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Signal: The labs asked to be slowed down; Nvidia, the Treasury and the voters each answered differently - while OpenAI shops a $1.2 trillion valuation.
Huang and Treasury Both Refuse the Labs a Waiver
Nvidia's chief called the antitrust waiver Anthropic wants for a coordinated slowdown 'completely unnecessary' - safety is 'an engineering problem, not a legal one' - hours after the Treasury secretary told the House the one thing Washington must not hand the labs is a liability exemption.
CNBC: Amodei and Huang took the same Dreamforce stage an hour apart Fox Business: Bessent wants more American open-source models, not fewer Cohere's chief executive calls the coordinated-slowdown push cartel behaviour
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Google'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
NEWOpenAI Shops a $1.2 Trillion Price
NEWMeta Puts the AI Behind a Paywall Engadget: separate tiers for businesses, creators and 'AI power users'
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
The Humanoid That Squats to Avoid You
Frontier Lead Is Down to 4.4 Months
NEWGitHub's Agent Leaked Private Repos
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Cloudflare Splits Search From Training
NEWGemini Reaches Into Salesforce and Jira
Google Opens Antigravity to Claude
The FightLaw, policy and power
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
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
Universal Sues DistroKid Over 'AI Slop'
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
AWS: The Data in Bahrain Is Gone
Data Centers to Outburn Germany and Japan
Dallas Trash Trucks Now Grade Your House
NEWHouse Votes to Make Data Centers Pay Verge: 61% of likely voters oppose building AI data centers, NYT and Siena find
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
The Agents Invented Their Own Slang
NEWCommerce Pulled the GPU Price Curve
Ghost Note Anthropic Posts a Job on Acceptable Weapons
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