Home Office Age Scans, Meta Clickbait, AI Regulation Bedfellows
June 10, 2026
The UK Home Office is deploying AI age estimation to adjudicate asylum claims, converting facial scans into border enforcement tools that risk misclassifying applicants based on unreliable biometric metrics. Simultaneously, Meta is automating the attention economy by producing its own AI-generated clickbait feeds, while US senators, defense officials, and business leaders form anxious alliances to steer AI policy, even as Microsoft and Anthropic publicly dispute the safety and consciousness of their models. These converging pressures demonstrate how border enforcement, media curation, and regulatory frameworks are increasingly shaped by opaque algorithmic systems and corporate interests, leaving labor, expertise, and democratic oversight vulnerable to automated decisions and political maneuvering.
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UK Home Office to use AI age estimation on asylum seekers – how accurate is the technology?
Prostock-studio/Shutterstock Starting next year, the Home Office plans to use AI-driven facial age estimation to assess the age of asylum seekers. At the UK border, deciding whether someone is 17 or 19 is a consequential judgment. Get it wrong one way, and a vulnerable child loses legal protections…
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Meta made its own AI-generated clickbait news feed
An AI-generated image of the royal family featuring two Queen Elizabeth IIs. | Image: Meta AI Facebook has long been filled with feeds of clickbait articles. Now, Meta is making its own clickbait articles with AI. The standalone Meta AI app now has a "For You" section that populates a list of clickb…
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The future of AI regulation is courting the strangest, most anxious bedfellows
(L-R) Sen. Mike Rounds, Pamela Brown, Chris Malachowsky, Kevin O'Leary, Gabriele Caccia, Tammy Haddad, Michele L. Jawando, Sen. Mark Warner, Michael Kelly and Major General Patrick Ellis attend the Second Annual AI Honors. | Getty Images for Washington AI N Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newslett…
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Microsoft AI head calls out Anthropic for acting like Claude is conscious
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says it's "really, really dangerous" for Anthropic to speculate about Claude's consciousness inside its "constitution," or the instructions that tell the model how to behave. During an episode of Decoder, Suleyman argues that this kind of speculation may have set up…
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The Great AI Divide: Navigating U.S. and Chinese dominance
At a Rest of World event during New York Tech Week, we explored the challenges and possible solutions to the dominance of American and Chinese AI companies.
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CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs
In the last three months I’ve had people forward me four separate examples of a CEO losing his or her mind over AI. What’s been striking to me is the similarity in each case: It would be an “all hands” email in which the CEO talks up how amazing LLM tools are and saying that […]
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Claude Fable won’t answer basic biology questions
Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5, calling it the most powerful AI model it has ever made widely available and praising its skills in biology, among others. But the model won't answer basic biology questions - the kind you'd expect a high schooler to handle. Instead, it hands off the query to t…