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Today's topics:

Hollywood Creatives Train AI Rivals - Hollywood writers, directors, and producers are taking temporary AI training work to survive a film and TV slowdown, even as many fear they are helping automate creative jobs. The story highlights rising tension around AI, labor, screenwriting, production work, and long-term creative employment.

Anthropic IPO Meets Public Backlash - In a new development, Anthropic's expected IPO filing may warn investors that public resistance to AI and data center growth could slow expansion. That matters because AI infrastructure, regulation, valuation, and investor confidence are now tightly linked.

Workplace Trust in AI Slips - Fresh reporting shows weak public trust in AI and growing resistance inside workplaces, including one employee quitting rather than accept a mandatory Copilot rollout. Key themes include AI backlash, privacy, surveillance, jobs, and employee consent.

Enterprise AI Fight Over Data - Palantir's Alex Karp is escalating his argument that companies should not give frontier AI providers too much access to valuable internal data. The dispute centers on enterprise AI, intellectual property, closed models, open-weight systems, and control of business data.

Coding Assistants Trigger Developer Burnout - A new report suggests AI coding tools may be making software work more compulsive rather than calmer, with developers describing dependence, late-night use, and verification debt. It points to bigger questions about productivity, burnout, trust, and code quality.

Torvalds Uses AI for Debugging - Linus Torvalds says AI helped with the grind of tracking down a nasty Intel graphics bug, even though the final fix was tiny. It's a useful reminder that AI can speed debugging work, but human judgment still closes the case.

-Hollywood creatives train AI to replace their own jobs
-Anthropic IPO to Flag AI Backlash as a Key Risk
-Public trust in AI and its leaders remains low
-AFL Employee Quits Over Mandatory Copilot Rollout
-Palantir’s Karp Escalates Fight With OpenAI and Anthropic Over AI Control
-Developers Say AI Coding Is Becoming Addictive and B