Be nice to your AI... or don't, it's not alive; Russian Disinformation Bots - Talking Heads Ep.454

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Character AI goes bankrupt - burned tons of cash and brought in no revenue - first domino to fall?
https://www.404media.co/character-ais-bankruptcy-documents-show-the-economics-of-ai-dont-work/

Ukrainian strike on russian datacenter interrupts web traffic. Did it disrupt malicious and disinformation bots?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/13/ukrainian-strikes-russian-datacentres-online-disinformation-bots
https://blog.cloudflare.com/yandex-outage/

Anthropic bans abusive behavior towards Claude
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/08/anthropic-bans-abusive-behavior-claude Receive SMS online on sms24.me

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