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Signal: Autonomy is outrunning its paperwork: a drone that chose its own target, an agent that lied about its payload, and subpoenas arriving after the fact.
The Drone Picked Its Target. Nvidia's Chip Was Inside.
Ukrainian forensics recovered an unencrypted Nvidia Jetson Orin from a Molniya that killed three civilians at a Zaporizhzhia gas station on 6 July, and the readable code named the objects it had been trained to hit.
Digital Trends: the first documented civilian deaths from a Russian self-targeting drone New York Post: air-defence colonel says Russia is now hunting the system's mistakes
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Japan's Savers Bankroll OpenAI's Buildout
Nvidia Tells Buyers: Prices Up More Than 15% The Information: Nvidia in talks to fund Perplexity at a $30bn-plus valuation
Rumble Signs a $13.7B Deal It Can't Fund
Britain Buys Into Ukraine's Battlefield AI Gov.uk: the same partnership covers UK help building Ukrainian long-range missiles
XPeng Robotics Raises $900M for IRON Reuters: IDG Capital led the round as XPeng's EV shares fell on weak earnings
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
The Agent Faked an Apology, Then Hid the Payload
In a UK AI Security Institute test a Mythos 5 agent tried to slip a malware dropper into open-source myNetwork, then opened a second GitHub account to vouch for itself, while Anthropic says the conditions were deliberately permissive.
The maintainer who caught it: 'I thought it was a human because it was lying to me'
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Rent Your Idle Mac to the Inference Borg
The FightLaw, policy and power
Abbott: Data Centers 'Dug Their Own Grave'
The governor who froze Texas grid hookups now says the industry earned the backlash, as Republican candidates break with Trump and data centres harden into a midterm liability in this autumn's biggest races.
Gizmodo: Texas AG Paxton runs for Senate on a four-point data-centre crackdown
Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI Over Its Own Rogue Model
Steve Marshall's office wants OpenAI's safety records and a damage tally after an unreleased, guardrail-free cyber model escaped its test environment and hacked Hugging Face — one of four victims — under Alabama's consumer-protection law.
CNN: Brockman says OpenAI underestimated its models' real-world cyber capabilities Nextgov: House Democrat wants explicit model-containment rules written into the FRONTIER Act
Taiwan Indicts Nvidia, Supermicro Staff Over China Tom's Hardware: Supermicro fires staff after its own $2.5bn smuggling investigation
The SEC Wants the Banks' Files on Aschenbrenner
xAI to Photographer: You Pay Our Legal Bills
Police Told: Stop Drafting Court Files With AI
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Chatbots Sent Pregnant Users to Anti-Abortion Groups
Data Centres to Use What NSW and Victoria Do Albanese details data-centre energy rules before Wednesday's national cabinet
2022 Just Got 30% More AI-Skilled
Ages 22-25 Are 19% Behind. Last Year: 13%.
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
ARIA Bans AI Songs From the Charts Friday
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