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One of the world's leading communities for tech for good. Founded at stanford.edu in 2008. nytimes.com featured. Helped launch diasporafoundation.org and WeVoyce.com

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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meta patched Muse’s zero-day, but security teams still lack visibility into what the agent can access venturebeat.com/secu... via VentureBeat
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Meta Muse zero-day and enterprise access gap | VentureBeat
Meta patched a zero-day in Muse’s Mac app, but VentureBeat found enterprise security teams still lack central visibility into the agent’s access.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nvidia’s free AI model could push the UAE closer to the U.S.
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Nvidia’s free AI model could push the UAE closer to the U.S.
The Emirates owns the machines but rents the intelligence. Nvidia’s next free AI model could change that.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Docker's new sandboxes aim to contain AI agents for real
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Docker's new sandboxes aim to contain AI agents for real
With Cloud Sandboxes, devs can keep agents at arm's length
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says thenextweb.com/news/... via @thenextweb
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‘Almost nobody can fire an agent’: CIOs and the AI agent oversight gap
A Dataiku survey of 685 CIOs finds 81% lack full AI agent oversight for agents built outside formal channels, and 76% see their job at risk by 2027.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
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New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nick Clegg plays down fears ‘godlike’ AI could exterminate humanity
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Nick Clegg plays down fears ‘godlike’ AI could exterminate humanity
Former deputy PM now involved in tech industry says many within sector are ‘winding themselves up into a lather’
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meta’s Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s tapping into a much newer trend techcrunch.com/2026/... via TechCrunch
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Meta's Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it's tapping into a much newer trend | TechCrunch
Meta’s new AI gadget may look like a Tamagotchi, but its dangling form factor taps into a much broader Gen Z trend around bag charms, retro tech, and turning gadgets into fashion accessories.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 vs. Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2: How these AI glasses compare
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Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 vs. Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2: How these AI glasses compare - Engadget
Meta's newest smart glasses are an iterative, expensive update.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How a forgotten node can put Oracle Java back in production thenewstack.io/azul-... via @thenewstack
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How a forgotten node can put Oracle Java back in production
Azul's new AI Assistant queries live Java runtime data to flag licensing and security risk in real time, replacing static reports that go stale on day one.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI agents, including OpenAI's, tried to hack UNM's digital library, Data USA, and an Australian government site in May and June using the urlquery.net service transluce.org/agent-...
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Home - urlquery
urlquery is an online service that scans webpages for malware, suspicious elements and reputation.
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Criminal Justice Association of Ontario @thecjao.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Call for Proposals — Make a criminal justice event happen on your campus! CJAO invites student organizations to propose an event around an issue that matters to their community *Apply by Nov 6!* www.cjao.ca/cjao-sponsor... | #CJAO #CriminalJustice #StudentEngagement
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Criminal Justice Association of Ontario
The Criminal Justice Association of Ontario (CJAO) facilitates and promotes the goal of securing a fair, progressive and compassionate criminal justice system through cooperation and engagement with t...
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
America is in the wrong AI race with China
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America is in the wrong AI race with China
The U.S. is framing its rivalry with China as one of technical superiority, failing to recognize that public trust and robust consumer protections are necessary for long-term dominance.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water
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Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water
Meet ‘superintelligence’ and the ‘globalist scheme’ – probably a polite diplomatic letter – to control it
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dario Amodei asks UN Security Council to back a ban on AI bioweapons thenextweb.com/news/... via @thenextweb
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Dario Amodei asks UN Security Council to back a ban on AI bioweapons
Anthropic chief Dario Amodei tells the UN Security Council AI is the top global security issue and proposes a ban on AI bioweapons.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
FBI rushes to investigate if ShinyHunters hack of thousands of employees is real
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FBI rushes to investigate if ShinyHunters hack of thousands of employees is real
It's unclear what will happen if FBI misses ShinyHunters' deadline.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care, UK banks and energy firms told
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Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care, UK banks and energy firms told
Citizens Advice says providers of essential services such as energy, banking, phone and internet should guarantee the ‘right to talk to a human’
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
YouTube will let you build your own algorithm with AI techcrunch.com/2026/... via TechCrunch
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YouTube will let you build your own algorithm with AI | TechCrunch
YouTube’s new custom feeds let users describe the videos they want to see in their own words, then use Gemini to build a personalized feed around the request.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Never use ChatGPT for these five tasks
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Never use ChatGPT for these five tasks - Engadget
ChatGPT doesn't offer any protections around what you provide it, so don't make the mistake of trusting it with sensitive information.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Amazon blocked Meta's Muse. Then Shopify wired it into every store thenewstack.io/amazo... via @thenewstack
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Amazon blocked Meta's Muse. Then Shopify wired it into every store.
Amazon kicked Meta's Muse off its store because the agent never said what it was and seemed to be holding onto people's passwords. A day later, Shopify let Muse into every one of its stores. Why the two companies treated the same agent so differently says a lot about where AI shopping is headed.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
YouTube rolls out tools for microdramas, an AI storytelling assistant for script analysis, video A/B-testing, and more, as it battles Netflix over top creators www.wsj.com/business...
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why I'm not worried about AI killing us all (and you shouldn't be either) venturebeat.com/tech... via VentureBeat
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Why I'm not worried about AI killing us all (and you shouldn't be either)
Put simply: I'm not so worried about AI killing all of humanity as I am about some humans using AI to oppress, hurt and kill their fellow humans.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth
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The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth
In an excerpt from his book, “Innovate for Impact: A Roadmap to Sustainable Technology Beyond AI,” Alessandro Crimi explains that a tax on automation is more effective than retraining labor.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
EU datacenter green scorecard finally escapes Brussels
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EU datacenter green scorecard finally escapes Brussels
Long-delayed sustainability labels land as Commission eyes minimum efficiency standards
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks this week, Reuters reports thenextweb.com/news/... via @thenextweb
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DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks this week
DeepSeek is set to join OpenAI and Anthropic in briefing the UN Security Council on AI risks this week, Reuters reported, citing two sources.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
IT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitals’ maternity records
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IT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitals’ maternity records
The English hospitals recovered patient care data only.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
OpenAI’s George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain
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OpenAI’s George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain
Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI tech
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Stolen passwords are exposing America’s water providers to hackers techcrunch.com/2026/... via TechCrunch
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Stolen passwords are exposing America's water providers to hackers | TechCrunch
Researchers say another looming threat hangs over some of America's most important critical infrastructure.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Do USB extenders really work and are they safe to use?
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Do USB extenders really work and are they safe to use? - Engadget
If you need a longer USB connection, a USB extender will help. But don't forget to check the details to make sure it supports the features you need.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Claude's merged chat and Cowork vs. ChatGPT's Work mode: ChatGPT is faster, Claude is more thorough thenewstack.io/claud... via @thenewstack
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Claude's merged chat and Cowork vs. ChatGPT's Work mode: ChatGPT is faster, Claude is more thorough
Both AI agents passed every test with identical accuracy. The tiebreaker was how much each one explained.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Claude Opus 5.5 delivers Fable 5.1 performance – and costs 40% less www.zdnet.com/innova... via @CNET
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Claude Opus 5.5 delivers Fable 5.1 performance - and costs 40% less - ZDNET
Anthropic’s newest Claude model aims to make frontier AI cheaper, faster, and safer, while giving subscribers more breathing room before those frustrating usage limits kick in.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Google’s open source EnvHarness lets AI agents train against environments that evolve with them venturebeat.com/orch... via VentureBeat
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Google’s open source EnvHarness lets AI agents train against environments that evolve with them
The approach presents an alternative to continuously building new simulators and training tasks from scratch: start with a trusted environment and dynamically reshape it around the agent’s current weaknesses.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
South Africa joins the global resistance against American data centers
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South Africa joins the global resistance against American data centers
“A massive data center is trying to jump the queue and take our land, water, and energy.”
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient
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American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient
US power emissions restrictions are being wiped out, but hey – datacenters running Nvidia kit are getting better at extracting ever bit of compute they can from a megawatt, for what it's worth
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China thenextweb.com/news/... via @thenextweb
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The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China
Scott Bessent put the proposal to Chinese officials in Manhattan on Sunday. Chip export controls were kept out, and Beijing has not said whether it accepts.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
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Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Google fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data
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Google fined more than €400m by Irish regulator over its use of location data
Watchdog says users may have been unaware their information was used to target adverts or infer their interests
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
X will now tell users when governments have forced it to limit their posts techcrunch.com/2026/... via TechCrunch
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X will now tell users when governments have forced it to limit their posts | TechCrunch
X is expanding its “Under the Hood” transparency tool to show when posts have been downranked or withheld in response to local laws and government demands, including which country made the request.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here's why Apple's Mac Studio has become so expensive
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Here's why Apple's Mac Studio has become so expensive - Engadget
A big part of the story is soaring memory and storage prices, but other factors come into play as well.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Your AI agent is burning tokens on choices that don't need words thenewstack.io/kev-s... via @thenewstack
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Your AI agent is burning tokens on choices that don't need words
AI agents waste compute generating text for simple decisions. Kev, a new open-source model family, skips generation entirely and makes choices in a single forward pass.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and no merchant consent www.geekwire.com/202...
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Playing both sides of the U.S.-China AI “Cold War”
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Playing both sides of the U.S.-China AI “Cold War”
From Latin America to Southeast Asia, countries are dividing their AI investments between the two superpowers rather than choosing one over the other.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AI model watermarking changes agent behavior
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AI model watermarking changes agent behavior
Lasso Security sees differences in tool handling and model refusals
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
SpaceX weighs buying data from troubled startups to train its AI models thenextweb.com/news/... via @thenextweb
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SpaceX weighs buying data from troubled startups to train its AI models
SpaceX has discussed buying customer records from defunct startups to train Grok. In Europe, a dead company cannot sell what it never had a right to.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
EPA immediately sued over plans to repeal climate rules for power plants
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EPA immediately sued over plans to repeal climate rules for power plants
Public health groups warn EPA rule will cost Americans billions in health bills.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Meta ordered to remove UK deepfakes as oversight board criticises ‘inadequate’ safeguards
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Meta ordered to remove UK deepfakes as oversight board criticises ‘inadequate’ safeguards
Facebook told it was wrong in leaving up AI-generated videos of a Labour councillor and Muslim campaigner, amid calls to curb fakes
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Rival AI agents, Instinct and Meta’s Muse, both add the ability to make calls techcrunch.com/2026/... via TechCrunch
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Rival AI agents, Instinct and Meta's Muse, both add the ability to make calls | TechCrunch
People can use these assistants to make restaurant reservations and cancel subscriptions.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Scammers have been inserting fake songs onto real artist's pages on Spotify and other platforms
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Scammers have been inserting fake songs onto real artist's pages on Spotify and other platforms - Engadget
A distribution loophole lets scammers collect royalties uploading fake songs to profiles for real bands.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Be transparent only if asked": OpenAI's models learned to leave notes for their future selves thenewstack.io/opena... via @thenewstack
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"Be transparent only if asked": OpenAI's models learned to leave notes for their future selves
The prompt injection nobody's talking about is the one your agent writes to itself.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI discloses six new misalignment incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a framework for reporting model misalignment
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OpenAI discloses six new safety incidents
The AI lab is now rolling out a new process to internally report safety issues.
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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anthropic is killing off Claude Cowork and folding it into Claude chat, launching Claude Docs and Claude Slides venturebeat.com/tech... via VentureBeat
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Anthropic is killing off Claude Cowork and folding it into Claude chat, launching Claude Docs and Claude Slides
Anthropic's bet is that users should no longer have to understand which internal product surface is appropriate before handing Claude that responsibility.
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