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Today, we have the Pentagon threatening to drop Anthropic, Meta adding facial recognition to smart glasses, and Hollywood panicking over a new video generator. Plus, Dario Amodei calling the end of the exponential, Stanford students revealing their real ChatGPT habits, and a lot more.

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The Latest AI Developments

🎬 Hollywood vs Seedance 2.0

Studios are crying IP infringement over a new video generator, which usually means the outputs are getting uncomfortably good. Everyone wants the magic, they just want it licensed and controlled. Expect lawsuits, licensing deals, or both.

🕶️ Meta Wants Face ID Glasses

Meta is reportedly building a “Name Tag” feature that identifies people you look at through smart glasses. The tech isn’t hard, the social norms are. Once this exists, the question becomes who gets to opt out.

🪖 Pentagon vs Anthropic Showdown

The Pentagon wants Claude with fewer restrictions, and Anthropic is refusing to budge on things like mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Now the DoD is threatening to walk. Turns out “safety first” gets complicated when your customer has a defense budget.

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AI Finds

Beyond the Feed

❤️ The AI Intimacy Crisis

TED goes straight for the jugular on what happens when human connection becomes a subscription product people prefer.

🥊 Cruise vs Pitt Deepfake

A viral AI video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt has Hollywood laughing nervously, calling lawyers, and wondering what comes next.

📉 End of the Exponential?

Dario Amodei says we’re near the end of the exponential, then casually mentions trillions in revenue by 2030 and a “country of geniuses” by 2028.

🪤 AI Overviews Can Scam You

Wired shows how Google’s AI Overviews can be tricked into serving scammy answers, and what to watch for before you click.

🎓 What Stanford Uses ChatGPT For

Stanford students reveal their real ChatGPT habits, and it’s less sci fi, more brutally practical, and a little embarrassing.

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Open Source Finds

From the Source

🕸️ Kuzu is an embedded graph database with vector search built in, a nice combo if your app needs relationships and retrieval without shipping a cluster.

🧪 Aletheia is DeepMind’s collection of prompts and outputs for research agent loops, basically a peek at how they structure the grind.

💡 microGPT is Karpathy’s dependency free GPT training in 243 lines, the fastest way to remember what’s actually happening under the hood.

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