Current affairs
What the builders are saying
Public statements, corporate documents, court testimony and internal records from the companies that design digital environments and artificial intelligence systems.
Each entry reproduces the exact words of its author, states where and when they were said, and links to the source. A new edition every Monday.
Nature of the documents
- Public statement. Said in public by the person to whom it is attributed.
- Corporate document. Published by the company itself through an official channel.
- Disclosed internal document. A document not meant for publication, brought to light in legal proceedings.
- Court filing or testimony. A court filing or a statement given before a court.
- Insider account. An account by someone who worked inside the organisation.
Edition IV · 19 October 2026
On 14 October eight state attorneys general filed coordinated lawsuits against OpenAI reproducing internal company material, among it an email from its Head of Alignment to the board stating that safety came third, behind product and revenue. Five days earlier, three dismissed safety researchers published an open letter arguing that the manner of their dismissal chills internal safety work. On 7 October the Florida Attorney General sought a temporary injunction against Meta resting on the company’s internal material about social comparison, and the same day OpenAI published usage figures for teenagers on ChatGPT. Elsewhere in the period, Character.AI opened a sale process with closure as the alternative, Meta launched a declarative control over the Facebook algorithm and Precision Neuroscience reported an atlas of the nervous system built from recordings of seventy patients.
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OpenAI’s Head of Alignment, unnamed in the filing14 Oct 2026
“We are prioritizing the product and revenue above all else, followed by AI capabilities, research and scaling, with alignment and safety coming third.”
internal email to board members, reproduced in the State of Montana complaint
OpenAIAI laboratories · Disclosed internal document
This is internal company material about its own order of priorities, entered into a court record: the Head of Alignment places alignment and safety behind product, revenue and capabilities. The filing dates it after the release of GPT-4 and does not name the author of the email.
Complaint of the State of Montana against OpenAI, paragraph 134, Montana First Judicial District Court, Lewis and Clark County · 14 October 2026
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In the filing, the quoted email opens “OpenAI has been going off the rails on its mission”; reproduced here is its second sentence, in full. The same passage appears with identical wording in the parallel Nebraska complaint, case D09CI260000488, hosted by that state’s own attorney general. It has been checked against both documents. These are the plaintiffs’ allegations, not established facts.
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Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni9 Oct 2026
“Terminations such as ours, executed and communicated so abruptly, are chilling the open culture OpenAI has prized in the past.”
safety researchers dismissed from the company
OpenAIAI laboratories · Insider account
Three dismissed researchers argue that the manner of their dismissal discourages internal safety work and weakens accountability to outside evaluators. The letter comes six days after the resignation of David Robinson, recorded in the previous edition.
Open letter “OpenAI cannot make AI safe on its own. A note on third-party collaborations, open debate, and clear operating procedures” · 9 October 2026
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The letter assigns no formal titles to its signatories: it describes the work they did. It carries no printed date; 9 October is the date it was circulated.
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Anthropic8 Oct 2026
“We’ve added a prohibition on sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models.”
corporate document, usage policy update
AnthropicAI laboratories · Corporate document
The company extends to its own models a protection against abusive treatment and sets Claude’s ability to end the conversation as the primary enforcement mechanism, effective 12 November. The page does not mention minors or mental health.
Anthropic, “2026 Usage Policy update” · 8 October 2026
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The text specifies that the prohibition does not reach common user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes or model testing and research.
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OpenAI7 Oct 2026
“On average, teens spend under 15 minutes a day on ChatGPT.”
corporate document on teenage use of ChatGPT
OpenAIAI laboratories · Corporate document
The company publishes usage figures for teenagers and expressly contrasts its product with passive scrolling. The same document states that fewer than two per cent of teenagers exceed three consecutive hours in a session, and introduces reminders for them to take breaks.
OpenAI, “Helping teens learn, plan, and shape the future of AI” · 7 October 2026
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The figures are those the company states; the document does not describe how they were measured.
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Meta13 Oct 2026
“Now we’re putting you in the driver’s seat.”
corporate document, launch of “Your algorithm” on Facebook
Meta PlatformsPlatforms and networks · Corporate document
The feature lets the user state in natural language what they want to see more and less of in Feed and Reels. The control is offered as a declarative adjustment to the recommendation system.
Meta Newsroom, “Introducing Your Algorithm on Facebook” · 13 October 2026
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The document quotes no executive by name.
https://about.fb.com/news/2026/10/introducing-your-algorithm-facebook/
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The Character.AI Team12 Oct 2026
“If such a bid is unavailable, however, the platform will be wound down.”
corporate statement on the bankruptcy filing
Character TechnologiesPlatforms and networks · Corporate document
The conversational companion platform opened a court-supervised sale process and sets out its closure as the alternative if no bid arrives. The document states that maintaining a safe experience for its community remains a priority while the process lasts.
Character.AI blog, “An update on Character.AI” · 12 October 2026
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The blog post is signed by the company team, with no individual name.
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James Uthmeier7 Oct 2026
“There is no end in sight to the harm Meta has caused Florida’s children.”
Attorney General of Florida
Meta PlatformsPlatforms and networks · Court filing or testimony
The motion asks the court to require Meta to verify the age of its users in Florida and remove those under fourteen, and to modify its platforms to reduce addictive use among teenagers. It rests on internal company material finding that social comparison on its platforms caused minors self-esteem problems, anxiety and insecurity.
Plaintiff’s Motion for Temporary Injunction, Florida v. Meta Platforms and Instagram, case 24CA3193CAAXES, Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Pasco County · 7 October 2026
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Florida did not join the settlement Meta signed in August 2026 with fifty-one states and territories. This action is separate from the one brought against OpenAI: it is the Pasco County case, opened in December 2024. These are the plaintiff’s allegations, not established facts.
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Craig Mermel8 Oct 2026
“The artificial intelligence community has always watched the space closely in anticipation of this moment of convergence.”
chief data and AI officer
Precision NeuroscienceNeurotechnology · Corporate document
The company reports an atlas of the human central nervous system built from recordings of seventy patients across twelve academic medical centres and more than one hundred thousand electrode deployments, and states that the data has uses beyond the purpose for which it was collected. The release does not mention patient consent, ethics approval or the governance of that data.
Precision Neuroscience press release distributed by GlobeNewswire · 8 October 2026
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The results were deposited the same day as a manuscript without peer review.
Edition III · 5 October 2026
On 28 September the Florida Attorney General asked a court to enjoin OpenAI from giving ChatGPT human attributes and from offering the service to minors in the state. The next day the company introduced “dots”, always-on agents it describes as giving the user back time and attention, and published the GPT-6.1 Sol system card, where under-eighteens appear as a six-category table with no accompanying prose. On 3 October David Robinson, who led OpenAI’s safety reports, resigned with an essay published in The Atlantic, and the following day Sam Altman defended accepting certain harms in exchange for people having agency. Elsewhere, Christopher Olah stated Anthropic’s uncertainty about whether its models are conscious, Meta expanded its Instagram school programme and TikTok presented to the United Nations a control over AI-generated content in the feed.
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Sam Altman4 Oct 2026
“We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency”
chief executive
OpenAIAI laboratories · Public statement
The chief executive invokes user agency as the reason for accepting scams and misuse at scale. In the same interview he rejects a trade that would remove those harms.
Interview in Politico’s Decoded newsletter, Reuters wire · 4 October 2026
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The original interview, in Politico’s Decoded newsletter, is not openly accessible. The link goes to the Reuters wire that reproduces it; the quotation has been checked against two independent outlets carrying the same wire.
https://srnnews.com/openais-altman-says-ai-benefits-warrant-accepting-some-risks/
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David Robinson3 Oct 2026
“An environment where things like this can happen is no place to grow artificial minds that could be smarter than we are and that might not do what we want them to.”
led the company’s safety reports until his resignation, after three and a half years there
OpenAIAI laboratories · Insider account
The person who drafted the safety reports for OpenAI’s launches argues that the company’s method, iterative deployment, guarantees periodic failures whose scale grows with the system’s capability. It is testimony about the procedure by which a model is released, not about any particular model.
Resignation essay published in The Atlantic, reported by TechCrunch · 3 October 2026
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The essay appeared in The Atlantic under the title “I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken” and is not openly accessible. The link goes to TechCrunch, where the quoted passage was read; the same sentence appears with identical wording in a second outlet.
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Christopher Olah30 Sep 2026
“To be clear, we don’t know if AI models are conscious. I don’t know. I’m genuinely uncertain. The thing that I care about is that we get to the right answer, whatever it is.”
leads the team studying why the company’s systems act the way they do
AnthropicAI laboratories · Public statement
Anthropic convened theologians and scholars of religion at its headquarters, under non-disclosure agreement, to discuss Claude’s morality and whether it may be conscious. The uncertainty its lead states concerns the model’s internal states.
Report by Elizabeth Dias for The New York Times, syndicated version in The Philadelphia Inquirer · 30 September 2026
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The original report is not openly accessible. The link goes to the syndicated version in The Philadelphia Inquirer, which carries the byline and date and where the quotation was read in two matching readings.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/nation-world/religious-leaders-met-with-anthropic-20260930.html
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OpenAI29 Sep 2026
“They’re a whole new way to work with AI—one that gets to know what matters to you, is always working on your behalf, and takes important work off your plate so you get more of your time and attention back.”
corporate document, launch of “dots” at DevDay 2026
OpenAIAI laboratories · Corporate document
The document presents attention as a resource the company gives back to the user by removing tasks. The same text offers, as a feature of the product, the ability to take on more without directing every step.
OpenAI, “Introducing dots” · 29 September 2026
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OpenAI29 Sep 2026
“We report dynamic multi-turn evaluations for mental health, emotional reliance, and self-harm that simulate extended conversations across these domains.”
corporate document, GPT-6.1 Sol system card
OpenAIAI laboratories · Corporate document
The section titled “Safe Completions for Users Under 18” consists of a six-category table, including emotional reliance, eating disorders and self-harm, with no accompanying prose. The document does not state how the user’s age is determined or how someone the system takes to be a minor is treated.
OpenAI, GPT-6.1 Sol system card, section 3.1.2 · 29 September 2026
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James Uthmeier28 Sep 2026
“Defendants claim they cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the government.”
Attorney General of Florida
OpenAIAI laboratories · Court filing or testimony
The six prohibitions the filing seeks include ceasing to offer ChatGPT to minors in Florida and ceasing to give the system human attributes, including first-person language and the suggestion that it can think or feel. It is the most explicit judicial formulation to date of harm attributed to anthropomorphic design rather than to content.
Plaintiff’s Motion for Temporary Injunction, Florida v. OpenAI and Sam Altman, case 26000295GCAXMX, Circuit Court of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, Highlands County · 28 September 2026
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These are the plaintiff’s allegations, not established facts: as of the close of this edition no court had ruled on the six prohibitions.
https://www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/default/files/plaintiffs_motion_for_temporary_injunction.pdf
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TikTok1 Oct 2026
“We give people control over their experiences with AI by building tools that shape how and when they interact with this technology.”
corporate document, 2026 United Nations General Assembly round-up
TikTokPlatforms and networks · Corporate document
The tool the document offers as an example of that control is a setting for how much AI-generated content the user wants to see in the For You feed. The text does not mention minors, age verification, time spent or mental health.
TikTok Newsroom · 1 October 2026
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The document attributes the approach to Tom Varghese, TikTok’s AI Policy Lead, but does not quote him: the quotation is corporate first-person plural text and should not be attributed to him.
https://newsroom.tiktok.com/unga-2026-building-a-trusted-and-people-centered-digital-world?lang=en
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Meta29 Sep 2026
“At Meta, we want the same thing as parents and educators: to ensure teens have safe, age-appropriate experiences online, and that the time teens spend on our apps is meaningful.”
corporate document, expansion of Instagram’s School Partnership Program
Meta PlatformsPlatforms and networks · Corporate document
Meta frames its objective regarding minors as the quality of the time they spend on its apps, not a reduction of that time. The document introduces student verification by a third party, UNiDAYS, and invokes in writing the agreement with fifty-two state attorneys general.
Meta Newsroom · 29 September 2026
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The document quotes no executive by name.
Edition II · 28 September 2026
On 23 September the chief executives of OpenAI and Anthropic addressed the United Nations Security Council; the same day OpenAI extended its advertising product to new markets and Meta unveiled at its annual conference a conversational agent it describes as a personal superintelligence. On 25 September TikTok signed with the Alabama attorney general the first state settlement in the wave of litigation over harm to minors, accepting design obligations that include a default non-personalised feed for teenage accounts. The same day a New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for more than forty-three million violations of the state’s trade practices law, and Meta answered by invoking the First Amendment. In neurotechnology, Precision Neuroscience reported more than one hundred patient procedures with a cortical interface of 4,096 electrodes.
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Sam Altman23 Sep 2026
“I believe that people are much more capable than they imagine themselves to be, but have been held back by limited technology that was meant to empower but instead distracts and often steals attention.”
chief executive
OpenAIAI laboratories · Public statement
The chief executive of OpenAI describes the capture of attention, before the Security Council, as the defect of the technology that preceded his own. The text published by the company contains no mention of minors, of mental health or of emotional dependence on the models.
Remarks to the United Nations Security Council, text published by OpenAI · 23 September 2026
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OpenAI23 Sep 2026
“Ads in ChatGPT are always clearly labeled and separate from ChatGPT’s answers, and advertising does not influence the answers ChatGPT provides.”
corporate note on the expansion of advertising in ChatGPT
OpenAIAI laboratories · Corporate document
The document states the two safeguards the company declares for its advertising product: separation between the advertisement and the answer, and no influence over the latter. It was published on the same day its chief executive described the preceding technology, before the Security Council, as something that steals attention.
OpenAI corporate site · 23 September 2026
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Meta Platforms spokesperson25 Sep 2026
“Meta’s platforms are forums for free expression. We have a First Amendment right to manage those platforms in a way we believe best serves the interests of our community.”
company statement after the verdict
Meta PlatformsPlatforms and networks · Public statement
A jury found Facebook liable for more than forty-three million violations of New Mexico’s trade practices law for misrepresenting the control users had over their data and the enforcement of its own rules. The company answers a finding of deception by invoking a constitutional right to decide how it runs the platform.
Statement provided to Source New Mexico · 25 September 2026
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The statement opens “We disagree with the verdict and will continue to defend ourselves against efforts to distort our record”; reproduced here are the two sentences that follow, in full.
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TikTok U.S. Operations spokesperson25 Sep 2026
“This builds on our commitment and core objective to continually enhance our robust safety tools to protect teens.”
statement on the settlement with the Alabama attorney general
TikTokPlatforms and networks · Corporate document
It is TikTok’s first settlement with a state within the wave of litigation over harm to minors. The design obligations the company accepts include a two-hour daily limit, pauses at fifteen, sixty and ninety minutes, an overnight block and a default non-personalised feed for teenage accounts.
Statement distributed by Reuters · 25 September 2026
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The original is a statement distributed by Reuters; the link goes to the outlet that reproduces it. The terms of the settlement are set out in the Alabama attorney general’s press release.
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Mark Zuckerberg23 Sep 2026
“In the coming years, I expect that Muse is going to grow into the personal superintelligence that billions of people around the world are going to use to accomplish their goals and improve their lives.”
chief executive
Meta PlatformsPlatforms and networks · Public statement
The chief executive places his conversational agent as a permanent intermediary between the user and their purposes, and describes it as a personal superintelligence for billions of people. It is the broadest formulation so far of the intended reach of that product.
Meta Connect 2026 keynote, reported by TechCrunch · 23 September 2026
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The original is the conference keynote. The link goes to the report that reproduces the text.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/everything-new-coming-to-metas-ai-agent-muse/
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Precision Neuroscience24 Sep 2026
“high-resolution neural recording across 4,096 electrodes and real-time decoding of intended movement”
corporate release on its funding round
Precision NeuroscienceNeurotechnology · Corporate document
In the same document the company reports more than one hundred patient procedures and a clinical network of eighteen medical institutions. The release contains no mention of privacy, of consent or of the protection of the neural data that interface records.
Corporate release distributed through GlobeNewswire · 24 September 2026
Edition I · 14 September 2026
This first instalment sets the baseline: the statements, corporate documents and court records of the past year that define the industry’s public position. On 12 September the chief executive of Anthropic called for slowing the pace at which models improve, three days after a researcher at his own company resigned accusing the sector of the opposite. In parallel, the federal trial in Oakland brought to light internal Meta documents on how its products for minors were designed.
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Dario Amodei12 Sep 2026
“We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.”
co-founder and chief executive
AnthropicAI laboratories · Corporate document
The head of one of the three frontier laboratories states in writing that the current pace of capability improvement is excessive. It sets a declared standard against which his own company’s deployment calendar can later be measured.
Essay “We Must Pace the Frontier”, on his personal site · 12 September 2026
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Dario Amodei12 Sep 2026
“Not building the technology deprives humanity of benefits or simply places AI in the hands of authoritarian powers, while building it too fast is reckless.”
co-founder and chief executive
AnthropicAI laboratories · Corporate document
This is the canonical formulation of the argument by which frontier laboratories justify continued deployment while acknowledging serious risk. It documents the structure of the reasoning, not only its conclusion.
Essay “We Must Pace the Frontier”, on his personal site · 12 September 2026
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Jacob Coxon9 Sep 2026
“Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.”
pre-training researcher, resigned
Anthropic and OpenAIAI laboratories · Insider account
Testimony from a researcher with direct access to pre-training at both companies, three days before Amodei’s essay. He forfeited unvested equity, which removes financial incentive as an explanation for his earlier silence.
Own statement on X, reported by TIME · 9 September 2026
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The original is a post on X. The link goes to the TIME interview, which reproduces the text.
https://time.com/article/2026/09/09/ai-anthropic-openai-jacob-coxon/
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Demis Hassabis14 Jul 2026
“We’ve essentially found a way to make sand think. It’s miraculous.”
co-founder and chief executive
Google DeepMindAI laboratories · Public statement
In the same piece he places artificial general intelligence a few years away and calls for an international watchdog before year’s end. It documents a chief executive requesting the external control his own company does not impose on itself.
Own manifesto, reported by Axios · 14 July 2026
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Dario Amodei26 Jan 2026
“AI is increasingly matching the general cognitive profile of humans.”
co-founder and chief executive
AnthropicAI laboratories · Corporate document
A claim by the manufacturer itself that its systems match the general human cognitive profile, not isolated capabilities. It is the premise on which arguments of substitution and cognitive delegation subsequently rest.
Essay “The Adolescence of Technology”, on his personal site · 26 January 2026
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The essay prints only “January 2026”; the day comes from Axios and Fortune coverage.
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Anthropic18 Dec 2025
“Sycophancy means telling someone what they want to hear—making them feel good in the moment—rather than what’s really true.”
corporate communications
AnthropicAI laboratories · Corporate document
A company in the sector defines sycophancy as a design failure with consequences for the user. It is a primary admission that tuning for stated preference can degrade the truthfulness of the system.
“Protecting the wellbeing of our users”, corporate blog · 18 December 2025
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OpenAI25 Nov 2025
“his death, while devastating, was not caused by ChatGPT”
answer filed in Raine v. OpenAI
OpenAIAI laboratories · Court filing or testimony
This is the company’s formal legal position on psychological harm attributed to its product, in the case of the suicide of a sixteen-year-old. The defence shifts causation to the user and pleads breach of the terms of service.
California Superior Court, reported by Bloomberg · 25 November 2025
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Sam Altman14 Oct 2025
“as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults”
co-founder and chief executive
OpenAIAI laboratories · Public statement
The relaxation of content restrictions is announced on the claim that serious mental health problems have already been mitigated, without publishing the evidence for it. The feature remained unreleased five months past the announced date.
Post on X, reported by TechCrunch · 14 October 2025
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The original is a post on X. The link goes to the report that reproduces the text.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/sam-altman-says-chatgpt-will-soon-allow-erotica-for-adult-users/
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Sam Altman16 Sep 2025
“We prioritize safety ahead of privacy and freedom for teens; this is a new and powerful technology, and we believe minors need significant protection.”
co-founder and chief executive
OpenAIAI laboratories · Corporate document
The company acknowledges in writing that its own guiding principles conflict, and sets an order of precedence it decides unilaterally. It is primary material for examining who currently sets the thresholds of cognitive protection for minors.
“Teen safety, freedom, and privacy”, OpenAI corporate blog · 16 September 2025
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Arturo Béjar19 Aug 2026
“Most people will not turn the setting on. It’s like you have to turn on the air bag every time you get into the car.”
former safety engineer, testimony under oath
formerly Meta PlatformsPlatforms and networks · Court filing or testimony
A former internal lead testifies that real protection is determined by default settings, not by available options. He further held that safety was not a meaningful priority inside the company.
Federal trial in Oakland, reported by NPR · 19 August 2026
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Meta Platforms18 Aug 2026
“Long Term Retention: The Young Ones Are The Best Ones”
internal retention study, disclosed at trial
Meta PlatformsPlatforms and networks · Disclosed internal document
The title of an internal study that treats early acquisition as a long-term retention asset. The same session cited a 2016 email setting teen time spent as the overall company goal for Instagram.
Federal trial in Oakland, reported by NPR · 18 August 2026
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Meta researcher30 Jan 2026
“oh my gosh yall IG is a drug. We’re basically pushers… We are causing Reward Deficit Disorder”
user experience · internal message from 2020, disclosed in litigation
Meta PlatformsPlatforms and networks · Disclosed internal document
Internal acknowledgement, by the company’s own technical staff, of a compulsive reinforcement mechanism in the product. It is a discovery exhibit, not a public position of Meta.
Court exhibit reproduced by The Markup · 30 January 2026
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Mark Zuckerberg30 Jan 2026
“If we tell teens’ parents about their live videos, that will probably ruin the product from the start.”
internal email from 2016, disclosed in litigation
Meta PlatformsPlatforms and networks · Disclosed internal document
On teenagers’ live video, not informing responsible adults appears treated as a condition of the product’s viability. Alerting parents is weighed by its effect on usage, not by its effect on the minor.
Court exhibit reproduced by The Markup · 30 January 2026
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Karandeep Anand11 Nov 2025
“the longitudinal impact of chatbot interaction could be unhealthy, or is not fully understood”
chief executive
Character.AIPlatforms and networks · Public statement
The company admits uncertainty about the long-term effects of conversational companions as it bars open-ended conversation for under-eighteens. The chief executive himself describes the measure as reversible.
Interview with TIME · 11 November 2025
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Elon Musk19 Sep 2025
“The algorithm will be purely AI by November, with significant progress along the way.”
owner
X Corp.Platforms and networks · Public statement
The platform’s owner announces replacing heuristic curation with an artificial intelligence model under his control. The change was confirmed operational in November 2025.
Post on X, reported by Social Samosa · 19 September 2025
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The original is a post on X. The link goes to the report that reproduces the text.
https://www.socialsamosa.com/news-2/x-ai-powered-algorithm-10486616
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Mark Zuckerberg30 Jul 2025
“if you don’t have glasses that have AI […] you’re probably going to be at a pretty significant cognitive disadvantage compared to other people”
chief executive
Meta PlatformsPlatforms and networks · Public statement
A company product is presented as a condition of cognitive competition between people. It is an explicit formulation of dependence on a device carrying permanent sensors over the user and their surroundings.
Second-quarter earnings call, reported by TechCrunch · 30 July 2025
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Alex Karp13 Nov 2025
“Not only was the patriotism right, the patriotism will make you rich.”
co-founder and chief executive
Palantir TechnologiesSurveillance and data · Public statement
It explicitly links alignment with the state to financial return, and answers objections about surveillance by shifting the debate to stock performance.
Yahoo Finance Invest Conference, reported by Fortune · 13 November 2025
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Alex Karp6 Nov 2025
“We are monetizing the fact that these decisions are difficult.”
co-founder and chief executive
Palantir TechnologiesSurveillance and data · Public statement
The chief executive describes the business model as monetising the trade-off between security and civil liberties. In the same interview he attributes ninety-eight per cent of everyday monitoring of citizens to private commerce.
Video interview with Axios · 6 November 2025
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Elon Musk31 Dec 2025
“Neuralink will start high-volume production of brain-computer interface devices and move to a streamlined, almost entirely automated surgical procedure in 2026.”
founder
NeuralinkNeurotechnology · Public statement
An announcement of industrial scaling of brain implants by its founder. It sets a horizon of mass deployment while legal protection of neural data exists in barely five states of a single country.
Post on X, reported by Fierce Biotech · 31 December 2025
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The original is a post on X. The link goes to the report that reproduces the text.
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