OpenAI removes ‘safely’ from its mission statement in latest IRS filing OpenAI changed its IRS tax return mission from building AI that “safely benefits humanity” to simply benefiting humanity. A nonprofit accountability scholar spotted the shift in 2024 filings on ProPublica. Simon Willison tracked all mission statement changes from 2016-2024, showing a progressive drift away from safety and openness language. OpenAI currently faces lawsuits alleging psychological manipulation and wrongful death related to its products’ safety. ( source ) Meta plans facial recognition for smart glasses, internal memo says to launch while privacy groups are ‘distracted’ Meta plans to launch “Name Tag,” a facial recognition feature for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, as soon as this year. An internal document from last May reveals Meta deliberately timed the launch during “a dynamic political environment” when civil society groups would focus resources on other concerns. Meta initially planned to debut it at a conference for the blind before wider release. The company previously discontinued facial recognition on Facebook in 2021 after legal battles. ( source ) Federal judge rules AI chat transcripts aren’t privileged, prosecutors can access Claude conversations Judge Jed Rakoff ruled prosecutors can access 31 Claude chat transcripts from a finance founder accused of $150M fraud. His lawyers argued the chats were privileged for defense strategy, but the judge found that using AI constitutes disclosure to a third party outside attorney-client protection. Claude’s privacy policy states conversations may be used to improve models, stripping legal privilege. The precedent exposes any defendant’s strategic thinking shared with chatbots to prosecution. ( source ) AI ‘scare trade’ spreads from software to trucking, real estate, and travel, erasing $2T+ in market cap AI-driven panic swept across stock markets this week, starting with software’s steepest selloff in nearly 30 years after Anthropic unveiled Claude Cowork plugins. Fear spread to trucking (Russell 3000 Trucking Index down 6.6%), real estate, wealth management, and travel booking. Goldman Sachs launched an “AI-proof” software basket. TripAdvisor hit all-time lows (down 29% YTD), Booking Holdings fell 22%. Morgan Stanley called it the largest non-recessionary software drawdown in 30 years. ( source ) Other important stories GPT-5.2 derived a new result in theoretical physics, moving beyond summarizing known science into novel contributions. ( source ) Anthropic safety researcher Mrinank Sharma quit, warning “the world is in peril” and that Anthropic “constantly faces pressures to set aside what matters most.” ( source ) OpenAI partnered with defense companies on voice-controlled drone swarm software for the US military. ( source ) FTC accelerated its antitrust probe into Microsoft’s cloud and AI offerings including Copilot. ( source ) I put together a daily digest at 7min.ai if you are interested in the full list. submitted by /u/fabioperez
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