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TechCrunch, July 30: flagged posts get reduced algorithmic reach the way "not interested" works today. Simultaneously LinkedIn is retiring "enhance your post," the feature that rewrote user text, replacing it with a proofreader that fixes grammar and spelling without touching voice. The context is damning: Pangram measured over 40% of long-form LinkedIn posts as fully AI-generated, with the platform hosting roughly 62% of all AI content scanned across major social networks. A platform walking back the feature that caused its own problem.
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Chief product officer Hari Srinivasan said on August 20 that over a million people have used the "Seems like AI slop" report option added July 30, and content LinkedIn classifies as slop now gets 40% fewer views than a few weeks ago. The button followed an analysis finding 41%...
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OSTP Director Michael Kratsios posted July 22 that Moonshot built "a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation against U.S. models," switching access methods to avoid detection, and acquired GB300-equipped servers plus GB300 access in Thailand. TechCr...
Apple filed a 41-page complaint July 10 in the Northern District of California against OpenAI, its hardware subsidiary io Products, Chief Hardware Officer (ex-Apple VP) Tang Tan, and former engineer Chang Liu, alleging systematic theft of on-device AI and silicon trade secrets...
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