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2026-09-19 Briefing
Idle Pixel 8 phones sent over 8,300 background transmissions daily to Google, a 72-hour pfSense study found. AI safety groups METR, Redwood and Apollo are scrutinizing OpenAI and Anthropic amid alleged misalignment incidents, though insiders say labs exaggerated "rogue AI" claims to push regulation. Nobel economists back a California billionaire tax. OONI Probe is recruiting Linux and macOS users to expand its open internet-censorship dataset.