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Dare Obasanjo

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Wired reports that the FBI and DHS are now monitoring a new class of threats described as “anti-tech violent extremism” resulting from the backlash against AI and data centers. It’s unclear if this is a real threat or a political move by the White House to target opponents of AI.

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
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  • Wired reviewed over 1,000 pages of unpublished DHS, FBI, and fusion-center reports coalescing around a new label called 'anti-tech extremism.'
  • A Delaware Valley fusion-center bulletin flagged AI data centers as extremist targets while conceding it had no specific plots or suspects.
  • The term 'anti-technology violent extremism' does not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI extremism documents, per Wired's review.
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The Chinese government has had talks with top Chinese AI companies about restricting access to their most advanced AI models by foreign users. Given the significant interest in Chinese open weight models as AI token costs have risen, this would be huge hit to AI adoption if th…

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A Stanford student talks about how rampant using AI to cheat is at the college. This is on rationale for reduced hiring of entry level workers. If white collar jobs have become primarily reviewing the work of AI, why hire people who never learned how to do the work?

Opinion | What A.I. Did to My College Class nytimes.com
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  • Local permit campaigns have already successfully blocked AI data center construction, creating a replicable model for future opposition.
  • Majority poll opposition to AI's development pace now gives legislators bipartisan political cover to push restrictive regulation.
  • Activist groups and legislators are coordinating across multiple simultaneous fronts, not acting as isolated individual incidents.
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This is a feature I’m surprised took this long to show up. A version of Claude you can add to your Slack channel is so obvious multiple people I know have built their own versions. 65% of Anthropic code being written by asking Claude to do so from a Slack chat is an interestin…

Introducing Claude Tag anthropic.com
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that most big tech companies underreport how much water their data centers use. They often disclose water used for cooling but omit what the power plants supplying them consume. Meta is rare in counting both; 19B gallons in 2024 was 20x its…

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  • Amazon said its global data-center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, its first public aggregate figure.
  • For comparison, Google reported roughly 6.4B gallons in 2023, Microsoft about 1.7B (up around 34% YoY), and Meta about 813M.
  • Bloomberg found roughly two-thirds of US data centers built or in development since 2022 sit in places with high water stress.
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AI subsidies were never going to last. Anthropic is committing $15B/year to SpaceX for data centers while Big Tech cuts jobs to fund AI infrastructure. Now GitHub and Anthropic are moving heavy consumer usage patterns from flat rate to metered plans. The free lunch is almost o…

You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze | The Verge theverge.com
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  • Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are simultaneously deploying rate limits, paywalls, and price hikes in 2026, ending subsidized AI access.
  • Anthropic's June 15 print-mode repricing, OpenAI's guaranteed-capacity tier, and Google AI Ultra are concrete signals of the industry-wide monetization shift.
  • Labs spent years using investor capital to subsidize access and build user habits; the payback phase has now arrived across the industry.
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Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

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“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” - ChatGPT

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McSweeney’s on the economics of the AI bubble. This description of AI driven layoffs is excellent satire.

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New groundbreaking research about AI just dropped

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David Sacks argues that while Anthropic talks about open source models being “dangerous”, the real danger to businesses is deploying Claude and Anthropic uses your IP to compete with you. He implies this is what happened with Figma and Claude Design.

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While his framing is a bit cynical, I share similar irritation with Ed Zitron on AI companies pushing loops. Loops where Claude or OpenClaw keep trying to solve a task until successful are essentially a token burning workaround to deal with the fact they don't get the answer correctly on first try.

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The secret of Elon Musk’s business success is creating a permanent sense of being close to the next big breakthrough. Sometimes he delivers like reusable rockets and mass market EVs while other times it’s vaporware like the Hyperloop and full self driving. An iPhone killing AI device? Vaporware.

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AI washing of layoffs is real. I was surprised to see a wave of headlines today saying Oracle shrank by 21,000 employees due to replacing them with AI. A few months ago, it was widely reported the layoffs were to pay for data centers they’d committed to building for OpenAI but couldn’t get loans.

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The most disappointing thing I’ve found using AI agents is you can’t enforce guardrails via memory or CLAUDE .md files. To an LLM, your instructions are just more text to probabilistically reason about. “Don't do X” simply cannot work. You must enforce deterministic rules outside the system.

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Google just released an ad reimagining the Founding Fathers using AI tools to draft the Declaration of Independence.

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