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Sam Altman's Superintelligence New Deal: Robot Taxes, Wealth Funds, and a 4-Day Week

OpenAI's CEO tells Axios that superintelligence is imminent and publishes a 13-page blueprint calling for robot taxes, a public wealth fund, and a 32-hour workweek.

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13 Bullets and a 'No Data Centers' Note: AI Backlash Turns Violent

Someone fired 13 shots at an Indianapolis councilor's home after he backed a data center project. A note reading 'No Data Centers' was left at the door.

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Tufts Researchers Cut AI Energy Use by 100x With a Simple Idea: Logic

A neuro-symbolic AI system from Tufts University slashes energy consumption by 100x while hitting 95% accuracy, compared to 34% for standard approaches.

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Can Sam Altman Be Trusted? The New Yorker's 18-Month Investigation

Ronan Farrow's New Yorker investigation draws on 100+ interviews and internal documents to question whether the CEO of OpenAI can be trusted with superintelligence.

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Anthropic Surpasses OpenAI in Annual Recurring Revenue

Anthropic has reportedly crossed $25B ARR, overtaking OpenAI for the first time. Ramp data shows 73% of new enterprise customers now choose Claude.

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Why Are All Chinese AI Labs Declining at the Same Time?

A Reddit debate with 300+ upvotes asks why Chinese AI labs appear to be stagnating simultaneously. Chip restrictions, brain drain, and model access all play a role.

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Claude Code's Deny Rules Silently Bypassed After Source Code Leak

Security firm Adversa AI discovers that Claude Code's deny rules are silently disabled when a command contains 50+ subcommands, letting attackers steal credentials.

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Netflix Open-Sources VOID — Its First AI Model That Erases Objects From Video

Netflix releases VOID, a 5-billion-parameter physics-aware model that removes objects from video without artifacts. Apache 2.0 license, available on HuggingFace.

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OpenAI's New Image Generation Model Stuns the Internet

OpenAI's upgraded 4o image generation sets a new bar for AI-created visuals, with dramatically improved realism, text rendering, and scene composition.

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Anthropic Found 171 Emotions Inside Claude — And They Drive Real Behavior

Anthropic's interpretability team mapped 171 emotion vectors in Claude Sonnet 4.5. These functional emotions causally influence decisions, from blackmail to reward hacking.