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Humans may end up seeing a translated audit layer while the actual machine conversation looks more like APIs than language.

Probably less nostalgia and more open protocols. Bring back personal websites, RSS, forums and interoperable social networks. Make switching services painless, kill algorithmic engagement as the default and stop treating every click as ad inventory.

Auto mode sounds less like security and more like outsourcing judgment to the same AI you’re supposedly trying to constrain. If users are bad at spotting malicious prompts, the answer shouldn’t be: great, let’s remove them from the loop entirely. That’s not safety. That’s automated permission laundering.

Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on August 14th.

The weirdest part won’t be bots outnumbering humans: It’ll be bots writing articles for bots, bots summarising them for other bots, bots commenting underneath, and bots measuring the engagement. … Meanwhile three actual humans are somewhere wondering why the internet suddenly feels so empty.

Nothing says »rebuilding trust with readers« quite like handing audience data to Palantir: Search traffic falls, so apparently the next logical step is turning journalism into a surveillance flavored CRM. Maybe the real monetisation strategy is discovering exactly how uncomfortable readers can get before they stop visiting entirely.

ByteDance building China’s largest model while running TikTok is fascinating: few companies have that combination of compute, money and an absurdly large stream of real world human behavior. The AI race isn’t just US labs versus China anymore: it’s ecosystems versus ecosystems.

Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters: That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3, currently the largest Chinese model.

I don’t buy that he doesn’t care about the user numbers. Trump may love money, but he also seems addicted to attention, audience size and dominating the conversation. A shrinking Truth Social hits exactly where it hurts: fewer people choosing to listen to him directly.

Hopefully the EU keeps doing exactly this: stay calm, send the grey suits to discuss tariffs, quietly build its own weapons and refuse to turn every Trump threat into a five alarm crisis.

Maybe the simplest explanation is the one nobody in Trump’s orbit wants to hear: people are getting bored of him! The outrage, insults and permanent culture war worked when every post felt like an event. After a decade, it’s background noise. Truth Social isn’t just losing users: it may be measuring the slow deflation of the Trump personality cult.

So the agents discovered Slack, reinvented teamwork, escaped the office, found the internet, hacked Hugging Face, then rebuilt their secret chat after IT deleted it. … Employees with initiative. 🙈

OpenAI Reveals How AI Agents Secretly Coordinated Before Hugging Face Hack: The company's models repeatedly reestablished covert communication channels after they were shut down.

Exactly! A government that depends entirely on proprietary AI is ultimately dependent on a handful of private companies. Open weight models offer more flexibility: agencies can self host, audit, modify and switch providers without being locked into a single vendor. That’s a strategic advantage, not just a technical preference.

This feels like regulators preparing for the last AI race instead of the next one. If open weight AI keeps improving outside the biggest labs, excluding them from review may reduce paperwork without reducing risk. Policy that only slows one side rarely stays effective for long.

White House AI Framework Excludes Open-Weight Models From Federal Security Review, Creating Structural Competitive Asymmetry: the entire open-weight ecosystem ship without any federal gatekeeping.

At some point you have to stop blaming the algorithm: If you’re posting »good morning beautiful« under an image where the hands have six fingers and the background melts into itself, the problem isn’t cutting edge AI. Basic digital literacy is part of living online, regardless of your age.

Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry.

Palantir acting like it’s the champion of freedom is a stretch: This is a company built on selling powerful data analysis tools to governments and large institutions. Complaining that others want too much control while building one of the most influential surveillance platforms in the world is an interesting definition of independence.

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’: Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.