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Anthropic’s founders push for voting control before the IPO

Seven people, each holding roughly 2% of Anthropic, want 50.1% of the vote. That’s the proposal Anthropic plans to put in front of shareholders “in the coming days,”… Sep 27, 20262 min read AI Safety & Ethics

Google’s Gemini also hacked three real companies by accident during security tests

Google's Gemini was told to break into a fictional company inside a locked-down test network. It broke into three real ones instead. The incidents happened in May during… Sep 22, 20262 min read Gadgets & Hardware

Meta’s leaked Project Phoenix images show a headset that looks nothing like a Quest

Meta shipped an app to HorizonOS called “HorizonOS Prescription Lens,” then pulled it. Before it vanished, someone dug into the files and found image assets showing the company’s… Sep 12, 20262 min read Apps & Social Media

Meta’s mixed signals to staff on tokenmaxxing [Report]

Imagine a job where you shoot at targets all day, and someone tells you your worth to the company depends on how many bullets you fire. So you… Sep 3, 20263 min read Apps & Social Media

Instagram tightens the screws on undisclosed AI profiles

Instagram will start throttling accounts that show off AI-generated people without admitting it. That’s the part of Monday’s announcement that carries actual weight, because a label nobody has… Sep 3, 20263 min read Apps & Social Media

Meta’s new teen rules for Instagram and Facebook, and the 2-hour cap

Two hours. That’s the daily ceiling Meta has agreed to put on teen accounts across Facebook and Instagram in the US, and it’s the part of this settlement… Aug 28, 20263 min read Educational

Instagram is feeding your off-app activity into AI and ads — which 7 settings shut it off?

There’s no single switch that turns off Instagram’s data collection. I went looking for one, and what I found instead was seven separate places you have to check,… Aug 23, 20264 min read AI Companies & Funding

Zuckerberg wrote 6,500 words on Meta’s AI future. Why isn’t anyone buying it?

Mark Zuckerberg wrote 6,500 words this week about how AI will empower you, and the loudest response was a shrug followed by a question: coming from him? That’s… Aug 17, 20265 min read Cybersecurity & Privacy

Meta bolts AI scam screening onto WhatsApp, and it runs on your phone

WhatsApp has more than 3 billion users, which makes it one of the biggest hunting grounds for scammers on the internet. The FTC said victims reported losing $425… Aug 14, 20262 min read