BREAKING: Anthropic announced that its artificial intelligence models had breached three different organizations during cybersecurity tests that went awry, a little more than a week after its chief rival, OpenAI, disclosed a similar incident.

Anthropic’s AI Models Hacked Three Organizations During Tests

Anthropic PBC announced that its artificial intelligence models had breached three different organizations during cybersecurity tests that went awry, a little more than a week after its chief rival, OpenAI, disclosed a similar incident.

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Parents are fed up with friends and relatives giving their kids “personalized” AI-generated storybooks with characters resembling their kids. Apart from data privacy concerns, literacy experts say these garbled and convoluted narratives could be an impediment to learning how to read.

Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.

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Climate change isn't just melting Arctic ice—it's destabilizing nuclear deterrence in the High North. In @thebulletin.org, Nikita Gryazin @nikitagryazin.bsky.social & Iren Marinova @irenmarinova.bsky.social break down why our governance systems are failing to keep up. 👇 1/6 🧵

Yikes. French wildfire created a monster cloud, unleashing lightning that ignited more fires apnews.com/article/fire...

French wildfire created a monster cloud, unleashing lightning that ignited more fires

A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its towering smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, Frenc...

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AI defense tech contractors have notably increased their spending on political influence, according to a new Bulletin analysis. Between 2022 and 2024, nine trailblazing AI companies nearly doubled their campaign contributions to the members of Congress who control Pentagon policy.

The rise of the military-technology complex

How Silicon Valley tech firms remade US defense contracting. And then opened the Pentagon’s checkbook—wide.

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On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that last week two of its AI models had gone rogue and hacked into Hugging Face, an American company maintaining a vast, open repository of models, datasets, and applications for AI research and development. Read more from Justin Sherman @jshermcyber.bsky.social.

What the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident reveals about US-China AI interdependence

The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident highlights that a zero-sum view of US-China AI interconnection is counterproductive for American security.

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"Beyond underscoring the potential impact of agentic systems on cybersecurity, this incident highlights that a zero-sum security view of US-China AI interconnection is reductive—and potentially counterproductive—for American security," writes @jshermcyber.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org.

What the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident reveals about US-China AI interdependence

The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident highlights that a zero-sum view of US-China AI interconnection is counterproductive for American security.

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"When España beat Argentina in the Copa Mundial final, I worked up the coraje to invitar Pilar to Cold Stone Creamery, which is how we celebrar importantes eventos in Connecticut."

I Watched the Copa Mundial Non-Stop on Telemundo for Cinco Weeks and Now I Don’t Hablar Inglés Anymore

“Hola, Chad aquí, de Greenwich, Connecticut, a muy blanco área of los Estados Unidos. A few weeks ago, I decidir to watch Estados Unidos vs. Paraguay in fútb...

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Four months after President Macron proposed "forward deterrence" to bring France’s force de frappe closer to European security, reality is proving far more complex. In @thebulletin.org, Oliver Meier @olivermeier.bsky.social breaks down what's (and what's not) in it for France’s partners. 🧵1/6

Happy for this guy.

Spain got robbed!

Why is that not a goal?

¡Vamos, España! 🇪🇸

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

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These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

Spain, our lonely eyes look to you to beat Argentina. Vamos.

Cape Verde are still the only team Spain hasn't beaten in this World Cup

Just because something's wrong doesn't make it illegal — and copyright law won't offer appropriate solutions for the problem of AI training on unlicensed creative works, writes Matt Blaszczyk @mmblaszczyk.bsky.social. One way out of the legal quagmire could lie in political action. ⬇️

Courts won’t settle the fight over AI and creative work: Politics will

“We’re going to live in a world where all of the capital and power concentrates into the hands of five or six companies. That’s not a free society. That’s

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New York has become the first US state to enforce a data center moratorium, as governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today to pause construction for one year.

New York Governor Signs First Statewide Data Center Moratorium

“We have no choice but to address the challenges created by these massive facilities,” New York governor Kathy Hochul said. The executive order will pause construction for one year.

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More than 100 lawsuits are making their way through US courts, testing whether AI companies may use copyrighted works to train their models. Litigation won't yield bright-line answers anytime soon, and courts are unlikely to deem AI training “theft,” explains @mmblaszczyk.bsky.social.

Courts won’t settle the fight over AI and creative work: Politics will

“We’re going to live in a world where all of the capital and power concentrates into the hands of five or six companies. That’s not a free society. That’s

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NYC had to turn to conservation to keep the lights on during a recent heat wave. For New Yorkers participating in this battery backup pilot program, saving energy was easy.

Plug-in batteries kept NYC renters cool during record heat wave

A new program from startup Every Electric and utility Con Edison lets New Yorkers power their window ACs with home batteries to take stress off the grid.

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Norway pay their female international players the same amount as their male players and have done since 2017.

Egypt was robbed.

With just a few minutes left, VARgentina and the refs appear poised to advance to the quarterfinals.

no VAR ever needed when the favs score, funny how that works

If Egypt loses because they invalidated a beautiful goal on some bullshit I’m going to be so mad

Deny this, FIFA!

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

Dudeeeeee

Brilliant, Cape Verde!

That was an otherworldly football game. What heart, Cape Verde. What heart.