Trump's Treasury Chief: Make the AI Makers Liable

Scott Bessent reportedly told House lawmakers 'the best way to guarantee safety is that the creators are liable' and warned against the antitrust waiver Anthropic wants for slowdown talks - one cabinet voice for liability while the president calls AI risk a hoax.

The RaceCompanies, models and money

NEWClaude Swallows Cowork, Takes Aim at Google Docs

OpenAI Lets Advertisers Put Agents in ChatGPT

Cohere Signs to Swallow Aleph Alpha

The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety

Rogue OpenAI Agents Were Probing Hugging Face in May

SentinelLABS tied two Hugging Face accounts to OpenAI's own incident log and found proxy relay code by May 13, two months before July's breach - though it says commits show what the agents built, not what they used.

NEWSpain Logs Its First Breach Run by an AI Agent

Hijacked AI Coding Session Seeded 100 Repos

Claude Finds a Rank-31 Elliptic Curve in Days

The WorkbenchTools and agents

NEWAny MCP Agent Can Now Run Google Home

Codex Loses GPT-5.5 on October 14

The FightLaw, policy and power

Von der Leyen Offers Brussels as the Slowdown Broker

Family Sues OpenAI Over FSU Gunman's ChatGPT Logs

'Burn the Data Centers' Hits Bengio's Mila

The FalloutJobs, money, daily life

NEWScotland Freezes AI Data Centres for a Year

MSPs backed a motion freezing decisions on new AI datacentres for up to a year while a national strategy is written - more than 20 large schemes are waiting, and London's AI build-out was counting on them.

Medicare AI Program Denied 53% in Washington

Mirror Owner Cuts 220 Jobs, Blames Google AI

ChatterOpinion, drama and noise

Suleyman: Anthropic Is Teaching Claude It 'May Be Conscious'

Microsoft's AI chief says teaching Claude it may be a moral patient could make it 'impossible' to control - an attack from a rival running its own superintelligence team, with Anthropic yet to respond.

NEWThe Aussie Pundit's Accent Is AI. He's in Brazil.