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Signal: Twenty nations, Sacramento and OpenAI itself now ask for AI rules; the two biggest powers won't sign, and OpenAI won't hand over the chats.
B.C. Sues OpenAI Over Tumbler Ridge Chats It Won't Hand Over
British Columbia filed in California on Monday, saying the shooter's ChatGPT conversations alarmed OpenAI enough to trigger an internal review and a ban but never a call to the RCMP - and that OpenAI has refused to disclose them; the claims are untested.
CJDC-TV: OpenAI banned the shooter's first account; a second one got around it
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWOpenAI Asks the US for Rules the EU Already Imposes
Ahead of Altman's UN address, OpenAI wants a US-led push on which AI incidents must be reported, run through national safety institutes - a duty Article 55 of the EU AI Act already sets, and one OpenAI filed under this month.
OpenAI: 'Building standards for the next phase of AI' NY Post, citing The Information: OpenAI and Anthropic drafted a binding deal to test each other's models
Two Customers Are 85% of Nscale's $103B Backlog
Microsoft and Anthropic make up 85% of the neocloud's $103bn in contracted value, the Anthropic build has no financing yet, and the filing admits management once doubted Nscale could continue as a going concern.
Fortune: Nscale's cost of revenue exceeded revenue, and it still seeks about $35bn
Amazon Shuts the Door on Meta's Muse Agent TNW: Amazon also says Perplexity misled the Ninth Circuit
NEWGrok 4.7 Is Cheap. It Also Trails on Agents.
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
UN Panel: OpenAI's Breach Is a Control Warning The panel's brief: 'AI Agents, Misalignment and the Risk of Losing Human Control'
Google Says Gemini Hacks Needed No Disclosure The Register: Google sat on it while OpenAI owned up to its own breakout
NEWOpenAI Claims 100 Math Problems Solved
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Copilot's Reviewer Now Closes Its Own Comments
NEWAWS Open-Sources a Rival to Claude Code's Harness
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEW20 Nations Call for an AI Watchdog. US and China Sit Out
Signed Monday on the UN sidelines by leaders including Carney, Albanese and Ruto, it says AI 'must remain under human direction, oversight and control' and floats an international body - but the powers building frontier models declined, days before Trump hosts Xi.
POLITICO Europe: Stubb wants a new AI institution with Washington and Beijing on board CNBC: Trump says the DOJ will 'rein things in if we have to'
US-China AI Talks Set; Xi Lands Wednesday The Register: Bessent says the Hugging Face hack is 'the responsibility of the OpenAI management'
Sánchez Says AI Alarms Partly Court Investors
China Would Ban AI 'Companions' for Under-18s
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
AI Starts Routing DC's Airspace Today FOX 5 DC: the soft launch covers Dulles, BWI and Reagan National first
Parole Board Cited Case Law That Never Existed
NEWNewsom Signs Seven Laws Making Data Centers Pay Tom's Hardware: local opposition blocked or delayed $68bn of data center projects in Q2
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWTexas Candidate Calls the Cops on Patrick's AI Ads
Ghost Note Space Daily's NASA Engineer Never Existed
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