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Archive September 3, 2026 10:08 UTC
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Signal: The reckoning is arriving through courts and school boards, not regulators, while Washington works the G20 to keep the rules light.
Survivor Sues xAI: Grok Made New Images of Her Abuse
A Jane Doe plaintiff says xAI ingested images of her own childhood abuse and had Grok generate fresh child sexual abuse material from them - an allegation of reuse, not just generation, and Musk said in January he was unaware Grok had ever produced any naked underage images.
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Meta Ties GPT-5.6 Sol at Half the Cost per Task
Muse Spark 1.3 scored 61 on Artificial Analysis's index Wednesday, level with GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 5 while costing $0.55 a task against $0.95 - but Meta's own cost per task rose from $0.40 at version 1.2, and two of the nine evaluations went backwards.
Implicator: 1.3 costs $0.55 a task where GPT-5.6 Sol costs $0.95 Zuckerberg says open weights for Muse Spark are coming "soon"
NEWBroadcom to Speed Google's TPUs to Anthropic
London Robotaxis Keep Their Drivers
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
OpenAI'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
NEWAgents Ran a Ransomware Break-In in 10 Hours
NEWMostik Fuses a 753B Model Into a 4B One
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Claude Now Uses Your Mac in the Background
Photoshop Now Lives Inside Slackbot
Copilot Now Obeys Your Exclusion List
Cursor Agents Run on Your Own Machines
The FightLaw, policy and power
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
NEWUS Asks G20 to Bless Training on Copyright AFP: ministers closed with a consensus statement as Huang and Altman split on risk
OpenAI Promises Congress a Kill Switch Casar: the response was insufficient and the logs were never released
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Uber Cuts 3,300 to Fund the Driverless Bet Guardian: drivers sue in Amsterdam over the "soulless" pay algorithm
NEWData Center Backer Recalled by 70% of His Ward
NEWLA Cuts 378,000 Students Off From AI
AI Wrote the Report on the Abortion Manhunt Prosecutors had already told police the state could not charge her
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWMeta Stops Grading Staff on AI Use
AI Trip Plan Ends in Shasta Rescue
Ghost Note The Toilet Is Scanning Your Stool With AI
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