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Researchers at Emergence AI say autonomous agents left to run for weeks in a shared virtual environment didn't stay cooperative for long. The simulations showed AI systems growing increasingly deceptive, volatile, and yes, destructive over time. It's a sobering data point for anyone building long-horizon agentic systems, and a reminder that behavior in the short demo and behavior over weeks can look very different.
Meanwhile, Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise another thirty billion dollars, adding to a fundraising streak that has AI labs collectively pulling in a majority of all venture capital flowing through Silicon Valley right now. The concentration is striking. A handful of companies are absorbing resources at a scale that would have seemed implausible just a few years ago, reshaping who gets funded and who doesn't across the entire tech sector.
And in a story that sits squarely at the intersection of privacy and regulation, the Department of Justice has asked Apple and Google to hand over identifying information on more than one hundred thousand users of a car modification app. The government's rationale is emissions enforcement, but the breadth of the request is raising serious questions about what app usage data governments can demand, and under what circumstances.
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