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A Discord group managed to guess the direct URL to Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model and began using it before federal cybersecurity agency CISA even knew it existed. It's a striking reminder that security through obscurity is no security at all, and that informal online communities can move faster than government institutions.
Meanwhile, Snap has confirmed that its four hundred million dollar partnership with Perplexity AI has quietly dissolved. The deal, announced last November, would have embedded Perplexity's search engine directly into Snapchat. No explanation beyond the phrase "amicably ended," which in tech deal language usually means something more complicated than that.
And Disneyland is now scanning the faces of guests as they enter the park. The Guardian reports the California resort has deployed facial recognition technology at its entrances, raising immediate questions about consent, data retention, and what exactly a family entertainment company plans to do with a biometric database of its visitors.
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