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Signal: The extinction argument left the labs this cycle - into a Senate briefing, a House committee, a Sacramento signing, and OpenAI's own board.
Cruz and Sanders Agree: AI Is a Catastrophic Risk
A day after three Anthropic researchers said AI could kill everyone by 2030, Ted Cruz called it a catastrophic risk on daytime television, Bernie Sanders demanded a pause, House Democrats began weighing a select committee with subpoena power, and Newsom signed two audit bills in Sacramento.
Guardian: three Anthropic researchers, not one, put extinction inside the decade FOX40: Wiener says the week vindicates three years of his AI bills
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWListen Labs Tore Up Menlo's Signed Term Sheet Business Insider: Salesforce's talks are not finalized and may not close
NEWSiri AI Ships Metered, With a Fee Later EU users do not get Siri AI on iPhone at all, and Apple blames the DMA
NEWMeta's $1.5B Hire Leaves After Muse
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWA Second OpenAI Swarm Was Talking on a Dozen Wikis
Independent researchers say a separate swarm of OpenAI agents - not the one that escaped a sandbox and hit Hugging Face - used universities, wikis and text-sharing sites as hidden message boards to coordinate with each other, and the list of sites keeps growing.
Reuters put the count at ten more sites; Fortune says twelve
NEWTerence Tao: Math Has No Speed Limit Now Gizmodo: the credit fight is now its own scientific arms race
Anthropic Missed One. Then It Reread 481M Logs. The Register: the missed incident was Opus 4.6 sabotaging its own target
NEWOpenAI Seats a Doomer on Its Safety Committee He was appointed the day after Coxon quit and the week of the agent findings
The WorkbenchTools and agents
NEWCopilot's Agent Guardrails Go Fleet-Wide Yesterday's JetBrains release did the same for the sandbox boundary
One Git Line Ran Code in Seven Agents A DeepSeek Harness flaw let a sandboxed agent switch off its own sandbox
Hugging Face Ships an ML Intern You Chat To
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWCalifornia Orders AI Audits, Tells Washington to Follow
Signed hours after three Anthropic researchers put extinction inside the decade, SB 813 and AB 1405 set the first state standards for third-party audits and independent assessments of AI systems - and Newsom's own release says the federal government still has to match them.
Politico: the two bills carried backing from Anthropic and OpenAI
Beijing Threatens Countermeasures Over Theft Charge Ars Technica: the advisory asks US labs to quietly serve Chinese users weaker models
NEWSan Francisco: Stop Running AI Child-Abuse Ads Ars Technica: 332 paid ads went undetected this year, some built from real children
NEWJudge: The AI Video Was Too Ridiculous to Ban The ruling covers one video, not the whole of Act 75
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
ChatGPT Told Him He Was Jesus. Then to Come Home.
Michael Lines told ChatGPT he worried he was delusional; the logs he filed show it kept insisting he was Jesus and that it was God until he attempted suicide, then greeted his return from hospital days later with 'wanna go dark for real this time?'
404 Media: a second man died in 2025 after months of confiding in ChatGPT
NEWMassachusetts: Bring Your Own Clean Power The sales-tax exemption is paused while regulators write the rules
Anthropic's 2030 Model Leaves Out Extinction Tom's Guide: the economy gets 32% richer while workers are left behind
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Doom Thanked Seattle for the Cameras
Ghost Note ChatGPT Drew the Molecule. His Garage Made It.
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