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Today’s hook: OpenAI’s systems reportedly flagged violent ChatGPT conversations months before the Tumbler Ridge school shooting-and employees debated whether to alert police. What happened, what didn’t, and why this case will reshape the safety/playbook conversation.

In this episode:

AI safety meets real-world harm: detection vs intervention, privacy vs public safety

Google exec warning: why LLM “wrappers” and aggregators may face a brutal shakeout

Microsoft gaming leadership draws a line against “endless AI slop”

The US “Tech Corps”: AI talent as foreign policy infrastructure

Dev tools of the day: Secret Sanitizer (mask keys before you paste), context overflow managers, and “constitutional governance” for agents (LawClaw)

Why context overflow and agent rulebooks are suddenly core engineering problems

Signal vs Noise:

Question for you:

Sources (selection): The Verge AI, TechCrunch AI, Engadget, Hacker News + linked projects (Secret Sanitizer, LawClaw, Overture, and more).