But if *I* hijack *their* devices it's a "felony."
https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/
How LinkedIn is transforming into a "post-cringe" social network as it courts high-profile influencers, who are building audiences on corporate-friendly topics (Isabella Kwai/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…
“[…] many works within the field state emergence of, ascribe to, or assume, generalised anthropomorphic attributes to them [LLMs] (e.g., morality or understanding of natural language). Our goal is not to argue in favour or against the existence of these attributes, but to point out that these conclusions could be incorrect. For this we build and train a simple neural network on the videogame Age of Empires II.”
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514
Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 seem worse at tool calls than older models, likely due to post-training that assumes Claude Code-like harnesses as targets (Armin Ronacher/Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings)
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/4/better-models-worse-tools/…
RE: https://agora-thinktanks.social/@agoraverkehr/116527020376625758
Bad News for oil companies...
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