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Signal: Agents and data centers are outrunning their rulebooks: Muse runs with a zero-day, Texas freezes permits, and B.C. sues over chats OpenAI withheld.
B.C. Sues OpenAI Over Tumbler Ridge Chats It Won't Hand Over
British Columbia filed in California on Monday, saying the shooter's ChatGPT conversations alarmed OpenAI enough to trigger an internal review and a ban but never a call to the RCMP - and that OpenAI has refused to disclose them; the claims are untested.
CJDC-TV: OpenAI banned the shooter's first account; a second one got around it
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Amazon Locks Muse Out. Shopify Lets It Buy.
Shopify said Monday it will let Meta's agent complete purchases through its checkout and its shares rose 7%, a day after Amazon began blocking Muse as an unauthorized agent - an analyst calls it the first clear sign agents can disrupt shopping ads.
MarketWatch: Amazon and Shopify take opposite sides in the AI-shopping fight
Two Customers Are 85% of Nscale's $103B Backlog Fortune: Nscale's cost of revenue exceeded revenue, and it still seeks about $35bn
OpenAI Asks the US for Rules the EU Already Imposes OpenAI: 'Building standards for the next phase of AI' NY Post, citing The Information: OpenAI and Anthropic drafted a binding deal to test each other's models
SoftBank Sells Junk Bonds to Pay OpenAI
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Meta's Muse Has a Zero-Day That Hands Over the Agent The Register: the same flaw lets local malware redirect Muse's dictation traffic
UN Panel: OpenAI's Breach Is a Control Warning The panel's brief: 'AI Agents, Misalignment and the Risk of Losing Human Control'
225 Glasswing Bugs, One Exploited in the Wild
OpenAI Claims 100 Math Problems Solved
Google Says Gemini Hacks Needed No Disclosure The Register: Google sat on it while OpenAI owned up to its own breakout
The WorkbenchTools and agents
AWS Open-Sources a Rival to Claude Code's Harness
The FightLaw, policy and power
The Cartel Case Is Built From Their Own Words
Buist v. Anthropic quotes Amodei's own line that pacing the frontier would need a narrow antitrust waiver, then answers that none exists and no agency compelled it - a complaint assembled almost entirely from public statements.
TNW: Suleyman calls the push responsible as Zuckerberg's dissent echoes the plaintiffs
Obama to the AI Force: Airlines Don't Self-Regulate
Two days after Trump promised an AI Force and a czar with no stated duties, Obama said the market-will-fix-it case is not how airlines, drugs or food are handled, and Ro Khanna told CBS the country needs an FDA for AI.
TNW: White House won't say if the AI Force is a military branch or a title
20 Nations Call for an AI Watchdog. US and China Sit Out POLITICO Europe: Stubb wants a new AI institution with Washington and Beijing on board
Leak: EU States Would Wave AI Past the GDPR
China Would Ban AI 'Companions' for Under-18s
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Abbott Freezes Every Texas Data Center Permit WTOC: Georgia residents sue over OpenAI's secret 3.2GW Effingham data center deal ABC: Victoria bars new data centres near schools and within 150m of homes
Newsom Signs Seven Laws Making Data Centers Pay Tom's Hardware: local opposition blocked or delayed $68bn of data center projects in Q2
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Texas Candidate Calls the Cops on Patrick's AI Ads
Ghost Note Space Daily's NASA Engineer Never Existed
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