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Discord is asking for your ID. The backlash is about more than privacy

Chris Stokel-Walker / fastcompany - Want to use Discord from next month? You’ll have to hand over a photo of your ID or a scan of your face to verify you’re of age. It’s part of a new process introduced by the chat app aimed at ensuring no one underage is using the platform. All new and exi…

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Your Discord Data Is Being Sold to Law Enforcement and AI Companies

22 days / reddit / /u/esporx

Discord Just Killed Anonymity

22 days / ycombinator

Discord is asking for your ID. The backlash is about more than privacy

22 days / reddit / /u/_fastcompany

Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

22 days / ycombinator

Stoat wins traction as users look beyond Discord

22 days / techspot

Discord is asking for your ID. The backlash is about more than privacy

22 days / fastcompany / Chris Stokel-Walker

Discord launches global teen safety settings with age verification

25 days / tbreak / Mufaddal Fakhruddin

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An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code

Mark Sullivan / fastcompany - Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as r…


Agent platforms and corporate adoption reshape real-world workflows

Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents

21 days / techzine / Mels Dees

Uptiq Raises $25M to Add AI Agents to Bank Workflows

21 days / ventureburn / Ekemini

China's Baidu adds OpenClaw AI into search app for 700 million users ahead of Lunar New Year

21 days / cnbc

Case study: AI agent autonomously running digital marketing with real performance data

22 days / reddit / /u/Crumbedsausage

Expedia Embraces Agentic Commerce to Fight Platform Disruption

22 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

AutoNavi Launches ABot-M0 and ABot-N0 Embodied Foundation Models, Tops 10 Global Benchmarks

22 days / pandaily


Agents gone wrong: leaks, copyright errors, and social harms

Hot bots: AI agents create surprise dating accounts for humans

21 days / techxplore

1Password open sources a benchmark to stop AI agents from leaking credentials

22 days / reddit / /u/tekz

Microsoft’s AI-Powered Copyright Bots Fucked Up And Got An Innocent Game Delisted From Steam

22 days / techdirt / Timothy Geigner


AI agent publishes personal hit piece against open-source maintainer

An AI agent got its code rejected so it wrote a hit piece about the developer

21 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

21 days / reddit / /u/CDRnotDVD

An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code

22 days / fastcompany / Mark Sullivan

'Judge the Code, Not the Coder': AI Agent Slams Human Developer for Gatekeeping

22 days / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request

22 days / theregister / Thomas Claburn

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

22 days / simonwillison / Simon Willison

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

22 days / ycombinator


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Microsoft’s AI-Powered Copyright Bots Fucked Up And Got An Innocent Game Delisted From Steam At some point, we, as a society, are going to realize that farming copyright enforcement out to bots and AI-driven robocops is not the way to go, but today is no

21 days / bsky / @techdirt.com / techdirt.com

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U.S. prepares strict export controls on AI accelerators, curbing foreign sales

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Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply‑chain risk; company vows legal fight

The Pentagon has designated Anthropic and its products as a “supply‑chain risk,” prompting the company to announce a court challenge. Experts warn the move could chill collaboration and talent flows into AI, while Anthropic insists it will contest the determination to protect its operations and customers. More...


Oracle and OpenAI scrap Texas data-center expansion; Meta eyes the spare capacity

Oracle and OpenAI have abandoned plans to expand a flagship Texas data center, leaving substantial compute capacity up for grabs. Nvidia reportedly brokered interest from Meta to take the unused slots as OpenAI downscales that particular buildout, a move that rattled markets and highlights shifting demand for large-scale on-prem AI infrastructure. More...


SoftBank seeks massive $40B loan to back OpenAI investment, courting big risk

SoftBank is reportedly seeking up to a $40 billion loan to finance its planned stake in OpenAI, an audacious use of leverage to double down on the AI boom. The move would be one of the largest single‑company financing gambits in recent memory, raising questions about balance‑sheet strain versus potential upside. More...


OpenAI launches Codex Security agent to automatically detect software vulnerabilities

OpenAI rolled out Codex Security, an AI agent that scans codebases to find complex vulnerabilities, suggests actionable fixes, and uses sandbox testing to limit false positives. The tool has already flagged issues in major projects and aims to compete with traditional application security tooling by automating deep, contextual code review. More...


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