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Signal: Agents and data centers are outrunning their rulebooks: Muse runs with a zero-day, Texas freezes permits, and B.C. sues over chats OpenAI withheld.
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
OpenAI 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
NEWAmazon Locks Muse Out. Shopify Lets It Buy. MarketWatch: Amazon and Shopify take opposite sides in the AI-shopping fight
Two Customers Are 85% of Nscale's $103B Backlog Fortune: Nscale's cost of revenue exceeded revenue, and it still seeks about $35bn
Grok 4.7 Is Cheap. It Also Trails on Agents.
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWMeta's Muse Has a Zero-Day That Hands Over the Agent
Ars found that locally run apps and terminal commands can take complete control of Meta's agent, which holds users' mail, calendar, WhatsApp and broad Mac permissions - a simple ClickFix lure is one way in, weeks after Zuckerberg called it built for security.
The Register: the same flaw lets local malware redirect Muse's dictation traffic
UN Panel: OpenAI's Breach Is a Control Warning The panel's brief: 'AI Agents, Misalignment and the Risk of Losing Human Control'
OpenAI Claims 100 Math Problems Solved
NEW225 Glasswing Bugs, One Exploited in the Wild
The WorkbenchTools and agents
AWS Open-Sources a Rival to Claude Code's Harness
The FightLaw, policy and power
20 Nations Call for an AI Watchdog. US and China Sit Out POLITICO Europe: Stubb wants a new AI institution with Washington and Beijing on board
NEWLeak: EU States Would Wave AI Past the GDPR
US-China AI Talks Set; Xi Lands Wednesday The Register: Bessent says the Hugging Face hack is 'the responsibility of the OpenAI management'
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWAbbott Freezes Every Texas Data Center Permit
Abbott widened August's grid moratorium to every environmental permit until ERCOT audits the queue; BloombergNEF says the pause puts nearly 20% of the US's 253-GW pipeline at risk, in the state set to overtake Virginia.
WTOC: Georgia residents sue over OpenAI's secret 3.2GW Effingham data center deal ABC: Victoria bars new data centres near schools and within 150m of homes
Newsom Signs Seven Laws Making Data Centers Pay Tom's Hardware: local opposition blocked or delayed $68bn of data center projects in Q2
NEWCharity: Give Britons a Right to a Human
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Texas Candidate Calls the Cops on Patrick's AI Ads
Ghost Note AGI House: 37 Police Calls and a Flying Car
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