Here's Anthropic's "Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5" www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 anthropic.com
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report wired.com
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search 404media.co
Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search | WIRED wired.com
She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals. businessinsider.com
Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women wired.com
Microsoft Hacked to Deliver Malware to Claude and Gemini Users 404media.co
Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land theguardian.com
wsj.com
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’ wired.com
Articles & links
"Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account." www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
"One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the latest version’s code." www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
"In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extre…
But of course they are... "Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search" www.404media.co/companies-ar...
"Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search. The search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it." www.wired.com/story/even-i... Yup...
If you are Catholic and not a fan of AI, here's your get-out-of-jail-free card at work courtesy of the Pope. www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...
"A WIRED investigation found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos on Grok's website, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities and at least one prominent US politician." www.wired.com/story/grok-i...
"Microsoft Hacked to Deliver Malware to Claude and Gemini Users. Microsoft took the highly unusual step of shutting down more than 70 of its own GitHub repositories after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from AI coding agent users" www.404media.co/microsoft-…
"Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
"The Trump administration is banning foreign governments, companies and individuals from using Anthropic’s most powerful artificial-intelligence tools, prompting the company to shut off access to everyone to comply with the new rule." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
Yes, snacks, that will solve everything. "Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’" www.wired.com/story/andrew...
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