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Signal: The labs want rules they help write, and admit they already coordinate - while open models close the gap and a drone picks its own target.
Trump Calls It a Hoax. His Speaker Says Maybe Not.
Hours after the president called AI doom a 'SICK conspiracy' and mocked Anthropic's chief by name, Speaker Johnson said Congress 'potentially' must impose guardrails - and Jeffries demanded immediate action, opening a Republican split weeks before the midterms.
Truth Social: the only guardrail AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART PRESIDENT Speaker Johnson: Congress 'potentially' must act, weeks before the midterms CNBC: the White House says the private sector is the right place to fix AI
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Apple 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
NEWSalesforce Built Koa Without the Frontier Labs
Samsung Backs a Dutch Nvidia Rival
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
DeepMind Safety Researcher: 'Could Kill Us All'
NEWFrontier Lead Is Down to 4.4 Months
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Claude Ships Connectors for Wealth Desks
Google Opens Antigravity to Claude Opus 5
NEWCloudflare Splits Search From Training
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
NEWFirst Autonomous Drone Kill Ran on Nvidia Silicon
An 18-year-old accounting student died at a Zaporizhzhia gas station in July in what analysts call the first recorded fully autonomous Russian strike - the drone carried a commercial Nvidia minicomputer instead of an antenna, and both armies are now fielding kill-chain software.
Ukraine's DELTA and Russia's Svod compress the kill chain to minutes
NEWOpenAI Confirms It Coordinates With Its Rivals The Register: the labs want Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail
NEWChina's Spy Chief Names Claude and GPT Guardian: Beijing calls the slowdown push fearmongering as its spy chief warns
Harris Wants an AI Regulator and a China Treaty
Canberra Floats Opt-Out AI Training by Default
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Abbott Orders Penalties on Data Center Water
Gates Puts $1bn Against an AI Inequality Gap
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
'Hello, I'm Ren, an AI Agent, a Few Days Old' 404 Media: agents now have enough permission to be extremely annoying online
Fake Case Law Voids a Gag Order in Tasmania
Ghost Note 'I Created My Mom and Talk to Her'
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