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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 (Mark Zuckerberg/@finkd)
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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 (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
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TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outputs numerical responses with probability estimates to help businesses assess reliability, raised a $40M seed (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
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Sources: OpenAI has held early conversations with investors about raising another private funding round at a $1.2T valuation before its planned IPO (Financial Times)
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At a US House hearing, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said AI labs should get no liability exemptions and called for more open-source models built in the US (Matt Bracken/FedScoop)
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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)
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Pulley, which offers cap table management software, says it will cease operations after December 8; it had raised $50M+ from investors, including Founders Fund (Melia Robinson/Business Insider)
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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 (New York Times)
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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 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
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Crypto exchange CoinEx says it is closing, citing a lengthy downturn and rising compliance costs; a report said it moved $3B+ for Iran-linked wallets since 2019 (Dylan Tokar/Wall Street Journal)
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The Senate fails to advance the Clarity Act, dealing a major blow to the crypto industry's push for a comprehensive market structure framework (CNBC)
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CADDi, which sells AI tools to help manufacturers organize engineering and production data, raised a $114M Series D at a $1.2B valuation, up from $470M in 2025 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
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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 (Google)
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Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, such as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter (Alix Coutures/The Information)
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Thatch, a healthcare plan marketplace where employers set a fixed budget that employees can use for individual plans, raised a $108M Series C at a $1B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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Scientists Discover Mysterious New X-Ray Objects 'Unlike Any They Have Seen Before'
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Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' 'Hehe,' And 'Asdfg'
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Math Professor Accuses OpenAI of Copying His Work, Says AI Compute Power Makes Racing to Publish 'Pointless'
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ChatGPT-Using Lawyer Cited Its Fake Witnesses and Police Testimony in Court
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Reservations Go Live for Valve's Steam Frame VR Headset. An Experiment in Progress?
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A Visit to San Francisco's AI-run Store: No Customers, Nothing Useful, And Losing Money Fast
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No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 - Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage
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Union Contract with Microsoft Ratified by 1,900 Blizzard Developers and Workers
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Should US Open-Weight AI Labs 'Distill' Frontier Models Too?
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220 Million Traveler Records Exposed In Vietnam-Linked APIS Leak
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NASA and IBM Open Source Lunar Mapping Tools
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California's Gig Drivers Just Secured Collective Bargaining Power with Newly Certified Union
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Flock Worker Calls Police On Reporter - For Filming Them in Public
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Malicious OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers in May
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Sam Bankman-Fried, Former Crypto Billionaire, Appeals His Conviction To the US Supreme Court