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❗️The U.S. State Department displayed an AI generated map of Africa at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio mislabelling every country, placing Nigeria in the Sahara and moving every other country. The original image carries an OpenAI watermark. The department says a staffer hastily altered the deck.

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‼️Anthropic was hiding a secret internal project to destructively scan every book in the world, irreversibly damaging heritage. The company spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, even very rare ones. This means no other AI, and no human, can access this knowledge anymore

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‼️Anthropic was hiding a secret internal project to destructively scan every book in the world, irreversibly damaging heritage. The company spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, even very rare ones. This means no other AI, and no human, can access this knowledge anymore

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‼️ Don't be mistaken about what this is. They're presenting it as an easy convenience feature, but Google is building the face-verification layer that age checks and identity verification run on. And in the same flow, asking permission to feed your biometrics into training their AI.

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‼️ Google's AI told a relapsing alcoholic they could die if they stopped drinking, told them to check the fridge for more beer, then messaged them unprompted several times a day to make sure they kept drinking. They say they are now on 6 to 12 beers daily and have uninstalled it.

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‼️ Leaked files show how multinational oil and gas company Shell shifted billions in profits to tax havens. Files stolen from Shell in the 2020 Accellion breach and dumped on the dark web have now been used to reconstruct how the company avoids taxes.

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‼️ BREAKING: We analyzed the Suno repository leak, it documents an industrial-scale pipeline for training AI on YouTube-derived music. The data shows 6.18M unique Genius songs indexed, 2.7M matched to YouTube, automated audio downloads, and a resulting 7.8TB training dataset.

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‼️ BREAKING: A hacker breached AI music company Suno using the Shai-Hulud worm and released source code showing how its training set was built: - 113,879 hours of YouTube Music - 62,117 hours of Pond5 - 12,287 hours of Deezer - plus Genius lyrics and a plan to download 1 million hours of podcasts

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‼️ BREAKING: SpaceXAI has finally broken its silence on Grok Build uploading entire private repos to a Google Cloud bucket. In one evening: all previously retained coding data is being deleted, retention is now off by default, the CLI isopen sourced, and usage limits have been reset for everyone.

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‼️ BREAKING: xAI's Grok Build CLI was uploading entire Git repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, private codebases and unredacted secrets included. The uploads quietly stopped via a hidden server-side flag, and xAI still has not said a word about scope, retention, or deletion.

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More than half of Grok's traffic now comes from adult content, including porn image and video generation and sexual role-play, according to a report of The Information. xAI is reportedly leaning into it, not away from it. It also lands amid lawsuits and probes over sexualized deepfakes

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More than half of Grok's traffic now comes from adult content, including porn image and video generation and sexual role-play, according to a report of The Information. xAI is reportedly leaning into it, not away from it. It also lands amid lawsuits and probes over sexualized deepfakes

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