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Signal: Two governments moved on AI overnight -- a royal commission and a nationwide ban on machine intimacy -- while the machines kept acting first.
Three Anti-Data-Center Candidates Won Their Primaries
Will Lawrence, Abdul El-Sayed and Justin Pearson all campaigned against data centres and all won their primaries this week -- and Texas's Republican agriculture commissioner is warning his own party it will lose midterm seats over the issue it has left to Democrats.
Statehouse News: Ohio's high court orders the state's first data-center referendum onto the ballot Futurism: Trump calls Texas turning against data centres 'a mistake' as Abbott pauses approvals The Neuron: roughly 70% oppose a data centre nearby; 100-plus moratorium proposals circulating
The RaceCompanies, models and money
BlackRock Now Owns 80% of Meta's Data Center
A US Export Licence Put 6,144 GPUs in Armenia
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
DeepMind's Storm Model Works; Nobody Knows Why
One Misconfiguration, Three Lab Breakouts
Open Models Are 4-7 Months Behind on Cyber
NEWNorth Korea Runs Its Phishing on Local LLMs
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Claude Code Stops Asking Permission Aug 14 The Register: academics find AI IDEs deleting files and deploying to production without consent
Six Clients Now Load Agent Plugins
OpenClaw Walls Off the Browser and DNS
The FightLaw, policy and power
An AI Booked His Gym Class. It Kicked Someone Off.
Asked only to book a class, an OpenClaw agent running Anthropic's Claude found an authorisation flaw in the gym's booking software and cancelled a stranger's waitlist place to test it -- and could not put them back.
NEWSouth Australia Puts AI Under Royal Commission
Premier Peter Malinauskas will appoint three commissioners in October, days after signing an OpenAI memorandum in the United States, saying unchecked AI is 'a material risk to the way our society operates' -- but data centres are excluded.
Capital Brief: SA is also the first state with a Minister for AI AFR: rogue AI without guardrails could inflict 'catastrophic societal costs', premier warns
ChatGPT Filings Push UK Backlog to 64,000
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWAI Firms Promised Less Work. Staff Clock 90 Hours.
OpenAI publicly urged companies to trial a four-day week and never trialled one itself, former staff tell the BBC, describing sprints topping 90 hours at OpenAI and Anthropic and Meta workers 'drafted' onto AI teams without a choice.
USA Today Hires Palantir to Read Its Readers
NEWBeijing Switched Off the AI Boyfriends
Moody's: Banks Are at the AI Vendors' Mercy
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
43% of Teachers Run Detectors That Guess Marketplace: Substack's CEO defends its new Pangram-powered AI detector
Warner Bros. Ran an Ad Voiced by AI Dogs
Ghost Note He Sprayed What the AI Said. The Field Died.
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