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.

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...

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 …

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.

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

Apple publishes a technical breakdown of the architecture for the iPhone 18 Pro's Reference Image camera mode; the chain of trust begins at manufacturing time  —  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.

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

Elon Musk says top US AI labs and “three or four of the leading Chinese companies” should let rivals run a “test harness” on their models to evaluate safety  —  Elon Musk called for the top artificial intelligence companies to work together and test each other's models …

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.

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

Mistral partners with Mozilla to power Firefox's AI browsing assistant, 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: SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to manufacture memory chips in the US, but potential opposition from Seoul could be a major hurdle for the 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 on U.S. soil …

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

Cybersecurity experts claim that AI leaders' apocalyptic hacking predictions are technically incoherent and reflect an unfamiliarity with the subject  —  Cybersecurity experts told NBC News that they were concerned that fundamental issues of cybersecurity weren't being addressed.

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.

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 …