New York City Council holds AI hearing with tech leaders

 https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/10/05/new-york-city-council-ai-hearing-openai-meta-anthropic-google/3621791217612/ 

AI researcher warns ‘we are racing to build and grow our own adversary’ in NYC hearing https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/05/anthropic-openai-google-meta-execs-testify-nyc-council-ai-hearing.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/nyregion/ai-city-council-hearing.html

Meta Expected to Unveil Smart Glasses Without Camera

 https://www.businessoffashion.com/news/technology/meta-expected-to-unveil-smart-glasses-without-camera/ 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Meta

From smart glasses to AI pins, privacy fears challenge tech’s next big bet

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/09/23/tech/smart-glasses-ai-privacy-tech/

https://www.khaama.com/smart-glasses-boom-raises-global-privacy-fears-over-secret-recording-cnn-reports/

 https://dig.watch/updates/meta-smart-glasses-raise-privacy-concerns-india 

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4646032-meta-expected-to-address-privacy-concerns-with-camera-free-smart-glasses

NEVER buy Meta Glasses (unless you're a robot)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDZIsmVy4nM

Meta’s Legal Troubles Are Worse than You Think

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBZ7TqauY_4  

 Facebook's Most Dangerous App https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOQynHuWPeI 

 What does Meta actually do now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npOcPgWymbM

Moscow Warns It Could Target British Military Facilities

 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/moscow-warns-it-could-target-british-military-facilities-unprecedented-statement 

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-could-strike-uk-military-targets-response-ukrainian-strikes-using-2026-08-27/ 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/27/russia-warns-it-could-target-uk-in-response-to-kyiv-firing-british-missiles 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/aug/27/mcfadden-meta-jobs-neets-burnham-wales-unemployment-tata-steel-industry-latest-news-updates

Whistleblower Says Mark Zuckerberg Is Only Pretending to Care...

 https://futurism.com/future-society/whistleblower-lawsuit-meta-child-safety-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-instagram

Meta’s $1 trillion lawsuit could change Instagram and Facebook forever | BBC News

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ADvC4ioqe4  

Zuckerberg's actions finally have consequences... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtOmjej-YDE 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Meta

Meta becomes latest firm to say its AI hacked another company

 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kgdnyk2po 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/ai-models-have-been-going-rogue-in-tests-how-worried-should-we-be

https://apnews.com/article/meta-ai-hacking-anthropic-irregular-openai-0e8061437da6779be962b24ac134a514

OpenAI launched GPT-5.6, claimed Sol solved a 50-year-old math conjecture, and revealed that it helped post-train Luna. SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, Meta launched Muse Spark before pulling a controversial Instagram AI feature, and ByteDance unveiled Seedream 5.0 Pro.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byAXKYmeZho Meanwhile, MiniMax prepared a 2.7 trillion parameter model, DeepSeek started building its own chip, China considered restricting frontier AI exports, and BAAI introduced Orca, a model designed to predict what happens next. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=GPT-5.6+Sol

3 Days After Introducing an AI Feature, Meta Hits Pause in Wake of Privacy Backlash

 https://www.inc.com/kevin-haynes/3-days-after-introducing-an-ai-feature-meta-hits-pause-in-wake-of-privacy-backlash/91373053 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2dy6e8klw0o 

https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-feature-backlash-1236806989/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/11/meta-ditches-muse-image-ai-feature-instagram-privacy 

Digital characters and AI entities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_Norwood 

VCR CATBREAD7 videos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_(2002_film)#Plot 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waldo_Moment  

Poppy - Time Is Up (feat. Diplo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg2pS9KN28U&list=RDMM&start_radio=1  

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Has Been Playing a Cruel Game With Meta Employees

"It's a bit surreal that 1 out of 10 people are about to be hit, and no one knows how the lists are being made." https://futurism.com/future-society/mark-zuckerberg-cruel-game-meta-employees 

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/jack-dorsey-block-layoffs-ai "Must be nice to treat human beings like spreadsheet errors."

Meta Secretly Building a Photorealistic AI Clone of Mark Zuckerberg so No Employee Can Ever Escape His Watchful Eye

 https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-photorealistic-ai-clone-mark-zuckerberg "Even for an executive long known by employees as the “Eye of Sauron,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking the concept of micromanagement to its final form, the Financial Times reports, by using AI to develop a “photorealistic, AI-powered 3D” version of himself to converse with and offer feedback to employees." 

One AI clone to rule them all.

https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-reality-vr-layoffs 

https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-firing-percentage-staff-zuckerberg 

https://futurism.com/zuckerberg-offers-why 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Meta

The Meta Acquisition of Moltbook Accelerates Rise of Autonomous AI Ecosystems

Meta, the owner of Instagram and Facebook, has bought Moltbook, a social media networking platform for artificial intelligence (AI) bots to speak to each other. https://streamlinefeed.co.ke/news/meta-acquisition-of-moltbook-accelerates-rise-of-autonomous-ai-ecosystems 

https://meyka.com/blog/meta-acquires-ai-agent-platform-moltbook-brings-its-creators-onboard/

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=autonomous 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Meta

Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media addiction trial

 https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/zuckerberg-to-testify-in-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial/article70649151.ece 

Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg will have a line of Meta robots in the near future. (Meta-bots & Meta-drones?)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/18/mark-zuckerberg-meta-trial-testimony 

https://apnews.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-trial-testimony-instagram-c8cbaa32ccbf4933ec3a7beebd6cf34b  

https://www.theverge.com/news/613102/meta-humanoid-robots-ai 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/tech/meta-robot-glasses-facebook

https://www.instagram.com/zuck/?hl=en 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mark+Zuckerberg 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Meta

Meta patents AI that lets dead people post from the great beyond

https://www.fastcompany.com/91493794/meta-patents-ai-dead-people-posting

 https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld/comments/1r89jab/isnt_this_eerily_similar_to_what_delos_was_doing/  

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/slightly-terrifying-3d-printing-breakthrough-means-we-can-now-print-robotic-muscle-so-is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-humanity

https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld/comments/1r68p0i/breakthrough_in_3d_printing_flexible_structures/ 

Clones and Drones

The technology behind the world's first (AI) human Clone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1theCfcFsA  

Eventually, people from this time and other times could be copied, imitated or replicated.  

Alice Cooper - Clones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1h38gC23bw 

https://www.motionpictures.org/2018/04/watch-how-they-created-the-fantastically-creepy-drone-hosts-in-westworld/ 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Meta

Tony Robbins: No One Is Ready For What's Coming!

Why The Next Decade Will Break People! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_w81rptxkc 

https://www.ai-supremacy.com/p/ai-trends-2025-lookback-and-2026-meta-trends

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2025/12/29/reports-of-an-ai-job-apocalypse-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/ 

https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/how-will-ai-affect-the-global-workforce 

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/this-is-how-the-ai-bubble-bursts 

https://elicit.com/review/20172d4d-4587-4a13-b797-8673475b57a9  

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Potential+Job+Losses+from+AI 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI+and+job+layoffs

Best books and movies about Aliens and ET encounters

https://medium.com/@Eric_Kay_SciFi/top-sci-fi-books-about-aliens-meta-analysis-of-20-book-lists-4d5625e524c5

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/aliens 

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/extraterrestrial 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files

What if a Soldier Asked a Captured Alien What Happens After Humans Die? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNqyXlUF0kk This speculative story seems like it would be very interesting as a sci-fi-movie or a TV series. 

Extra-Terrestrial movies https://www.imdb.com/list/ls026150189 

https://www.cnet.com/pictures/greatest-alien-encounter-movies-ranked/

https://www.greatpopculturedebate.com/blog/top-10-alien-films-ranked

The 20 Best Alien Movies Of All Time https://www.imdb.com/list/ls066689833 

https://ew.com/best-alien-movies-all-time-11788429 

https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/aliens/best-movies-about-aliens

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/essential-sci-fi-movies-of-all-time/

https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/scariest-alien-movies/ 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/entertainment/article/alien-and-space-movies/

https://spyscape.com/article/spies-and-space-aliens-must-see-movies-and-tv-series-to-stream-now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_extraterrestrials 

https://www.timeout.com/film/the-100-best-sci-fi-movies 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files#Mythology

A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes

 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/technology/personaltech/sora-ai-video-impact.html 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artificial-intelligence-ai-videos-sora-meta-vibes/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(1987_film)#Plot The protagonist discovers that video manipulation was used to make it look like he wanted to shoot a bunch of innocent people. Thus, he is set up and is forced to become The_Running_Man as a result of deepfake technology.

https://stratechery.com/2025/sora-ai-bicycles-and-meta-disruption/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/04/sora-openai-video-app.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/technology/sora-openai-video-disinformation.html 

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/10/06/ai-video-more-than-just-slop

https://medium.com/artificial-corner/my-honest-review-of-openais-sora-and-how-it-compares-with-other-ai-video-generators-e9b19c251b27 

https://www.reddit.com/r/mkbhd/comments/1had8nq/this_video_is_ai_generated_sora_review/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(2025_film) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD18ddeFuyM 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=OpenAI

Palantir Technologies

 https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/09/16/stock-split-watch-is-palantir-technologies-pltr-ne/  

Peter+Thiel and associates just might be striving for artificial-superintelligence.

https://www.marketbeat.com/instant-alerts/filing-burr-financial-services-llc-sells-83318-shares-of-palantir-technologies-inc-pltr-2025-09-16/

https://www.investors.com/market-trend/stock-market-today/dow-jones-futures-fed-rate-cut-powell-nvidia-meta-palantir-buy-points/ 

https://theconversation.com/when-the-government-can-see-everything-how-one-company-palantir-is-mapping-the-nations-data-263178 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir#Influence 

https://builtin.com/articles/what-is-palantir

https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/artificial-superintelligence

https://crypto.com/en/university/what-is-the-artificial-superintelligence-alliance

https://superintelligence.io/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence#Potential_threat_to_humanity 

We're Not Ready for Superintelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KVDDfAkRgc 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Palantir