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BUISNESS This Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster By Joel Khalili Verity Harding tells WIRED that the US government’s nationalistic attitude toward AI is evidence that a worst-case scenario is taking shape. READ MORE

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BUSINESS OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company By Maxwell Zeff Joshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a memorable appearance in the Musk v. Altman trial. READ MORE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone By Reece Rogers Claude Cowork now keeps working on tasks even after you close your laptop. It’s part of a larger push toward smartphone-controlled agents. READ MORE

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What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out   By Andy Greenberg   Burst water mains. Evacuated hospitals. In a closed-door simulation, insurers played out their response to a mass disruption by China’s Volt Typhoon hackers—and found a nightmare scenario. READ MORE

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SCIENCE Mysterious Compound Detected on Pluto and Titan By Jorge Garay Something on Pluto and one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, absorbs light in a way unexplained by anything in spectroscopic databases. READ MORE

SECURITY OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear By Matt Burgess Scammers are hijacking government websites to upload ads for “leaked” OnlyFans content. Thousands of copyright complaints from adult creators are helping people avoid malicious links. READ MORE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out By Reece Rogers As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. READ MORE

GEAR These New Smart Glasses From Solos Come With a Privacy Shield for the Cameras By Boone Ashworth You can clip a cover over the cameras, which could be a double-edged sword. READ MORE

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