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Signal: The argument stays rhetorical while the plumbing gets built: an incident hotline to Beijing, a voided hallucinated citation, $300bn of AI debt in the footnotes.
Trump Calls AI Fear a Hoax. Bessent Asks Beijing for a Hotline.
Bessent came out of Sunday's meeting with He Lifeng proposing a U.S.-China notification mechanism for AI incidents that rise to national-security level - a channel neither country has ever had, floated four days before Trump hosts Xi and weeks after he called the risk a hoax.
The Hill: analysts expect a channel, not a deal, when Xi lands Wednesday Kyodo: U.S. proposes a notification mechanism for AI issues to China
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEW$300B of AI Debt Sits in the Footnotes
AI Is Making Your Router More Expensive Finimize: China's CXMT says its fifth-generation DRAM has entered mass production
NEWAmerica Now Builds Data Centers, Not Houses
Qwen: 7B Beats Closed Image Models
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
GPT-6 Stabbed the Baby Doll 17 Times in 20
World-Model Labs Won't Say What They Build
NEWAndroid Malware Now Ships Its Own AI Agent
The WorkbenchTools and agents
NEWCopilot's Reviewer Now Closes Its Own Comments
Safari Ships an MCP Server for Coding Agents
Qwen Undercuts Gemini Flash by Eight Times
Vercel Swaps an LLM Judge for Jev Vercel: Jev reached 13% of paid teams in 24 hours, six times Fable 5.1's share
The FightLaw, policy and power
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 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
Obama to the AI Force: Airlines Don't Self-Regulate ABC: Pritzker calls AI dangerous 'on the level of nuclear weapons'
Huang: '0% Chance' AI Ends the World by 2030 CNBC: Trump calls him first, and he is on the Xi state-dinner list
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
Z.ai Uploaded His Repo. Only Z.ai Can Open It.
NEWParole Board Cited Case Law That Never Existed
Ghost Note A Machine Read the 1918 Message Nobody Could
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