This is wild. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com
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NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report wired.com
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NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones wired.com
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NEW: Meta’s AI strategy is ripping the company to shreds — and the tea is piping hot! Among the many scoops in this story, someone interrupted an internal Meta call this week to describe a company exec as “a piece of shit.”
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess wired.com
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
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"A record-shattering drought has racked much of the US. But the artificial intelligence industry is pushing ahead regardless, with the majority of planned datacenters set to be built in drought-ridden locations, a Guardian analysis has found."
Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land theguardian.com
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Bernie Sanders: "...I will soon be introducing the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act" giving "the public a direct ownership stake in the largest A.I. companies" via a "one-time 50 percent tax" paid not in AI profits but in "the stock" of OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and others.
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It. nytimes.com
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Researchers from Oregon, Purdue, UC San Diego, NYU and Princeton ran six experiments. The overarching finding: state control of media in many countries is already baked into the training data of widely used commercial models, and is shaping the answers those models give right …
State media control influences large language models | Nature nature.com
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Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development …
The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It. techpolicy.press
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AI companies are now getting accommodations that disabled people spent decades fighting for. Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky argue this reflects a broader pattern, where accessibility gains become politically possible only once industry needs the same changes.
The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press
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Two days after Dario Amodei called for mandatory frontier AI testing, the US ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Justin Hendrix on how Washington's improvised response exposed the lack of an AI safety playbook.
Anthropic's Mythos Recall and the White House's Missing AI Safety Playbook techpolicy.press
One of the most interesting things I read this week was a paper on how the mountains of state media published to the internet went into the sausage machine of generative AI training data and how it affects what comes out the other end. TLDR your AI chatbot may be quietly laund…
Language Models Trained on State Media Sources Launder Propaganda | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press
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