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Carrington @carringtonking.bsky.social · 26m

Anthropic has a snake oil salesman trying to convince "religious scholars" over fancy dinners that 'Claude' is conscious... he knows all the right words for the con. A.I. is not conscious... but it is incredibly dangerous if you choose to pretend it is. 🥀 gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Agents like Muse are trying to convince us they’re just a cute little guy who lives in your pocket, and definitely not an always-open portal into the servers of a major surveillance company,” says @jathansadowski.com. My weekend report for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/meta-m...

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Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?

Meta says Muse is just for adults, though its cuddly, Labubu-like mascot—and upcoming Tamagotchi-style AI device—may be disarming for users of all ages.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These summits are too embarrassing - and too dangerous, with Trump's instability - and the country would be safer and better off if our president weren't hosting them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits

He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They pay him, American kids die unnecessarily of nearly eradicated diseases, everyone is happy? Good reporting by NYT

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Carrington @carringtonking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Human-controlled and created Open A.I. is proving itself to be an illegal super hacker. A.I. companies that allow this must be held legally and financially responsible for the damages they cause. 🥀 gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...

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OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting (Gift Article)

In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Both WaPo and @oliverdarcy.bsky.social are reporting that one of the stories the WH claims they banned Politico for was based off a background briefing (that is, they're complaining Politico reported what WH told them to). Darcy makes it clear JD was the background briefer in this case.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just to remind everyone, since many reporters and politicians seem to have forgotten, Iran was not close to having a nuclear weapon. And it was negotiating when Trump and Israel attacked it back in February. The nuclear weapon story is just a Trumpian lie.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Scoop: Meta's Muse AI can make phone calls. Internally, Meta has told employees that many of these calls will be made by human beings in a call center: www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

(1/5) Pentagon leadership has said that by the end of this month, Palantir's Maven artificial intelligence system will become a line item with stable, long-term funding in the defense budget (a "program of record"). #News #Palantir #AI

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Carrington @carringtonking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Inside Centcom, which conducted the US attack, some personnel relied too much on the artificial intelligence embedded in Maven Smart System, the officials said. Maven, which is made by Palantir Technologies Inc., allows users to view and coordinate complex military operations..."

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sam Altman’s OpenAI—launched by Peter Thiel & Elon Musk in 2015—“targets Argentina's freezing Patagonia for $25 billion 500MW Stargate AI data center” … 9/9/26 … 1/

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Elon Musk And Peter Thiel Launch OpenAl, A NonProfit Artificial Intelligence
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/09/2026

Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it's driving the data center buildout.

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AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power

Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it's driving the data center buildout.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We don’t need our journalistic watchdogs to have “access” to Trump Everyone in the press room should walk out in protest … and source up.

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And yesterday Trump demanded that Ukraine stop bombing Russian refineries.

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Eric @ericstutz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m not a news editor but it seems like journalistic malpractice not to put Trumps “cheat like hell” quote on the front page of a newspaper. You couldn’t ask for a better lede. The President voicing his support for cheating in the upcoming election. That’s newsworthy. Viral quote as well.

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Carrington @carringtonking.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"But as an explanation for the industry’s oddly blithe attitude toward apocalypse, it’s incomplete, because it doesn’t account for tech leaders’ messianic dreams." 🥀 gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

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Opinion | Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse (Gift Article)

Silicon Valley’s strange new theology.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

NEW: Clearview AI built an AI tool designed to turn a face search into an automated investigation of a person’s life online — and tested it with a model from xAI, maker of Grok. The prototype could hunt for associates, social accounts, employers, addresses, and more. www.wired.com/story/clearv...

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Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who publicly resigned from Anthropic yesterday with a stark warning about AI safety, was interviewed by Anderson Cooper on his show this evening.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NEW: The new Apple Watches double as AI-powered listening bugs for generating convo "recaps" or transcripts of any previous 15 seconds. But fear not, Apple says, this data isn't sent to Apple/gets encrypted, speakers aren't ID'd, and there's a chime for the 15-second thing. @lhn.bsky.social reports:

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Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features

The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026

AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This should alarm every American importer and every American who buys imported products

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Toots @ndcatlady.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Decades of science ignored by a former drug addict who frolicked in contaminated water, had a brain worm and left what, part of a dead bear in Central Park. Or was it a whole bear. Vaccines work, period. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...

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RFK Jr. Hires Army Doctor Who Opposed Covid Shots to Investigate if They Killed 2,500 Troops (Gift Article)

In a legal deposition, the doctor, Theresa Long, compared immunizing service members against Covid to Nazi doctors experimenting on concentration camp prisoners.

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Carrington @carringtonking.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"I’m telling you, Meta Glasses could really take the effort out of stalking. It’s a fabulous use case."

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

NEW: "...The code WIRED collected holds Flock’s user interface and shows both the network calls it makes and the answers it expects in return... Two notification systems are aimed at human beings." @dmehro.bsky.social's and my latest www.wired.com/story/flock-...

Screenshot of a mock-up web interface labeled FlockOS. A red-bordered banner at the top reads: "This is a mock-up rebuilt from Flock Safety's own published code. It holds no police data—every plate, camera, and record in it is invented. What officers see in a live system may differ."

Below the banner is a navigation bar with "Search" (selected) and "Alerts," then a row of tabs: Search, Lookup, FreeForm (selected), Convoy, Multi-Geo, Visual.

The panel is titled "Flock FreeForm." Under it, two radio buttons labeled Vehicle and People, with People selected.

A yellow advisory box headed "People Search Advisory" states that only video cameras compatible with People Search will appear in the device selector, and that LPR cameras are not supported for this feature.

Under the heading "Run FreeForm Search" is an empty text field with placeholder text "Enter body, make, color, etc." Beneath it, a green example line reads: Good: "person wearing scrubs".

A bordered box instructs the user to "Use short, literal descriptions of the vehicle or person," with two bulleted examples in green: Good: "blue BMW M3 with red stripe on roof" and Good: "person wearing scrubs".

At the bottom is a green button labeled "Run FreeForm Search," followed by gray text: "Freeform searches can only be run on increments of 30 days or less. Please refine your search."

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wrote about the crazy revelations in the METR report on Hugging Face (including one that corrected something I'd been getting wrong), and the growing industry push for a slowdown www.platformer.news/openai-huggi...

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For reasons that I believe need examination and explaining, credible news organizations have not made this their lead story every day this summer. If a Dem president did this in one red state it would be nuclear level coverage.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. Pro Publica found that the request came directly from Peter Navarro at the White House. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.

About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

NEW/SCOOP: After a yearlong #FOIA battle, I finally obtained Ghislaine Maxwell's prison transfer form from BOP. But the agency redacted its rationale for moving the convicted sex offender to a minimum-security prison Read it in this special edition of FOIA Files 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s Prison Transfer Application Released

FOIA Files obtained a copy of the document from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The agency redacted its justification for moving the convicted sex offender to a less-restrictive minimum-security prison...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/08/2026

Taking Kharg island would require a significant number of ground troops, but our stockpile is depleted, they’re running out of money to pay sailors, and all his generals have advised against continuing the war.

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