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Anthropic has filed two federal lawsuits against the U.S. government after the Pentagon labeled the American AI company a 'supply chain risk' — a designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries — following a dispute over mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. In an unprecedented move, nearly 40 employees from rival companies including OpenAI and Google DeepMind filed legal briefs in Anthropic's support. Meanwhile, a bombshell investigation exposes the hidden gig workforce being recruited to train the very AI tools that took their jobs, with workers subjected to second-by-second surveillance and projects that vanish without warning in what insiders call 'the dash of death.' Turing Prize-winning AI pioneer Yann LeCun has raised over a billion dollars to pursue a radically different path to general intelligence — one that directly challenges the assumptions behind every major frontier AI lab. Ten thousand authors, including Nobel laureates, published a deliberately blank book to protest proposed copyright changes that could allow AI companies to train on creative works without compensation. ByteDance has released a new open-source 'SuperAgent' framework designed to autonomously execute complex tasks, part of a broader industry shift from AI that answers questions to AI that takes action. Across every one of these stories, the same tension runs through: AI is expanding in power and ambition while the human costs are becoming impossible to ignore.

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