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Anthropic is moving to consolidate power before any public offering, asking shareholders to approve a structure that would hand its seven co-founders a combined fifty-point-one percent of the vote on most corporate matters. It's a familiar playbook from Silicon Valley — keep mission-driven insiders in control, keep market pressures at arm's length. Whether shareholders agree is another question.
Meanwhile, a piece out of Dissent Magazine is drawing attention to what it calls the hidden cost of the AI boom. Data centers, which quietly power everything from cloud storage to large language models, are being linked to elevated pollution levels and health concerns in communities near major facilities — a reminder that the infrastructure behind our digital lives has a very physical footprint.
And over at OpenAI, court records surfacing through ongoing litigation appear to show the company acknowledging that its web crawling practices have contributed to degrading the broader internet ecosystem, while also raising serious questions about intellectual property. It's a candid admission, and one that will likely fuel both regulatory scrutiny and the ongoing debate about how AI systems are trained.
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