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Trump administration asks OpenAI to stagger GPT-5.6 release and vet customers due to cybersecurity concerns

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Developer @xlr8harder proposes testing recursive loops after Digg scrapes and AI-summarizes niche Twitter postsThe experiment measures data degradation from recursive AI loops

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