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Katja Muñoz

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Senior Tech Fellow @dgap.org | AI & Democracy |Influencers | Hybrid Threats | Foresight | Views my own

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 12h
The White House’s AI Bot Is Going Through It The Trump administration is broadening its embrace of artificial intelligence. The results have been mixed, to say the least. Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 28/09/2026
The tech world is too busy dreaming up imaginary doomsday scenarios to focus on a very real one that flared up between nuclear powers. theintercept.com/2026/09/28/a...
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Completely agree… attribution may be importantly for the courts at a later stage, but is completely overrated when it comes to any operation in the cyber info space
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 19/09/2026
AI generated report "almost started a war" Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Chinese models now surpass U.S. models in both monthly and total downloads. National security policy professional Prince Osaji says the dominant AI power won't be the one with the most powerful model—it'll be the one with the most adopted one.
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China Is Running a Different AI Race
Prince Osaji writes that China is prioritizing AI systems that are cheap, open-weight, and exportable—pursuing dominance through adoption, not power.
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heiseonline @heise.de · 17/09/2026
Mozillas KI-Assistent Smart Window nutzt nun Mistral-Modelle. Deutschland soll noch 2026 folgen. Beide Partner versprechen Null-Datenaufbewahrung. #Künstliche Intelligenz
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Mistral wird KI-Anbieter für Firefox Smart Window
Mozillas KI-Assistent Smart Window nutzt nun Mistral-Modelle. Deutschland soll noch 2026 folgen. Beide Partner versprechen Null-Datenaufbewahrung.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Recommended reading for those trying to make sense of this "AI" "moment".
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Der Grund warum die AfD hier profitiert ist, dass sie sich eine digitale Infrastruktur geschaffen hat, die nicht von politischer Werbung abhängig ist. Netzwerkanalysen bestätigen immer wieder, dass hier sehr effektiv mobilisiert wird & organische + orchestrierte Kampagnen konstant laufen.
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/09/2026
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Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man Meme
ALT: Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man Meme
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Georgetown's Mark MacCarthy argues the Trump administration's new voluntary AI safety review shouldn't exempt open weight models. Their ordinary use, he writes, poses the same significant, foreseeable risks as closed models.
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US Government’s AI Risk Review Should Apply to Open Weight Models
The current US posture of excluding open models from AI safety reviews is short-sighted and counterproductive, argues Mark MacCarthy.
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heiseonline @heise.de · 26/07/2026
Eigenständig und ungewollt griffen OpenAIs KIs eine bekannte Webseite erfolgreich an. US-Politiker fordern jetzt drastische Maßnahmen. #Künstliche Intelligenz
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US-Politiker fordern Kill-Switch für KI-Modelle
Eigenständig und ungewollt griffen OpenAIs KIs eine bekannte Webseite erfolgreich an. US-Politiker fordern jetzt drastische Maßnahmen.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/07/2026
OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake ft.trib.al/CPgCAny
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OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake
Sam Altman’s start-up in early talks for a public ownership deal as political pressure rises
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
New from 404 Media: companies are deliberately making Claude and Codex talk like cavemen because it can curb the skyrocketing cost of AI. The 'caveman' plugin keeps LLM answers very, very brief. Got leaked memo showing it's being used; OpenAI dev contributed code too www.404media.co/companies-ar...
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Companies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AI’s Soaring Costs
A senior OpenAI employee has contributed code to the project, simply called 'caveman.'
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The past two weeks were crazy… in a good way, but exhausting. At the Handelsblatt conference talking about cognitive warfare &how AI needs to be thought of as a multi dimensional attack vector for critical infrastructure Filming @Terrax with Harald Lesch on AI / democracy
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Brussels sets out an ambitious cross-sector plan to reduce Europe’s dependence on foreign technology, spanning cloud services, semiconductors and AI, while pairing new regulatory tools with investment and industrial policy to expand domestic capacity, reports Ramsha Jahangir.
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EU Unveils Sweeping Tech Sovereignty Push, Balancing Autonomy with Openness
The “tech sovereignty” package marks the bloc’s most ambitious attempt yet to reduce dependence on non-European providers, reports Ramsha Jahangir.
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Meta says it has been “thinking through” putting face recognition into its creepy smart glasses But it’s already been shipping the face recognition code to people’s phones Big @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social scoop
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
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heiseonline @heise.de · 26/05/2026
In einem europäischen Projekt haben Akteure aus Wissenschaft und Industrie untersucht, welche Speichersysteme nötig sind, um die Energiewende voranzubringen. #Energiewende
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Europäisches Projekt vernetzt Energiespeicherforschung
In einem europäischen Projekt haben Akteure aus Wissenschaft und Industrie untersucht, welche Speichersysteme nötig sind, um die Energiewende voranzubringen.
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Auf der @re:publica habe ich eine Keynote über die absurden Konsequenzen für unsere Gesllschaft gesprochen habe wenn Menschen abgewertet und KI Systeme, die bewusst wirken, aufgewertet werden. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1oDn...
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re:publica 26: Wenn KI Bewusstsein simuliert - Über parasoziale Beziehungen und Abhängigkeit als …
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Surprise… not. Das letzte Jahr an öffentlichen Auftritten haben da schon eine ganze Menge vorweg genommen.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/05/2026
Easy as ABC: voters in England tend to pick names nearer top of ballot, data suggests
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Easy as ABC: voters in England tend to pick names nearer top of ballot, data suggests
Exclusive: Where parties fielded multiple candidates in last week’s vote, those at top of list were more likely to be picked Fancy your chances in politics? Then perhaps you should change your name to Aaron Aaronson or Aaliyah Aardvark, figures from last week’s local elections in England suggest. A Guardian analysis of election results compiled by the website Democracy Club points to a striking alphabet effect. In wards where a party fielded three candidates, those listed nearer the top of the ballot paper – with a surname nearer the start of the alphabet – finished ahead of their party colleagues in 2,200 cases, or 65% of the time. Continue reading...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/05/2026
Major players in the A.I. arms race have panicked that their fellow founders weren’t taking existential fears about the technology seriously enough. “They seem to have worried less about the risk of political backlash from actual humans,” David Wallace-Wells writes.
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A.I. Populism Is Here. And No One Is Ready.
Silicon Valley oligarchs worried about the risks their technology posed to the world. They forgot about people.
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This btw is classic contentious politics theory by Charls Tilly. If you close legal pathways for agency, it doesn’t stop mobilization, it just makes it illegal. If repression is inconsistent on top of that, people who mobilize radicalize. So we can expect more violence individual and organized.
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Für @internationalepolitik.de schreibe ich zu De-Risking.. De-Risking ist eine Entscheidung für Handlungsfähigkeit & nicht Synonym für Au­tarkie, sondern Strategie zur Verwaltung von Abhängigkeiten um handlungsfähig zu bleiben internationalepolitik.de/de/sollte-eu...
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Sollte Europa bei KI auf De-Risking setzen?
Ein Pro und Contra
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404 Media @404media.co · 01/05/2026
RightCon's organizers said Beijing was upset over over the inclusion of speakers from Taiwain.
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China Pressure Canceled World’s Largest Digital Human Rights Conference
RightCon's organizers said Beijing was upset over over the inclusion of speakers from Taiwain.
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heiseonline @heise.de · 26/04/2026
Palantir verkauft nicht nur Software, sondern in einem Manifest ein politisches Weltbild in 22 Thesen, um die Dominanz des Westens zu sichern. #Palantir
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Technologie als Staatsräson: Was Palantir mit seinem Manifest bezweckt
Palantir verkauft nicht nur Software, sondern in einem Manifest ein politisches Weltbild in 22 Thesen, um die Dominanz des Westens zu sichern.
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Tracking engineered collective mobilization
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Thanks to its mineral endowment, South Africa has more AI leverage than any country on the continent, writes Nathan-Ross Adams. To serve the public interest, its AI policy must use it, he says.
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South Africa Has AI Leverage. Its Draft Policy Leaves It Unused.
South Africa has more AI leverage than any country on the continent, writes Nathan-Ross Adams. To serve the public interest, its AI policy must use it, he says.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I think that academia has not absorbed the fact that AI agents are now good enough to independently reconstruct complex papers without access to code or the papers themselves; just the methods & data. They aren’t perfect but the errors are often in the human paper, not the AI making a mistake.
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Quite fascinating. It feels like an emancipation, and will change some dynamics…
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/04/2026
How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law
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Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable
If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/04/2026
Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Legacy television power is being put against a decentralized, digital-first influencer class that helped build Trumpism. That means that as younger voices break from Fox, the right’s media ecosystem turns on itself.
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Trump’s clash with podcasters puts Fox News on notice
As younger voices break from Fox News, the right’s media ecosystem turns on itself
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f...
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
If you know… you know. Berlin HBf
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/04/2026
Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.
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Anthropic Says That Claude Contains Its Own Kind of Emotions
Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
If civil society is showing courage with so little protection and support, why is the European Commission so afraid to capitalize on its own Digital Services Act wins, writes Alexandre Alaphilippe.
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The DSA Showed Teeth Against X but the EU Is Afraid to Call It a Win
If civil society can show courage with little support, why is the European Commission afraid to claim its own DSA wins, writes Alexandre Alaphilippe.
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Engagement Politics… based on the underlying design of algorithms, this basically means the more outrageous the politician the high the ranking within party.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This is what happens when politics turns from ideology to attention, and that's not good for a functioning democracy.
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Franz-Stefan Gady @hoanssolo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
‚Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war, according to 3 officials familiar with the intelligence.‘ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say
The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
State-sanctioned personalized energy solutions are something I’ve been tracking since last summer. My core concern: they risk undermining energy infrastructure as a public good and with it, state sovereignty.
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Thomas Wiegold @wiegold.de · 24/02/2026
"Ukraine is no longer just supplementing its infantry with tech — it is replacing infantry in many cases with drones, ground robots, sensor networks, minefields and artillery cued by unmanned systems." (h/t @christianthiels.bsky.social)
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‘We don’t have infantry’: Ukraine’s war machine evolves into machine war
Outmanned by a nuclear power in the largest land war in Europe since 1945, Ukraine’s front line is increasingly held by machines.
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/02/2026
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Loxxmaxxing as a natural but extreme extension of whatvststred off as optimizing your day(5AM, cold plunges,) now it is meth, bone crushing and peptides… served to you by an increasing cohort of influencers.
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
40 countries on track to limit or ban children from social media…
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Katja Muñoz @katjamunoz.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
@proton.me is killing it with their content…
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The global order is fracturing, writes Alison Gillwald. But turning geopolitical and technological disruption into justice for the Majority World will take more than restating values. It will require reform of multilateral institutions—and confronting how technology entrenches power imbalances.
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From Davos to New Delhi, Rupture of Global Order Tests AI Governance
The old order is unravelling, writes Alison Gillwald, but efforts to build a more equitable system remain constrained by the interests of dominant powers.
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