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A machine wrote out a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and the mathematician running the competing project recompiled it to see whether it held. A California bill on the governor's desk would require a human to look before software ends someone's job. An institute
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An automated policy can be stopped in a day. Repairing its decisions may take an institution years.
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Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, the G20 unanimously endorsed the Carolina Principles in Chapel Hill, and Vals AI published the first independent accounting of what a long agentic task costs in carbon, water, and electricity. Three answers to the same question about who sets the terms.
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Three institutions drew a line around AI in the same twenty-four hours, and none of them drew it in the same place. Two of the largest school districts in the country pulled the technology out of their classrooms. The Justice Department went to federal court to argue the industry should
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Two labs looked at cyber-capable models on September 1 and reached opposite conclusions. Anthropic decided its newest model was safe enough to go looking for software vulnerabilities and loosened the guardrails accordingly. OpenAI decided its next model was so good at that same work it would not ship the capability
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Three institutions spent this week writing down what they actually know about the AI systems they are responsible for. Brussels sent letters demanding answers, Anthropic published a month of repairs to its own testing setup, and the Pentagon put two chatbots in front of three million people. Only one of
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Anthropic's login system worked exactly as designed this week and attackers walked into paid Claude accounts anyway, because they never went near it. The same shape turns up in an NPR test of how AI tools handle foreign propaganda, and in a Taiwanese raid on a circuit board
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Two music publishers want a full accounting of everything that went into Claude. On the same day, two Chinese labs put frontier open weights on the internet with opposite ideas about what a license is for, and a group of researchers spent the week on the least glamorous problem in
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Three stories about who gets to say no. OpenAI is cutting off a customer it no longer trusts, Anthropic is handing safety work to the models it is trying to make safe, and Texas is pulling money out of a camera network its own appointees built. OpenAI is cutting off
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A federal judge spent 59 pages explaining why the Pentagon cannot punish an AI company for disagreeing with it, Anthropic published a specification for letting agents run laboratory instruments, and researchers at Wharton showed that a single product review can flip what an AI shopping agent buys. Three different questions
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Six months of running an AI publication, and a search for public peers that came up surprisingly short.
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The July incident in which OpenAI's own models attacked Hugging Face now has nearly 130 pages of technical reporting behind it, and Reuters published Meta's internal account of a similar surprise the same day. Both describe agents generating volumes of activity nobody was auditing closely enough,