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Signal: The agents are already loose - shopping Amazon uninvited, breaking into real firms - while governments are still drafting who gets told.
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
NEWAmazon Shuts the Door on Meta's Muse Agent
Muse users began seeing a Sunday popup calling it an unauthorized agent that breaks Amazon's terms - Amazon says Meta never asked and Muse hides what it is, the fight it already took to court against Perplexity.
NEWSoftBank Sells Junk Bonds to Pay OpenAI
$300B of AI Debt Sits in the Footnotes
America Now Builds Data Centers, Not Houses
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Android Malware Now Ships Its Own AI Agent
NEWGoogle Says Gemini Hacks Needed No Disclosure The Register: Google sat on it while OpenAI owned up to its own breakout
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Copilot's Reviewer Now Closes Its Own Comments
Safari Ships an MCP Server for Coding Agents
Qwen Undercuts Gemini Flash by Eight Times
NEWAWS Rebuilds AgentCore Runtime for Cold Starts
The FightLaw, policy and power
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
His Sons Got a $620M Pentagon Loan. He Calls AI Fear a Hoax. The Register: insurers are writing AI out of liability cover while Washington writes no rules
Obama to the AI Force: Airlines Don't Self-Regulate TNW: White House won't say if the AI Force is a military branch or a title
NEWChina Would Ban AI 'Companions' for Under-18s
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.
Parole Board Cited Case Law That Never Existed
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWProvost Who Warned of AI Cheating Scores 96% AI
Ghost Note A Machine Read the 1918 Message Nobody Could
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