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An expert witness testifying in a lawsuit about liability
for a Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes
used ChatGPT to write significant portions of his “expert report.”
The man, who was hired by the industrial product conglomerate 3M, exposed his AI prompts publicly.
They showed that he asked ChatGPT to help him “create an exceptional expert witness report defending the standard of care at 3M,”
and that the report should “s…

‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.

OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an "unrelated persona instruction" during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences (OpenAI)
https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/self-gener…

Gabler und Flanq erproben unbemanntes Überwasserschiff gestartet aus Torpedorohr
Die autonomen Boote "Ranger" und "Raider" sollen aus Torpedorohren von U-Booten abgesetzt werden, um an der Wasseroberfläche Militäroperationen durchzuführen.

Gabler und Flanq erproben unbemanntes Überwasserschiff gestartet aus Torpedorohr
Die autonomen Boote "Ranger" und "Raider" sollen aus Torpedorohren von U-Booten abgesetzt werden, um an der Wasseroberfläche Militäroperationen durchzuführen.

Sources: CNN President Mark Thompson pitched an independent editorial board for CNN similar to Guardian's Scott Trust; Paramount reportedly discussed the idea (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/16/2026

CNN president pitches giving network an editorial board to shield it from Paramount
The editorial board is intended to assuage concerns about any future meddling by Paramount in the news network’s journalism.

Zo begint de beinvloeding en zelfcensuur.
"Musk zei dat hij juridische stappen zou nemen tegen ZDF. Hiervoor werd hij gesteund door de anti-immigratiepartij Alternative für Deutschland. Musk verweet de omroep leugens over hem te verspreiden door hem te koppelen aan de rellen.
ZDF geeft toe dat sommige formuleringen potentieel misleidend waren en heeft een deel van de uitzending verwijderd."

Duitse omroep past uitzending aan na aanvaring met Elon Musk
De Duitse publieke omroep ZDF heeft een deel van een reportage verwijderd waarin werd gezegd dat techbiljonair Elon Musk opriep om op migranten in Noord-Ierland te jagen. Musk kondigde hierop juridische stappen aan tegen de omroep.

An interview with Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl on the Suno deal, leverage over streaming platforms, Netflix's lost opportunity in music, and more (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/14/2026/warner-music-group-ceo-rober…

Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl on AI, streaming power, and why music royalties are the safest asset on Wall Street
The Warner Music Group CEO joins Mixed Signals to explain what a record label actually does in a world where anyone can upload a song to Spotify.

An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive "authors" proliferate (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It.
Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

Sergeant Damon Christopher Gutzwiller was a 14-year veteran of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office in California.
He was killed in the line of duty on June 6, 2020, during an ambush by an armed suspect in Ben Lomond, California.
On the day of his death, he and other deputies responded to a report of a suspicious van containing firearms and bomb-making materials.
When officers tracked the vehicle to a home, they were immediately ambushed with gunfire and improvised…

Suspect in sergeant's slaying now charged in killing of federal officer in Oakland: Officials
The man suspected of killing a Santa Cruz, California, sheriff's sergeant this month has now been charged in the May slaying of a federal officer in Oakland.

Peter Thiel-backed Objection, initially an AI "tribunal" assessing reporters' articles, rebrands as The Primary to rank journalists "on the rigor" of their work (Gary Baum/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bus…

Peter Thiel’s AI Tribunal Put Journalists on Trial. Now It’s Pivoted to Scoreboard Model
Rebranded as The Primary, the service ranks media outlets and reporters. Its LLM-based methodology has given The New York Times' A.I. beat journalists among the lowest scores.

An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive "authors" proliferate (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It.
Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?