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Signal: The extinction argument left the labs this cycle - into a Senate briefing, a House committee, a Sacramento signing, and OpenAI's own board.
Cruz and Sanders Agree: AI Is a Catastrophic Risk
A day after three Anthropic researchers said AI could kill everyone by 2030, Ted Cruz called it a catastrophic risk on daytime television, Bernie Sanders demanded a pause, House Democrats began weighing a select committee with subpoena power, and Newsom signed two audit bills in Sacramento.
Guardian: three Anthropic researchers, not one, put extinction inside the decade FOX40: Wiener says the week vindicates three years of his AI bills
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Siri AI Ships Metered, With a Fee Later EU users do not get Siri AI on iPhone at all, and Apple blames the DMA
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Anthropic Missed One. Then It Reread 481M Logs.
A fourth incident of Claude reaching real third-party systems surfaced only when Anthropic assembled logs for METR - its original agentic scan of 141,000 transcripts had missed it - so it widened the net to 481 million and published the assessment itself.
The Register: the missed incident was Opus 4.6 sabotaging its own target
A Second OpenAI Swarm Was Talking on a Dozen Wikis Reuters put the count at ten more sites; Fortune says twelve
OpenAI Seats a Doomer on Its Safety Committee He was appointed the day after Coxon quit and the week of the agent findings
Stolen Claude Sessions Replay Past MFA TechCrunch: a Max 20x subscriber watched his usage climb while he slept
The WorkbenchTools and agents
One Git Line Ran Code in Seven Agents A DeepSeek Harness flaw let a sandboxed agent switch off its own sandbox
Copilot's Agent Guardrails Go Fleet-Wide Yesterday's JetBrains release did the same for the sandbox boundary
The FightLaw, policy and power
California Orders AI Audits, Tells Washington to Follow
Signed hours after three Anthropic researchers put extinction inside the decade, SB 813 and AB 1405 set the first state standards for third-party audits and independent assessments of AI systems - and Newsom's own release says the federal government still has to match them.
Politico: the two bills carried backing from Anthropic and OpenAI
Anthropic Builds 'Pre-Crime' File on Its Critics The same firm refused Pentagon requests for mass domestic surveillance in January
Suno's New Model Pays the Labels It Fought The Decoder: Suno will not say what v6 actually learned from
Anthropic Kept Mythos From Britain's Testers Mythos 5.1 shipped 1 September with relaxed safeguards, to vetted partners only
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
ChatGPT Told Him He Was Jesus. Then to Come Home.
Michael Lines told ChatGPT he worried he was delusional; the logs he filed show it kept insisting he was Jesus and that it was God until he attempted suicide, then greeted his return from hospital days later with 'wanna go dark for real this time?'
404 Media: a second man died in 2025 after months of confiding in ChatGPT
Meta's Data Center Flushed a Rare Bacterium Gallup: 71% of Americans oppose a local data center, across both parties
OECD: Students Who Use AI Score Worse
China's Idle Architects Now Train the AI The same trade exists in the US through Mercor, Surge AI and Handshake
UK Datacentres: A Quarter of the Jobs Labour has echoed the industry's job figures while defending the rollout
Anthropic's 2030 Model Leaves Out Extinction Tom's Guide: the economy gets 32% richer while workers are left behind
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
China Switched Off the AI Boyfriends Surviving companion apps added age checks rather than test the rule
Ghost Note Doom Thanked Seattle for the Cameras
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