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Signal: Governments stopped debating and started switching: Florida rips out the cameras, the Pentagon installs Grok, and Trump tells the towns to comply.
Brussels Just Made ChatGPT a Very Large Search Engine
The Commission designated ChatGPT a very large online search engine on Monday, giving it until December to open an ad archive, publish risk assessments and admit vetted researchers - with lawyers already arguing over whether the audit right reaches training data or model weights.
The Decoder: lawyers dispute whether Article 40 access reaches training data or weights
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Nvidia Buys a Seat on Everyone Else's Chip Nvidia newsroom: MediaTek adopts NVLink Fusion for prevalidated custom XPUs in rack-scale AI factories
OpenAI's Ads Hit $1B a Year in 200 Days OpenAI: ads now run in 40 countries, with self-service opening in India and the EU
The Landlord Paid the Tenant $5.5 Billion
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Tens of Thousands of Mac Minis, for Agents TechRepublic: the orders cover Mac minis and Mac Studios alike
The WorkbenchTools and agents
OpenAI Bills Only When the Agent Finishes
OpenClaw 2.0 Adds Multiplayer, Not Isolation The Register: 2.0 adds shared sessions to a project with unresolved security debt
The FightLaw, policy and power
Pentagon Installs Grok. Claude Still Banned.
Approved builds of ChatGPT and Grok went live Monday on GenAI.mil for three million military users at the highest unclassified impact level, six months after the Pentagon purged Anthropic as a supply-chain risk - a designation a federal judge called baseless last week.
TechCrunch: the Pentagon now has its own versions of ChatGPT and Grok
Apple: He Taught an Agent to Run Our Schematic MacRumors: 'Why do they even need you then?' - the chat log Apple filed
'Zlibrary My Beloved': Anthropic's Own Chats
Bank of England's Bailey Puts AI Atop G20 Risk List BBC: Bailey tells G20 firms to prepare for simultaneous disruption across multiple institutions
FSU Victim's Family Sues OpenAI and Altman
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
The Word the AI Scribe Dropped Was 'Null'
Twenty-seven AI scribes now sit in NHS consulting rooms and none is regulated as a medical device, after Healthwatch England found them swapping drug names and turning one patient's 'null demyelination' scan result into a nerve-damage diagnosis.
TNW: patients, not doctors, are the ones catching the errors
Let Data Reign: Trump Turns on the Towns Fighting Back
Three-quarters of Americans tell pollsters they would oppose a data centre next door, and the president's answer, with November's midterms nearing and his own party's Senate committee warning about that polling, is that they will only have themselves to blame.
CNBC: Republican Senate committee memo warned voters' data-center views must be fixed quickly CNN: Vance says he feels their pain while Trump says let data reign Daily Caller News Foundation: the studies do not show data centres make towns richer
Florida Rips the Plate Readers Off Its Highways Decrypt: Texas cuts off state funding for Flock as officer misuse cases pile up Orlando Sentinel: cameras must come off state roads within thirty days
Pentagon Denies the Strike the President Posted Al Jazeera: Vance says the video was a message that Iran faces consequences in Hormuz
The Adjusters Hate AI. Their Jobs Fell 21%.
PhD Student Beats Utility With £175 of Tokens
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Instagram Will Demote the Unlabelled Fakes Engadget: unlabelled AI influencers get demoted rather than removed
Ghost Note The Cat in the Hat Is Outside the School
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