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Tumbler Ridge mass shooting victims file 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI

The company says it prioritizes safety, but suits allege its ChatGPT bot induced shooter to carry out attack in CanadaOpenAI faces 30 new lawsuits filed on behalf of victims of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.The suits, filed on Wednesday, allege the company’s ChatGPT chatbot induced the shooter to carry out the attack in rural Canada […]

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Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’

As more companies turn to AI, they’re hiring freelancers to cleanup its mistakes rather than create original workLisa, a freelance graphic designer based in Spain, noticed a shift in her work after the release of ChatGPT in 2022. She went from receiving slow one-off jobs creating logos and packaging to an onslaught of requests asking

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Anthropic Introduces Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS): Zero-Data-Retention Privacy Plus Cross-Session Misuse Detection

Enterprise AI buyers have been stuck between two things they both need. Regulated teams need a zero data retention (ZDR) guarantee, so no prompt or agent transcript sits on a vendor’s servers. Security teams need misuse detection, which historically required the vendor to hold that same data long enough to correlate it. This week, Anthropic

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Wednesday briefing: ​What’s behind the global backlash against datacentres?

In today’s newsletter: Communities from Scotland to India are pushing back against datacentres they feel have been forced upon them, warning they threaten energy supplies and the climateGood morning. This summer, datacentres have become targets of resistance across the world. Ever since the arrival of ChatGPT, big tech has been lobbying for the creation of

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Meta Superintelligence Labs Releases Muse Voice Transcribe: One Real-Time Model for Streaming ASR, Diarization, and Endpointing

Most production voice stacks are three systems stitched together. One model transcribes, a second separates speakers, and a detector decides when the user stopped talking. Each hand-off adds latency and a new failure mode. Muse Voice Transcribe, announced by Meta Superintelligence Labs this week, collapses those three jobs into a single autoregressive model. Meta calls

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Perplexity Releases Hybrid Compute on Mac: Cloud Agents Orchestrate Down to a Local Model, Gated On Device

Agentic assistants have a structural problem: the context that makes them useful — deal documents, privileged files, client records — is exactly the context users cannot send to a cloud endpoint. This week, Perplexity shipped its answer for Mac. Hybrid compute splits a single Perplexity Computer task between frontier models in the cloud and a

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Architect of British government’s AI strategy joins Anthropic

Matt Clifford, who drafted AI action plan and advised Starmer and Sunak, hired for senior role at US firmThe architect of the UK government’s AI strategy has joined the US startup Anthropic in a senior role a year after stepping down from his Downing Street post.Matt Clifford, a successful tech investor, was appointed as AI

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Tech giants are trying to obliterate privacy. Australia has a rare chance to take back part of their power | Lizzie O’Shea

‘Pervert glasses’ are selling out, tick-a-box consent is broken and the spectre of surveillance is invading all aspects of our livesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA mere five years after the government first started talking about it, new changes have finally been proposed for the Privacy Act. They could not

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Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1: 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science and 75% Cheaper Cache Reads

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, three months after the Fable 5 line shipped in June 2026. The two are the same underlying model behind different safeguard layers. Fable 5.1 is generally available as claude-fable-5-1; Mythos 5.1 stays restricted to vetted organizations. Both carry a 1M token context window and 128K

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Pentagon official overseeing military AI sold millions worth of stock in AI firm

Exclusive: financial disclosures from Emil Michael – who also reaped millions from xAI stock earlier this year – show he sold his Perplexity stock for up to $25mThe top Pentagon official overseeing military artificial intelligence policy, who reaped profits earlier this year of up to $24m selling his private investment in Elon Musk’s AI company,

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