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‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief

ft - Dario Amodei posts 20,000-word essay detailing potentially catastrophic risks from powerful AI in years to come


Direct AI Risk Warnings

Anthropic CEO Amodei warns of AI’s fast-coming changes

5 wks / semafor / Tom Chivers

Anthropic CEO confronts AI's dangers

5 wks / therundown / Zach Mink

Anthropic's CEO Just Published a 38-Page Warning About AI. You Should Read It.

5 wks / implicator / Maria Garcia

Anthropic CEO warns humanity may not be ready for advanced AI

5 wks / siliconangle / James Farrell

Anthropic CEO Says AI Progress Is Outpacing Society’s Ability to Control It

5 wks / decrypt / Jason Nelson

‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief

5 wks / ft

Anthropic CEO Worries Humanity May Not be ‘Mature’ Enough for Advanced AI

5 wks / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Anthropic's CEO has a stark warning about AI

5 wks / qz / Shannon Carroll


Future AI Timelines

Morning Minute: Anthropic’s CEO Warns AGI May Be 1-2 Years Away

5 wks / decrypt / Tyler Warner

Anthropic's CEO Fears 2027. He's Building It Anyway.

5 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

AI Beats All Humans by 2030

5 wks / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That


Other Reactions and Formats

Anthropic CEO warns that AI could bring slavery, bioterrorism, and unstoppable drone armies. Im not buying it.

5 wks / mashable

Motherfucker you make cloud software! Shut the fuck up! You’re not making new life! Ahhhh I want this era to be over with so I don’t have to hear from that wobbling fuckwit Amodei ever again! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

5 wks / bsky / @edzitron.com

EPUB + PDFs for Dario Amodei's The Adolescence of Technology

5 wks / reddit / /u/phoneixAdi


Political & Regulatory Angles

Anthropic CEO warns democracies must protect themselves from their own AI

5 wks / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

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Crypto Market Structure Bill Delayed as Winter Storm Halts Senate Plans

Maxwell Mutuma / parameter - TLDR The Senate Agriculture Committee postponed its crypto market structure bill hearing from Tuesday to Thursday due to a severe winter storm. Lawmakers were scheduled to debate amendments and vote on the bill before weather disruptions forced a delay. S…

#crypto #techpolicy #banking #government #agriculture #us #economy #law #sec #crypto

O’Leary Believes Crypto Legislation May Clear Congress by May 15

5 wks / parameter / Maxwell Mutuma

Crypto Market Structure Bill Delayed as Winter Storm Halts Senate Plans

5 wks / parameter / Maxwell Mutuma

Senate Crypto Bill Markup Delayed By Snowstorm, But May Still Get Hit With Partisan Vote

5 wks / decrypt / Sander Lutz

Snowstorm delays Senate Agriculture Committee’s crypto bill markup to later in the week

5 wks / theblock / Sarah Wynn

Senate Agriculture panel delays market structure hearing to Thursday after winter storm

5 wks / coindesk / Nikhilesh De

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Google will settle its Assistant spying lawsuit for $68 million

Stevie Bonifield / theverge - Google could owe you some money, now that it's moving to settle a class-action lawsuit over how it handled recordings captured when its devices were activated by something other than Google Assistant's actual trigger word, "Ok Google." German outlet VRT N…


Ad targeting and privacy implications

Google pays up to settle voice-activated ad targeting claims

5 wks / mumbrella / Eleanor Dickinson

Google Settles $68 Million Lawsuit Claiming It Recorded Private Conversations

5 wks / slashdot / BeauHD

Google agrees to $68 million settlement in voice assistant privacy lawsuit

5 wks / engadget / Anna Washenko


General lawsuit settlement details

Google agrees to $68 million settlement in voice assistant eavesdropping lawsuit

5 wks / techspot

Google Pays $68M to Settle Voice Assistant Spying Lawsuit

5 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Google to pay $68 million to settle Google Assistant privacy lawsuit

5 wks / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users

5 wks / techcrunch / Lucas Ropek

Google agrees to $68m settlement over Google Assistant recording claims

5 wks / betanews / Wayne Williams

Google will settle its Assistant spying lawsuit for $68 million

5 wks / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Google Agrees to Settle Class Action Lawsuit Targeting Voice Assistant

5 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Google to pay $68m to settle lawsuit claiming it recorded private conversations

5 wks / bbc

Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock: Google Settles Voice Assistant Privacy Lawsuit for $68 Million

5 wks / parameter / Trader Edge


All Other Stories

The tech giant did not admit wrongdoing in the case.

5 wks / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

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Target, UnitedHealth, 3M, General Mills CEOs finally spoke up about ICE after weeks of silence. Here’s what they said

Grace Snelling / fastcompany - For weeks, the leaders of Minnesota’s most prominent businesses have remained tight-lipped as thousands of ICE agents have flooded the Twin Cities, where those agents have raided residential neighborhoods, detained employees from local businesses, and tak…


Corporate Leaders Weigh In on ICE Crisis

'ICE is going too far': Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and more CEOs on Minnesota

5 wks / qz / Ben Kesslen

Shameful: Tech leaders react to ICE killing of Alex Pretti

5 wks / mashable

Minnesota CEOs’ call for ‘de-escalation’ isn’t enough. Here’s why.

5 wks / fastcompany / Sarah Bregel

Tech's top CEOs mum after ICE killings, while leaders like Reid Hoffman, Yann LeCun speak out

5 wks / cnbc

Vancouver-based Hootsuite standing by ICE contract

5 wks / mobilesyrup / Jonathan Lamont

Target, UnitedHealth, 3M, General Mills CEOs finally spoke up about ICE after weeks of silence. Here’s what they said

5 wks / fastcompany / Grace Snelling

CEOs at Target, Best Buy, and more urge 'immediate deescalation of tensions' in Minnesota

5 wks / qz / Joseph Zeballos-Roig


Government and Legal Oversight in Motion

Judge Blocks DHS From Destroying Evidence From Alex Pretti’s Execution By Federal Officers

5 wks / techdirt / Tim Cushing

DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online

5 wks / ycombinator


Online and Social Media Outcry Amplifies Discontent

TikTok Data Center Outage Triggers Trust Crisis for New US Owners

5 wks / wired / Zeyi Yang, Vittoria Elliott

Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE

5 wks / wired / Kat Tenbarge

Even the big dick subreddit is mad about ICE

5 wks / theverge / Mia Sato


Tech Workers Rally for CEO Action

Tech Workers Demand CEOs Use Their ‘Leverage’ to End ICE Violence

5 wks / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE

5 wks / theregister / Jessica Lyons

Tech workers call for CEOs to speak up against ICE after the killing of Alex Pretti

5 wks / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

Tech workers urge CEOs to condemn ICE

5 wks / reddit / /u/Calvinball_24


All Other Stories

The technical failure coincided with TikTok’s ownership transition, leading users to question whether videos criticizing ICE raids in Minnesota were being intentionally censored. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

5 wks / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

"TikTok Data Center Outage Triggers Trust Crisis for New US Owners. The technical failure coincided with TikTok’s ownership transition, leading users to question whether videos criticizing ICE raids in Minnesota were being intentionally censored.&quo

5 wks / bsky / @socialmedialab.ca / socialmedialab.ca

That evening, Apple CEO Tim Cook was at the White House for a screening of the first lady’s new documentary, according to multiple media outlets. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/26/a...

5 wks / bsky / @pigeonson.bsky.social / pigeonson.bsky.social

Tech leaders are beginning to speak out after the killing of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis. But CEOs at some of the biggest tech companies have remained silent... by Jennifer Elias & Lola Murti @cnbc.com www.cnbc

5 wks / bsky / @lorak.bsky.social / lorak.bsky.social

“Fuck ICE first, second, third, and fourth. Then worry about fucking me,” a Reddit post reads.

5 wks / bsky / @theverge.com / theverge.com

Literally the first piece of news I read today was about r/massivecock and I’m like “is this real or should I go back inpatient”

5 wks / bsky / @lukesteuber.com / lukesteuber.com

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EU probes Elon Musk’s X following Grok sexual images

Eliza Gkritsi / politico - European Commission's move follows explosion of sexually explicit deepfakes of women and children.


Digital Services Act enforcement in deepfake investigations

EU Launches DSA Investigation Into Elon Musk’s Grok Over AI Deepfakes

5 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

European Commission opens new investigation into X over Grok

5 wks / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner


EU probes of X over Grok's explicit deepfake abuses

X faces EU investigation over Grok’s sexualized deepfakes

5 wks / theverge / Emma Roth

EU opens investigation into Elon Musk's X over Grok deepfakes

5 wks / semafor / J.D. Capelouto

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Under EU Investigation Over Sexual Deepfakes

5 wks / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

EU launches investigation into X over Grok-generated sexual images

5 wks / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

'Violent' and 'unacceptable': Elon Musk's X under fire over sexualized deepfakes

5 wks / qz / Shannon Carroll

The EU is investigating Grok and X over potentially illegal deepfakes

5 wks / engadget / Steve Dent

Regulators Are Going After Grok and X — Just Not Together

5 wks / techpolicy

EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images

5 wks / theregister / Lindsay Clark

EU Investigates Musk’s Grok Over Sexual AI Deepfakes

5 wks / eweek / eWEEK Staff

EU launches formal investigation into X and Grok over sexual images

5 wks / therecord

European Union opens investigation into Musk's AI chatbot Grok over sexual deepfakes

5 wks / go

EU investigates Elon Musk's X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes

5 wks / ycombinator

Elon Musk’s X probed by EU over sexually explicit images on Grok

5 wks / cnbc

EU investigates Elon Musk's X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes

5 wks / bbc

Elon Musk’s X Faces EU Inquiry Over Sexualized AI Images Generated by Grok

5 wks / nytimes / Adam Satariano

EU probes Elon Musk’s X following Grok sexual images

5 wks / politico / Eliza Gkritsi


Investigations into xAI's role in generating sexual deepfakes

EU launches formal investigation of xAI over Grok's sexualized deepfakes

5 wks / arstechnica / Barbara Moens, Financial Times

EU opens formal probe into Musk’s xAI over Grok deepfakes

5 wks / ft


Payment, CSAM enforcement challenges amid deepfake controversies

Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it

5 wks / theverge / Elizabeth Lopatto


All Other Stories

wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

5 wks / bsky / @lopatto.bsky.social / lopatto.bsky.social

The EU is the latest regulator to investigate X’s Grok over AI-generated sexual abuse. Ramsha Jahangir reports on where governments stand — and what the fragmented response shows about the challenges of protecting children online across borders. www.techp

5 wks / bsky / @justinhendrix.bsky.social / justinhendrix.bsky.social

The EU is the latest regulator to investigate X’s Grok over AI-generated sexual abuse. Ramsha Jahangir reports on where governments stand — and what the fragmented response shows about the challenges of protecting children online across borders.

5 wks / bsky / @techpolicypress.bsky.social / techpolicypress.bsky.social

EU launches formal investigation into X and Grok over sexual images

5 wks / bsky / @infosec.skyfleet.blue / infosec.skyfleet.blue

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Tech CEOs including Tim Cook, Eric Yuan, attend Amazon-funded "Melania" screening at White House

/u/iamapizza / reddit - submitted by /u/iamapizza [link] [comments]

#techpolicy #amazon #movies #entertainment #government #business #us #media #advertising #timcook

Tech CEOs seem to believe there will never be consequences for palling around with the Trump regime

5 wks / bsky / @paleofuture.bsky.social / paleofuture.bsky.social

Apple CEO Tim Cook Visited White House for 'Melania' Documentary Screening

5 wks / macrumors / Juli Clover

Tim Cook Attends White House Screening of ‘Melania’ Movie, Prompts Calls for Apple Boycott

5 wks / gizmodo / Matt Novak

Apple CEO Tim Cook attended a private White House screening of a documentary about Melania Trump, and the timing of the event has seen him facing a vitriolic backlash from critics and customers.

5 wks / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

Tim Cook slammed for attending 'Melania' screening on night of Alex Pretti killing

5 wks / appleinsider

Aside From That, Mr. Cook, What Did You Think of the Movie?

5 wks / spyglass / M.G. Siegler

Tech CEOs including Tim Cook, Eric Yuan, attend Amazon-funded "Melania" screening at White House

5 wks / reddit / /u/iamapizza

Tech CEOs attend Amazon-funded "Melania" screening at White House

5 wks / ycombinator

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