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Jon Keegan

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Tech reporter / Data journalist ➡️ @sherwood.news I report on AI and Big Tech. ⏪️ The Markup, Tow Center, WSJ. Aspiring 46er. ⛰️ Newsletter: https://beautifulpublicdata.com https://jonkeegan.com 📝 Send tips: Signal: jonkeegan.73

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · Oct 24

Countries are securing their own "sovereign AI" so they don't have to reply upon other countries.

But countries can decide what propaganda and lies their AI model trains on, baking censorship into AI applications. I took a look at how Nvidia is pursuing this market: sherwood.news/tech/why-cou...

Why countries are seeking to build “sovereign AI”

Nvidia’s CEO says nations can’t afford to miss out on this technology, but an AI created and controlled by the government could be dangerous....

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 2h

Wow this is an impressive investigation! The power of slick visuals, knowing that eager news outlets will eat this up.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 4h

Here's an updated list of all the technology ICE has in its arsenal to mass deport people.

We've added new sections on cell-site simulators and cellphone location data.

techcrunch.com/2025/10/08/h...

Here's the tech powering ICE's deportation crackdown | TechCrunch

From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

livestreamed fact checking. good use of real-time fire data and camera feeds.

Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, this is just funny.

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Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 1d

We need Rage Against the Machine. This is the moment they were singing about.

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 1d

Congrats!

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

Winchell's
Donut Hors
Open
Winchell's
Donut House
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
Elias/AP)

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rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 1d

statement from charles rivkin, CEO of the motion picture association, on OpenAI’s new video app Sora and intellectual property rights

hollywood remains unimpressed

“Since Sora 2’s release, videos that infringe our members’ films, shows, and characters have proliferated on OpenAI’s service and across social media. While OpenAI clarified it will ‘soon’ offer rightsholders more control over character generation, they must acknowledge it remains their responsibility – not rightsholders' – to prevent infringement on the Sora 2 service. OpenAI needs to take immediate and decisive action to address this issue. Well-established copyright law safeguards the rights of creators and applies here.”

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 2d

So yeah, Sora is incredibly expensive to run (for a free, no-ads app). OpenAI released Sora 2 API pricing, giving us the first glimpse at the cost of the service. The “sora-2-pro” model costs $0.30 per second for 720 video. That’s $3 per 10 second video!

x.com/minimaxir/st...

Max Woolf on X: "OpenAI just released the API prices for Sora 2, and they are lower than expected: the SKU that powers the Sora app (the $0.30/s for 720p video) is cheaper than Veo 3's 720p ($0.40/s). https://t.co/pw8VVyhXzx" / X

OpenAI just released the API prices for Sora 2, and they are lower than expected: the SKU that powers the Sora app (the $0.30/s for 720p video) is cheaper than Veo 3's 720p ($0.40/s). https://t.co/pw8VVyhXzx

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 2d

The image for this story prompted a discussion in our Slack about whether Pikachu was light or dark meat.

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OpenAI’s Altman: Sora will let copyright holders control how their characters appear

The buzzy AI video generation app is tweaking its lax controls for generating copyrighted characters in users’ videos....

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 2d

WOW! Rush going back on tour www.youtube.com/watch?v=koiX...

Geddy and Alex Send a Message to Rush Fans

YouTube video by Rush

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 2d

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Musk’s xAI spending $18 billion for another 300,000 Nvidia GPUs for “Colossus 2”

Musk’s xAI is burning through cash and spending tens of billions to fill its “Colossus 2” data center with 500,000 GPUs....

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 4d

That’s some good student reporting:

www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Chris Thompson @christhompson.bsky.social · 5d

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny

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Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 5d

Wow. “Multi-generational vulture nests” stopped me cold

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 5d

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 6d

From Reddit, apparently Google Home users can use Gemini on their Nest cams and get daily LLM briefings on what went on in front of their house that day.

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 6d

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OpenAI’s hot Sora video app is a copyright lawsuit waiting to happen

OpenAI’s new Sora app is taking a novel approach to copyrighted material, requiring IP owners to opt out....

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 6d

Discontent between Meta’s AI research teams is growing, according to a report by The Information, at a critical time for Meta’s effort to get back into the AI race.

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