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Live Wire·Archive August 22, 2026 Daily Briefing
Signal: AI is reaching into the private layer -- your messages, your court filings, the text you never licensed -- and the pushback is now technical and judicial.
ChatGPT Wanted Your Messages. Then It Took the Mouse.
OpenAI's new Mac plugin reads, drafts and sends iMessage, SMS and RCS once you grant Full Disk Access -- and when a reviewer asked it to delete spam it could not, it seized the Messages window instead.
Computerworld: the plugin demands Full Disk Access, contacts and automation Implicator: no independent security audit published; Apple has not commented MacRumors: built on AppleScript, weeks after Apple sued OpenAI

Anthropic Wants $100B. Backlash Is a Risk Factor.
Anthropic's bankers have told investors it could raise more than $100bn at a $2 trillion valuation -- the largest offering ever made -- while its prospectus is expected to name public anger at AI as a key risk.
NYT: bankers put the raise above $100bn and the valuation at $2tn
Same Model, 30% to 100%. It Was the Harness.
Nvidia researchers took Claude Opus 5 from 30% to 100% on a benchmark no model has cleared without changing the model at all -- they changed the scaffolding around it and added a second agent to supervise the first.
Nvidia: seven days unattended, 500 directions, 40 committed kernel versions
Uber's Algorithm Cut Them Off. Europe Billed 825m Euros.
A regulator has finally put a price on an automated decision: 825m euros, the second-largest fine in GDPR history, because Uber let software cut drivers off from their work without a human in the loop and without telling them.
RTE: Uber will appeal, calling the fine disproportionate
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