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Clarifai says it deleted 3 million OkCupid user photos and the facial-recognition models trained on them

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The AI company received the photos from OkCupid in 2014 without users’ knowledge, in a data transfer that breached OkCupid’s own privacy policy. The FTC’s late March settlement with OkCupid and Match Group brought no financial penalties. Clarifai was not accused of wrongdoing. Clarifai, a Delaware-based facial-recognition AI company, has confirmed that it deleted approximately […]

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Trump wants to stop states from regulating AI. States and Congress keep saying no.

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In short: The Trump administration is waging a multi-front campaign to prevent states from regulating AI, using a DOJ litigation task force, Commerce Department evaluations of “burdensome” state laws, and a legislative framework urging Congress to preempt state-level regulation with a “minimally burdensome national standard.” But states have accelerated in the opposite direction – 1,208 […]

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Stanford’s AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less

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In short: Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report finds the performance gap between the best American and Chinese AI models has collapsed to 2.7%, down from 17.5-31.6 percentage points in May 2023, despite the US spending 23 times more on private AI investment ($285.9 billion vs $12.4 billion). China leads in AI patents (69.7% of global […]

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Anthropic’s Amodei meets Wiles and Bessent at the White House in first step toward resolving Mythos standoff

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In short: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday in what the White House called “productive and constructive” talks over access to Mythos, the frontier AI model capable of finding thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities. The meeting signals a thaw in the standoff that […]

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Anthropic’s Amodei heads to the White House as Washington fights over Mythos access

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Summary: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday to negotiate access to Mythos, a frontier AI model that can identify and exploit thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser. The meeting follows Anthropic’s blacklisting by the Pentagon after Amodei refused to remove safety […]

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Spotify is selling physical books now, and it makes more sense than you think

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In short: Spotify has launched physical book sales in the US and UK through a partnership with Bookshop.org, letting users buy print copies via affiliate links on audiobook pages within the app. The feature sits alongside Page Match, which now works in 30+ languages and lets readers scan a book page to sync with the […]

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A US judge ruled that a fraud defendant’s AI chats with Claude are not privileged

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In a February ruling described as the first of its kind in the US, Judge Jed Rakoff found that Bradley Heppner’s conversations with Anthropic’s Claude about his legal exposure stripped away both attorney-client privilege and work-product protection, because an AI is not a lawyer and public AI platforms have no confidentiality obligation. More than a […]

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US utilities plan to spend $1.4 trillion by 2030 to power the AI boom

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A report analysing capital spending plans from 51 investor-owned utilities finds the $1.4 trillion figure is double what was invested in the prior decade. More than 30 utilities cited data centres as a top growth driver. Average residential electricity prices are already projected to rise 5.1% this year. US investor-owned utility companies are planning to […]

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The Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic – and is now telling banks to use its AI

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In short: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell are urging Wall Street’s biggest banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos AI model for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, even as the Pentagon fights Anthropic in court after branding it a supply chain risk for refusing to remove safety guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. JPMorgan Chase, […]

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A grand jury is trying to force Reddit to unmask a user who criticised ICE

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On the evening of 7 January 2026, ICE officer Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good, a 37-year-old woman, in Minneapolis. Within days, Ross was named publicly: The Intercept identified him and published biographical details, and other news organisations followed. Across Reddit, users discussed the shooting, the officer, and the agency. One of them is now […]

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