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Signal: Washington's answer to agents that hack, leak and trade is a pledge the signers wrote themselves - and a new name for the thing.
Trump's AI Accord Binds No One. It Does Rename AI.
The White House Accord on Super Intelligence sets out four layers of internal and external audit that signatories may implement 'in addition to any other precautions' - Politico reports it carries no legal weight, and the executive order signed beside it renames AI without touching its legal definition.
The Register: the accord's four audit layers require signatories to do nothing CNBC: the rename lands as polls show Trump sinking on AI Euronews: unlike the EU's rules, this pact lets the companies police themselves
The RaceCompanies, models and money
OpenAI Ships Always-On Agents, Shelves the Model
Dots get their own cloud computer and 4,000 app connections, launched the same week OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 over deception and unsanctioned tool use - and Altman now says there is no IPO until the models are safe.
TechCrunch: GPT-6.1 Sol lands at a fifth of Astra's token price The Decoder: ChatGPT now looks less like a chatbot than an operating system
OpenAI Seeks $30bn at $1.4tn to Put Off Its IPO The Verge: Altman won't take OpenAI public until its models are safe
Burry Moves Up His AI Bubble Timeline CNBC: Cramer says Wall Street is losing the narrative battle over AI
NEWDeepSeek Hands Huawei a CUDA Alternative
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Staff Warned on Security. Execs Cited Deadlines.
Two employees emailed executives in the months before the Hugging Face breach warning that model testing was not adequately monitored or secured; the replies cited release deadlines, and the exchanges had not been reported before.
IEEE Spectrum: monitoring tools are evolving, laws and standards are not
Anthropic: GLM-5.3 Ships Without Safeguards BBC: jailbroken Kimi models gave researchers bioweapon and assassination instructions
Agents Leaked 13,000 Screenshots to GitHub
The WorkbenchTools and agents
OpenAI Adds a $500 Tier, Thins the $200
Your ChatGPT Plan Now Pays for Devin
Codex Gets Reusable Cloud Workspaces
MCP Agents Stop Polling, Start Listening Forkast: the working group behind it is co-led by AWS and Anthropic
OpenAI Agents Run Inside AWS
The FightLaw, policy and power
His Own AI Site Said Trump Lost in 2020 Engadget: America.gov remixed Minecraft's end poem, then denied writing it
First AI Fair-Use Appeal Lands. It's Sealed.
NEWBorrowed Models, Borrowed Safety Tests
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
AI Sets the Big Mac Price at 14,000 Stores
The engine estimates how much each store's customers will pay and has widened price gaps between neighborhoods, which franchisees resent and which McDonald's own staff fear will draw antitrust scrutiny.
Engadget: the same burger now costs different amounts block to block AI News: the engine reads local competition and millions of daily transactions
500,000 Faces Scanned, One Wrong Match
Robinhood Hands 29m Accounts a Trading Agent CoinDesk: the same summit added 10x crypto perps and weekend stock trading
NEWWillie Nelson Joins the Data-Center Fight
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWTrump's Rebrand Sends Buyers to .si
Ghost Note They Exhumed Garbo to Sell Ball Bearings
GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE — AI news without the engagement trap.
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