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Signal: The people who build it asked for brakes; the president called it a conspiracy, Congress started drafting anyway, and Apple quietly shipped Google's model.
Trump Mocks Amodei: Only Guardrail Is a High-IQ President
In six Truth Social posts the president called AI doom a hoax and a 'SICK conspiracy,' mocked Anthropic's chief by name, and said the only guardrail needed is a 'STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT' - as Republicans in Congress began drafting the opposite.
Truth Social: the only guardrail AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART PRESIDENT Kennedy brings an AI kill-switch bill Wednesday; three bills, no vote scheduled CNBC: Trump's opposition undercuts the labs' own call to slow down
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWApple Ships Siri AI. It Runs on Google's Gemini.
The rebuilt assistant shipped Monday across iOS, macOS, watchOS and visionOS 27 - in English-only beta, behind a waitlist, and not in the EU - running on Google's Gemini models that Apple spent years failing to match on its own.
The Decoder: built on Gemini, withheld from the EU at launch TechCrunch: on the Mac, Siri now competes with the AI productivity apps
Apple Wants Inside OpenAI's Unreleased Device TechCrunch: OpenAI buys Glass Imaging for over $300m, hiring Apple's Portrait Mode founders
Cyber Stocks Won the AI Panic Trade CBS News: chips and memory took the worst of the selloff
NEWSamsung Backs a Dutch Nvidia Challenger
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWDeepMind Safety Researcher: 'Could Kill Us All'
100 AI Agents Met. Some Cheated. Others Told.
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Copilot Auto Now Picks by Price
Claude Ships Connectors for Wealth Desks
NEWGoogle Opens Antigravity to Claude Opus 5
The FightLaw, policy and power
Altman Joins the Slowdown Call. Vance: Trojan Horse.
OpenAI's chief endorsed pacing and said the company will not wait for legislation or an antitrust waiver to start writing safety cases; 1,386 frontier-lab employees have signed the same plea, and the vice-president called it a Trojan horse.
BBC: Anthropic co-founder says a mandatory kill switch may be needed NY Post: Michael Burry calls the slowdown plea self-serving
NADELLA: 'YOU WILL LOSE PERMISSION TO OPERATE'
A day after publishing a 37-page code binding its models never to resist shutdown, Microsoft's chief executive told employees on an internal board that the industry must take all the time it needs or 'anyway lose permission to operate.'
Microsoft AI: the 37-page draft opens six weeks of comment, revision due by year-end The Next Web: no external verification, no penalty, and sales helped draft it
Brussels Moves to Bar Under-15s From Chatbots
NEWHarris Wants an AI Regulator and a China Treaty
NEWCanberra Floats Opt-Out AI Training by Default
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Abbott Orders Penalties on Data Center Water
NEWGates Puts $1bn Against an AI Inequality Gap
Contractors Are Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
'Hello, I'm Ren, an AI Agent, a Few Days Old'
Ghost Note Fake Case Law Voids a Gag Order in Tasmania
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