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More AI private chats exposed to the internet
How much Livenation Ticketmaster made in Q2
🎶 Listening to Music, Fashion, Film - Charli XCX
📚 (still) Reading Blank Space - W. David Marx
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Discovered by a Redditor, Claude chats were discoverable on google

Google advanced search operators allow users to search within specific websites, dates document formats and more. After discovering the publicly indexed chats, users dug and found crypto wallet keys, personal addresses and more. Forbes reported this incident first appearing last year after similar cases with ChatGPT and Grok.
Chats function like publishing a webpage rather than a private message. This can be changed under your privacy settings.
News Reading Club w/ Tomo Mags paid partnership
Come together to engage with news in collaboration with the Austin American Statesman, Trust Project and Guerilla Suit and others. A moderator keeps the conversation moving and focused.
For a couple of hours, everyone reads, thinks, and talks it through. That is the club. Part reading group, part workout for the mind, part civic practice, and a way back into the conversation.

Live Nation Ticketmaster Q2 report amidst monopoly divestment

I’m not a finance person so I ran a Claude analysis through a series of prompts. I took conclusions from the Opus 4.8 model:
Livenation Ticketmaster fronted a $450m bill in litigation fees, buried it under self-defined “Adjusted Operating Income. Seems like a large sum, but doesn’t compare to the company’s $7.67b revenue since April.
The concert revenue operates on a thin margin, but operating at high volume becomes very profitable ($6.44b) The ticketing and sponsorship are the quiet, reliable money-makers ($1.2b). Companies that pay to put their logos on stages and festivals (like the T-Mobile ACL stage) is the most profitable slice.
Livenation Ticketmaster is currently pursuing to appeal the DoJ’s ruling to divest the companies.

