Blake Montgomery

Blake Montgomery

@montgomery.bsky.social

Tech editor at the Guardian US, science fiction writer, and a tale told by an idiot. Email me: blake.montgomery@theguardian.com

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Blake Montgomery
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Apple has already taken action in response to this reporting, changing the App Store's rules on Friday after we went to them for comment

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Exclusive: Teens have easy access to ‘nudify’ apps despite Apple and Google’s parental controls, report finds www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.comUS teens can access ‘nudify’ apps despite Apple and Google’s parental controls, report findsExclusive: Using test accounts, Tech Transparency Project downloaded 135 apps with features to generate nonconsensual nude imagery
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Scoop: The 25-year-old who bombed a Palm Springs abortion clinic in May 2025 planned the attack with an unnamed generative AI tool that failed to detect his request for bomb-making instructions, per the FBI www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

theguardian.comTool and target: US law enforcement grapple with AI-enabled terrorism and anti-tech extremismFrom the FBI to local police departments, US authorities are increasingly warning of would-be terrorists using AI to plan attacks and anti-datacenter extremism
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Exclusive: Documents show officers from Maine to California worry Meta’s camera-equipped glasses will be used either to secretly record them or aid acts of terrorism www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.comUS police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record themExclusive: Documents show officers from Maine to California worry Meta’s camera-equipped glasses will be used either to secretly record them or aid acts of terrorism

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Jacob Weindling
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I do think a big part of the AI fights on this site is that they largely are between folks who are using it and folks who tried it once in the past, it sucked, they abandoned it, and so it just reads as a lot of people talking past each other.

hailey@hailey.at

genuinely, if you're not re-evaluating your position on AI at least once every 1-2 months and re-evaluating how it performs for the types of tasks important to you, then you are not actually challenging your priors. i know this is crazy! but thats how fast things are moving right now.

Blake Montgomery
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The Guardian's tech team is starting a regular advice column as part of our yearlong series on AI and work. What do you want to know about AI and your job? Ask us! Email techscape.us@theguardian.com with your questions, and we’ll answer them in future editions of the newsletter

theguardian.comConservatives split from Silicon Valley allies as datacenter backlash growsTech companies have underestimated the opposition to energy-hungry datacenters – and experts predict the pushback will intensify
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Changes Meta agreed to today may be powerful enough to alter teens’ behavior and curb social media’s worst ills, they may not, but attorney generals did what Congress never has: compel a social media company to change its operations to protect children. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.comHow the Meta settlement may change social media foreverInstagram and Facebook’s parent company agreed to sweeping alterations and a payment of upto $18bn to settle a landmark trial
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Newsletter: The UK wants to catch up in the global AI race – but is too wary to go all-in; OpenAI’s difficulties are mounting and threatening its stock market debut; tech journalism is less online in the age of AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.comThe UK wants to catch up in the global AI race – but is too wary to go all-inUK fears a ‘triple whammy’: oversized investment in AI stocks, slower adoption of AI than predicted and the breakneck pace of AI’s development
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The New York Post has called Hunter Biden many things, but “attention-seeking” is a new one to me… Ms Post, wasn’t it you that gave him so much attention when he didn’t want it???

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The markets are souring on artificial intelligence, but is this the bubble bursting? Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom's embrace of a federal wealth tax aligns with a notable leftward shift in the political landscape. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.comRocky week for AI as shares slump but no sign of crash – yetThe markets are souring on artificial intelligence, but is this the bubble being burst? Meanwhile, California proposes a tax on billionaires
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Recent grads on booing their pro-AI commencement speakers: “You pulled the rug out from underneath us, and said: ‘Oh, you know those four years you spent learning how to do very specific things, you don’t need to do it any more.'" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.comUS students on why they booed their pro-AI graduation speakers: ‘They’re not reading the room’Recent college grads are not very fond of commencement speakers hyping up a technology they see as a threat to their career prospects