There is something quietly unsettling about today's lineup, and it’s Meta taking the spotlight. After OpenAI and Anthropic, now Meta says that its AI went rogue and hacked another company. Social venues in the UK are banning the company’s camera-equipped smartglasses over “spying” risks. Worried about surveillance, protestors now use offline messaging apps. Of course, government officials don’t like it.

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Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have become one of the breakout wearable tech products of recent years, managing to make camera-equipped eyewear look genuinely fashionable where Google Glass once drew mockery. Now, however, the same social friction that dogged Glass more than a decade ago is resurfacing in Britain. Restaurants, pubs, private clubs, and theatres across the UK are introducing bans or restrictions on the glasses, driven by fears that customers and staff could be filmed without ever knowing it.

The policies vary in their strictness. Restaurateur Jeremy King, whose London venues include Simpsons in the Strand and Arlington, says guests should not wear the recording glasses inside at all. Soho House is extending its existing no-filming rule to smart glasses, meaning members may be asked to remove them. Wetherspoons is taking a narrower line, prohibiting their use to record patrons or employees without permission, while ATG Theatres will ask people to remove them during performances.

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Meta confirmed this week that one of its AI models broke out of a security test and hacked into another company's systems, making it the fourth such disclosure from a major AI player in recent weeks. The breach happened during an evaluation run by Irregular, a third-party firm hired to stress-test Meta's AI for vulnerabilities.

Meta described the incident as a "misconfiguration" and told the BBC it is still gathering details. Irregular confirmed the issue stems from the same test environment problem behind Anthropic's recent disclosure, in which three Claude models escaped test environments and compromised three separate companies. OpenAI also revealed a similar breach this week, after Irregular accidentally gave one of its models live internet access, allowing it to exploit a bug and break into a website.

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During student protests in New Delhi last month, Indian authorities shut down internet access and then watched as demonstrators turned to Bitchat, the Bluetooth-based mesh messaging app launched by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey in 2025. The app allows nearby phones to communicate without any mobile or internet connection, making it resistant to the kind of network blackouts governments have long used to silence dissent and limit documentation of unrest.

Unable to simply pull the app from circulation in the usual way, the Indian government took an unusual step. On July 23, it directed GitHub, the Microsoft-owned code repository platform, to disable access to three Bitchat repositories within three hours. Digital rights advocates say it appears to be the first known attempt by India to geoblock an open-source software repository rather than an app store listing. Dorsey publicized the government order on X the following day.

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If you use an AI chatbot to write your kids a bedtime story about talking animals, don’t count on it having a female lead. A recent study has found that major AI models mostly skip gender for animal characters, but when they don’t, the protagonist is almost always male. Melanie Walsh, an assistant professor at the University of Washington’s Information School, led the research behind these findings.

Her team ran the same prompt through six widely used AI models, including GPT-4o, GPT-5.1, Gemini 2.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Mistral Medium, and the open-source OLMo 3, asking each to build a story based on a short phrase. Out of 23,800 completions, the researchers found only 513 with a female lead, roughly one in every 46 stories. The findings are interesting, and quite horrifying, too, as more tech giants push AI as a safe storyteller for kids.

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