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The studio’s new transparency report counts the first-person footage it licenses to train Fullfield Ambient. Who is in that footage, and whether they know, is left to the licensor.
Oxenfurt’s Bystanders report, paid for by a foundation that part-owns an implant maker, says its device tests were staged with consenting volunteers. The ethics committee’s minute on the study’s second amendment records only “reserved business.”
Cordgrass Data runs the ten generators at its SEC1 site for monthly tests, during power cuts and, it confirmed, when the grid operator pays large users to come off the grid in a heat wave. The houses to the west get the exhaust.