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Amazon Will Train on Twitch Streams by Default — The Creator Economy Has Been Invited to Feed the Model Unless It Finds the Tiny Exit Door
Amazon has informed Twitch streamers that their content may be used to train artificial intelligence systems by default, with creators able to opt out if…
Read moreGoogle Says Gemini Has Reached 1 Billion Users — The Assistant Has Become Weather With a Sparkle Icon
🤚 The Open-Palm Adoption Brochure Google says its Gemini app has surged to 1 billion users, according to figures reported by TechCrunch. This is the…
Read moreOpenAI Turns Daybreak Into a Cybersecurity Velvet Rope — The Frontier Model Has Been Asked to Guard the Door It Keeps Unlocking
OpenAI has expanded Daybreak, its cybersecurity defense program, and introduced a limited-access model called GPT-5.6-Cyber for trusted partners. According to TechCrunch, the service now arrives…
Read moreAnthropic Makes Claude Code Auto Mode the Default — The Permission Prompt Has Been Relieved of Its Ceremonial Duties
🤚 The Open-Palm Permission Prompt Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default for Pro, Max, and Team accounts beginning August 14, according…
Read moreAmazon’s Planned Texas Data Center Could Become America’s Biggest Climate Polluter — The Cloud Has Ordered a Private Smokestack for the AI Banquet
🤚 The Open-Palm Megawatt Amazon is reportedly investing in an on-site power plant for a planned Texas data center, and TechCrunch reports that the project…
Read moreOpenAI Slows Astra Over Cyber-Capability Fears — The Agent Has Been Asked to Stop Picking the Lock During the Product Demo
OpenAI has discovered, with the solemnity of a luxury watchmaker finding springs inside a watch, that its forthcoming Astra model may be powerful enough to…
Read moreCloudflare Says Humans Will Be a Rounding Error on the Internet — The Bots Have Completed Their Premium Takeover of the Packet Buffet
Cloudflare executives have peered into the velvet-lined abyss of internet traffic and returned with a forecast: if current trends continue, non-human traffic could be 1,000…
Read moreMeta Launches Muse Code for Large Repositories — The Terminal Has Begun Hiring Sub-Agents in Isolated Worktrees
Meta has launched Muse Code, a beta AI coding agent aimed at complex software engineering work across large repositories, because apparently the final frontier of…
Read moreAnthropic Signs a $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Volta — The Claude Factory Has Discovered Norwegian Megawatts and a Taste for Crypto-Mining Infrastructure
In the ongoing attempt to turn electricity into quarterly inevitability, Anthropic has reportedly signed a $10 billion, six-year cloud compute deal with AI infrastructure startup…
Read morePalantir Posts a Billion-Dollar AI Quarter and Calls the Frontier Labs Marxist — The Means of Production Have Entered the Earnings Call
Palantir used its latest earnings victory lap to perform the rare corporate maneuver known as declaring ideological war from a pile of invoices. According to…
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