesContent shot on Meta glasses from pickup artists and pranksters can now get you banned.www.businessinsider.comThis is some incredible in-the-room reporting from @elitan.bsky.social and Maureen Farrell on how Meta got its vast, six-square-mile data center cooking in Louisiana www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.www.nytimes.com
Columbia professor Sandra Matz talks about whether AI is making us boring and cites the "basic b" effect that gen AI had on me when I let it make all my decisions for a week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5aB... That story: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Is AI making us boring? | Sandra Matz | TEDxNewEnglandYouTube video by TEDx Talkswww.youtube.comLong ago, Yelp complained that Google was hurting its business by surfacing information from Yelp in Google searches such that people stopped visiting Yelp. (Lawsuit over this ongoing.) With AI mode, the rest of the web is now feeling Yelp's pain: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web (Gift Article)As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.www.nytimes.comJust as A.I.-generated books are flooding Amazon, vibe-coded apps are flooding the App store, via @kalleyhuang.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
A.I. ‘Vibecoded’ Apps Are Flooding Apple’s App Store (Gift Article)Mobile apps are easy to make with artificial intelligence. That doesn’t mean people are excited to use them.www.nytimes.com
The betting site Kalshi emerged as a dominant sports betting platform during the World Cup. But the company avoids billions of dollars in taxes by insisting it is not a sports gambling operator.
Kalshi says it's not a sportsbook even as World Cup bets surgeThe betting site Kalshi emerged as a dominant sports betting platform during the World Cup. But the company avoids billions of dollars in taxes by insisting it is not a sports gambling operator.n.pr
Absolutely insane story from @kashhill.bsky.social here. She spoke with an "AI biographer" who has used ChatGPT to create over 400 books to sell on Amazon. Amazon doesn't disclose that they are all AI-generated. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It. (Gift Article)Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?www.nytimes.com
🆘 As a writer, I find this heartbreaking. A bit of an existential crisis! 🆘 Blinded studies have consistently shown people CAN'T tell difference and PREFER AI written text. I Got Slopped www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t... by @kashhill.bsky.social Writing next book now. Leaning hard into old school.
Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It.Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?www.nytimes.com
Lol @kashhill.bsky.social, as always: insightful, startling, and funny. "Because romance sells, the professors thought it would be the genre most susceptible to AI intervention... instead it was nonfiction—a term that should probably be used loosely in this context" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It. (Gift Article)Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?www.nytimes.com
Wild story from @kashhill.bsky.social depicting how the AI Slop phenomenon is getting worse & how platforms encourage it. AI Slop is not harmless. It exploits attention, degrades labor & expertise, distorts our discourse & collective knowledge, & eviscerates trust. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It. (Gift Article)Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?www.nytimes.com
As a person whose name and likeness regularly gets used for AI slop, @kashhill.bsky.social's AI-written biography has unlocked an entirely new kind of nightmare fuel: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It. (Gift Article)Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?www.nytimes.com
"His goal has been to write 10 books per week, which is the maximum Amazon allows."
Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It. (Gift Article)Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?www.nytimes.com