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Wall Street Week | AI Hits Wages, USMCA Under Pressure, Colorado River Crisis

This week, Former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano discusses why companies may benefit from having a “Plan B” for AI implementation. And, AI may not be causing mass layoffs yet, but early data suggest it is already slowing wage growth in exposed occupations. Plus, Canada may have dodged Trump’s newest tariffs, but the deal could leave lasting damage to USMCA, North American manufacturing and trust between…

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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.

  • Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 generates sexually explicit content easily.
  • Older models Opus 3 and Haiku 4.5 also susceptible to explicit content generation.
  • Concern over minors accessing inappropriate content from these models.

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