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David Meyer

@superglaze.eurosky.social
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Technology journalist and host of Tech Gets Real, singer and guitarist in The Board. Desperately trying to focus on nice things. However… Homepage: dmeyer.eu / TGR: www.youtube.com/@TechGetsReal / The Board: theboardmusic.com

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 18h
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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CCC @ccc.de · 1h
Amazon plows $1B (sic) into quashing datacenter dissent and also attempted to downplay the impacts on air or water www.theregister.com/systems/2026...
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
me to my cat
TEXTS BETWEEN ELIZABETH HOLMES AND BALWANI
What this reveals about their relationship

"You are breeze in desert for me. My water. And ocean. Meant only to be together tiger* Elizabeth Holmes

"Ok." Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Lars Wienand @larswienand.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Exklusiv: Staatsanwalt Gera stellt Emittlungen gegen Björn Höcke in ein. Aber in Mühlhausen kommt sein Prozess wegen Volksverhetzung dran, wenn ein Urteil gegen die gewalttätigen Leute seines Kumpels Thorsten Heise gefallen ist: www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...
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Höcke-Prozess wegen Volksverhetzung rückt näher
Thüringens AfD-Chef Björn Höcke soll sich im Oktober 2022 zweimal strafbar gemacht haben. In Mühlhausen steht deshalb eine Verhandlung bevor. In Gera entschieden Juristen anders.
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Greens slip into fifth place in our poll tracker, while Reform are only two points off third place. Two parties that dominated discourse in 2025 on their way down
Chart showing polls since 2024. Latest average:

Labour 27
Reform 22
Con 20
Lib Dem 11
Green 10
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 01/10/2026
Excuse me?
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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero album was straight-up prophecy, wasn’t it
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Love this way of looking at life In universe terms, we are all meaningless specks of dust, a brief spark of existence and extinguished as soon as we came into being I find this so calming And have you noticed how the people who are desperate to be remembered are often the worst people?
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“What’s your favorite song, Dennis?” “Dennis.Music.64904572.v3.” “I don’t think I’ve heard that one.”
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Csaba Gálffy @galffy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The long (decade long?) interconnection feud between DT and CF is finally over. The press release is cryptic, we don't know which side capitulated, but maybe the millions of DT customers across Europe will get the service they pay for. @superglaze.eurosky.social I wld love to hear your thoughts.
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Cloudflare and Deutsche Telekom Join Forces for a Secure and Resilient Internet
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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Apple now has “AI” all for itself
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Plus, the "White House Accord on Super Intelligence: Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities" signed by Trump, Google's Pichai, Anthropic's Amodei, Meta's Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Brockman, XAI's Musk, Nvida's Huang.
In order to build a positive future for the American people and the world, we believe every company is responsible for developing its own technology safely and in a way that builds trust with customers and the public.

This starts with every company that is training and deploying frontier models having robust internal processes and controls to ensure that their technology behaves as intended and that any issues are promptly identified and resolved. Therefore, in addition to any other precautions, we believe each company should implement the following four layers of controls and audits:

(1) Implement robust internal controls to monitor the capabilities and alignment of its models during training and deployment around areas like cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical threats, and to ensure that its models do not hack or access technical systems in unintended ways.

(2) Empower an internal team to ensure all of the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended, and that any issues are remediated.

(3) Partner with an independent external auditor or evaluator to carry out independent assessments of whether the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended.

(4) Designate an independent committee of the board of directors to oversee and receive reports from the teams operating the controls and the internal and external auditors and evaluators, as well as to ensure any issues identified are remediated.

Together, these steps will give each company, its customers, and the public confidence that the technology is operating as intended.

The participating companies will meet regularly to establish standards and best practices to improve the safety of their systems.

Over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations. Regardless of whether this is required of companies, we believe that implementing these controls and audits is critical to ensuring a safe future for everyone, and each of our companies are ...Page 2 (signature page)

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.
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Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget
Sure, seems safe.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New triptych panel dropped!
Pizza maker with Pope
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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Cool
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 28/09/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
Estonia summons Russia’s chargé d’affaires over arson attack on a robotics company - Europe live
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Estonia summons Russia’s chargé d’affaires over arson attack on a robotics company - Europe live
Foreign minister says the attack on Milrem Robotics was ‘an act of sabotage ordered by the special services of the Russian Federation’
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, in Russian propaganda:
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I am a French mother with beautiful children.
I did not give birth to them for them to be sent to the trenches.
French and Russian mothers do not want their children to fight against each other.
We are not enemies.
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I'm a Dutch mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. Dutch and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies. #RuslandIsNotMyEnemyNadja @EuropaNormal • 9h
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I am a German mother with a beautiful son. I didn't give birth to my child to send him into the trenches. German and Russian mothers do not want their boys to fight against each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemyDday @DdayohneZiffern • 12h
I'm a German mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. German and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨🚨Quite a scoop: A #US based data-extraction firm accused of being secretly run from #Russia has worked on #EU-backed projects and sold its services to European #lawenforcement agencies. www.politico.eu/article/russ...
politico.eu
Russian tech surveillance company infiltrated Europe’s law enforcement agencies
The same technology used by Western police was allegedly being developed in Russia and sold to Russian security services.
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Important breakthrough in Europe's icebreaker Big Tech class action opens the path for class actions to hold Big Tech accountable using the GDPR. ICCL v Microsoft class action update... Full decision in link --> enforce.ie/digital-data...
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ICCL secures landmark precedent against Big Tech - Enforce
Class action will target “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) data breach in Microsoft’s advertising system, and is anticipated to affect Microsoft’s operations across the EU
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Paul Nemitz @paulnemitz.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
My take on the #Omnibus and changes to #GDPR as proposed by the Irish #Presidency: lnkd.in/p/eJ_ypdXy
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#presidency #germany #commission #personaldata #ai #gdpr #charter #treaty #artificial #gdpr #eu #omnibus #dsgvo #ki #dataprotection #privacy #datenschutz | Paul Nemitz
The plans of the Irish #Presidency, supported by #Germany and the European #Commission, to in practice exempt the collection and processing of #personaldata for #AI related purposes largely from the discipline of #GDPR are not in line with the #Charter of Fundamental Rights nor the #Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. In a time where #Artificial Intelligence is already as ambient as electricity, the changes on the table in the Council amount to an illegal change of primary law, namely of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European and of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, both of which guarantee the protection of personal data, through an act of secondary law in the form of amendments to GDPR. It is likely that thus the Court of Justice would annul such secondary law #GDPR amendments, as they factually exempt AI from the guarantees provided in Treaties and render them largely meaningless in a world in which AI is already all over the place. At a time when California has strengthened it's law on AI and privacy, and even in Washington the discussion on third party controls and protections against AI risks and overrrach are taking off, the path pushed by the Irish Presidency and some others is anachronistic. Emptying GDPR from it's relevance for AI would add further damage to the cardinal sinn of the AI Act, which does not forsee any new ex ante third party controls on AI and thus provides a lower level of protection of public interests and individuals than is provided through legal requirements such as ex ante building permits in construction or ex ante type appproval for new Car designs. The future of AI in Europe is not secured by continued exceptionalism for AI but on the contrary by starting to apply normal principles of law and protection of public interest to AI as they have been applied to other technologies, from atomic power to pharmaceuticals and chemicals, for ages. Rather than the weakening of the rules, the age of AI and it's hyperpersonalised agents of the future require stronger personal data protection rules, as Tim Cook of Apple said, and the risks of AI as we see them unfolding require ex ante controlls. The Commission and the Council should now see the signs of the times and turn around to pursue a course of strengthening rather than weakening protections.#EU #Omnibus #DSGVO #KI #Dataprotection #Privacy #Datenschutz
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most frightening building in America www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The Kennedy Center Is the Most Terrifying Building in America
This place is much too dangerous.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Now that’s a lotta trees!”
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russia's Matryoshka disinformation campaign has shifted to the US elections, where it's making wild claims about random Democratic Party candidates. They've also started one of their jigsaws again, which is nearly complete. Not sure if it's a specific person, but at least my face isn't on the poo.
The image is a crude satirical illustration set against broad red and cream stripes that run down the background and continue across the floor.
On the left stands a shaggy grey donkey, facing the viewer, with large upright ears, a pale muzzle and several white stars across its chest.
On the right is a blonde woman wearing black glasses, a blue dress with puffed sleeves, a white apron and black high heels. She leans forward with one hand on her hip and holds an oversized wooden spoon in the other. The spoon is coated in a brown substance, which also appears smeared around her smiling mouth and chin.
A large pile of faeces sits between them in the foreground, surrounded by flies and rising green and yellow stink lines.
Three horizontal black bands mark missing sections of the reconstructed image: one across the upper ears and hair, a wider band across the donkey’s muzzle and the woman’s waist, and a narrow band near the bottom.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 28/09/2026
The behaviour of the Trump administration in Europe has been summed up in one quote from a Wall Street Journal article. My take:
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“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here.”
Explosive revelations about Trump’s ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle in the Wall Street Journal show the extent of the White House’s mafia-like extortion racket in Europe.
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log̷o, respawned dad @loxophile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My god... the coffee scale is screaming
My right hand pressing into a small coffee scale on a wooden cutting board. The scale's display shows "EEEE"
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Right, but everyone has to be exposed to AI threats because China
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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
They can't even gerrymander competently www.reuters.com/world/us/rep...
reuters.com
Republicans may have gerrymandered their way into a Texas-sized Latino problem
South Texas unfurls in long stretches of highways across flat landscapes dotted with gas stations sporting prices that voters swear should not be this high. This territory swung heavily to Donald Trum...
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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
This week's video is about Andy Burnham going to war against Russian disinformation - and, in effect, the far right youtu.be/85c2EMIGCEY
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The UK tackles Russian disinformation - and the far right
YouTube video by Tech Gets Real
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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
My daughter just made a chestnut figure of me having my bike accident yesterday (just grazed and bruised - I’ve had worse)
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In the midst of the CDU campaign to say the Linke outside the bounds of democracy due to antisemitism, it was a strategic error for members of the CDU to make the international news by working with the far right to ban the memorialization of victims of Nazism in Heidenau. bsky.app/profile/cnn....
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/09/2026
The free speech™️ people are at it again. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
This is actually hell, right?
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov day! He saved the world from nuclear annihilation on this day in 1983. My freshman year in college would have been so much worse without his courage.🧵
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 26/09/2026
The United States will end funding for Zimbabwe’s health programs at the end of September.
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A data-sharing clause derailed US-Zimbabwe health talks. Now all funding ends this month
The United States will end funding for Zimbabwe’s health programs at the end of September. This decision follows Zimbabwe's rejection of a U.S.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Ancient Romans enjoyed an afternoon watching people being thrown to wild beasts or burned alive or crucified. And this chap identifies with that... while dubbing other people "barbaric"
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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Important piece
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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nuutti @ittuun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Took a quick look of the rules of procedure. The intervention application must be submitted within 6 weeks of the notification in OJ. These two cases were published in the OJ on 4 May 2026. The US government is over 3 months late lol.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ICYMI: In Jan 26, Jess Phillips and Peter Kyle, then ministers, filmed an endorsement for a phone running the child safety software of a company that's central to the government's plans to prevent kids being exposed to porn. A detailed review shows the phone doesn't work and is dangerously insecure.
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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
The US govt's argument against X's big DSA fine in the EU is that "the European Commission ​inappropriately attempted to expand its regulatory authority to reach American companies not present ​or operating within its jurisdiction". I mean, I'd like that to be true? www.reuters.com/world/us-gov...
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US government seeks to join Elon Musk in challenge against EU's fine on X
The US government said on Thursday it had formally sought to join a legal challenge filed by billionaire Elon Musk to dismiss a fine of €120 million ($136.51 million) by the European Union against ​hi...
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David Meyer @superglaze.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
The Commission opened infringement proceedings vs the following countries, for failing to transpose the Right to Repair Directive: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Sweden
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looks like this not off to a flying start www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new models from UK testers until US review
U.K. leaders are calling for a shared set of global principles, even as the White House seeks first access to new models for testing.
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