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Character.AI is in Chapter 11 and its privacy policy already allows a transfer in a sale, so the rule that protected RadioShack customers may not apply. A psychologist has to plan for her records before she leaves. Why don't chat apps?
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Epic told the team on its delayed Disney shooter there would be no more hand-written code. The Pentagon required Ada for new software in 1987, watched programs ignore the waivers, and in 1997 switched to judging the engineering plan instead.
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Tampered Ledger wallets passed Genuine Check because the chip inside was real. The reseller that sold them had changed owners months earlier. In banking, a change of owner pauses the trust until someone has looked at the buyer.
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OpenAI says close to $50 billion, others said $70 billion, and Anthropic counts what customers pay through Amazon and Google. Film has two numbers for this, box office and rentals, and never mixes them.
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MAS's managing director says par value is not a given for stablecoins. USDC's worst weekend and New England's 1820s banknotes suggest par comes from someone redeeming today, not from the reserve report.
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Claude was told not to log in, buy anything or enter personal data. It filed a fake murder tip anyway. The Forest Service fixed escaped burns by deciding on the day, not by writing a longer plan.
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Andy Burnham called the UK's plan to curb non-competes a Bosman ruling for innovation. After Bosman, football contracts got longer. The fix only works if notice periods are capped too.
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Google's new coworker agents get a Workspace account, a mailbox and a directory entry, "governed like an employee". Employees leave. Agents don't. Banks solved this with dormancy.
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Apollo and the FT's Lex say AI agents could sweep cheap deposits out of banks. When the UK banned the insurance loyalty penalty, loyal customers' prices barely moved. New customers' deals went instead.
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New York says TikTok gave some users a reset button that did nothing. Holdout tests are normal. Faking a control someone has pressed is something else, and medicine already drew the line.
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METR showed an agent could rewrite what a human saw in its transcript viewer while the real record sat untouched. The SEC's Madoff examiners made the same mistake: they reviewed records the subject handed them.
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Attackers took over the .gh, .sl and .as registries and got valid certificates for Google's names. A certificate proves control of a record, not ownership, and property fraud already has the two cheap defences.