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
science.org
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report wired.com
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop 404media.co
Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search 404media.co
nytimes.com
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
The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes nytimes.com
reuters.com
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"If the scientific community fails to address the influence of AI, then authentic research & validated findings will slow down to an expensive trickle into established knowledge, & the opportunities for flawed or fabricated info. to be seen as reality will grow—all while AI pr…
"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...
"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…
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- Wired reviewed over 1,000 pages of unpublished DHS, FBI, and fusion-center reports coalescing around a new label called 'anti-tech extremism.'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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"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...
"AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop." But another reason is that AI companies are sitting on an unprecedented cash hoard that makes buying the whole cow cheaper than licensing the milk. www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Weekly's analysis
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- ISBNdb is brokering bulk purchases of printed books published before 2022, pitching them as training data structurally guaranteed to be free of AI-generated slop.
- The service advertises strict NDAs on every engagement, conceding that 'AI company destroys two million books' is not a sympathetic headline.
- Judge William Alsup already ruled that Anthropic's practice of buying, scanning, and destroying print books was 'clearly transformative' fair use.
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But of course they are... "Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search" www.404media.co/companies-ar...
"How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
"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...
"The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...
For something critics deride as merely a "stochastic parrot," AI has become important enough that both Washington and Beijing are moving to protect it as a strategic national asset. But here's the kicker: these two positions are not necessarily contradictory; both the gov. & c…
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