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Daily AI Briefing

Prosecutors say former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan hid recording devices in company offices, noting his Saudi connections. Data centers become targets of warfare in the Middle East and Ukraine/Russia. Prosecutors…

Data center megadeals and AI safety governance

Reuters: Meta, BlackRock partner on $14 billion El Paso data center venture (Jul. 28, 2026) Meta and BlackRock will form a venture to build a $14 billion El Paso data…

AI surge meets infrastructure and social backlash

Simon Willison: Fable gets another bump (Jul. 12, 2026) Anthropic extended Claude Fable 5 access on paid plans through July 19, limiting use to half of weekly limits, with credits,…

AI Governance and Economic Disruption

Simon Willison: A quote from Corey Quinn (May 26, 2026) "I cannot believe I'm saying this, but getting the literal Pope to canonize your product's specific technical limitations as a…

AI Adoption Surges and Social Risks Loom

WSJ: Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s Right-Hand Man Who’s Unleashing AI at Meta (May 24, 2026) Andrew Bosworth, a blunt Zuckerberg lieutenant, is leading Meta’s aggressive shift to AI. He pushed employee…

AI Exposes Flaws and Upends Workplaces

Daniel Stenberg: Mythos finds a curl vulnerability (May 10, 2026) Anthropic's Mythos scanned curl and reported five "confirmed" vulnerabilities, but manual review found only one low-severity CVE, plus about twenty…

AI compute arms race and industry upheaval

AI’s arms race—companies racing for talent, GPUs, models and customers—is straining infrastructure and prompting reorganizations. Simultaneously, legal, ethical, and regulatory tensions are escalating as firms monetize AI features, deploy agents,…

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