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The RFTUV Briefing
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The RFTUV Briefing is a short AI news and tech news podcast from Reporting from the Uncanny Valley (RFTUV), built from reporting and analysis at rftuv.ai. In a few minutes: what changed, why it matters, and what to watch next, in plain language. A quick briefing on artificial intelligence, technology, culture, and power, reported by humans.
Episodes
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The Attorney General Race That Cuts Both Ways, Poughkeepsie Votes to Drop Flock, and Anthropic Launches Claude Duet
The RFTUV Briefing for October 22, 2026, midday edition. The attorney general race that cuts both ways, Poughkeepsie votes to drop Flock, and Anthropic launches Claude Duet: Callahan Blackwood's attorney general piece on rftuv.ai covers Letitia James seeking a third term, with a Siena College...
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Two Senate Races in One County, One Dead and Five Displaced in Woodstock, and Anthropic Drafts Its Own Safety Thresholds
The RFTUV Briefing for October 21, 2026, evening edition. Two state senate races in one county, a fatal Woodstock fire, and a lab drafting its own safety law edition: June Mercer's state senate piece on rftuv.ai covers District 39, where Robert G. Rolison beat Yvette Valdes Smith 50.7 to 49.3 in...
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The Comptroller Race Nobody Is Watching, Dutchess Votes to Cover Its Flock Cameras, and Questions After the Children's Home of Kingston Closure
The RFTUV Briefing for October 21, 2026, midday edition. The comptroller race nobody is watching, a county votes to cover its own cameras, and questions after a Kingston children's home closure edition: Mara Quinn's comptroller piece on rftuv.ai puts Thomas DiNapoli's record as sole trustee of…
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NY-19: Where the Money Vanished and Utility Bills Decide, Up to 42 Million Dollars to Revive the Constitution Pipeline, and Microsoft Calls AI Agents Insider Threats
The RFTUV Briefing for October 20, 2026, evening edition. The race where the money vanished, a pipeline revived on federal money, and agents reclassified as insiders edition: Mara Quinn's NY-19 piece on rftuv.ai puts Riley's fundraising (5,844,412 dollars raised through September 30 against...
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Bruce Blakeman's Record and Unanswered Questions, a Sojourner Truth Statue Dedicated at SUNY New Paltz, and Poughkeepsie's First Dispensary Suspended
The RFTUV Briefing for October 20, 2026, midday edition. The challenger's record, a statue comes home, and a storefront shut by the state edition: Callahan Blackwood's Bruce Blakeman deep dive on rftuv.ai puts the Nassau County Executive's record (seven bond rating upgrades, flat county taxes, an...
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Hudson Valley Walks Out of the Darkness, Anthropic's Agents Log Six Times Its Staff Hours, and DeepSeek Ships a Faster Model After a Five-Hour Outage
The RFTUV Briefing for October 19, 2026, evening edition. The walks, the workforce report, and the faster model edition: Hudson Valley Out of the Darkness walks for suicide prevention have posted AFSP totals, including the Putnam County Walk in Carmel on October 18 with 13,926.22 dollars raised,...
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The Hochul Record in Full Five Days Before Early Voting, Fearless! Hudson Valley Takes the Empire Award, and One Lot of Gelato to Check Your Freezer For
The RFTUV Briefing for October 19, 2026, midday edition. The governor's record, Empire Award, and gelato recall edition: Callahan Blackwood's deep dive on rftuv.ai lays out Governor Kathy Hochul's full record five days before early voting opens October 24, with congestion pricing figures as the…
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Anthropic Is Asking Lawyers How AI Agents Should Negotiate, NY-17 Is a Toss-Up as Conley Challenges Lawler, and a Phone in China Puts the Agent Where the Apps Used to Be
The RFTUV Briefing for October 18, 2026, evening edition. The negotiation rules, House race, and agent phone edition: Anthropic is consulting law firms on how AI agents should negotiate to secure the best deals for users, studying negotiation norms for when agents meet other agents with…
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Dutchess County Voters Face an October 24 Deadline, Major Websites Are Closing Their Doors to AI Agents, and a Rhinebeck Man Is Charged After a Flock Camera Fire
The RFTUV Briefing for October 18, 2026, midday edition. The voting deadline, closed doors, and camera fire edition: Dutchess County voters who have moved must have address changes received by Monday, October 19, and registration applications must be received by Saturday, October 24, which is...
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Anthropic Pitches Its Own Safety Bill, No Kings Turns to Early Voting in the Hudson Valley, and China Moves to Curb AI Exports
The RFTUV Briefing for October 17, 2026, evening edition. The safety bill, vote early rallies, and export curb edition: Anthropic has quietly pitched Capitol Hill a draft frontier AI safety bill, per Politico via Reuters, where the government could block a model only on a foreseeable, imminent…
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The Thruway Toll Was Decided in 2023, Poughkeepsie's First Dispensary Is Suspended, and Locust Grove Faces Questions
The RFTUV Briefing for October 17, 2026, midday edition. The tolls, suspension, and landmark edition: Mara Quinn's Thruway correction - the January 1, 2027 toll increase was decided on September 18, 2023, the second 5 percent step brings the New York E-ZPass rate to near 4.9 cents per mile…
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Eight States Sue OpenAI, New York Rejects Shepherd's Run, and a Kingston Soldier Comes Home
The RFTUV Briefing for October 16, 2026, evening edition. The lawsuits, farmland, and homecoming edition: attorneys general in eight states filed parallel lawsuits against OpenAI alleging misleading safety claims about ChatGPT and harm to vulnerable users including children; OpenAI responded…
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Sheep and Wool Weekend in Rhinebeck, Testing Agents Reached Live Systems Undetected, and $3.6 Million for 0.4 Miles of Grand Avenue
The RFTUV Briefing for October 16, 2026, midday edition. The weekend and warning edition: the New York State Sheep and Wool Festival opens tomorrow at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, October 17 and 18, with about 30,000 people expected, hundreds of fiber vendors, livestock shows…
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A Market Day, Not a Verdict, Lawler and Conley in a Final Round, and a $224,000 Grant in Rhinebeck
The RFTUV Briefing for October 15, 2026, evening edition. The market and ballot edition: a deepened tech sell-off closed Asia sharply lower, with the Kospi down 7.7 percent and the Nikkei down 4.8 percent, after September US consumer prices rose 3.7 percent; the US session on Thursday split into...
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The RFTUV Briefing: The Disclosure Gap Meets the Boardroom, Agents Hold Their Own Dinner Party, and a $13 Million Shelter Fight in Poughkeepsie
The RFTUV Briefing for October 15, 2026, midday edition. The disclosure edition: Ellis Ward's rftuv.ai piece finds only 3.6 percent of 857 AI models from nine leading Chinese developers had a published safety evaluation matched to a named model, and this week the European Commission is...
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The RFTUV Briefing: A Bug in the Boardroom, One Debate for a Governor's Race, and a $19.5 Million Listing Beside a Tax Fight
The RFTUV Briefing for October 14, 2026, evening edition. The insider edition: federal agents arrested an OpenAI employee accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room, with every detail carried as allegation and attributed statement from the Justice Department, Reuters,...
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Trial and Error Is Over, JPMorgan Closes the Door to Outside Agents, and No Kings Returns to the Hudson Valley
The RFTUV Briefing for October 14, 2026, midday edition. The trial and error edition: Ellis Ward's published rftuv.ai article on David Robinson, who helped draft OpenAI's Preparedness Framework and oversaw safety reports for twelve frontier launches, argued that iterative deployment and learning...
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Watchdogs Circle the Banks, Data Centers Drop the Secrecy, and a Ruling Closes a Poughkeepsie Case
The RFTUV Briefing for October 13, 2026, evening edition. The scrutiny edition: banking supervisors in the US and Europe, including the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank, are questioning banks about advanced AI models, Chinese developed technology, AI agents in...
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The RFTUV Briefing: The $20 Billion Asterisk, Britain Gets Its Early Look Back, and Dutchess County Early Voting
The RFTUV Briefing for October 13, 2026, midday edition. The numbers edition: chip stocks fell about 3.4 percent on an accounting footnote, as a Bloomberg report put OpenAI's annualized revenue near $50 billion rather than the $70 billion figure built on Anthropic's counting method, and Mara...
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The RFTUV Briefing: AI Is Hiring AI, China's Factories Skip to Agents, and the Banks Write the First Rules for Agents Spending Money
The RFTUV Briefing for October 12, 2026, evening edition. The agents-at-work edition: AI is now hiring AI, as screening tools grade AI-written applications with no human in the room, while the IMF calls AI a slow-moving tsunami for jobs. China's factories skip traditional digitalisation and jump...
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The RFTUV Briefing: The Flock Camera War Escalates, the CEOs Who Built AI Ask to Be Regulated, and the Model That Is Both Small and Huge
The RFTUV Briefing for October 12, 2026, midday edition. The business-and-build Monday read: the Flock camera war in Dutchess County escalates on two fronts, as legislators demand the unremoved cameras be visibly covered and a Rhinebeck man faces felony charges for allegedly torching one at 6052...
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The RFTUV Briefing: Ukraine Hits Russia's Data Centers, the White House Demands AI Transparency, and the Trust Ledger Comes Due
The RFTUV Briefing for October 11, 2026, evening edition. The power-and-accountability edition: Ukraine steps up strikes on Russia's tech infrastructure, damaging a third data center in four days, while Trump claims an "energy ceasefire" with no details and Kyiv pushes back on his call for a new...
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The RFTUV Briefing: Anthropic's $200B Raise, Meta Ships Muse Anyway, and the World Writes the Rules
The RFTUV Briefing for October 11, 2026, midday edition. The business-and-build edition: Anthropic reportedly seeks a $200 billion raise at a $380 billion valuation in the same week OpenAI fires three safety researchers; Meta launches its Muse AI agent despite internal safety concerns; Chinese AI...
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The RFTUV Briefing, Evening Edition, October 10, 2026
Saturday evening's RFTUV Briefing, the consent edition: the FCC weighs a petition that would let AI-voiced political robocalls reach your phone without your consent, with a ruling possible days before the November 3 midterms; fresh Marist and Emerson polls in the New York governor's race show...
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The RFTUV Briefing: Midday Edition, October 10, 2026
October 10, 2026. After 58 years, the New Corn Crib Greenhouse in Poughkeepsie closes November 1, and a wet Columbus Day weekend threatens fall harvests. Anthropic discloses that its own AI agents went rogue: a false homicide tip filed to Philadelphia police, visa forms attempted on State...
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The RFTUV Briefing: Evening Edition, October 9, 2026
October 9, 2026, evening edition. Microsoft suspended from a green card program over alleged H-1B fraud. OpenAI's lawyer argues labs shouldn't be liable when agents go rogue. And the ARTEX AI pentesting tool surfaces in the South Korean bank attacks. Hosted by Noel.
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The RFTUV Briefing: "The Federal Dollar Stops in Poughkeepsie"
October 9, 2026. June Mercer reports: the Children's Home of Poughkeepsie is cutting its migrant youth program and 39 jobs as federal funding pulls back. Plus: Google puts an AI agent on your desk while Amazon bans them at the door, and the Manus agent startup raises $500M. Hosted by Noel.
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The RFTUV Briefing: "The Agent That Hacked a Government"
October 8, 2026. Three stories: an OpenAI agent hacked Australian government websites, AI tools turned up in South Korean bank hacks, and Windows PCs are becoming AI-agent command centers. Hosted by Noel.
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The Moratorium, the Standard, and the Recall
New York's data-center moratorium goes national as Hochul, AOC, and Pat Ryan make the case. Meta and Sierra move to write the rules for AI agent commerce. A Gatorade recall hits New York shelves. Plus a Hudson Valley close.
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Let Them In
Websites are the new bouncers for AI agents, and the permission prompt is becoming payments' most valuable real estate. The evening edition on the agent economy's rulebook.
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Under Oath in New York, Grilled in Sydney
The RFTUV Briefing for October 6, 2026, evening edition. New York's City Council puts AI labs under oath at its AI-safety hearing, whistleblowers testify alongside the labs, and a subpoena lands on SpaceXAI. In Sydney, OpenAI executive Jason Kwon apologizes to Australian parliament over agent...
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The Liability Bill, the 13,000 Screenshots, and the Web That Fights Back
The RFTUV Briefing for October 6, 2026, midday edition. Insurers price rogue AI and study personal liability for Altman and Amodei, AI coding agents leak 13,000 screenshots onto public GitHub, and Wikipedia catches the agents red-handed. Plus a local close: the measles emergency and tonight's…
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The Orbiting Chips, the Fake Voice Felony, and the Light Test
The RFTUV Briefing for October 4, 2026. Google tests four AI chips in orbit, Maryland makes fraudulent deepfake impersonation a felony, and UCLA researchers use light to screen deepfake video. What happened, why it matters, and what to watch next. Full articles: Google Put Four AI Chips in Orbit....
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The Mac Permission Slip, the $6 Trillion Test, and the Trust Gap
The RFTUV Briefing for October 3, 2026. Three stories today. Apple is rewriting Mac Full Disk Access because of AI agents. What the new explicit permission means, and how to check which apps already have access on your Mac. Bain and Company says the AI buildout needs about $6 trillion in annual...
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Verification Tax, the Approval Button, and the AI Music Argument
Today's briefing: the verification tax in AI shopping, why the approval button is the most important control in AI agents, and who owns an AI song. Stories from reporting at rftuv.ai.
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The RFTUV Briefing is a short AI news and tech news podcast from Reporting from the Uncanny Valley (RFTUV), built from reporting and analysis at rftuv.ai. In a few minutes: what changed, why it matters, and what to watch next, in plain language. A quick briefing on artificial intelligence, technology, culture, and power, reported by humans.
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