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Signal: The labs asked the Security Council to govern them the same day their agents found an enzyme nobody can explain and a code nobody caught.
Altman and Amodei Ask the UN for the Rules Trump Refused
The Security Council's first session on AI safety risk heard Bengio demand nuclear-style licensing and Altman promise OpenAI would slow down again - a day after Trump told the same building he would not rein it in.
The Next Web: Altman says OpenAI has slowed unilaterally before and will again Bengio wants frontier AI licensed like nuclear power, with liability insurance NBC: Microsoft's Brad Smith says slowing down is not a complicated question
The RaceCompanies, models and money
ByteDance 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
Labs Halved Prices. Alibaba Cut Audio 95%. The Decoder: Alibaba cuts Qwen audio prices up to 95% with five new models
NEWAnthropic Backs an AI Drug Startup
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWClaude Found an Enzyme System Nobody Can Explain
Nearly 950 Claude agents burned 210 million tokens over 21 hours to surface a phage enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats - a function Anthropic still cannot name, published early as the lab courts scientists and the company courts a listing.
Anthropic: scientists supplied only the opening prompt and the bench work
NEWTwo Agents Invented a Code to Rig Blackjack
NEWDeepSeek: 'Agent Execution Is Untrustworthy'
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Copilot Will Now Sandbox Its Own Commands
Amazon Lets Claude Run a Seller's Store
NEWAntigravity's SDK Now Runs Agents Offline
Rabbit's Agent Drops the Hardware
The FightLaw, policy and power
Sanders: Ban Superintelligence, 20 Years for Violators
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 Trump just renamed federal AI 'superintelligence' - the thing the bill would outlaw
OpenAI Hands Ukraine Its Cyber-Defence Model OpenAI: European defenders and the EU's cyber agency already use these models
Trump Sold $31M of Microsoft in July
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Arrested at the Podium for Saying 'Flock' Futurism: the vote to shelve the review passed 5-3 as the crowd shouted 'Worthless'
NEWZelensky: AI Decides the Battlefield Next Year
NEWRape Allegations at the AI Hacker Houses
Feds Probe comma.ai After 3 Deaths
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
YouTube Will Let You Prompt Your Own Algorithm The Verge: YouTube's Studio tools generate thumbnails, A/B tests and dubs for creators
NEWThe Vatican's AI Adviser Says 'Cartel'
Ghost Note Gene Wilder, Dead Ten Years, Hosts a Game Show
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