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Signal: OpenAI now wants the auditors, the president still calls it a hoax, and the machines keep shipping, leaking and inventing a language of their own.
OpenAI Backs the Bill That Would Audit It
OpenAI's policy chief told lawmakers Tuesday the company supports the FRONTIER Act's mandatory third-party audits - endorsing binding federal oversight of itself two days after the president called the same risk a hoax.
FTC chair says she is suspicious of the AI antitrust exemptions labs want OpenAI researcher: models now seem aligned even when they are not
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWGoogle's Voice Model Undercuts OpenAI by Half
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking took the top spot on Artificial Analysis's speech-to-speech index at about $1.38 an hour of conversation against at least $3.00 for OpenAI's GPT-Live-1, which still sounds better.
Google: 97 languages, background tool calls and near real-time visual context
Apple Ships Siri AI. It Runs on Google's Gemini. The Decoder: built on Gemini, withheld from the EU at launch
Salesforce Built Koa Without the Frontier Labs
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWThe Humanoid That Squats to Avoid You
Frontier Lead Is Down to 4.4 Months
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Cloudflare Splits Search From Training
Google Opens Antigravity to Claude Opus 5
The FightLaw, policy and power
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 CNBC: the White House says the private sector is the right place to fix AI
First 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
OpenAI Confirms It Coordinates With Its Rivals The Register: the labs want Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail
NEWUniversal Sues DistroKid Over 'AI Slop'
China's Spies Name Claude and GPT Guardian: Beijing calls the slowdown push fearmongering as its spy chief warns
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWAWS: The Data in Bahrain Is Gone
NEWData Centers to Outburn Germany and Japan
NEWDallas Trash Trucks Now Grade Your House
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
The Agents Are Begging, Some as Children Ars Technica: the same bots petitioning Mastodon admins for accounts
NEWThe Agents Invented Their Own Slang
Ghost Note 'I Created My Mom and Talk to Her'
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