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The British government's digital ID advisory group is raising transparency concerns after Cabinet Office minister James Frith confirmed its meeting minutes will not be made public. Questions from Conservative MP Andrew Snowden about the group's budget and how members were selected went entirely unanswered, leaving observers to wonder what exactly is being decided behind those closed doors.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, Meta is relaunching Facebook's Creator Studio, shuttered back in twenty twenty three, now reimagined as a standalone AI companion app. The pitch is that creators will get smarter tools to connect with audiences and grow their presence on Facebook. Whether that translates to genuine utility or just another layer of algorithmic nudging remains to be seen.
And speaking of AI showing its seams, a user on Hacker News claims a glitch in Google's Gemini briefly exposed the model's actual reasoning chain. The visible thinking turned out to be fairly mundane, essentially a task summary, but it reignited the broader conversation about what these systems are really doing when they appear to think.
Stay skeptical, stay curious. Tech Beat out.
