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#root

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Abused zoo bear still circles in imaginary cage seven years after being freed... 😢🐻

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

AT&T is doing exactly what OpenAI and Anthropic fear about enterprise.

they’re routing 40% of employee AI usage to open models, and intend to boost it to 60-70%.

> coding costs down 56%
> quality dropped just 2%
> 45B tokens/day btw.

AT&T AI chief: open models are “just as good or better” for many tasks.

they still use frontier models for the critical work but everything else gets routed to cheaper open models.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Researchers find AI agents can infect one another with self-propagating “mind viruses” that spread ideas, goals, & behavioral changes from agent to agent.

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI head of ethics, head of safety systems AND head of mission alignment have ALL quit in the last few weeks…

it’s so over

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: 4 major celestial events will converge on August 12 — a 6-planet alignment, partial solar eclipse, dark new moon, & a massive meteor shower.

[Qwen @Alibaba_Qwen]

Meet Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork.

[n/0 @divideby0zero]

The @COLDCARDwallet is unfortunate. Monitoring the situation.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[n/0 @divideby0zero]

@boomer_btc Gateway was my second computer. Great post

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.

[UberFacts @UberFacts]

Tonight’s full moon, known as the Strawberry Moon, will be the lowest-hanging Moon until 2043

[PUBLORD @publord]

Saylor is starting to understand why the first guy who got to 1,000,000 Bitcoin just up and left. 😂

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

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 Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Doom and Age of Empires creator Sandy Petersen blasts Amazon over their handling of Stargate:

"1) get handed a massively popular IP that spans 17 years of successful shows."

"2) realize it has millions of loyal fans, desperate for more. They are now in their 40s and 50s, flush with money. Eager to teach their kids & grandkids about Stargate."

"3) you could start with this. You are already three steps up the ladder to huge success. The fans will evangelize it, if you don't wreck the IP. Don't believe it? Look how the fans evangelized Battlestar Galactica after its 30 year hiatus. And the initial Dr Who reboot after 15 years."

"4) cancel the project because you want a "new take" that will eliminate all the loyal fans and turn them into bitter enemies."

"It's like an ancient Greek play about hubris."

Why are corporate execs like this?

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

LiDAR is quietly detonating the old maps.

Under forests long labeled “empty,” scans are revealing earthwork complexes, road systems, agricultural grids, and engineered landscapes that never disappeared… they were just hidden by canopy.

How much of the continent still hasn’t been scanned.

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

Everyone talks about the guy who paid 10,000 bitcoin for two pizzas, but no one talks about the guy who received the 10,000 bitcoin.

Meet Jeremy Sturdivant, the man who got paid 10,000 BTC for selling two pizzas on this day in 2010.

“I had no idea how huge it would become” ✨

[n/0 @divideby0zero]

I applaud those betting on a modern day John Henry

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Figure AI launches a 10-hour “Man vs. Machine” contest between a human worker and its humanoid robot to see who can sort more packages.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Foreclosure filings jump to six-year high as rising property taxes, insurance costs and debt strain U.S. homeowners, per WSJ

[soothsayer @iamasoothsayer]

2023: Corona ended
2026: Hantavirus

[n/0 @divideby0zero]

How many years did people have to front run the institutions?

[NYSE 🏛 @NYSE]

The NYSE welcomes @MorganStanley Investment Management to celebrate the launch of $MSBT, the first spot Bitcoin ETF issued by a major U.S. bank. $MS https://t.co/p9qDovniBQ