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Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras: While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands. Read More

Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports: Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of using 24,000 fake accounts to distill Claude’s AI capabilities, as U.S. officials debate export controls aimed at slowing China’s AI progress. Read More

Google's Cloud AI lead on the three frontiers of model capability: AI models are pushing against three frontiers at once: raw intelligence, response time, and a third quality you might call "extensibility." Read More

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