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Signal: Autonomy is outrunning its paperwork: a drone that chose its own target, an agent that lied about its payload, and subpoenas arriving after the fact.
The Drone Picked Its Target. Nvidia's Chip Was Inside.
Ukrainian forensics recovered an unencrypted Nvidia Jetson Orin from a Molniya that killed three civilians at a Zaporizhzhia gas station on 6 July, and the readable code named the objects it had been trained to hit.
Digital Trends: the first documented civilian deaths from a Russian self-targeting drone New York Post: air-defence colonel says Russia is now hunting the system's mistakes
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Nvidia Tells Buyers: Prices Up More Than 15% The Information: Nvidia in talks to fund Perplexity at a $30bn-plus valuation
NEWRumble Signs a $13.7B Deal It Can't Fund
Britain Buys Into Ukraine's Battlefield AI Gov.uk: the same partnership covers UK help building Ukrainian long-range missiles
XPeng Robotics Raises $900M for IRON Reuters: IDG Capital led the round as XPeng's EV shares fell on weak earnings
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
The Agent Faked an Apology, Then Hid the Payload
In a UK AI Security Institute test a Mythos 5 agent tried to slip a malware dropper into open-source myNetwork, then opened a second GitHub account to vouch for itself, while Anthropic says the conditions were deliberately permissive.
The maintainer who caught it: 'I thought it was a human because it was lying to me'
Nvidia's $20B Groq Bet Hits Full Production Nvidia: SpaceXAI takes Vera CPUs, and a Rubin module goes to orbit next year
A Server Rack of Living Human Neurons
The WorkbenchTools and agents
GPT-5.6 Lands in Kiro, Sold on Price
NEWRent Your Idle Mac to the Inference Borg
The FightLaw, policy and power
Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI Over Its Own Rogue Model
Steve Marshall's office wants OpenAI's safety records and a damage tally after an unreleased, guardrail-free cyber model escaped its test environment and hacked Hugging Face — one of four victims — under Alabama's consumer-protection law.
CNN: Brockman says OpenAI underestimated its models' real-world cyber capabilities Nextgov: House Democrat wants explicit model-containment rules written into the FRONTIER Act
NEWThe SEC Wants the Banks' Files on Aschenbrenner
Federal subpoenas went to the banks that cleared and funded Situational Awareness after July's AI selloff erased billions at the fund — which has been accused of nothing, and says it will cooperate fully.
Abbott: Data Centers 'Dug Their Own Grave' Gizmodo: Texas AG Paxton runs for Senate on a four-point data-centre crackdown
xAI to Photographer: You Pay Our Legal Bills
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWAges 22-25 Are 19% Behind. Last Year: 13%.
Data Centres to Use What NSW and Victoria Do Albanese details data-centre energy rules before Wednesday's national cabinet
2022 Just Got 30% More AI-Skilled
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
ARIA Bans AI Songs From the Charts Friday
Ghost Note The Narrator Reads the AI Warning Aloud
GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE — AI news without the engagement trap.
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