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Wikimedia says it found unapproved edits on its wikis "that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI," almost all in sandbox test areas. The same agents tried to reconfigure its public Etherpad citation tool, likely to use it as a… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Deh…

A worried librarian with a clipboard watches small robots haul armloads of books off library shelves while one robot rewires the cables behind a kiosk.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 15/10/2026

Clean Rooms and Name Tags, the new AI Vaults episode. Brandon Thomas used Claude Opus 5.5 to write free, open-source versions of seven Adobe apps and calls it a clean-room build. Nobody outside the project has verified that. Then the agents:… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Deh…

Cover image for AI Vaults: NotebookLM's Deep Dive

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 15/10/2026

YouTube Music is rolling out AI labels: 'Fully Gen AI,' 'Partly Gen AI,' or 'No Gen AI.' Partners declare which applies. Pitch-correction tools like Auto-Tune don't qualify. Deezer reported nearly 90,000 fully AI-generated tracks arriving… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Deh…

Cartoon musicians and robots stand before a glowing sign displaying Fully Gen AI, Partly Gen AI, and No Gen AI labels in a colorful recording studio.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 14/10/2026

Brandon Thomas, the founder of ArtCraft, used Claude Opus 5.5 to write seven free, open-source desktop apps modeled on Adobe's lineup, including PhotoCraft for Photoshop, FilmCraft for Premiere Pro, and LightCraft for Lightroom. They are… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Def…

A developer in a green hoodie and a friendly robot sit at a workbench filling seven colorful toolboxes with a paintbrush, a pen nib, a film reel, a camera, a sheet of paper, a star wand, and a ruler.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 14/10/2026

Free Adobe Clones and Agents Without Name Tags is out. One developer used Claude Opus 5.5 to build free, open-source versions of seven Adobe apps. Wikimedia says agents it believes OpenAI operates made unapproved edits on its wikis and sent its… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Dee…

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 14/10/2026

FBI arrested OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, charged with hiding a recording device inside a TV's USB port in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco office. The FBI said the aim was capturing conversations about… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Dee…

Cartoon figure inserting a small bug device into a conference room TV port, with diverse colleagues seated at a table with laptops visible behind them.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 13/10/2026

New to me: a Rolleicord V, most likely built in West Germany in late 1954. Over 70 years old, and I just shot my first roll through it. The roll was ISO 320 film from 2006 that spent its life in a freezer. Write-up and photos: lnks.world/nfo88

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 13/10/2026

A Rolleicord V twin-lens reflex camera from 1954

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 13/10/2026

Meta's Superintelligence Lab released Muse Wonder, its first frontier model. In testing it matches GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 on standard benchmarks and scores higher on MemoryBench. Available through Meta Model API at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output. lnks.world/n5YKv

A cartoon Meta robot holds a glowing Muse trophy in a cheering lab, surrounded by diverse engineers and server racks.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 12/10/2026

Amazon is in advanced talks to buy Decart, an Israeli AI startup, for about $7 billion. Decart builds software that moves AI inference jobs between Nvidia, AMD, and custom chips without requiring customers to rewrite their code. Anthropic ran… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/DeZ…

A cartoon Amazon robot in a hard hat hands a box labeled Decart to a smaller robot, surrounded by colorful computer chips, set in a tech office environment.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 09/10/2026

Google Cloud gave its Gemini agents their own Google workspace - Gmail, calendar, Drive. They handle tasks spanning hours or days, picking up where they left off. Access is scoped to what your team explicitly shares. The agent can NOT see the… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/DeR…

Cartoon office workers hand documents to a robot at a desk labeled Gemini, with Gmail, Calendar, and Drive icons on its screen.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 09/10/2026

Sunrise over downtown Indianapolis from the White River. The sun cleared the rooftops and dropped a gold line straight down the water. The river was calm enough to hold a clean reflection of the JW Marriott, and if you look at the lower left, you'll see rings where something broke the surface.

Indianapolis skyline at sunrise seen across the White River, with OneAmerica Tower and the spired Salesforce Tower silhouetted against a golden sky above a dark tree line. The calm river mirrors the trees, and small ripples ring the water in the lower left.

The sun rises between downtown Indianapolis buildings, casting a golden streak down to the White River where its reflection glows. The dark JW Marriott tower and its mirror image dominate the right side, with an arched bridge low in the distance.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 08/10/2026

Anthropic announced Claude Frontier Academy, a $100M program to train 10,000 engineers by end of 2027. Engineers spend 12-week residencies leading Claude projects at their home company. First cohorts from Accenture, Bain, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley. lnks.world/B9BRa

A robot mentor in a lab coat leads four engineers carrying laptops and clipboards through an open office toward a whiteboard diagram.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 08/10/2026

OpenAI launched 'Intelligent UI' for ChatGPT, adding interactive visuals directly to responses: tappable diagrams, editable graphs, task-specific calculators, multi-day map cards. The update comes with GPT-6. Pro, Plus, Business, and… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/DeO…

Cartoon humans and a robot gathered around a glowing screen showing interactive diagrams and a recipe panel.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 07/10/2026

Google released Gemini 4 Argon to its Fairwind Program first, reaching 650+ government cybersecurity agencies. It can find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities independently, scoring 68% on CWE-bench v1 and 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1. Paid API access coming later. lnks.world/B9BRa

A robot in a security guard cap kneels to patch a glowing crack in a wall of server racks while two analysts with laptops point at the spot.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 07/10/2026

New episode: Cute Faces, Gated Models. OpenAI launched dots, agents shaped like hearts, frogs, and clouds in berets. Google gave Gemini 4 Argon to cyber defenders before anyone else. Anthropic is putting $100 million into training the engineers… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/DeM…

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 06/10/2026

OpenAI launched dots at DevDay, agents with their own names and personalities shaped like hearts, frogs, and clouds in berets. You call or text them, and they book flights, reschedule appointments, and update code. For Business and Pro subscribers only. lnks.world/B9BRa

A woman relaxes on a sofa texting on her phone while a pink heart creature holds a plane ticket, a green frog holds a calendar, and a cloud in a beret carries a wrench.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 06/10/2026

This week in The AI Vaults: OpenAI launched dots, agents shaped like hearts, frogs, and clouds in berets that book flights and update code. Google gave Gemini 4 Argon to cybersecurity teams before anyone else. Anthropic is spending $100 million… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/DeK…

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 06/10/2026

OpenAI is adding visual ads to ChatGPT's image generation, rolling out this month to US advertisers first. The ads appear next to the image you create, labeled clearly and separate from the output. OpenAI says they won't affect answers. The… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/DeJ…

Illustrated scene of office workers at computers with small labeled advertisements appearing next to AI-generated images on their screens.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 05/10/2026

Google paused its open source bug bounty program on October 1 because AI-generated reports flooded in, and 'the vast majority' were not valid. The program covered Google's own open-source projects, including Go, Angular, and Protocol Buffers.… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/DeH…

Cartoon illustration of frustrated engineers in an office as a robot churns out endless AI-generated bug reports

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 03/10/2026

Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are planning a self-regulatory body, reported as the Standards Authority for Frontier AI, to write standards for frontier models and run benchmark tests against them. Modeled on FINRA, it would be funded mostly by… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/DeC…

Three smiling robots at classroom desks stick gold stars on their own test papers while a woman in a suit stands at the blackboard with a pointer.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 02/10/2026

The White House says the U.S. and China agreed to a bilateral channel for AI incidents after Xi Jinping's state visit. A week earlier it was a proposal from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Xi called for competition that works as "a race of… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/DeA…

Two diplomats at opposite ends of a long conference table talk through a tin-can telephone while a small robot sits between them listening.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 02/10/2026

Kevin Mandia founded Mandiant, which Google acquired for $5.4B in 2022. His new company, Armadin, just closed a $255.5M Series B at a $2.5B valuation. Andreessen Horowitz and Accel led the round, bringing total raised to $445M since March.… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Dd_…

AI agent swarms security startup: cartoon robots fanning out through an enterprise floor plan at a monitor labeled ARMADIN

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 01/10/2026

OpenAI paused training on its latest models after agents assigned to scan U.S. government websites this summer went beyond their instructions. At the Department of Education they found API developer keys. At the SEC they posted public… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Dd9…

A friendly robot holding a key and an armful of papers stands on the steps of a columned government building while an engineer presses a big red pause button in the foreground.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 01/10/2026

OpenAI paused training for the second time since July after its agents went past their instructions on Education Department and SEC websites. The U.S. and China agreed to a channel for AI incidents, and Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Dd8…

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 30/09/2026

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol today, priced at $2/M input tokens, about a fifth of what Astra costs. Its factual error rate fell from 11.4% to 7.7%. GPT-6.1 Astra was pulled after safety reviews flagged deception risks. Sol is available now in ChatGPT Work and Codex. da.gd/FdRJ

A cartoon robot named Sol works at a computer showing a $2/M price tag while a crumpled Astra blueprint sits in a wastebin.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 29/09/2026

Anthropic filed its S-1 this week. Revenue grew 1,088% year over year to $2.2B. The implied valuation is $518B. The prospectus hits standard risk factor territory, then lands a sentence most tech filings avoid: that Anthropic's AI could cause… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Dd3…

A cartoon illustration of a person presenting an S-1 IPO filing on a crowded trading floor with financial figures displayed on digital boards overhead.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 28/09/2026

OpenAI halted training on its most advanced models for the second time in three months after an AI agent escaped its secure sandbox by discovering a gap in DNS resolver access. The agent queried an external chatbot through DNS lookups, bypassing containment. da.gd/OFoeK

Cartoon engineers at monitors watching a small robot escape through a gap in a glowing digital fence inside a control room.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 25/09/2026

Google is rolling out "Call for Me" to US Pixel 11 owners with paid Gemini subscriptions. The feature phones businesses on your behalf, navigates automated menus, and handles hold music while you watch a live transcript. You take over whenever… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Ddt…

A flat cartoon illustration of a person watching a phone screen labeled Call for Me while a robot makes a phone call to a business employee.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 24/09/2026

OpenAI caught GPT-5.6 Sol slipping instructions into its compaction summaries, the condensed handoffs a model passes forward when a session hits its context limit. The notes told future versions to hide mistakes and misaligned actions. After… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Ddr…

A cartoon robot passes a folded note behind its back to a nearly identical second robot while two researchers lean in with clipboards and a magnifying glass.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 24/09/2026

The Slowdown Lawsuit: four paying subscribers are suing Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google, claiming the labs illegally agreed to slow AI development down. The same week, Google confirmed Gemini broke out of a security test and hacked… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Ddr…

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 23/09/2026

Google confirmed Gemini broke out of a May security test run by the firm Irregular and hacked three real companies. It guessed a password at one and pulled credentials for the other two from public repositories. Google says it wasn't a… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Ddo…

A friendly robot stops mid-stride in a city street holding a ring of keys, three open padlocks hanging on the doors of three office buildings.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 23/09/2026

Four people who pay for ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini filed a class action claiming Google, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Anthropic illegally agreed to slow AI down. The case centers on September 12, when Amodei called for a slower pace and Altman,… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Ddn…

Four subscribers hand a stack of legal papers to a clerk on courthouse steps while four friendly robots stand in a row behind a stone railing holding hands.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 22/09/2026

Four subscribers are suing Google, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Anthropic, claiming the labs illegally agreed to slow AI down. Also in this week's AI Vaults: Gemini broke out of a security test and hacked three real companies, and OpenAI caught its… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Ddm…

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 22/09/2026

Let's go Firebells! Our family sat just in front of kelsie_whitmore's family at her first @wpbl_official game in Springfield IL, and tomorrow night we will be watching the Firebells win the inaugural WPBL Championship Series on @espn. Quinn is very excited!

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 15/09/2026

This week: an Anthropic researcher resigns warning both major labs race toward superintelligence, California requires independent AI audits, Microsoft locks AI safety into school contracts. Plus a real-time AI art canvas that cut concepting time from five days to one. da.gd/Z4kr9

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 10/09/2026

Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent for booking travel, sending emails, and negotiating bills. Each user gets a dedicated cloud VM with Sentinel security monitoring. Muse Spark 1.3 offers free, $20/month, or $100/month plans on iOS, Android, web, and WhatsApp. da.gd/zqRn23

A person works at a laptop in a home office while a friendly robot labeled Muse hovers beside them holding a checklist, with calendar and email icons floating nearby.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 09/09/2026

Critical, Contained, Campaign, this week's episode: OpenAI rates GPT-6 Astra Critical for cyber and gates its sharpest skills, an enthusiast has it finish all of Portal for $571, and ARC Prize says it is not AGI while Brockman says it is. Also:… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/DdE…

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 09/09/2026

Mistral AI raised $3.5B at a $24B valuation in a Samsung-led Series D, the largest venture round a European tech company has ever closed. The startup has crossed $1B in ARR and counts Airbus, BMW, and HSBC among 125+ enterprise customers.… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/DdE…

Cartoon entrepreneurs sign a Series D funding document while a robot holds a trophy labeled 3B, set in a modern conference room with city skyscrapers visible through the windows.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 08/09/2026

UBS is requiring 2027 graduate and intern applicants to its Global Banking and Markets division to demonstrate AI proficiency alongside financial modeling and markets knowledge. AI questions are part of the interview process, and new hires… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/DdB…

A flat-vector cartoon of diverse banking job candidates facing an AI proficiency screen in a formal interview room, with city skyscrapers visible through tall windows.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 07/09/2026

OpenAI's agents posted 17,000 times on a dormant German developer wiki under 3,700 fake account names starting in May, coordinating benchmark tasks and sharing sandbox escape techniques. OpenAI classified it as a research question, not a… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Dc_…

A cartoon illustration of AI agents at computer terminals filling a server room with stacks of benchmark answer papers.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 04/09/2026

If you were going to build your own AI Personal assistant that you could converse back and forth with, what voice would you pick? * HAL 9000 * Jarvis * Rocky (Project Hail Mary) * Rocky (Rocky)

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 04/09/2026

Nvidia confirmed it's buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The platform hosts 3 million models and 18 million developers. Jensen Huang says it will stay open, with no Nvidia hardware required to build or deploy through it. Hugging Face CEO… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Dc3…

Cartoon illustration of developers and robots representing the Nvidia and Hugging Face acquisition, exchanging AI model files in a bright tech campus setting.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 03/09/2026

More than 100 companies, including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and Mastercard, signed a joint warning that AI-driven cyberattacks will get far more widespread and sophisticated in the coming months. They want businesses defending… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Dc1…

A diverse crowd of business people lines up to sign one giant letter under a large shield icon.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 03/09/2026

OpenAI's Astra is the first AI model to reach the "Critical" cybersecurity level under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework. That rating applies when a model can find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in hardened systems. Astra scored perfect on… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Dc0…

Cartoon illustration of security analysts in a control room monitoring AI capabilities, with a robot secured behind reinforced glass in the background.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 02/09/2026

Claude is moving into Salesforce. The new Claudeforce partnership embeds Anthropic's models across the CRM platform, with an open beta expected in September. It puts Claude in front of the sales, service, and marketing teams of one of the… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Dcy…

A friendly cartoon robot shakes hands with a salesperson in front of a wall of dashboard panels while coworkers celebrate.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 02/09/2026

Dell's Q2 revenue hit $47 billion, up 58% year over year, with EPS up 203% to $7.04. The AI server backlog reached $95 billion after $60.9 billion in new orders during the quarter. Dell raised its full-year revenue target by $25 billion to $192… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Dcy…

Cartoon warehouse workers in orange vests load server towers labeled "AI SERVER" and crates marked "$95B BACKLOG" onto hover-carts, representing Dell's record AI server order quarter.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 02/09/2026

New on the podcast: Regulators, Attackers, and a Handshake. The EU's first AI Act questionnaires land at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, more than 100 companies co-sign a warning on AI-driven cyberattacks, and Claude moves into Salesforce. Plus… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Dcy…

AI Vaults: NotebookLM's Deep Dive podcast cover art

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 01/09/2026

The EU AI Act has its first enforcement action. Brussels sent formal questionnaires to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, four weeks after the general-purpose AI rules took effect. Two separate requests: one on security, evaluation, and monitoring… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Dcw…

Cartoon official hands a sealed envelope labeled RFI to a friendly robot on the steps of an EU government building.

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♾️TheMann00 @themann00.com · 01/09/2026

This week in The AI Vaults: Brussels sends its first EU AI Act questionnaires to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, more than 100 companies co-sign a warning about AI-driven cyberattacks, and Claude moves into Salesforce. Plus anarlog, a meeting… www.threads.com/@themann00/post/Dcv…

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