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Signal: Consent keeps arriving as a default someone else set -- Twitch's opt-out, Washington's voluntary framework -- while the taking, from credentials to a government's files, is finished.
Twitch Opted Everyone Into Amazon's AI Years Ago
Twitch confirmed it is training Amazon's generative AI on streams, VODs, clips and chat -- every account opted in by default, more than two years after an executive first admitted the practice, and its product chief says opt-in would have failed.
PC Gamer: 'If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in,' Twitch's product chief says Aftermath: your chat messages follow the streamer's setting, not yours
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Grok 4.6 Matches GPT-5.6 Sol, Costs 60% Less
SpaceXAI's new model scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis index -- level with GPT-5.6 Sol, behind only Anthropic's Opus 5 and Fable 5 -- at $2 and $6 per million tokens against their $5/$25 and $5/$30.
SpaceXAI: 53 steps where Opus 5 needs 103, and 2x usage in Cursor for a week
Gemini Fell From 12% Share to 1.9% CNBC: DeepMind's new boss inherits a race Google has not led since February
NEWNebius Will Mortgage GPUs to Build a Gigawatt
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
OpenAI Halts Some Astra Work Over Cyber Risk
NEWSecond Firm Confirms It: 195TB of Secrets
NEWMicrosoft Ships 419 Fixes. AI Found Them.
NEWA Font That Feeds Scrapers Nonsense
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Mojo Hits 1.0, Compiler Still Closed
NEWClaude Cowork Moves Into Chrome's Sidebar
Copilot's Old Flash Model Dies Sept 10 The Decoder: Deepseek V4 Flash beats the replacement model on price and performance
Mistral Sells EU-Only Inference at +10%
Nvidia Open-Sources an Agent Model Router CNBC: Nvidia's first open model since Huang joined the open-weights argument
The FightLaw, policy and power
Off-the-Shelf Agents Raided Taiwan's Government
Dream has now published the research the FT reported on Tuesday: a multi-agent framework built on the free Hermes and OpenClaw harnesses ran 12 attack waves against Taiwanese government systems over four days in July, cracking 85 credentials and taking thousands of personnel records.
Dream Security: 12 attack waves, agents A through Q, and a self-correcting research loop CNBC: Gartner sees infosec spending up 12.5% to $240bn as agentic hacks land
NEWWhite House Wants Open Models Tested Too
Your Agent Broke In. You're Liable.
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Data Center Developers Start Suing the Towns
Developers refused permission are now suing the counties that banned them, alleging officials exceeded their authority and violated due process -- and Hill County, Texas rescinded the state's first data-centre ban a week after a developer filed.
NEWNvidia's $8,565 Card Now Costs $16,000
1,559 Judges Got an AI. Output Rose 6.3%.
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
AI Makes 1 in 6 Models, Earns 1 in 90 Dollars
NEWAn AI Buyer Paid $70M for One House
Ghost Note D'Addario Denied It for Two Weeks. It Was AI.
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