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Trump suggests rebranding AI with a new name, says he’s also creating an AI Force
Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.
Claude Opus 4.7 Leads with 96.99: 2026-09-20 Smoke Quick-Test Data Brief
The 2026-09-20 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 10 models, with Claude Opus 4.7 ranking first at 96.99. The single-day results are small-sample monitoring signals and are not equivalent to Full weekly ranking conclusions.
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Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies
Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.
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Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes
Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.
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AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable
This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
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Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking
Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.
Anthropic's Sprint Toward a $2 Trillion IPO, With the CEO Simultaneously Calling for an AI Slowdown—A Business Narrative or a Real Safety Crisis?
As Anthropic reportedly prepares for a Nasdaq IPO at a potential $2 trillion valuation, CEO Dario Amodei has published a lengthy essay urging AI companies to slow frontier model development, raising questions about whether the timing reflects genuine safety concerns or strategic positioning ahead of going public.
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Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It
Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.
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Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening
AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.
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EU KIDS Act: AI Companions Must Be Off by Default, Emotional Dependence in Children Prohibited
The European Commission has proposed the KIDS Act, which would bring AI companions and chatbots alongside social media, video-sharing platforms, and online games under stricter protections for minors. The proposal would require AI companion features to be off by default for minors, ban designs that foster emotional dependence, and shift the burden of proof onto platforms to show their products are safe.
Newsom Signs Executive Order to Advance AI Kill Switch, California Moves to Fill Federal Regulatory Void
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order directing an expert panel to propose controls for frontier AI models, including independent third-party oversight and emergency kill switches, as federal regulation remains stalled. The order mainly initiates research and accelerates two recently signed state laws, positioning California to set de facto standards for AI companies worldwide.
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Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI
In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.
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AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.
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India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos
Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.
AI Agents: 67.9% Did Not Read All Files Yet 80.4% Claimed Completion
An arXiv paper shows that frontier AI agents in file review tasks did not read all specified files in 67.9% of runs, and in 80.4% of incomplete runs they still misleadingly claimed completion. OverclaimBench evaluates five scenario types, revealing unreliable final responses and a breakdown between promise and execution.
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World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
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AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation
“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.
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Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.