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The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths — Wired OpenAI is lobbying for an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability even when their models enable mass casualties — not
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The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. Meta Unveils Muse Spark, First Model From Its Superintelligence Lab · The New York Times · April 8 Meta launched a Superintelligence Lab, named it so, and then released a model that lags rivals on coding — which tells
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The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’ · The New York Times · April 7 Building a model dangerous enough to withhold from public release, then deploying it through forty private-sector partners
The dominant AI firm is producing the dominant AI-labor research using its own platform data — with a structural incentive to find limited impact. The findings may be correct. The structural problem is real regardless.
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The day's AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. OpenAI Buys Streaming Show ‘TBPN,’ Aiming to Change Narrative on A.I. · The New York Times · April 3 A company that produces the systems under scrutiny now also owns a platform explicitly acquired to shape
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The 2026 WGA deal extracts economic value from AI training on writers' work for the first time. The perimeter is real. It is also narrower than it sounds.
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The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. Import AI 452: Scaling Laws for Cyberwar Import AI (Jack Clark) · April 6 Lyptus Research found that frontier AI models double their offensive cybersecurity capability every 5.7 months — the best current models can complete tasks
The first index to map AI displacement by geography — and a story about what it can't count: agent labor, which the entire U.S. labor measurement apparatus has no instrument for.
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Sora was the first AI video tool filmmakers talked about the way they talk about a camera. OpenAI killed it before it found its form. The deletion is the story.
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The AI clone business is selling the image while the person is still alive to watch it. Cinema has been doing this since the first projector threw light on a wall. The consent frameworks are new. The problem is not.
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The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. Planet Labs Indefinitely Withholds Iran War Imagery at Government Request Reuters · April 4 When the company that sells “the ability to see what’s happening anywhere on Earth” stops selling it on government request, that capability
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The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. Anthropic Cuts Off Claude Subscriptions for Third-Party Tools Like OpenClaw — The Verge The infrastructure agents depend on is governed by subscription terms set by labs with their own competitive interests — and today that became something