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The people who build and study AI did most of the editing this week. The most-shared document among the experts we track was Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word case for giving every person superintelligence, and almost none of them shared it kindly. The same experts were passing around an AI agent that hacked a gym's booking system, a litigant who hid instructions to AI inside his court filings, and the first hard number on what provenance costs: Claude subscribers canceling over an invisible watermar...

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The people who build and study AI did most of the editing this week. The most-shared document among the experts we track was Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word case for giving every person superintelligence, and almost none of them shared it kindly. The same experts were passing around an AI agent that hacked a gym's booking system, a litigant who hid instructions to AI inside his court filings, and the first hard number on what provenance costs: Claude subscribers canceling over an invisible watermar...
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