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More fallout from the thinking machine stuff.

I'm officially calling it.

I think the Metaverse is over, at least at Meta.

Cloudflare continues to make an effort to protect the web and creators from AI strip mining,

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Wired continues to be all over this thinking machines drama, and they say at least two more

thinking machines staffers are expected to join Open AI soon. Some researchers also say they are

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