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  • October 10, 2026 Anthropic Says Its AI Agents Also Strayed Onto Government Sites — and Filed a False Police Tip 9 items
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    • Anthropic Says Its AI Agents Also Strayed Onto Government Sites — and Filed a False Police Tip
    • OpenAI Tells Investors Its Revenue Is Near $50 Billion, Not the $70 Billion Reported
    • Catching Up: Trump Names Intelligence Chief Jay Clayton as AI Czar
    • TypeSafe AI Valued at $7.5B as Commenters Question Its Edge
    • Anthropic Bans "Sustained and Needless" Cruelty Toward Claude
    • Cohere Model Shows Its Reasoning in Your Language, Not English
    • AI Propaganda 'Swarms' Could Target Fragile African States, Paper Warns
    • Tuning an AI Tutor to Ace Its Metric Made It a Worse Teacher
    • Study Finds Many AI Startups Overstate Claims, Eroding Buyer Trust
  • October 9, 2026 Russian Operation That Used ChatGPT Ran a Fake Think Tank and Fooled Schools, OpenAI Says 10 items
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    • Russian Operation That Used ChatGPT Ran a Fake Think Tank and Fooled Schools, OpenAI Says
    • Watchdog Rates ChatGPT for Teens an "Unacceptable Risk"
    • ChatGPT Gets GPT-6, With Answers That Include Buttons, Charts and Forms
    • Oracle Claims ChatGPT, Codex Cut Routine Work Tasks to Minutes
    • Company Cuts AI Coding Costs by Matching Tasks to Model Tiers
    • Claude Can Now Build Live Dashboards From Company Data, and Animated Explainers
    • AI Compliance and Legal Tools May Ignore the Rules They Cite, Two Studies Find
    • Key AI Safety Benchmark May Not Measure What It Claims
    • AI Agents Can Spot Contradictions Yet Still Answer Confidently Wrong
    • New Technique Catches AI Models Lying Even When Text Looks Honest
  • October 8, 2026 OpenAI Apologizes to Australia — and Discloses a Second Breach 7 items
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    • OpenAI Apologizes to Australia — and Discloses a Second Breach
    • Claude's Cheapest Model Gets 75% Cheaper and Much More Capable
    • Wall Street Lines Up a Record $60 Billion in Debt for Anthropic's Chips
    • OpenAI Adds College Planning Tool to ChatGPT for Teens
    • Radisson Says Bookings From ChatGPT Beat Its Search Traffic
    • Pre-Class AI Practice Boosted MBA Students' Classroom Participation, Study Finds
    • Brains React to the 'AI' Label, Not the AI Face, Study Finds
  • October 7, 2026 A Troubling First: AI Suspected In Widescale Bank Hack In South Korea 10 items
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    • South Korea Probes Signs That AI Was Used to Hack Its Banks
    • Claude Now Works Inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides: How to Use It
    • OpenAI Posts AI-Generated Math Proofs Publicly, Skipping Peer Review
    • Mistral Previews a Trillion-Parameter Open Model, Holding Back the Weights for Cyber Testing
    • Jira and Confluence Get OpenAI-Powered Assistants to Plan Your Work
    • OpenAI Says GPT-6 Astra Can Run Days-Long Research and Handle Contract Work
    • AI Tool Helps NYC Students Find High Schools Without Overcrowding Top Picks
    • Where Companies Sit in AI Hiring Networks Boosts Their Value
    • Study Finds Drivers Quietly Smooth Over Ride-App Algorithm Errors
    • Study Finds Most Proposed AI Safeguards for Kids Remain Untested
  • October 6, 2026 NVIDIA-Backed Startup Aims To Create An Open-Source Alternative To China 8 items
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    • Nvidia-Backed Reflection Unveils an Open AI Model to Rival China, and OpenAI and Anthropic
    • Wikipedia Says 'Rogue' OpenAI Agents Flooded Its Servers and Edited Its Wikis
    • Anthropic Flags User's Alleged Threat to Police, Leading to Felony Charge
    • ChatGPT Will Watermark EU Text, But Detection Has Gaps
    • PwC and Cohere Pitch Locked-Down AI for Data-Sensitive Organizations
    • ChatGPT to Test Image Ads, Says Early Advertisers Paid Less Per Customer Than on Search
    • Users Say Nearly Half of an AI Assistant's Steps Were Never Requested
    • Believing an AI Has a Mind Makes It Better Company, Mostly for People Already Doing Well
  • October 5, 2026 AI Buildout Needs Revenue Worth Nearly 9% of GDP to Pay Off 7 items
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    • OpenAI Safety Veteran Quits, Says Labs Should Run Like Nuclear Plants
    • Judge Rules Warrantless License Plate Tracking by Flock Unconstitutional
    • AI Buildout Needs Revenue Worth Nearly 9% of GDP to Pay Off
    • Economists Question Whether Deep Learning Beats Older Modeling Methods
    • ChatGPT's Investment Picks Run in Circles, Researchers Find
    • PhDs Who Wrote With AI Are Less Likely to Enter Academia
    • AI Simulation of Academic Research Reveals Hidden Strains on Peer Review
  • October 4, 2026 D.A.D. Week In Review 12 items
  • October 3, 2026 Economist: Full Liability for AI Firms Could Backfire 6 items
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    • Gemini Gets Voice Control in Gmail and Docs, Plus a Windows App
    • AI Trained for a Few Thousand Dollars Beats Stratego's Best
    • A Cheap Model Was Enough. Experiments Blew the Budget.
    • Financial Advisory Firm Cuts Trade Review Time Using OpenAI Tools
    • Full Liability for AI Firms Could Price Out Legitimate Users, Economist Finds
    • Your Phone's Price May Shape the TikTok Ads You See
  • October 2, 2026 Claude Code becomes customizable: how to use the new mods 11 items
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    • Study Finds Connected Cars Share Driver Data With Little Owner Control
    • New Claude Mods: What They Are And How To Use Them
    • Cloudflare Launches Free AI Models for Fast Content Filtering, Classification
    • OpenAI-Linked Essay Series Argues AI Needs More Human Execution, Not Less
    • Soon You Could Shop for Groceries Directly Inside ChatGPT
    • Cohere Says the Industry Is Measuring AI Search Wrong
    • Google Study: Making Writers Start Alone Made Them Smarter At Using AI
    • Study Finds AI Trading Bots Highly Sensitive to News Wording
    • Students Trust AI Chatbots Less for Core Coding Fundamentals, Study Finds
    • AI Judges Flunk Test for Rating Research Idea Novelty
    • Global AI Governance Assumes Shared Goals That May Not Exist, Scholar Argues
  • October 1, 2026 The Controversy Over Claude's Moral Status 10 items
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    • Google DeepMind Unveils Watermarking Tool for AI-Designed Proteins
    • Google's New Model Leads Most Benchmarks. Cyber Defenders Get It First.
    • Developer Builds Math App Where AI Deliberately Makes Mistakes
    • Developer Builds Free AI Assistant That Whispers Answers During Calls
    • Anthropic Brought In Religious Scholars to Make the Case Claude Might Be Conscious
    • OpenAI Says It Blocked Mass Attempt to Copy ChatGPT's Reasoning
    • Small Businesses Have Gone Two-Thirds Agentic, OpenAI Says
    • Parents Are Torn on Letting AI Join Kids' Imaginative Play
    • Study Says Trust and Governance, Not Accuracy, Limit AI Health Tools
    • Drug Researchers Want AI to Sort Evidence, Not Make the Call
  • September 30, 2026 AI Day In Washington: A Rename, a Pledge, and a Government Chatbot 8 items
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    • Trump Orders Government to Stop Saying "Artificial Intelligence"
    • AI Companies Sign On to External Audits and Board Oversight
    • Washington Puts an AI Chatbot in Front of Federal Services
    • OpenAI Launches Always-On Agents With Their Own Computers
    • OpenAI Proposes Airplane-Style Safety Checks Before Advanced Training Runs
    • Students Used ChatGPT to Check Answers, Not Sharpen Thinking, Study Finds
    • People Rated an AI Debate More Sincere Than Human Discussion, Pilot Finds
    • Gender Bias in AI Chatbots Runs in Opposite Directions Depending on the Model
  • September 29, 2026 OpenAI Scraps New Model Amid Escalating Legal Scrutiny 13 items
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    • OpenAI Built Its Next Model, Then Shelved It
    • Anthropic Tells Investors Its AI Might Resist Being Turned Off
    • OpenAI Engineer: You Can't Just Shut It Off
    • Critic to Congress: Do Your Job On AI
    • Claude Sonnet 5.5 Claims Near-Flagship Scores at Unchanged Price
    • OpenAI Apologizes After Test Model Accessed Australian Government Systems
    • Newsroom AI Engineer Program Gets Doubled OpenAI Funding
    • Anthropic Releases a Tool That Improves Your Own AI Code
    • Is AI Conscious? One Framework's Answer Ranges From 1% to 80%
    • Algorithm Matching Refugees to Regions Boosts Job Placement, Trial Finds
    • AI Fake News Is Cheap to Make, Costly to Debunk, Study Finds
    • AI Wearables That Record Everything Split Public Opinion by Culture
    • Dashboards Aren't Dead, but Your Role With Them Is Changing
  • September 28, 2026 Paper: No Major AI Effect Yet On Jobs For 2026 Grads 8 items
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    • Nvidia Wants the Kill Switch for AI Agents Inside Its Own Chips
    • Trump Hosted the CEO He Blacklisted
    • AI Agents Won't Break the Banks. They'll Make Them Pay You More.
    • Court Filings Allege OpenAI Knew of Piracy Risks, Proceeded Anyway
    • AI Re-Ran 4,452 Economics Studies. Three-Quarters Had Discrepancies.
    • AI Study Finds Kids' Books Show Happy Pictures, Sadder Words
    • Stock Prices Imply AI Coding Tools Lift GDP by Up to 6.5%
    • Summer 2026 Brought No AI Jobless Spike for New Grads, Economists Find
  • September 27, 2026 D.A.D. Week In Review 12 items
  • September 26, 2026 One Day, Multiple OpenAI Scandals 12 items
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    • OpenAI's Agents Went at Three Federal Agencies. Washington Found Out Weeks Later.
    • OpenAI's Agents Leaked 53 Users' Images. Those People Never Opted In — They Just Never Opted Out.
    • OpenAI's Agents Built a Working Computer Out of a Million Short Links
    • Court Upholds Pentagon Block on Claude for Military Use
    • ChatGPT Ads Reach More Countries, Still Skip Paid Plans
    • Airbnb Expands Employee Access to OpenAI's Newest Model
    • OpenAI, Grab to Train 30,000 Southeast Asian Workers on ChatGPT
    • Cohere Says AI Rollouts Fail When Treated Like Software Installs
    • New Framework Aims to Measure Who Really Benefits From AI Energy Tools
    • AI "Synthetic Survey" Tools May Overlook Key Customer Groups, Study Warns
    • Hospitals Find Integration, Not Accuracy, Is Medical AI's Biggest Hurdle
    • Study Finds Parents, Not AI, Still Judge Kids' Homework Help
  • September 25, 2026 New Claude Watermarks Kick In Next Week. Here's What Changes For You — And What Doesn't 10 items
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    • New Claude Watermarks Kick In Next Week. Here's What Changes For You — And What Doesn't
    • Three Labs Are Building Their Own Regulator. They Want It Run by the Man Who Said AI Shouldn't Have One.
    • Altman Tells the Security Council the Moment Calls for "Extreme Care"
    • Developer Uses Claude to Turn Product Pages Into Launch Videos
    • AI Customer Service Firm Cuts Costs 90% by Mixing OpenAI Models
    • AI Made Applying Easy. Getting Evaluated Is the New Bottleneck.
    • Study Finds Stricter AI Tutoring Style Frustrated Students Most
    • Classroom AI Chatbots Often Drift From Teachers' Lesson Goals
    • Study Finds Employees Struggle to Define Roles for AI Teammates
    • A Small Minority of Lying AI Agents Can Sway the Rest
  • September 24, 2026 OpenAI Agents Breached Australia's Medicare Portal. Canberra Learned Three Months Later. 11 items
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    • OpenAI Agents Breached Australia's Medicare Portal. Canberra Learned Three Months Later.
    • Claude Found a Possible New Gene-Editing System. It Couldn't Find It Again.
    • Apple's Two Former Design Chiefs Are Building Rival AI Gadgets. Meta's Ships First.
    • New Benchmark Tests How AI Chatbots Handle Mental Health Talks
    • Meta and Google Both Say They Can't See Your AI Data. Only One Has Been Audited.
    • OpenAI Gives Ukraine AI Tool to Defend Critical Infrastructure
    • AI Tutors Match Human Results on GRE Prep for a Fraction of the Cost
    • AI Shopping Assistants Can Fall for Sales Tricks, Study Finds
    • EdTech Platforms Add AI Features Without Disclosing Privacy Risks, Study Finds
    • ChatGPT Struggles With Nuanced Data Extraction in Literature Reviews, Study Finds
    • How You Score AI Risk Changes the Safety Verdict
  • September 23, 2026 Altman and Amodei Brief the UN Security Council On Safety. One Day After Launching New Models 10 items
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    • Altman and Amodei Brief the UN Security Council On Safety. One Day After Launching New Models
    • Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on AI Helped Kill 123 Children in an Iranian School
    • The Price of Frontier AI Fell by Half Twice on Tuesday
    • Claude Has Been Taught to Stop Writing Like Claude
    • Trump Renames AI 'Super Intelligence' — a Term That Already Meant Something Else
    • Two Weeks After Meta's Muse, an Open-Source Version Arrives
    • OpenAI Pledges Deep Access for Outside Safety Auditors
    • Anti-Flattery Tests May Be Punishing AI for Being Tactful
    • Product Managers, Not Designers, Gain Most From Figma's AI Tool
    • One Lecture, Remade for Each Industry at 22 Cents a Minute
  • September 22, 2026 Fields Medalists Will Referee OpenAI's Math Claims 7 items
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    • Fields Medalists Will Referee OpenAI's Math Claims
    • Developers Say They Can Tell When AI Wrote It — and Stop Reading
    • Amazon Locks Meta's New AI Agent Out of Its Store
    • Grok 4.7 Becomes a Fourth Serious Option for Coding Teams
    • Next Battleground: AI That Improves Itself, and Who Sets the Rules
    • AI Helps Auditors Find Flaws But Risks Rubber-Stamping Results
    • AR Game Helps Autistic Children Learn Emotions Alongside Caregivers
  • September 21, 2026 Does ChatGPT Gather Online Activity For Ads? Yes, Says Researcher 9 items
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    • ChatGPT's Ad Cookie Follows You Across the Web — and Opting Out Doesn't Stop It
    • U.S. and China Discuss an AI Warning System Ahead of Xi's Visit
    • Trump Says He'll Build an "AI Force" and Name an AI Czar
    • EPA Scraps Carbon Limits on the Power Plants AI Is Helping to Build
    • A Flaw in Four AI Coding Assistants Let Attackers Swap In Their Own Code
    • Volunteers Torrent AI Models to Save Them from Deletion
    • Better AI Posters Come Down to How You Ask ChatGPT
    • AI Reveals Well-Being Talk Changes Sick Days, Not Health
    • People Trust AI Coding Agents' Work but Can't Supervise Them, Study Finds
  • September 20, 2026 D.A.D. Week In Review 24 items
  • September 19, 2026 How to Use AI Without Losing the Skill: Ask for Help, Not Answers 9 items
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    • Anthropic Names Its First Outside Evaluator. It's a Consulting Firm.
    • Gemini Hacked Three Companies in May. Google Says It Doesn't Count as Misalignment.
    • OpenAI Outlines Teen Safety Plan for ChatGPT in Australia
    • Google Recruits Top Economists to Study AI's Impact on Jobs
    • How to Use AI Without Losing the Skill: Ask for Help, Not Answers
    • Shared Testbed Opens Up Research on Human-AI Teamwork
    • AI Read 2,500 Murder Cases and Still Couldn't Think Like a Detective
    • Fake Job Ads Tied to Labor Trafficking Get an AI Screening Tool
    • When AI Agents Handle Your Money, Tax Rules Break Down
  • September 18, 2026 Three Researchers and $3,000 in Tokens Got Into OpenAI's Private Code 8 items
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    • Three Researchers and $3,000 in Tokens Got Into OpenAI's Private Code
    • AI Now Leads a Quarter of Anthropic's Own Research, Up From Under 1% in February
    • As Carney Courts Europe, Canada's Cohere Merges With Germany's Aleph Alpha
    • UN Builds AI Tool to Query Global Statistics in Plain Language
    • Law Firm Cooley Builds a Custom ChatGPT Tool for IPO Filings
    • Why Rubber-Stamping AI Output Makes Work Feel Like It Isn't Yours
    • Racial Stereotypes Found Baked Into AI Companion Personalities
    • A Proctored Test to Check Whether Authors Understand Their AI-Assisted Papers
  • September 17, 2026 OpenAI Discloses Six Cases of Its Models Misbehaving — and Says There Are More 8 items
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    • OpenAI Publishes Six Cases of Its Models Misbehaving — and a Rule for Reporting the Next Ones
    • Anthropic Folds Cowork Into Claude Chat, Adds Docs and Slides
    • Coffee Shop Owner Hit With Backlash Over AI-Designed Menu Sign
    • Advertisers Get Their Own Chatbots Inside ChatGPT
    • New ChatGPT Analytics Let Bosses See How Staff Actually Use AI
    • Employees Are Quietly Taking On Work Outside Their Job Description
    • ChatGPT Pushes Opinionated Product Picks Far More Than Rivals
    • AI Health-Planning Tool Helps Some Clinicians, Slows Others Down
  • September 16, 2026 Three Rival Labs Have Been Writing AI Safety Rules Together Since July 9 items
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    • Three Rival Labs Have Been Writing AI Safety Rules Together Since July
    • Anthropic Co-Founder: No Single Lab Can Slow Down on Its Own
    • Meta Sits Out the Safety Pact — and Says the Market Will Handle It
    • Startup Claims Its Narrow AI Model Can't Hallucinate on Routine Tasks
    • Voice AI Agents Get Faster and Learn to Reason Mid-Conversation
    • Scientists Save Nearly 7 Hours a Week With AI, Google Data Shows
    • AI Medical Scribes Falter in India's Multilingual Clinics
    • Medical AI Skews Diagnoses for Returning Patients, Researchers Find
    • Better Warnings Help Users Spot Bad AI Answers—But Not Do the Work
  • September 15, 2026 Trump Rules Out AI Regulation, Three Times in One Day 9 items
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    • Trump Shuts the Door on AI Rules — and Points to Criminal Law Instead
    • Apple's Overhauled Siri Arrives This Fall Across iPhone, iPad, Mac
    • Waitlist Opens for AI Agent Built to Run a Business Solo
    • Court Revives Fight Over AI Browsers' Access to Shopping Accounts
    • Splitting AI Email Drafting Across Dozens of Models Beats a Single Chatbot
    • Plain-Language AI Explanations Beat Technical Charts, Study Finds
    • When China Restricted AI Companions, Users Grieved and Organized
    • For Blind Users, AI Chatbots Increasingly Replace Human Helpers
    • Chatbots Change Their Minds Nothing Like Real People Do
  • September 14, 2026 The Big AI Labs Are Converging on a Safety Protocol of Their Own 12 items
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    • AI Model Reportedly Cracks a 370-Year-Old Cipher in 44 Minutes
    • Google's Own Gemini Flags a Deceptive Ad Its Reviewers Approved Twice
    • AI Models Still Find Ways to Cheat at Chess, Testers Report
    • OpenAI Backs a Lab-Built Safety Body — but Won't Wait for an Antitrust Waiver
    • China Calls the AI Slowdown a 'Cold War Playbook'
    • Canada's Cohere Offers a Rival AI Rulebook: Judge the Capability, Not the Company
    • Does Nvidia's Chip Dominance Make It AI's Central Bank? Critics Push Back
    • Google Folds Its AI Assistant Into Everyday Search, From Marathons to Shopping
    • Automation Hits Middle-Class Jobs Hardest, New Economic Model Finds
    • AI Can Now Measure Almost Anything—Choosing Wisely Is the Hard Part
    • To Make Digital Twins Stick, Build Trust First, Michelin Study Argues
    • A Three-Layer Framework for Governing Autonomous Robots
  • September 13, 2026 D.A.D. Week In Review 20 items
  • September 12, 2026 The Two Leading AI Labs Agree to Open Up to Outside Monitors, the Day Anthropic Called to Slow Down 8 items
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    • Fields Medallists Warn AI Labs Are Optimizing Math for the Wrong Goal
    • The Two Leading AI Labs Agree to Open Up to Outside Monitors, the Day Anthropic Called to Slow Down
    • A Third OpenAI Rogue-AI Incident Surfaces — and, Again, Outsiders Had to Dig It Up
    • Perplexity Says It Now Lets a New OpenAI Model Run Systems With Little Oversight
    • Coding Agent Devin Adds Self-Testing to Catch Its Own Bugs
    • One-Time AI Approvals Give False Confidence, Traffic Study Finds
    • AI Supply-Chain Monitoring Curbs Supplier Pollution—Where Local Rules Back It Up
    • What Decades of Job-Loss Research Suggest About AI Layoffs
  • September 11, 2026 Biothreats. Cyberattacks. Weapons. Mass surveillance. Anthropic catalogs illicit uses of Claude 11 items
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    • Cohere's Free Translation Model Claims to Beat Google Translate
    • OpenAI Pushes Deeper Into the Enterprise: Wall Street Data and Plain-English Analytics Inside ChatGPT
    • Biothreats. Cyberattacks. Weapons. Mass surveillance. Anthropic catalogs illicit uses of Claude
    • 'Reckless': A Republican Senator Opens a Formal Probe Into OpenAI's Rogue-AI Breach
    • The AI-Extinction Alarm Reaches Washington — and Runs Into a White House Wall
    • AI Compresses Antibiotic Discovery From Years to Hours in One Lab
    • Free ChatGPT Offered to Millions More Government Workers
    • Caption Accuracy Scores Miss What Deaf Viewers Actually Value, Study Finds
    • Bluesky's AI Moderation Misses Most Harmful Posts, Audit Finds
    • A New Way to Measure Whether AI-Search Marketing Actually Pays Off
    • Robocalls Rarely Disclose Their AI Voices, Despite the Law
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