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Signal: The warnings stopped being talk: lawmakers reached for criminal penalties, Microsoft wrote its own rules, and the money kept building anyway.
California Drafts Emergency AI Bills as Khanna Demands Charges
California lawmakers want emergency legislation and criminal penalties for rogue AI, with Ro Khanna calling Amodei's pacing plan nowhere near enough and demanding a ban on self-improving models - a day after Trump dismissed the warnings as things that won't happen.
Nadella: Microsoft publishes its own MAI model rules Monday, and not from three labs Lina Khan: firms must face liability for dangerous, unvetted products NY Post: Trump calls the warnings 'things that won't happen'

Xi Sells BRICS on Open AI as Beijing Weighs Curbs
Xi offered BRICS a China-led open-source AI community and model cooperation, yet the bloc's declaration ignored it and Beijing spent the summer debating whether to cut foreign access to Qwen, Doubao and GLM, an openness with a ceiling nobody has written down.
CNBC: Xi's statement never mentions the safety debate Fortune: Altman says a US-China AI pact would win Trump and Xi the Nobel
AI Can Unmask Georgia Ballots Before November
A known Dominion flaw lets shuffled ballot records be put back in order, and a Princeton researcher says a public AI assistant did the unshuffling and matched many voters to ballots from May's primary - Georgia says it has mitigated, advocates say not enough.
AI May Be Squeezing Pay Before It Takes Jobs
Apollo economists found real wages in AI-exposed jobs grew 6.7 points slower since 2023 with no measurable loss of employment, as labour's share of output hit a record-low 52.8% - though an EPI economist says the sample is too small to convince.
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