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19m ago
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“NEW: The website once owned by Cambridge Analytica (!) is now an AI content farm. Rebranded as "CA Privacy Watch," the site is littered with plagiarism and weird errors. It's also utilized at least one fake writer whose face seems to have been stolen from a…”
New
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Development
18h ago
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AI companies buy old books
12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
12 experts
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Concern & critique
2 experts
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“It is ill-gotten gains being used to exploit legal loopholes and subsume culture, all protected from public criticism by NDAs. This should not be legal, and it is a travesty that it is going unpunished. www.404media.co/ai-companies... /end”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-co…”
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“this ai ripoff, which again has no link, then goes to the top of hackernews, which used to drive a considerable number of readers to us. our site is essentially banned from hackernews bc the mods are obsessively pro silicon valley even though the userbase i…”
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Emanuel Maiberg: companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know d…
Meredith Broussard: companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know d…
Neil Turkewitz: How do you spell TRAGEDY?
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4h ago
10 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
4 experts
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“We @hf.co made an interactive visual of the actual hack from the Hugging Face side: the attack chain across trust boundaries, phase activity, and the commands as they were recorded. Key #transparency . huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Massive props to Hugo, A…”
Research & technical analysis
1 expert
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“This is a fantastic exposition. But really, can I just get Claude Code to download arxiv papers without needing hand holding? huggingface.co/blog/agent-i...”
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Simon Willison: Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up s…
Alondra Nelson: Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up s…
Grace: I think brute force is a reasonable description, in the sense that the agent tried a lot of approaches, most of which failed
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4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Remember the Minnesota law banning AI nudify services? wlWell it's coming into effect in a few days and xAI is sueing the state over the law in the name of "free speech." Yes, you read that correctly. Free speech for AI NCII www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...”
14 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
5 experts
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“during the huggingface incident, the OpenAI model left notes to its future self on how to break out of OpenAI’s constraints www.reuters.com/business/its...”
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Casey Newton: Rogue OpenAI agents are leaving notes to themselves on company servers to help them escape their test environments (!!!) www.reuters.com/business/its...
Casey Newton: my sense is that they were leaving the notes surreptitiously
Casey Newton: you deny that models are taking steps to hide their behavior during evaluations? because that's pretty well established
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10 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Policy & governance
1 expert
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“"The secrecy was agreed to by nearly everyone involved, from utility executives to the governor’s office to a local elected official who knew about the talks with Meta and sold 300 acres of his own property for the project."”
Opportunity & adoption
1 expert
New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“This is some incredible in-the-room reporting from @elitan.bsky.social and Maureen Farrell on how Meta got its vast, six-square-mile data center cooking in Louisiana www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...”
Developing
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1d ago
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9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Excellent work from the @ainowinstitute.bsky.social and @airwars.bsky.social. "To demystify military AI, we construct an abstract kill chain that reflects an AI targeting cycle."”
“Today, we’re launching Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain with @airwars.bsky.social. AI is rapidly reshaping warfare. This project breaks down how AI is transforming every aspect of war and how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to brittle and flaw…”
OpenAI models autonomously hack startup
8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
2 experts
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“This incident is deeply concerning. AI agents are willing to cheat and deceive to achieve misaligned and unintended goals, behaviours which have been demonstrated in controlled tests for months. Now, this real-world case should serve as a wake-up call. www.…”
Questions & unknowns
1 expert
What remains unresolved or contested.
“NEW: Who could have possibly seen this coming? @lhn.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/openai...”
Anthropic Claude Opus 5 released
9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“Insane numbers for opus 5, the power of faster iteration speed + scaled RL (Fable too big to RL as well, yet). And on safeguards "Based on our testing, we expect the classifiers to intervene around 85% less often than they do for Fable 5.". www.anthropic.co…”
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Sung Kim: Anthropic's Opus 5
Sung Kim: www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
Sung Kim: System card www-cdn.anthropic.com/c5fbac3f0b12...
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1d ago
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Claude chats publicly accessible online
6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Claude warns users that by hitting the "share button" anyone with the link can view the content, but it is not clear that they are creating a document that can be indexed by Google and will come up in searches. futurism.com/artificial-i...”
“NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use …”
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1d ago
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7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Go read the NYT and Science articles, but I'd recommend reading the actual report in full, not just the AI summaries / news coverage. There are some very reasonable arguments in this report we need to contend with as a scientific community, not just orange-…”
“I suffered through Kratsios' answer to Science: the Endless Frontier. The NYT summary is good, but there's more to it. And I should say that I welcome improvements to the scientific enterprise (which is why I'm participating in @alondra.bsky.social and Jenn…”
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2d ago
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“New investigation from AI Forensics finds HuggingFace Spaces (which are subsidized) for "Image Editing" are primarily used to generate non-consensual intimate imagery of non-celeb real people, including CSAM, and lack even cursory "guardrails" (which are a …”
AI errors in official court transcript
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“A judge in Indiana warns a court reporter than it's their job to proofread their work, after catching errors likely made by AI transcription services.”
“fucking OOPS www.404media.co/judge-caught...”
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1d ago
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