A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”
Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
Now that’s a corridor!
New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation
I just find it all so tiresome, because LLMs are so horribly suited for what they want them to do. It’s like if the military designated the Magic 8 Ball a supply chain risk. And the media responded by fawning over Mattel’s brave ethical stand, and wondering what the Origami Fortune Teller would do.
Switzerland is also one of the most politically exclusive democracies.
New official data show that only ≈60% of all residents have political rights.
And given Switzerland’s low voter turnout, a small minority (roughly a quarter of all residents who vote regularly) ends up deciding for the majority
The 3 million-plus people applying for immigration status changes will now be required to provide the government with their social media handles. This expansive new requirement poses a serious threat to constitutional rights.
bit.ly/4aE5uKa
Die 10 deutschsprachigen Accounts, die in den letzten 12 Monaten auf X die meisten Interaktionen gesammelt haben: Rechte Krawall-Blogger, Fake News-Schleudern, AfD-Politiker·innen und die Welt.
meedia.de/news/beitrag...
when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten
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NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...
Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.
This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.
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How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence
How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir
By me, at FT
www.ft.com/content/5207...
Quick PSA for all mid-career academics and above: people may be citing articles with your name on them that don't exist.
🚨📄🚨 LLMs are revolutionizing social and communication science. Tasks that used to require either complex technical skills or abundant resources for crowdsourced solutions, are now easily done with a prompt. While this speeds up research and facilitates
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Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court.
Link in comments. #palantir #freemedia
"I'm going to say something I should never say, but I will anyway: you can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone."
when big tech companies say that AI will save the planet, what kinds of AI are they actually talking about — and what's their proof? i took a look at some great new research from @ketanjoshi.co and talked to other experts about how a lot of this talk is probably bullshit:
Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation finds. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Scoop by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/students-are...
🧵 Matryoshka, Russian-state aligned bot network has introduced a hashtag HollywoodAgainstZelensky on X/Twitter yesterday.
With deepfaked audio, multiple manipulated Cameo videos make celebrities to "demand" that European leaders force Zelensky to sign a peace treaty on Russia's terms.
Wisst ihr noch, die "Freiheitstrychler" aus der Pandemie, die sich für Freiheit einsetzen? Was machen die heute so?
Sie reisen nach Moskau, um zu protestieren - und zwar gegen die Schweiz. Begleitet durch Russia Today.
Barbra Streisand behind some stony walls..."want to contribute to the streisand effect?"
Republik.ch trägt die finanziellen und rechtlichen Kosten/Risiken.
Aber bitte spendet unbedingt auch an meine CO-Autor:innen der #Palantir-Recherche des WAV Recherchekollektiv, die alles initiiert haben! wav.info/support
Für weiteren demokratie-relevanten Investigativjournalismus.
I think this will be useful also for teaching/sharing with students this semester :))
This looks really cool!
Oh looks like you made a very cool resource! Also glad our data was useful for that :)
I remember when we were 12-18 months out from AI white collar job automation, 12-18 months ago.
In Gewebeproben Alexej Nawalnys ist nach SPIEGEL-Informationen das Gift Epibatin gefunden worden. Für mehrere europäische Staaten steht damit fest: Der Putin-Kritiker wurde vor zwei Jahren in einem russischen Lager vergiftet.
Frontex arbeitet an einer „KI“, die zu Abschiebungen beraten soll. Da zeigen sich die unzureichenden Stellen der KI-Verordnung: Der Einsatz stelle kein hohes Risiko dar, so die Behörde netzpolitik.org/2026/migrati...
To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.
Die Moskauer Führung schottet die russische Gesellschaft weiter ab, nun bekommen das auch Studierende und Wissenschaftler zu spüren. Der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst ist jetzt faktisch in Russland verboten.
Either he is a bad liar or dangerously deluded, and either one should be a sign that OpenAI should not be given the power, data, and control over our lives it is being given.
