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Signal: Compliance is becoming a product feature: Anthropic marks every word Claude writes, Congress wants CEOs sworn in, and the buildout signs twenty-year leases regardless.
One EU Law, and Claude Now Marks Every Word on Earth
Every new Claude model will weave an invisible mark into its text worldwide -- Anthropic's answer to one European law, applied to every user on earth, and researchers say it is trivially removable.
The Decoder: OpenAI has sat on a 99.9% text detector for two years Sean Goedecke: text watermarks will always be trivial to remove
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Wall Street Will Lend $500bn Against Nvidia's Chips
Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR signed memorandums to underwrite compute as an asset class -- Larry Fink calls it the next mortgage-backed security, and Nvidia lost $130bn of market value on the news.
The Next Web: the pattern has a name investors dislike -- circular financing Forbes: Nvidia sheds $130bn of market value on the day it arranged the money
NEWAnthropic Rents a Bitcoin Mine Until 2048 Cointelegraph: Anthropic leased $19bn of TeraWulf capacity a month ago
Meta's Open-Weight Reboot, Third in 18 Months Artificial Analysis: Glimmer scores 35 against a median of 9 for its class
OpenAI Wants a Power Trader at $285,000
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
OpenAI Trained a Model to Stop Refusing: 1.5% to 95%
GPT-5.6-Cyber completes 95% of exploit-chain and privilege-escalation requests that GPT-5.6 Sol completes 1.5% of -- released to vetted Daybreak Red partners days after OpenAI paused Astra for being too cyber-capable.
The Decoder: it found two Chrome zero-days, now CVE-2026-15903 OpenAI: the announcement, the two tiers and the 95% number
Poison the Log, Own the Agent: 9 Times in 10 The Decoder: white-on-white text in a PDF drains Jira through Atlassian's Rovo
Claude Moved a Riemann Bound, 41.6% to 67.2%
The WorkbenchTools and agents
OpenClaw Walls Off the Browser and DNS
Inference Costs Fell 43% Since May
NEWOVH Raises Server Prices Up to 87%
The FightLaw, policy and power
51 Democrats Want the AI CEOs Under Oath The Next Web: 51 signatures across two letters, and monitoring was switched off
500 Jurisdictions Have Banned Data Centres New York Post: 150 more localities banned data centres in July alone
NEWICE Buys 82bn Records to Feed Palantir
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWAI Helps Drillers More Than It Helps Renewables
Across 64 modelled scenarios AI's productivity gains for coal, oil and gas outweigh what it saves in renewables, adding 0.47-1.8 gigatonnes of carbon a year -- and the researchers never counted data-centre power at all.
Promised a 4-Day Week; Staff Work 90 Hours Gizmodo: Harvard finds AI time savings get spent on more work, not less
Fake Students, Real Aid, AI Doing the Homework
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWOpenAI's Only Ethicist Left. No Replacement.
Platforms Start Labelling the Slop They Sell
Ghost Note Lab-Grown Brains Are Playing Doom
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