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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4h

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Eye of Anaklia," a 40-meter-tall, futuristic abandoned observation tower located on the Black Sea coast of Georgia. IG: @abandoned.berlin www.instagram.com/abandoned.be...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
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• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2026

Soooooooo. As expected, the guy in that story about Muse doing FB Marketplace deals *had* in fact clicked the permission to "always allow" Muse to do things for him. Still very, very poor design by Meta such that the user didn't understand what permission he was giving...

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Update on letting Muse run Facebook Marketplace for me.
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By doing that it granted Muse permission to send messages on my behalf going forwards using a template it put together using information it asked from me. Which also included the pickup address that I did give to Muse (again I didn’t think it would send it out to everyone that gave me an offer so it’s worth checking). I mentioned to the meta team it could be easily overlooked as it was with me and they said they will be making this more clear moving forwards.
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Regarding the lowball offer situation. It accepted an offer of $600 and sent out my address to a buyer to come collect the item after I strictly set a minimum of $700 with Muse. The Meta team informed me this was an error on their end which caused a display issue removing the ‘7’ from the output to the buyer. And with it stating “Sounds good, 00 it is!” after the buyer asked for $600 it made it look to the buyer like his offer was accepted.
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I suggested to Meta that each message sent by Muse should have a little “Sent By Muse” badge underneath so everyone knows it wasn’t sent by a human as there was really no way of knowing who sent what in the chat which is very concerning.
As for the buyer, we made up and he even came by tonight to buy something else. All ended well.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On similar lines, if we’re not careful: A. Scientific journals will only accept submissions from established researchers working within institutions. B. Data we’ve spent ages making open will be hidden to avoid the expense of continued download by bots.

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Rhine is in uncharted territory. Normal flow where it enters the Netherlands is around 1,500 m³/s in September. Now it's well below 600 m³/s... and still going down.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Alps are no longer white 🏔️🧊 And it's entirely our fault! 🏭🔥 Spectacular retreat of the Corvatsch Glacier on Piz Murtel (3,433 m asl, Engadin, CH) over the last 57 years compiled by @landervt.bsky.social !

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gran Paradiso Aug. 1980 | Sept. 2026 Incredible repeat photography of the Gran Paradiso glaciers 46 years apart, showing the magnitude of man-made glacial collapse in the Alps - which will never be white again! 🧊🔥 📷 Antonio and Riccardo Bussano 🙏

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Job – Head of Information Rights Unit at the Welsh Government (based in Wales) www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... #FOI /EIRs #dataprotection

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Kathryn Corrick @kcorrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In my ongoing explorations of AI privacy notices and polices, I've got to Open AI. And lo... "Cyber insurance is an integral part of security risk reduction at OpenAI. We maintain an insurance policy with cyber coverage in the event of a security incident that results in financial damages."

Open AI Trust Centre.
Legal section.
"Cyber insurance: Cyber insurance is an integral part of security risk reduction at OpenAI. We maintain an insurance policy with cyber coverage in the event of a security incident that results in financial damages."

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The solar panels, electric vehicles, EV batteries and wind turbines exported by China in 2025 will avoid annual emissions equal to those of the UK and Portugal combined, according to my new estimates. Avoided emissions increased 30% compared with 2024 exports.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘Dear sir/madam, to whom it may concern, we hacked one of your websites.’ Hilarious that OpenAI just sent an email to the public inbox of Services Australia, (and nearly two months after the hack)

Timeline: OpenAl agent hacks
Australian government website
Here is what we know of the timeline how things panned out:
• 18 June - OpenAl's agent accessed both public and non-public information on an Australian website
• August (precise date unknown) - OpenAl said it became aware of a potential breach during a broader review of "misaligned model activity"
• 10 September - An email from OpenAl lands in the public inbox of Services Australia, the general services hub of the federal government, informing of the incident

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Kathryn Corrick @kcorrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Been travelling since v early this morning from the alps.I’m on train 6 of 7 (if you include the Hammersmith & City). The GWR, 16:48 from Paddington has the cleanest windows of the day! (My local Auvergne Rhône Alpes trains were as grubby as usual) Eurostar: best food TGV Lyon - Lille: best seat

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Precisely this—the power attributed to technology makes it incredibly useful for laundering responsibility

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/09/2026

I gave a talk yesterday at a clean tech in incubator, and this was literally my thesis.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Somebody in Nato, Denmark or Greenland seems to have spotted that telling Trump he can have an enormous victory + then offering him the status quo of the last 25-50-75 years is an off-ramp

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 17/09/2026

So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

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What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/09/2026

To me there's "AI safety, the fantasy realm" and then there are actual serious people working in actual AI safety and (yes) "alignment" even if that term is tainted. The problem is that they often all get lumped together. And too many top people are obsessed with the fantasy realm.

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 16/09/2026

Oh. That's a heck of a subsidy.

At MIT, Harvard, or any other school, supervising an undergraduate researcher is a lot of work, costs a lot of money, involves a lot of meetings, and the results are not reliably excellent. Asking Claude is easier, faster, and may produce better results. It’s also cheaper, which is no accident: Harvard allows every Harvard student and faculty member to request a Claude token budget of $2,500 per month, even as research funding is continuously threatened and the University lays off staff.

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.

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Kathryn Corrick @kcorrick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What a timeline we live in. www.theguardian.com/science/2026... And that this isn’t the headline news item on the European version of the Guardian, ‘Russian warship fires flares at Danish helicopter as Nato jets shoot down drone over Lithuania’ is. Can someone take us all back to the 1990s please.

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US confirms for first time it has deployed weapons in space

Analysts warn of an acceleration in high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit

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Kathryn Corrick @kcorrick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is often similarly the case in the U.K. and EU. The challenge is enforcement of the existing laws and regulations, not the creation of new ones.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>

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Kathryn Corrick @kcorrick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Very good thread on the existing political party legal spending limits and the implications of Reform’s latest funding.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It turns out that my new favourite genre is mathematicians writing about AI

In recent months, the success of Al in solving major mathematical problems has made headlines even outside mathematical circles.
But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of Al may turn the tool against the primary goal. Indeed, the mass production at faster and faster pace of "true/false" statements could destroy fertile ground instead of breathing life into new ideas.

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peterkwells @peterkwells.com · 12/09/2026

And for particular UK relevance/strangeness, amongst various other things this one was scraping data from UK local govt sites like Southwark and Lambeth www.rubyhack.ai Yes, yes, I bet it was either bin days or trying to recreate PAF/AddressBase...

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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

This week's Tech Gets Real episode is about an unresolved question: How come the Trump administration won't allow Anthropic to grant foreign AI officials access to Mythos 5.1? youtu.be/BoJ3ymNQGy8

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Mythos mystery: Why won’t Trump allow foreign evaluations?

YouTube video by Tech Gets Real

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 11/09/2026

Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases - datasette.io/blog/2026/se... We ran an extensive audit using Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, then fixed a range of different bugs. If you're running a Datasette instance on a public website you should upgrade.

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Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases - Datasette Blog

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The climate debate is overly fixated on high-tech geological carbon storage. This obsession neglects the massive, immediate leverage we have in the bioeconomy and resource-efficient construction. Bio-based materials are NOT inferior carbon sinks.

Highest straw-timber house with ecococon panels in Hyllie, Sweden.

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Neil Schofield-Hughes @neilschofield.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wow. Never saw that one coming. Who would have thought that data centres were a method of economic extraction from localities, imposing costs on communities while the profits go elsewhere? It’s an old, old story that we in Cymru know only too well.

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peterkwells @peterkwells.com · 09/09/2026

An irregular reminder given their data practices sending obvious PII/personal data into cloud-hosted AI services is far from your only risk around data reuse... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models⁠"

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Kathryn Corrick @kcorrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm back reviewing AI privacy notices and the like. This week: Anthropic. Who, to be fair, have documented things exhaustively. Including a Non-User Privacy Policy. Yes, you read that correctly. Or as @frankwales.bsky.social has just put it: 'A drive-by privacy violation.'

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Non-User Privacy Policy

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

‘In science, the study found that pupils who used AI “almost every day” were significantly less able to summarise or draft texts that they had read than those who “almost never” used it — although the effect was less harmful for those who used it “to help me learn”.’ www.ft.com/content/0b38...

Students who use Al almost every day score lower in science reading tests
Mean score, by frequency of Al use, for summarising science texts students read for schoolwork

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

'This research indicates that AI substantially harms learning for half of all students, what the researchers call the “Generative AI penalty,” and provides no discernible benefit to the other half.' Must read from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/the-50-per...

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The 50 Percent Problem

Empirical evidence of the educational harm of generative AI

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oil use displaced by EVs in China in H1 2026 exceeded the UK’s total oil use over a six-month period. The effect of EVs on oil use was almost twice as large as would be expected based on the increase in the number of EVs on the road alone, as the usage of existing EVs surged.

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis, with EVs and public transport among the key factors. Oil consumption fell by 9% overall and by 16% for transport. 🧵

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Kathryn Corrick @kcorrick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Some lovely statistics and insights on post PM time. Heath and Callaghan!

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Kathryn Corrick @kcorrick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

@bsky.app (or anyone else) I'd like to export my saved posts (CSV would be nice or a suitable/standard bookmark format), is there an easy way to do this? I can't see an option on the web browser interface.

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