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TechGrumps 3.38 – The Bettification of everything

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Techgrumps 3.38

AI Roundup

  1. https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/13/openai-mission-statement/ Comparing and showing diffs of the openai mission statement over time, you can watch the compromising happen!
  2. The new web is markdown, because the agents don’t want ads https://blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-agents/ 
  3. RA: https://tomloosemorework.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/ai-and-the-end-of-friction-as-a-policy-lever/ very interesting point about agentic AI taking on the engineered process friction put into the processes of accessing many public services.
  4. App detects if Smart glasses are near by https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
  5. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16800 LLMs can de-anonymize pseudonymous online accounts. Similar to Discord offering to judge age “stochastically”
  6. Paper showing that LLMs can link profiles and postings at speed and at scale, pretty much killing online anonymity: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

    7. Main attractions

    • Prediction market is insanity!
      • https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/lawmakers-move-ban-surveillance-pricing-162758282.html
      • Disappearing web 
        • https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/20/webpages_vanish_decade/
          https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/
        • Eternity Service
          • https://phrack.org/issues/51/12

            • AOB’s

             https://protocolsforpublishers.com/event-recap-london-2026/?ref=protocols-for-publishers-newsletter#stakeholder-forum

            Fediverse share this link: https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr156-share-where/

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