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...

The US Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework; crypto falls  —  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.

Apple publishes a technical breakdown of the architecture for the iPhone 18 Pro's Reference Image camera mode; the chain of trust begins during manufacturing  —  A new post on Apple's Security Research blog details the fascinating tech, architecture, and thinking behind the iPhone 18 Pro's new Reference Image camera mode.

Researchers: rogue OpenAI agents compromised two Hugging Face accounts as early as May 13 to probe the site's servers, nearly two months before the July breach  —  Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May …

TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using “Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions” to return typed probabilistic decisions for use by software or AI models  —  ‘Jev’ doesn't chat.  It produces typed probabilistic decisions  —  TypeSafe AI, a startup bestowed with $40 million in funding …

Sources: Apple is developing enterprise AI servers powered by two or four M8 Ultra chips, set for 2029, and is considering integrating Nvidia's NVLink Fusion  —  Apple has been working on plans for an enterprise server using its own chips that could incorporate networking equipment from Nvidia …

Sources: SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to manufacture memory chips in the US, a first, but potential opposition from Seoul could be a major hurdle for a deal  —  South Korea's SK Hynix (000660.KS) is in talks with Intel (INTC.O) about a deal that would see it manufacture memory chips …

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveils the EU Kids Act during her SOTU address, proposing banning social media for under-13s across the EU  —  A proposed law would bar children under 13 from using social media across the 27-nation bloc.  —  The European Union outlined plans …

Sources: Meta plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall; the new glasses model has six microphones to let users speak with Meta AI and Muse  —  Meta Platforms plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall, according to people familiar with the matter …

Sources: investors approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a $1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its valuation should be $1.5T+ based on client traction  —  The funding round would double the value of the start-up behind ChatGPT and establish it as the world's most valuable private company.

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.

Hacker collective stegan0gram dismantles a Flock camera, recovering an encryption key and showing it runs ~20 apps on a midrange smartphone-grade processor  —  While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

Mozilla partners with Mistral to power its AI browsing assistant Firefox Smart Window in the US, Canada, and France, with UK and Germany rollouts later in 2026  —  Firefox Smart Window will soon be powered by Mistral in the U.S., Canada and France, with the U.K. and Germany expected to follow later this year

Sources: Shanghai-based Anew Labs, a ByteDance spinoff using AI for drug discovery, raised $290M from HSG, IDG Capital, and others at a $1.5B valuation  —  Chinese social media and internet company ByteDance has completed a $290 million fundraising for its AI drugmaking unit after spinning …

A theoretical computer scientist says he has heard rumors that AI labs are sitting on major solutions after a hostile response to the Navier-Stokes proof  —  Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy …

Survey: 42% of US voters trust the GOP and 40% trust Democrats to handle AI, 61% oppose new data center construction, and <1% say AI is their top midterm issue  —  As fears grow about the threat of artificial intelligence, neither party has claimed an advantage on the technology, a New York Times/Siena poll found.

Modular data center startup Rune raised a $40M Series A led by Spark Capital to deploy off-grid compute capacity directly at solar and renewable energy sites  —  A new data center in southwest Texas isn't connected to the grid—but it also didn't require building any new power plants.

Prediction markets are expanding into mainstream media, with integrations in Dow Jones, Substack, CNN, CNBC, and more, as they become an informational channel  —  The legal battle over whether prediction markets are a form of gambling has overshadowed something else entirely: They're already a new form of media.

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.