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US-China AI safety alert channel takes shape, but experts call it thin
Treasury's Scott Bessent floated a notification mechanism ahead of Trump-Xi talks; analysts say no technical experts sit on either side.
Sanders bill would ban AI superintelligence, jail violators for 20 years
The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would pause frontier model development and create a federal Department of AI to approve every advanced training run.
Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a Crispr-like enzyme system
Nearly 950 Claude agents worked 21 hours across 210 million tokens to flag a previously uncharacterized enzyme found in bacteriophages.
California forces data centers to disclose water and power use under new laws
Governor Gavin Newsom signed seven bills Monday requiring monthly energy reporting and separate utility rates for AI data centers starting next year.
Meta's Muse agent handles chores — and racks up $500 in camping gear
A hands-on with Meta's consumer AI agent shows the shopping muscle is real, the phone-call gap is glaring, and the credit-card friction is gone.
Enveda raises $311M Series E at $2B valuation for AI drug discovery
The biotech doubled its valuation in 12 months as AI-discovered drug candidates move deeper into human clinical trials.
YouTube lets users build their own algorithm with Gemini-powered custom feeds
The new prompt-based feature pins AI-curated video feeds to the top of the home page, rolling out on web and mobile next month.
68% of daily US AI users are worried about AI, Gallup finds
A 37-country Gallup study commissioned by Microsoft shows Americans lead the world in AI anxiety even as adoption climbs.
OpenAI brings voice-driven agentic workflows to the ChatGPT mobile app
Plus and Pro subscribers can now run Work-tab tasks by voice on their phones, with free-tier users limited to plugins and connected apps.
YouTube Music adds Ask Music and Your Podcast Lineup
The conversational search tool spans 300 million songs; a weekly AI-narrated guide handles podcast discovery.
Inside NVIDIA's validation lab, where Rubin GPUs get broken before customers can
Validation engineer Sakeena Fiza describes the hunt for hardware failures on boards with tens of thousands of components and racks approaching 500,000.
Ema raises $77M to push AI agents into enterprise software's turf
The Series B quadruples Ema's valuation and funds a push against SaaS and IT services incumbents across HR, IT, and finance.
Spotify opens its recommendation algorithm to US users with Taste Profile
Premium subscribers 18 and up can now edit their listening profile in plain English to reshape Discover Weekly and Home feed suggestions.
OpenAI extends Daybreak cyber program to Ukraine's civilian defense
The government of Ukraine gains access to OpenAI's Daybreak program to defend civilian infrastructure against cyber attacks.
AT&T targets 85,000 workers by 2030 as AI automates its copper empire
The 150-year-old telecom has shed more than half its workforce in a decade and is retiring copper across 85% of its footprint.
OpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead Creator Product
Yam is bringing Patreon's former product and engineering heads with him, days before OpenAI's September 29 DevDay.
Nvidia lines up Southeast Asian governments and enterprises on Nemotron models
At AI Day Singapore, HTX, Viettel, YTL and Sea Limited detail production deployments built on Nvidia's open Nemotron stack.
Greek PM Mitsotakis tells Silicon Valley he has no AI playbook
In San Francisco, Kyriakos Mitsotakis pitched Greece as a tech hub while conceding governments are already behind on AI chatbots and job displacement.
OpenAI enlists nine elite mathematicians to clean up its research rollouts
The IAS-hosted AGMAI panel will advise on releasing 100+ open problems OpenAI says its internal model has resolved.
Microsoft disrupts EvilTokens, an AI phishing platform that hit 12,000 accounts
The subscription service charged $1,500 upfront and $500 a month to automate mass inbox compromise across 10,000 organizations.
Rabbit unbundles its AI agent from the R1, ships OS3 for Windows, Mac, and Linux
The startup halts R1 hardware production and pivots to a cloud-orchestrated agent that runs locally across up to five paired devices.
Meta concedes its Muse assistant was heavily inspired by OpenClaw
Nat Friedman says Muse was built from scratch but modeled on the open-source agent OpenClaw, after users spotted near-identical config files.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 runs 30B-parameter models on-device
The new flagship chip's sensing hub supports models up to 200M parameters and a 30B MoE, outpacing Apple's 20B on-device model.
Snorkel AI triples to $3.5B valuation on $350M Series E as data demand surges
Revenue run-rate hit $375M, an 18x jump in 12 months, as AI labs pay up for training data and RL environments.
OpenAI upgrades prompt caching for GPT-6 with explicit breakpoints
Higher cache hit rates, new diagnostics, and developer-set breakpoints aim to cut latency and API bills for GPT-6 workloads.
Andreessen Horowitz launches a $42M rival to college with 10 tech partners
The Horowitz Andreessen Academy will take 50 students, skip degrees and homework, and route them into OpenAI, Palantir, Google, and Meta.
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5.5 with a 20% price cut and Fable-beating benchmarks
Output tokens drop to $20 per million from $25, and the new model outperforms the larger Fable on several coding and knowledge tasks.
OpenAI ships GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half the API price of the 5.6 series
The smaller siblings of GPT-6 Astra land with sharper factuality and a price cut, hours after Anthropic pushed Opus 5.5.
AstroForge puts a transformer model in command of its 2027 spacecraft
The asteroid-mining startup built Solo, an in-house control stack, after losing contact with its Odin probe in deep space.
Nscale files for $35B IPO with 85% of revenue tied to Microsoft and Anthropic
The British neocloud has $103B in contracts but two customers account for nearly all of it — and Anthropic can walk.
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