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Archive September 3, 2026 01:08 UTC
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Signal: Washington argues the labs' case in court and at the G20, while the hardest safety questions get answered in letters rather than law.
US Tells Court: Training on the Times Is Fair Use
The government filed a 19-page Statement of Interest telling Judge Sidney Stein that training is extraordinarily transformative fair use and the Times' dilution theory is deeply flawed - and says the argument covers every publisher and author suing in the consolidated case.
The Intercept: a plaintiff's lawyer calls it an uncompensated transfer of IP to tech TechCrunch: the brief leans on Trump's own AI-leadership executive order
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Devin's Maker Nears $47B, Up From $26B in May Devin wrote 89% of Cognition's own code, up from 13% in December 2025
NEWUber's London Robotaxis Keep Their Drivers
Meta Ships Muse Spark 1.3 Zuckerberg says open weights for Muse Spark are coming "soon"
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWOpenAI's Astra Thinks Where No One Can Read It
The Information says Astra uses "recurrent depth" - reasoning that happens outside a readable chain of thought - and Redwood's Buck Shlegeris says pushing the technique further would destroy monitorability entirely, days after OpenAI rated the same model Critical for cyber.
Wired: Astra is the first model OpenAI rates Critical for cyber
Google's Best Cyber Model Is Allowlist-Only Ars Technica: third Flash in six weeks, and Gemini Pro is still missing
A .git File That Runs Code in 7 AI Agents OpenAI filed three CVEs of its own the same day, covering Codex
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Claude Now Uses Your Mac in the Background
Photoshop Now Lives Inside Slackbot
Gemini Picks Which Frames It Pays For The Decoder: the savings land on long recordings, and it is Google's benchmark
NEWCopilot Now Obeys Your Exclusion List
NEWCursor Agents Run on Your Own Machines
The FightLaw, policy and power
30 New Suits Say OpenAI Aided a School Shooting
Edelson PC filed 30 more complaints Wednesday over the Tumbler Ridge attack, taking the total to 37 and escalating from negligence to aiding and abetting - a claim that requires proving intent, and which OpenAI's Jason Kwon calls absolutely false.
TechCrunch: complaints name Chris Lehane as the man who told staff not to call police
NEWAI CEOs Work the G20 Room for Trump Al Jazeera: Washington pitches "Carolina Principles" as the EU writes new law
NEWOpenAI Promises Congress a Kill Switch Casar: the response was insufficient and the logs were never released
Lutnick: Anthropic Is Back on the Right Side Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown got a speaking slot beside Lutnick at the G20
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWUber Cuts 3,300 to Fund the Driverless Bet
Khosrowshahi is removing about 3,300 mostly middle-management jobs - Wedbush puts the saving at $1.7bn - to put capital behind drivers, couriers and autonomous driving, three weeks after Uber booked $14.2bn of quarterly revenue and $2.4bn of profit.
Guardian: drivers sue in Amsterdam over the "soulless" pay algorithm Gizmodo: the memo blames layers and bureaucracy, never automation
AI Wrote the Report on the Abortion Manhunt Prosecutors had already told police the state could not charge her
City Bills Arrested Farmer $17,000 for Bodycam
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Meta Kills the Cameras on Tampered Glasses CBS: recording now stops if the light is covered mid-shoot, not just before
NEWAI Trip Plan Ends in a Shasta Rescue
Ghost Note They Thought the Island Was AI. It's Real.
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