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The tools to create convincing deepfakes are now accessible to almost anyone, moving from niche technology to deployable-at-scale weapons of deception. Meanwhile, Anthropic and OpenAI launch dueling models with million-token context windows and agentic capabilities, taking their rivalry to the Super Bowl. Amazon and Google plan nearly $400 billion in combined AI infrastructure spending as the race for compute capacity reaches unprecedented levels. But beneath the hype lies a darker reality: traumatized content moderators in rural India training AI systems, government facial recognition deployed without proper oversight, and platforms flooding the internet with AI-generated content prioritizing profit over authenticity. As AI agents gain the ability to autonomously purchase their own tools and infrastructure moves to orbital data centers, we're witnessing a fundamental transformation faster than society can adapt.

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