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| CNBC: |
The Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework — The Senate on Tuesday voted to block the Clarity Act from advancing, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI has held early conversations with investors about raising another private funding round at a $1.2T valuation before its planned IPO — Sam Altman's start-up could capitalise on demand for its technology after new model launches — OpenAI has held early conversations … | Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it has been working with Anthropic and Google for several weeks on AI safety, and it does not need an antitrust waiver to coordinate on safety — OpenAI is working on steps to address artificial intelligence safety issues with its top competitors Anthropic PBC and Google DeepMind …
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| Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
OpenAI backs a provision of the FRONTIER Act, a bipartisan House bill, that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure model safety — Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI is supporting a bipartisan House proposal that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators to ensure their models are safe.
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| Matt Bracken / FedScoop: |
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Google DeepMind AI Safety and Alignment researcher Bilal Chughtai publicly resigns, saying “I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all” — An AI researcher who recently resigned from Google DeepMind warned humanity is running out of time to prevent artificial intelligence …
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LinkedIn: Joshua Squires and Bilal Chughtai
| Daniel Kokotajlo / @dkokotajlo: |
OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans “are losing the ability to evaluate them” while humans rely more on AI to lead research — Dan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn't have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent it to me to share: Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI Risk: I have been working on AI for over ...
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Forums: r/Destiny, r/LeftistsForAI, and r/singularity
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
During a Salesforce event, Jensen Huang says the AI industry doesn't need any new laws or regulations and market forces will help companies safely innovate — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang dismissed the need for new artificial intelligence security regulations on Tuesday … | New York Times: |
Jensen Huang took a surprise call from Trump onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday in Los Angeles, where the two agreed that AI safety worries are overblown — Mr. Trump called Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, while Mr. Huang was onstage in Los Angeles and criticized calls to slow down and regulate A.I.
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| Google: |
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its “most advanced live dialogue models yet”, to more effectively enable voice agents — Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet.
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out its Meta One subscription bundle globally, with expanded Meta AI capabilities powered by Muse, and $7.99/month and $19.99/month individual plans — Meta One bundles start at $7.99 per month with perks like 48-hour Instagram stories and a bold follow button.
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| New York Times: |
At the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly, Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, and others called for tighter restrictions on AI and denounced tech CEOs — At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists called for reining in artificial intelligence.
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| Mark Zuckerberg / @finkd: |
Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs have the responsibility and incentive to train models safely and that any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind — Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: https://meta.com/... Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens. The reality is: - Peo...
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says iCloud+ now includes Apple TV and Arcade for no extra fee in 100+ countries, and Apple Music Select, offering ad-free radio stations, in some markets — In more than 100 countries, Apple has launched a new initiative that bundles Apple TV and Apple Arcade subscriptions into iCloud+, at no extra charge.| Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April — Khosla Ventures, Blackstone and Marc Benioff are among the investors putting $200 million into the startup
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| Alix Coutures / The Information: |
Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter — Boris Cherney, the head of Anthropic's coding tool Claude Code, last month found himself in the middle of an online spat … | David Welch / Bloomberg: |
GM plans to integrate Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers by removing them from its EVs — General Motors Co. is integrating Apple Inc.'s CarPlay in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers …
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| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outputs numerical responses with probability estimates to help businesses assess reliability, raised a $40M seed — Former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida says most intelligence is going to live inside software. But to automate any real work, it has to be correct.
More: TypeSafe AI, TypeSafe AI, Quartz, and RuntimeWire
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| @openrouter: |
OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI's models than on Anthropic's in the week of September 7, the first time that happened since the week of February 26, 2024 — OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI models than on Anthropic models last week. This hasn't happened for more than 2.5 years
| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Sources: Meta plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall; the new model has six mics to let users speak with Meta's AI chatbot and Muse — Meta Platforms plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall, according to people familiar with the matter … | Melia Robinson / Business Insider: |
Pulley, which offers cap table management software, says it will cease operations after December 8; it had raised $50M+ from investors, including Founders Fund — Pulley, a software that startups rely on to track their funding, is shutting down after seven years.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
AWS facilities in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain remain mostly offline after Iranian drones hit them in March, testing the region's pitch for AI and data processing — Amazon data centers are still offline months after being hit, testing the region's multibillion-dollar ambitions
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The US DOJ says several companies used Binance to relay ~$1.5B for black-market Iranian oil from Chinese buyers; Binance says it took action against two clients — Prosecutors said around $1.5 billion was sent back to Iran through a series of interrelated digital wallets| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid robot designed to safely work alongside humans without physical barriers by using sensors and collision-avoidance algorithms — Agility Robotics Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a new humanoid that is designed to safely work in close proximity to people … | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, the Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries — Samsung has backed a Dutch AI chipmaker in a $231 million funding round, amid a boom in investment in alternatives to Nvidia's graphic processing units.| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to $335M+ — The artificial intelligence marketing startup Profound has raised $180 million at a $1.8 billion valuation in its Series D fundraising round …
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| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
UMG sues DistroKid, alleging it distributes AI-generated music masquerading as artist-backed releases and knowingly “proliferates” copyright-infringing tracks — Universal Music Group is suing the world's biggest music distributor by volume, DistroKid.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Salesforce announces Koa, a specialized AI model built on Nvidia's Nemotron model architecture for reasoning about CRM data and to power AI agents in Agentforce — Salesforce Inc. said today at its annual user conference Dreamforce that it has partnered with Nvidia Corp. to train and release Koa …
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Thatch, a healthcare plan marketplace where employers set a fixed budget that employees can use for individual plans, raised a $108M Series C at a $1B valuation — Thatch, a platform that lowers healthcare costs for employers while expanding plan choices for workers, has raised $108 million …
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