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- WIRED repostedSCOOP: The White House imposed export controls on Anthropic following a dispute over South Korean telecommunications giant SK Telecom's access to Mythos Officials were concerned about what they believed were SK Telecom's ties to China, sources tell WIRED.
Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom’s access to Claude Mythos over claims of alleged ties to China.- The FTC has sued a transgender health nonprofit, accusing it of making misleading statements about gender-affirming treatments. Read our story from April about how the agency appeared to be targeting transgender rights.
- Smart mowers are finally good enough to replace old-fashioned yard work so you can sip an iced tea and watch a robot tame your lawn.
- From Amazon's “Off Campus” to Netflix’s upcoming “Icebreakers,” the recent spate of hetero hockey romances shows Hollywood learned the wrong lessons from “Heated Rivalry.”
- In Shenzhen, workers at IO-AI Tech control humanoid robots using a VR rig reminiscent of Ready Player One.
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Unaffordability, climate adaptation, and the death of the homeowner dream: the new era of US housing, from @sandraupson - WIRED reposted
~300 companies addressed AI tokens during their earnings/analyst calls in April or May, about 3x more than a year ago A Silicon Valley software maker and an ecommerce company reveal to WIRED how they are navigating the emerging challenge of “tokenomics.” - I’ve been reviewing laptops for over a decade, and this is my advice on how to find the right laptop for you.
- Trump administration officials tell WIRED that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Fable 5, it will need to ensure the model's guardrails can't be circumvented. Security experts say that can't be done.
- A trove of internal records from a secret society for figures in US politics, finance, and tech was left exposed online, WIRED has confirmed, naming participants in its events and revealing sensitive personal details they were assured would stay private.The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and many more. Read the full story:
- Replying to @WIREDMeta quickly dismissed the report and claimed the face-recognition feature “does not exist.” The code disappeared from the system one day after WIRED’s report, as quietly as it came up.But Meta is also working with Rank One, a company supplying surveillance systems to the US government, on a test face-recognition software. Maybe Zuckerberg can whip up a hackathon for that?👀
