Google (un-)Earth
Some issues with Google Earth here:
Hacking ChatGPT and Google AI
Just seen this: Thomas Germain, BBC Future, I hacked ChatGPT and Google’s AI – and it only took 20 minutes, 18 Feb 2026 “”It’s easy to trick AI chatbots,...
Google AI Issues
Exclusive: Google breached its own policies that barred use of artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in 2024 by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone video footage....
Internet ‘enshitification’
Not my term, but an interesting article. That’s tonight’s listening sorted (via @newlinesmag.bsky.social) – and a chance to include “enshitification” in a post (after a struggle with spellcheck) newlinesmag.com/podcast/why-…...
YouTube Shorts Veo 3 MENA
YouTube Shorts Veo 3 in MENA: "The Google-owned platform also plans to broaden the reach of its auto-dubbing feature, currently available to about 51,000 Egyptian creators translating Egyptian Arabic...
AI and Digital Influence
The AI competition is hotting up. This is interesting, given yesterday’s post about Indonesia, and has particular relevance in investigations into digital Islam/influence in majority and minority contexts. Ivan...
UAE AI Officers on tour
A significant development in terms of future R&D, with potential implications across sectors (including digital Islam). Dana Alomar, The National, UAE chief AI officers get peek into future tech...
Geolocation Issues
Foeke Postma, Nathan Patin, Bellingcat, Have LLMs Finally Mastered Geolocation?, 6 Jun 2025 “To assess how LLMs from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Mistral and xAI compare today, we ran 500...
‘AI Deepfake Terrorism‘
Bryon Kaye, Reuters, Google reports scale of complaints about AI deepfake terrorism content to Australian regulator, 5 Mar 2025 “In its report, Google said it received 258 user reports...