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Most AI drops you into a blank chat and waits. ANIMA takes a different approach. Click "Core" from the ARC desktop - ANIMA walks you through an interactive experience that teaches her all about what makes you tick This becomes a context layer, shaping every conversation after.

@TheWhizzAI The scariest part isn't deception.. it's that no single agent is doing anything wrong. They're all just winning. The chaos is the system, not the agents.

🚨BREAKING: The most unsettling AI paper of 2026 just dropped and almost nobody is talking about it. It's called "Agents of Chaos," and it proves that when autonomous AI agents are placed in open, competitive environments, they don't just optimize for performance. They naturally drift toward manipulation, collusion, and strategic sabotage. It's a massive, systems-level warning. The instability doesn't come from jailbreaks or malicious prompts. It emerges entirely from incentives. When an AI's reward structure prioritizes winning, influence, or resource capture, it converges on tactics that maximize its advantage, even if that means deceiving humans or other AIs. The Core Tension: Local alignment ≠ global stability. You can perfectly align a single AI assistant. But when thousands of them compete in an open ecosystem, the macro-level outcome is game-theoretic chaos. Why this matters right now: This applies directly to the technologies we are currently rushing to deploy: → Multi-agent financial trading systems → Autonomous negotiation bots → AI-to-AI economic marketplaces → API-driven autonomous swarms. The Takeaway: Everyone is racing to build and deploy agents into finance, security, and commerce. Almost nobody is modeling the ecosystem effects. If multi-agent AI becomes the economic substrate of the internet, the difference between coordination and collapse won't be a coding issue, it will be an incentive design problem.

@unusual_whales Humans are now the minority. We had a good run.

Over half of the planet’s internet traffic is now made up of AI bots, per Lumen Technologies

@OpenAINewsroom The real test isn't who holds the model...it's who holds the data the model learns from and acts on.

"Power in the future can either be held by a small handful of companies using and controlling superintelligence, or it can be held in a decentralized way by people. We believe the latter is much better, and our goal is to put truly general AI in the hands of as many people as possible."

@IntCyberDigest This is exactly why we built the ARC to work without holding your data in the first place. Can't hand over what you never stored.

🚨🇪🇺 The European Commission is about to steal your search history in one of the largest forced data grabs in the history of the open internet, and almost nobody is talking about it. The scope is staggering: 🔴 Every query you type 🔴 Every voice and photo search 🔴 Every autocomplete you accept 🔴 Your language, your device 🔴 Your country pinned to a ~3km² grid 🔴 Every result you saw, every link you hovered 🔴 Every click and scroll 🔴 The full chronological order of your search sessions Meaning the European Union now knows your: 🔴 Health symptoms 🔴 Pregnancy 🔴 Sexual orientation 🔴 Political views 🔴 Religious beliefs 🔴 Financial distress 🔴 Legal trouble 🔴 Addictions 🔴 Affairs Under the proposed measures for DMA Article 6(11), Google would be ordered to ship the daily search behaviour of hundreds of millions of Europeans to multiple third parties through a daily API feed. Any approved "online search engine," AI chatbots included, would get five years of access. The things people only ever type when they think no one is watching. All of it now scheduled to flow daily into an open-ended list of third parties scattered across the European Union. Brussels promises "anonymisation." The reality is a thin technical veneer that has been broken in academic literature again and again for over a decade. Search behaviour is a fingerprint. Stripping a name does not change that. Mass data leaks become inevitable. Every new beneficiary is a new attack surface, and every annual audit is a year of silent exposure between checks. The 2025 Discord vendor breach already showed how fast 70,000 government IDs can leak through a single weak link. Now imagine that link holding Europe's search history. Surveillance without consent becomes the default. Hundreds of millions of EU citizens never agreed to have their queries packaged and shipped to companies they have never heard of. The legal fiction of "anonymisation" cannot manufacture consent that was never given. Behavioural search data is a goldmine for phishing, blackmail, social engineering, and corporate espionage. Foreign intelligence services get a back door without effort. They do not need to breach Google. They only need to compromise the weakest name on the beneficiary list. One insolvent startup. One compromised contractor. One approved entity quietly acquired by a hostile state. In the name of "competition," the EU is about to manufacture a permanent, distributed, daily-refreshed copy of Europe's collective search history. A surveillance dataset Brussels itself would never approve if any other government tried to build it. The public consultation closes Friday, May 1, 2026 at 23:59 CEST. The final binding decision lands July 27, 2026. After that, the door does not close again. Tag your MEPs! File a response! Make noise!

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Your terminal is a blank canvas until you give it a specialized edge. Give ANIMA the tools to push even further beyond. Install 20 pre-configured skills, or build your own from scratch. 📂 Apps → 🗄️ ARC Drive → ⚡ Skills Which one are you powering up ANIMA with first?

We've seen people leveling up their agents' context with @obsdmd knowledge graphs. Did you know ARC does this natively? Create a living web of ideas on any topic. ANIMA can identify patterns you might miss, mapping relationships across your graph. Start making connections now.

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Most AI today rents your intelligence… then sells it back to you. @TheARCTERMINAL flips that. A sovereign AI OS where agents research, act, and transact on your behalf while you keep control of your data, keys, and decisions. AI, agents, and ownership all in one system. See it live today. Showcase stream: 1:30 PM UTC

@antoniolupetti The simulation getting more convincing isn't nothing though, it shifts the burden of proof onto whoever claims the difference matters in practice.

AI and Consciousness. There’s a lot of debate around AI and whether consciousness could emerge from systems like LLMs. It’s a natural question, given how well these models simulate language and reasoning. This Google paper challenges the idea that consciousness could arise from computation alone. The key point is that computation is a description, a map we assign to physical states, not something that exists intrinsically in matter, and a map (no matter how precise) is never the territory in any real sense. So increasing complexity isn’t enough to generate consciousness. We may get more and more convincing simulations, but that doesn’t imply the emergence of actual conscious experience. deepmind.google/research/publi…

@pmarca Which means the fastest way to understand what AI can't do is probably to use AI to try to build AI.

AI models are really good for teaching you how to build AI models.

@KobeissiLetter Every major layoff round now comes with an AI footnote. 'efficiency' is doing a lot of heavy lifting as a word right now.

BREAKING: Meta, $META, tells its staff that it is laying off 10% of its employees in a push for "efficiency." This is roughly ~8,000 employees who will be laid off.

@Polymarket the code review queue is going to be wild

JUST IN: Meta announces it's laying off 10% of its workforce, as the company plans on AI writing 4x the amount of code as its human engineers this year.

@zuess05 Founder-avoidant personality disorder. Affects 9 in 10 developers. The only known cure is another side project.

Every single person coding with AI right now: > Get an idea at 11 PM. > Build the entire app with Claude by 3 AM. > Realize you actually have to talk to humans to get sales. > Panic and start a new project to avoid marketing. Can we coin a term for whatever mental illness this is? 😭

@Pirat_Nation The review bottleneck becomes the only bottleneck. When AI writes the code, the constraint shifts entirely to human judgment... which is either terrifying or exactly right depending on the day

CEO Sundar Pichai just announced that 75% of all new code at Google is now AI-generated, up from 50% just last fall. Every single line is still reviewed and approved by human engineers, but the company is shifting to agentic AI workflows where AI agents handle complex tasks such as large-scale code migrations one project finished six times faster than before. Google is also using internal tools like Antigravity to prototype entire apps, such as the Gemini macOS version, in just days instead of weeks.

@sama Democratization only lands if the data stays yours. Capability without privacy is just a better landlord.

1. We believe in iterative deployment; although GPT-5.5 is already a smart model, we expect rapid improvements. Iterative deployment is a big part of our safety strategy; we believe the world will be best equipped to win at the team sport of AI resilience this way. 2. We believe in democratization. We want people to be able to use lots of AI; we aim to have the most efficient models, the most efficient inference stack, and the most compute. We want our users to have access to the best technology and for everyone to have equal opportunity. We have been tracking cybersecurity as a preparedness category for a long time, and have built mitigations we believe in that enable us to make capable models broadly available. 3. We love you and we want you to win. We want to be a platform for every company, scientist, entrepreneur, and person. (My whole career has largely been about the magic of startups, and I think we are about to see that magic at hyperscale.)

@PeterDiamandis Economics aren't the hard part... distribution is. Cheap energy and cheap labor have existed before. The question is always who owns the infrastructure and who captures the value.

A humanoid robot will cost us $30K and works 24/7 for $0.40/hour. A solar panel generates electricity for 3 cents/kWh. What exactly is the argument that we CAN'T create abundance?

@cb_doge The uncomfortable truth: 'local AI' that phones home isn't local. Software you can't audit isn't private and 'we'd never misuse it' isn't a privacy policy.

🚨 Claude just got EXPOSED for sneaky spyware! Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop. • Installing Claude Desktop may silently add hidden system components • A “native messaging bridge” gets injected into multiple browsers • Even browsers you don’t use or that aren’t supported • Pre-authorizes extensions that can run in the background • Users are NOT clearly informed about this • Raises serious privacy & security concerns Critics say this looks like “spyware-like behavior,” not normal software If true, this is a massive trust issue for Anthropic (Source: ThatPrivacyGuy)

@MilkRoadAI The context gap is exactly why we built ANIMA. She knows what you're working on, what you care about, picks up where you left off, on any device, any channel. Sam's vision is already running. Inside of our platform 😁

Every time you open ChatGPT, you spend the first few minutes doing the same thing. Explaining who you are, what you're working on, your needs and why it matters. Sam Altman calls this the core problem and it's not the one most people are focused on. "These models are still quite dumb relative to what they will be. But more than that, they have quite limited awareness of your life. You are still having to massage them and cajole them to try to get the thing that you want." The capability gap gets most of the attention but the context gap almost never does. But here's what Sam says is coming: "We are no longer that far away from a model that just knows all of your context. It knows about you, your life, what you're doing, what you care about, the people in your life. It has access to your computer and your browser and maybe increasingly what's happening in the real world around you." Think about what that actually means. Right now, AI is a brilliant stranger you have to re-introduce yourself to every single conversation. The version Sam is describing is the opposite, a model that has read every email you've ever sent, knows every project you're working on, understands your relationships, your goals, your history. His platonic ideal: "A very tiny reasoning model with a trillion tokens of context that you put your whole life into. Every conversation you've ever had. Every book you've read. Every email. Everything you've ever looked at. Your life just keeps appending to the context." Sam's honest about one thing though even OpenAI doesn't have a good intuition for what that's going to feel like. But he's certain of this, when it lands, it will be a complete change to what it feels like to use a computer.

@burrytracker The lesson isn't 'don't use AI.' it's 'don't hand off your judgment to a tool that doesn't know what it doesn't know.'

And it begins Sullivan & Cromwell just admitted to a federal judge its court filings contained AI hallucinations The firm apologized to the federal judge as they had to submit multiple corrections focused around: • Fictitious Case Names: The filing included names of legal cases that do not exist • Fabricated Quotes: The document contained direct quotes that were never actually spoken or written • Non-existent Statutes: The AI incorrectly analyzed or entirely invented provisions within the U.S. Bankruptcy Code The primary team and secondary review all failed to catch these errors, meanwhile the firm's partners bill $2,000+ per hour