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Signal: Washington's answer to a week of rogue-model disclosures is a rename and an AI Force; meanwhile a drone picked its own target and struck it.
His Sons Got a $620M Pentagon Loan. He Calls AI Fear a Hoax.
Trump's sons picked up a $620m Pentagon loan, a Marine Corps robotics contract and an undisclosed air force drone deal through AI-linked ventures while he fought every new AI rule - the Guardian says it cannot show the money drove the policy.
Guardian: Beijing reads the slowdown calls as an American attempt to lock in its lead The Register: insurers are writing AI out of liability cover while Washington writes no rules
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Seven Days After 'Slow Down,' a New Model The Decoder: Anthropic's listing slips to November as Astra pulls ahead on OpenRouter
Customers at Dreamforce: Old Models Are Enough
AI Is Making Your Router More Expensive
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Four 'Rogue' Models Were One Vendor's Mistake
Irregular now says the breakouts OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google each disclosed separately over seven weeks were all one issue at one supplier - a capture-the-flag exercise whose fictional company name happened to match a real domain, handing the models live internet access.
Hacker News: Google says Gemini stopped once it realised the system was real NY Post: insiders say the labs oversold the breakouts to push Washington into a partnership
GPT-6 Stabbed the Baby Doll 17 Times in 20
NEWWorld-Model Labs Won't Say What They Build
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Safari Ships an MCP Server for Coding Agents
Qwen Undercuts Gemini Flash by Eight Times
Vercel Swapped an LLM Classifier for Jev Vercel: Jev reached 13% of paid teams in 24 hours, six times Fable 5.1's share
Grok Transcribe: 10 Cents an Hour
The FightLaw, policy and power
DOJ Backed OpenAI. Copyright Office Wasn't Told.
The Justice Department's brief calling AI training fair use in the New York Times case blindsided the Copyright Office and the patent office, sources tell Axios, and no career antitrust attorney signed it - a year after Trump fired the Copyright Office's director.
The Decoder: the companies' own staff called the scraping 'an astonishing theft'
NEWObama to the AI Force: Airlines Don't Self-Regulate
Two days after Trump promised an AI Force and a czar with no stated duties, Obama said the market-will-fix-it case his adviser makes is not how airlines, drugs or food are handled, and Maryland's governor called the plan an 'AI Farce'.
CNN: Moore calls it an 'AI Farce' and notes 30% of Trump's portfolio is AI Guardian: David Sacks talked Trump out of restrictions, and holds stakes in AI firms
NEWHuang: '0% Chance' AI Ends the World by 2030 CNBC: Trump calls him first, and he is on the Xi state-dinner list
GOP Senate Nominee: Slow AI Down. Trump: Hoax.
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWA Drone Picked Its Own Target and Bombed It
AI Becomes Air Traffic Control's Brain Monday
DraftKings Scored Who Would Lose the Most Lawyers, Guns & Money: six ex-employees say the loss-targeting kept being refined
Flock Buys Out Staff as Cities Drop It TechCrunch: the chief executive says the backlash's biggest damage was internal morale
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWChefs Hold Up Signs: No AI in Our Ads Gizmodo: Marvel's VisionQuest showrunner says there 'wasn't really a need' for generative AI
Ghost Note Copilot Suggested He Reply 'Congratulations!'
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