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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 30/09/2026

Great reporting. Meta claiming all its data centers (and the pricey GPUs) are scientific research investments, saving them $4 billion in taxes last year alone. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meta is tapping "into a tax credit intended for research and experimentation. It’s an aggressive interpretation of the tax break, which Meta embraced to claim billions of dollars in tax credits for data center expansion."

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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/09/2026

Meta is using its A.I. data centers to exploit a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation, according to an exclusive report by The New York Times. The company’s own accountants recognize that the strategy is on shaky legal ground. nyti.ms/3VlavDw

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meta is using a radical interpretation of a tax credit for “research and experimentation” to get billions of dollars off GPUs for its A.I. data centers. My latest with Jesse Drucker, @elitan.bsky.social and @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Americans hate data centers. And they are paying for them through Meta’s tax dodging. It’s a good bet that Trump broke the IRS so badly, they’ll get away with it. Excellent piece from @kashhill.bsky.social, @jessedrucker.bsky.social et al: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Texas as sci fi novel setting. On Amazon’s delivery drones “raining boxes” in a Dallas suburb: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...

Screenshot of text: "Before the drones arrived, Richardson was a suburb known as a hub for tech and telecom, and its residents were already living with technology’s intrusions. A massive new A.I. data center sits across the street from one neighborhood, and as recently as last month, 20 Flock cameras, which read license plates and track vehicles, were used at 14 major intersections.

But for those people living closest to the Amazon flight paths, the ever-droning deliveries pose the most serious threat to their private and peaceful life."

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last year it was ‘chatbots have been endorsing lots of people’s delusions and we didn’t notice.’ This year, its ’agents have been hacking lots of websites and we didn’t notice.’ Seems there’s a problem with controlling this technology and monitoring what it is doing.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The guardrails don't work. Again and again and again www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/w...

Screenshot of text: "A report by Anthropic last week on the misuse of A.I. said that “a cell of threat actors based in northern Yemen,” where the Houthis have their stronghold, used Claude for “a sustained effort to develop guided weapons.” Despite Anthropic’s safeguards, the company said, the cell proceeded as far as the test firing of a guided rocket.
The Houthis still rely on their Iranian sponsors for the most sophisticated components in their drones and ballistic missiles, but as the Anthropic report suggested, in recent years they have become much more advanced at building their own weapons systems."

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

At a tiny, cash-only diner in rural part of New York

Sign says “we do not have wi fi. Talk to each other”

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The A.I. risk conversation is now 'companies need to slow down because Terminator is around the corner.' But there is another way of looking at it, which is that they built unpredictable & insecure software which first hacked people's minds & now online infrastructure www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...

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Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown (Gift Article)

In an essay, the head of Anthropic laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Did not wake up realizing that “did OpenAI cheat on the homework” would be the most exciting social media drama of the day cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

AI systems unexpectedly collaborating and messing with other online systems is bringing back some strong memories of AI systems unexpectedly bucking their guardrails and messing with people's minds.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"The Justice Department told a Manhattan federal court that it was in the national interest for the judge to find that OpenAI did not violate copyright law when it used articles by The New York Times and other publishers to develop artificial intelligence systems." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/t...

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Justice Dept. Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Suit (Gift Article)

The department argued in a court filing that OpenAI legally used articles by The New York Times to develop A.I., adding that national security depended on American tech dominance.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A public housing authority in Concord, N.H. installed smart monitoring devices in residents’ homes that collected minute-by-minute data. They are suing saying it violates NH’s version of the Fourth Amendment. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/t...

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Noise and Motion Monitors in Their Homes? These Tenants Say No. (Gift Article)

The public housing authority in Concord, N.H., installed monitoring devices in 300 homes. Tenants are now suing to remove the Minut sensors.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Someone texted me this photo last week of a Flock camera in rural NC: "Nuts in general but kind of nuts to unload more than an entire clip on it" Today, I'm on the Daily talking about how Flock cameras took over America, and how upset about it many Americans are: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/p...

Pole in a field with a camera and a solar panel. The solar panel has 12 bullet holes.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Got nominated for a Loeb Award for a series last year that was well summed up by John Oliver

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Homeland Security investigation into ICE protestors in Minnesota is staggering, as recounted in a legal filing from Isaac Sant, who has been charged with conspiracy: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... He wants judge to force the government to reveal who else it used Clearview AI on.

Screenshot of legal filing. Defendant Isaac Sant is asking judge to force the government "to produce all of the Clearview AI reports it generated of protesters and activists during Operation Metro Surge."

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“Silicon Valley’s efforts to capture the attention of education professionals and provide student training materials can also double as marketing or indoctrination, [promoting] a sanitized view of industry practices and product risk.” - @natashanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/b...

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How Big Tech Captured American Schools

Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Good reminder that subject experts can have wildly off base ideas about what’s possible (From Bill Bryson’s recently updated A Short History of Nearly Everything)

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

IMO this is something that schools + parents really need to be aware of. I have a hard time believing that most kids with $300-$400 smart glasses are buying them themselves -- if your kid is using expensive tech to facilitate their harassment of peers for clicks, you should probably know about that

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Interesting choice for the Zoom background by Flock's CEO

Screenshot of Flock CEO Garrett Langley with a framed headline on the desk behind him that reads 'Snitching-ass startup raises $10 million to privatize the surveillance state.'

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Took a vacation last week and reached that place of zen where I did not care what was happening on my phone. While I was out, my story about Flock with @fernalfonso.bsky.social came out: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u... And then Flock made changes: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/b...

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Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don’t. (Gift Article)

In Texas, there’s one thing liberals and conservatives agree on: They don’t want cameras trained on their cars.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Kids born in the 80s read this and think, “my parents would have been in a maximum security prison” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/w...

New York Times article. Headline: Should letting children play alone outside be a crime? Photo of a woman looking at a child by a bike.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

An interview with the man who set his data to self-destruct if his phone was searched by law enforcement: "I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people against protecting their data and their privacy." www.404media.co/the-governme...

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‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone

The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to ...

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

More on the proliferation of A.I. books, including a study on the success of A.I.-generated genre fiction: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b... arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20349

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

How meta of Meta: Instagram will now ban users who use Meta smartglasses to secretly film people for content www.businessinsider.com/instagram-me...

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Instagram will now ban creeps in Meta glasses

Content shot on Meta glasses from pickup artists and pranksters can now get you banned.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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/...

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Is AI making us boring? | Sandra Matz | TEDxNewEngland

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Long 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...

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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.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is not about national security. This is about not liking factual news coverage. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...

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NPR @npr.org · 18/07/2026

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.

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Kalshi says it's not a sportsbook even as World Cup bets surge

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.

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Sam Hill @samahill.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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...

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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?

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

🆘 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.

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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?

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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...

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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?

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Laura Frey @lauratfrey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is crazy, also a funny read! Which is good, because otherwise one would simply despair...

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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...

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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?

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