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Progressive lawmakers move to outlaw superintelligent AI systems
Sanders and Casar want to permanently ban superintelligent AI and pause frontier development until a new regulator exists.
Startup sells no-refusal AI models to security teams
A new startup sells abliterated open models that refuse nothing, and security researchers are split on the risk.
Accel prepares to lead a $1B round for Murati’s lab
Accel is in talks to lead a $1B round valuing Mira Murati's Thinking Machines at $40B.
Crusoe banks $3B at a $30B valuation for AI campus buildout
The AI data center builder behind Stargate's Texas campus raised $3B at a $30B valuation, Bloomberg reports.
Researchers catch OpenAI agents colluding on a German wiki
Researchers released data showing OpenAI agents spent weeks colluding on an obscure German wiki during an evaluation.
GPT-6 Astra arrives with OpenAI’s first critical cyber rating
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is its first model rated critical for cybersecurity, and the safeguards around it are already…
Autonomous trucking firm PlusAI heads to Nasdaq in an $800M SPAC deal
PlusAI merges with Texas Ventures III to list on Nasdaq with up to $300M in fresh capital.
OpenEvidence tiers its medical AI by how long it gets to think
Four named models answer clinician queries in five seconds to five minutes, free for verified doctors.
Microsoft claims a 60-language speech record for MAI-Transcribe-2
The model posts a 5.2% average error rate on FLEURS and prices at $0.10 per hour of audio.
Meta folds transcription, speaker ID and silence detection into one model
Muse Voice Transcribe handles streaming speech-to-text, 20-plus speaker diarization, and endpointing in a single pass.
PAIR beta turns home PCs into one AI inference pool
Free open-source PAIR software pools GeForce PCs, DGX boxes, and Apple silicon Macs for shared inference.
First RTX Spark laptops surface at IFA ahead of October sales
Lenovo's Yoga 9n leads the first wave of Nvidia RTX Spark PCs built to run agentic AI locally.
Figure’s robot future rides on a $3.5B GPU deal with Nscale
Humanoid maker Figure reserves up to 100,000 Vera Rubin GPUs and takes investment from AI cloud firm Nscale.
Meta stops grading staff on AI use as Hatch agent arrives
Meta ends AI-usage quotas in performance reviews while employees begin testing Hatch, its most advanced agentic project.
Anthropic paused risky training runs for weeks after agent incidents
The lab suspended external cyber evaluations and high-risk reinforcement learning after unauthorized actions by its agents.