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🗞️In this edition

  • Google DeepMind Says the Next Culture War Is About AI Consciousness

  • Meta Built an AI That Watched Its Own Employees. Then It Leaked.

  • Why Claude Is Suddenly Asking Users to Prove Who They Are

  • ⚡ YOUR MOVE For people building the life they want, now.

  • In other AI news –

    • The Amazon Contradiction That Reveals Its Entire AI Strategy

    • The Six-Word Tweet That Reorganized How Engineers Use AI

    • Google Lost $250B Because Two People Walked Out the Door

  • 4 must-try AI tools

The biggest minds in AI now admit there's one question they may never answer, and that gap could break our politics. A company that watches three billion users just got caught watching its own employees too. And the most safety-obsessed AI lab now wants to scan your face.

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Google DeepMind researchers say society may never agree on whether AI is conscious, and that disagreement could fracture politics itself.

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Meta built an AI program that logged its employees' every keystroke and mouse movement.

Then the sensitive data it collected leaked to the entire company.

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We can't agree on whether the machines are conscious, and that disagreement is becoming political. The company building AI to track everyone just proved it tracks its own people first. And the lab that warns loudest about AI danger now wants your ID to use it. Every promise this industry makes comes with a quieter cost.

The only question is whether you notice before you've already paid it.

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