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A new tool making the rounds lets Zoom users quietly block AI from recording or transcribing their calls. It raises a fair question though — if every conversation is being captured and summarized, who is actually reading any of it? The real issue may not be privacy, but the illusion of productivity that comes with it.
Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services had a rough Friday. Customers logging into their cloud dashboards found billing statements showing charges in the trillions of dollars — yes, trillions. One user described their reaction as, quote, my soul left my body. AWS confirmed the figures were an error, apologized, and says a fix is underway. No actual charges were processed, but the incident is a sharp reminder of how much trust businesses place in cloud infrastructure they don't control.
And on a more alarming note, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is sounding the alarm about Anthropic's most advanced AI model, Claude Mythos. Dimon warned that a system capable of finding zero-day security vulnerabilities and writing working exploits is, in his words, like giving ballistic missiles to individuals. The US government has already restricted foreign access to the model, and Dimon says broader controls may be necessary.
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