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Archive September 23, 2026 15:11 UTC
Signal: Congress would jail the frontier, the export rules leak through a Norwegian data centre, and the residents objecting get their microphones cut.
Sanders Bill: Ban Superintelligence, 20 Years for Breaking It
Sanders and Casar would outlaw any system that exceeds human cognition, pause frontier development until a new Department of AI writes the rules, and jail violators for up to 20 years - with current OpenAI and DeepMind staff signing on.
NPR: Senate staff are barred from the agent tools the bill would regulate Semafor: in 34 of 37 countries polled, positive feeling about AI outweighs negative

NEWByteDance Was 73% of Nscale. The S-1 Doesn't Say So.
ByteDance's Singapore unit rented 2,304 Nvidia B200s at Nscale's Norway site - chips it cannot buy at home - for $24m of the neocloud's $33m 2025 revenue; the FT says it is legal, and the $35bn IPO filing never names it.
Fortune: the largest unnamed customer still supplied 52% of revenue in the first half The Next Web: Macquarie made Nscale report 'compute anomalies' that could breach export rules
Anthropic's Free Clinical AI Reaches Sudan and Haiti
OpenEvidence's clinical search tool, running on Anthropic's models and used 42 million times by US doctors in August, goes free in about 100 low- and middle-income countries - critics note the training data comes from rich ones.
NEWArrested at the Podium for Saying 'Flock'
Springfield, Missouri's mayor moved the licence-plate-reader review to committee to block public comment, cleared the room and switched off the cameras; two people were arrested, including a first-time attendee whose mic was cut mid-sentence - the city runs 41 Flock cameras.
Futurism: the vote to shelve the review passed 5-3 as the crowd shouted 'Worthless'
Ghost Note Gene Wilder, Dead Ten Years, Hosts a Game Show