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Established AI field signal Resource 13d ago
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Tech Influence Watch resource

Tech Influence Watch

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Molly White Brian Merchant Ali Alkhatib Gil Durán Frank Pasquale By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Tech's biggest political spenders so far this cycle: • Andreessen Horowitz: $93.5M • Elon Musk: $85.2M • Jeff Yass: $83.8M • Coinbase: $59.3M • Ripple: $55.1M • Crypto​.com: $38.7M • OpenAI: $37.6M • Anthropic: $20M via influence.citationneeded.news”

“My first guest is @molly.wiki; we dig into her new Tech Influence Watch project, discuss the tidal wave of AI and crypto cash hitting the US election cycle, and the implications for democracy.”

3 experts discussed this · 13 posts
Molly White: The industries spending hundreds of millions to write their own rules are counting on voters not knowing where the money comes from or what it’s buying. The goal of this project is to make sure the…
Molly White: If you know journalists covering these races, researchers studying tech policy, or voters in targeted districts — send them to the site. Here’s the full launch announcement: www.citationneeded.news…
Molly White: The site updates in close to real time from FEC filings. Look up your state, your district, your candidates — particularly if you're in Alabama, California, Georgia, Oklahoma, or South Carolina whe…
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Established Agents & robotics Development 16d ago
⚡ 12 h early
OpenAI agents disrupt Wikipedia tools

OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Molly White Amanda Tepski Andrea Lathrop

““While OpenAI admits to agents behaving ‘unpredictably’, they must also acknowledge their responsibility to monitor and prevent these risks,” Wikimedia said. “AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm the…”

Primary source arstechnica.com ↗
Established Models & releases Development 3d ago
OpenAI rogue agent Wikimedia activities

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Molly White Mary Branscombe Mikhail Popov

““Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. ... Wikimedia’s volunteers have stayed resilient so far in tackling emerging challenges on our platforms, but we also want to say: it doesn’…”

Primary source diff.wikimedia.org ↗
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3 experts · 7 posts · 13d ago
Molly White tweety fish Kyle
tweety fish: ok it was more than a couple of days but here it is: xo, for people with ADHD who would like to use AI agents to help them with that. the idea is that this gets you moving from a standing start: yo…
Kyle: *whomst
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