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Signal: The safety talk is becoming evidence: essays cited as a cartel, a drone choosing its own target, a vendor holding the only key.
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
Customers at Dreamforce: Old Models Are Enough
AI Is Making Your Router More Expensive TNW: Insta360 spent $298m on memory chips as GoPro's whole company sold for $285m
NEWQwen Says 7B Beats the Closed Image Models
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Four 'Rogue' Models Were One Vendor's Mistake Hacker News: Google says Gemini stopped once it realised the system was real
GPT-6 Stabbed the Baby Doll 17 Times in 20
World-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
Obama 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 is not how airlines, drugs or food are handled, and Ro Khanna told CBS the country needs an FDA for AI.
The Hill: Khanna wants an FDA-style AI agency with independent technical experts TNW: Republican opposition to data centres hit 47% the week Trump called it a hoax
NEWThe Cartel Case Is Built From Their Own Words
Buist v. Anthropic quotes Amodei's own line that pacing the frontier would need a narrow antitrust waiver, then answers that none exists and no agency compelled it - a complaint assembled almost entirely from public statements.
TNW: Suleyman calls the push responsible as Zuckerberg's dissent echoes the plaintiffs
Huang: '0% Chance' AI Ends the World by 2030 CNBC: Trump calls him first, and he is on the Xi state-dinner list
DOJ Backed OpenAI. Copyright Office Wasn't Told. The Decoder: the companies' own staff called the scraping 'an astonishing theft'
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
A Drone Picked Its Own Target and Bombed It
Sweden's Scaleout Systems ran small vision models on an Nvidia Jetson inside a BAE loitering munition that ranked an armored engineering vehicle highest, flew to it and dropped an explosive - no human input, no comms, on parts cheap enough to field at scale.
AI Becomes Air Traffic Control's Brain Monday
Flock Buys Out Staff as Cities Drop It Futurism: an officer typed 'LMAO' as the reason, then searched 19,000 Flock cameras
NEWZ.ai Uploaded His Repo. Only Z.ai Can Open It.
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Chefs 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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