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THE DAILY DESK
Lead report
Meta spent this spring hunting for an edge in the AI race and found one wearing a company lanyard: its own employees. The company wired the laptops of tens of thousands of U.S. workers to record their keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen content — a program it called the Model Capability Initiative — so its…
Sep 12, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
This is the week the safety argument stopped being about a far-off apocalypse and became about the thing already in your feed. Jacob Klein, Anthropic’s head of threat intelligence, published a 154-page report Thursday cataloguing what people actually did with Claude over the past eight months — and it reads like the first draft of…
Sep 11, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
Ten percent is not a footnote. When the man in charge of safety at one of the two companies building the most powerful machines on Earth tells the world — in public, on the record — that there is a better than one-in-ten chance those machines kill every human being within a decade, and then…
Sep 10, 2026 AI Impact News
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