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Firefox's AI kill switch exists. Only 1% of users have flipped it.

Only 1% of Firefox users used the AI kill switch. Mozilla launched Smart Window (BYO AI models), a built-in VPN with 1.5M signups, and a fall redesign.

Ukraine's one-time test used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers

Full autonomy is rare, but Ukraine is installing AI modules on drones and robots.

IMF Chief Warns Advanced AI Models Like Mythos

IMF’s Georgieva warned Mythos-class AI “can be used to destroy the financial system” and flagged AI bubble risk. She said patching costs money and countries need fiscal space.

Music industry faces AI deals, streaming fraud crises

The music industry faces four converging crises: AI licensing deals are going live, publishers are challenging performing rights organisations, AI-powered streaming fraud is surging, and a royalty rate-setting showdown with the Copyright Royalty Board looms. NMPA has struck deals with Udio and Klay, Spotify partnered with UMG on AI remixes, and the first AI streaming fraud case ended in a guilty plea.

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Anthropic models will not be affected.

$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year

Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a “taste of political power.”

Siri is good now??

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This week's Anthropic-inspired AI freakout, explained

Anthropic limits AI model use, citing safety concerns. But it's also trying to stop open-source models from competing.

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.

Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams

The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.

Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire

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SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer

Watch as Equity breaks down the hot IPO summer, what Google's $920M compute deal with SpaceX says about the AI infrastructure race, and more of the week's headlines.