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The day's AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. Snap is laying off 16 percent of its staff as it leans into AI — The Verge One thousand jobs at Snap, framed as a profitability play, illustrates the emerging pattern: AI adoption and workforce reduction
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The day's AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race — The New York Times China, the U.S., and Russia are accelerating AI-backed weapons programs with no shared governance framework in place — what the reporting frames as an
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The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts. — MIT Technology Review The 2026 Stanford AI Index lands today with a number that deserves to be read slowly: AI data centers now draw
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The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race — New York Times The arms race framing is doing political work here — calling it that normalizes the same deterrence logic that made nuclear proliferation possible, and nobody is examining
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The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss. Molotov Cocktail Hurled at Sam Altman’s Home — New York Times The attack — incendiary device thrown at an exterior gate, suspect at large — is a data point: as AI becomes central to contested decisions about jobs,
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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 harm
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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 anyway,
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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 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
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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 less