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.

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...

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

Sources: investors recently approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a $1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its value 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: 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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

A viral social media post from a Chinese math teacher sparks debate over making English optional in schools across China especially as AI translation improves  —  A math teacher's viral post prompted a debate over the language, which some see as an optional skill — and a symbol of Western dominance.

Analysis: only ~2.3 GW of planned data center capacity is delayed by direct project-level policies like local moratoriums and New York's data center EO  —  300+ moratoriums mapped, 20GW sits inside a restricted local boundary, 1,525MW actually slips, 2.3GW nationwide including New York

Google researchers help develop the first complete digital map of an adult male fruit fly's brain, which modders programmed to play Doom, trade BTC, and more  —  How to make a fly play Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, parallel park, trade bitcoin, cut doner kebab, and more.

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 …

Police in Gujarat, India, to question Google after uncovering 500K+ Gmail IDs and passwords used to send hoax bomb threats to government offices since 2022  —  Indian police will question Google over a lack of safeguards after smashing a criminal network that set up and managed …

Q&A with Matt Sheehan, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on US-China AI race, distillation, US chip export controls, and more  —  Look, I don't know if you are following every article, every tweet, every blog post from the A.I. labs right now, but we are in a frightening place.

SK Hynix has struck an agreement with its union to pay out half of all profit-sharing bonuses in cash, replacing a previously proposed 40-60 cash-stock split  —  SK Hynix Inc. has struck an agreement with its union to pay out half of all profit-sharing bonuses in cash, resolving a dispute …

Source: AI assistant Instinct seeks to raise $1B at a $10B valuation, up from $2.25B less than a month ago; Sequoia and Benchmark are in talks to lead the round  —  The startup behind personal AI assistant Instinct is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of about $10 billion, a person with knowledge of the deal said.