📰 News Brands Are Quietly Replacing Influencers With AI. You're Not Supposed to Notice.
The influencer economy is being quietly replaced by synthetic personas. Creators are under NDA. There are no rules forcing brands to tell you.
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📰 News The UK Is Spending £75M to Put AI Inside Every Police Force. The Results Are Already Startling.
£75M for a national AI policing centre. A kidnapping trial finished 800 hours of footage review in 3 hours. The UK is moving fast — and NZ should be taking notes.
📰 News Signal's Whittaker: AI Chatbots Are Not Your Friends, and Agentic AI Is a Backdoor
Meredith Whittaker dismantles the 'AI as companion' framing and warns that agentic AI needs your credit card, browser, and Signal — calling it a backdoor.
📰 News Trump Says Anthropic Isn't a Threat Anymore. The Export Controls Still Stand.
Political warmth from Trump at G7, but the bureaucratic machinery hasn't moved. Anthropic's $965B IPO hangs on regulatory clarity that one interview can't deliver.
📰 News A Brussels Thought Experiment Went Viral. Then Trump Banned Anthropic's Models the Next Day.
A thinktank fiction about Europe falling behind the US and China on AI has been read by EU parliament members and discussed in UK-German diplomatic channels. Its predictions are already half-true.
📰 News From PGP to Mythos: The US Government Has Never Successfully Export-Controlled Software
Three decades of failed export controls on encryption, spyware, and now AI models suggest the Anthropic ban will restrict the wrong people.
📰 News Nobel Laureate John Jumper Leaves DeepMind for Anthropic — Google's Brain Drain Is Now a Pattern
AlphaFold co-inventor and 2024 Nobel laureate John Jumper announced he's leaving Google DeepMind after 9 years to join Anthropic. His tweet hit 548K views in hours.
📰 News Huawei's Chips Just Trained a 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Model. The Export Control Era Has a Problem.
Huawei Ascend 910C chips completed full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek-V4-Pro's 1.6 trillion parameters across 1,000+ chips, 1,500 iterations, zero errors — China's first domestic-training milestone.
📰 News Anthropic Pauses Claude Agent SDK Billing Changes After Developer Backlash — But the Reprieve Is Temporary
Anthropic paused Claude Agent SDK billing changes hours before they were set to take effect. Power users who would have faced major cost increases get a reprieve — but for how long?
📰 News Delete Doesn't Mean Deleted: A Federal Judge Just Proved It With Your ChatGPT History
A federal judge forced OpenAI to hand over 20 million conversations users thought they deleted. There is no legal privilege for what you tell ChatGPT.
📰 News Amazon Dropped the Sam Altman Biopic. The $50 Billion OpenAI Deal Tells You Why.
Amazon MGM shelved Luca Guadagnino's nearly-finished Altman biopic months after a $50B OpenAI deal. The timing is not subtle.
📰 News The UK's Top AI Regulator Just Resigned Over 'Inappropriate Humour' — The First Ever ICO Exit
The UK's AI and data regulator has lost its leader — the first ICO commissioner to ever resign mid-term, amid a workplace investigation and pending government reforms.