Senate negotiators are weighing AI duty-of-care rules and authority to block releases of unsafe models.
Courtney Rozen / Reuters : Sources: US Senate negotiators are debating a bill to impose a “duty of care” for AI companies and let the government block the release of models deemed unsafe — U.S. Senate negotiators are debating legislation that would put responsibility on tech companies to design safe AI products …
John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill discuss RSI, Chinese labs, and long-horizon RL.
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast : Q&A with AI researchers John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill on steelmanning the case against RSI, Chinese labs' progress, long-horizon RL, more — “We're nowhere near the ceiling.” — New episode with John Schulman, Beren Millidge and Charlie O'Neill.
Anthropic's support documentation says Claude is now available only to users over 18.
Apple Watch's always-listening Siri Recap and Live Rewind may test eavesdropping laws.
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg : Some experts say Siri Recap and Live Rewind, always-listening AI features in new Apple Watches, could test eavesdropping laws despite privacy protections — Apple Inc.'s new always-listening artificial intelligence features for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 could put eavesdropping laws to the test, according to legal experts.
Google appears to have completed its reported $1.5B-plus talent deal for AI coding startup Mechanize.
Business Insider : LinkedIn profiles show Google appears to have completed its talent deal, reportedly for $1.5B+, with AI coding startup Mechanize — Google has some fresh talent in the AI race. — The tech giant has completed its talent deal with San Francisco startup Mechanize Inc, public postings show.
AI radiology practice Epsilon Health exits stealth with a $20M Series A.
Brock E.W. Turner / Axios : Epsilon Health, which contracts with radiologists who use its AI to generate image reports faster, emerges from stealth with a $20M Series A led by AlleyCorp — Epsilon Health, an AI-enabled radiology practice, emerged from stealth with a $20 million Series A round, CEO Rustin Rassoli tells Axios Pro exclusively.
Jeff Dean's Discovery Loop is reportedly fundraising at a roughly $50B valuation.
Ben Bergman / Business Insider : Sources: Jeff Dean is raising funds again for Discovery Loop, seeking a valuation of ~$50B; Discovery Loop was raising $1B at a ~$10B valuation a few weeks ago — Jeff Dean, who resigned as chief scientist from Google last month, is raising again for his new AI startup, Discovery Loop …
An analysis argues the Waymo model is making research less collaborative.
Technical report details Google's google.com/goto anti-scraping changes.
A developer reports that 60% of installs from $220 in Google app ads were bots.
Report says the EPA plans to eliminate public-review requirements for data-center pollution.
Google will purchase half the output of a Finnish nuclear plant, highlighting AI power procurement.
A retrospective reverse-engineering project documents Apple's Neural Engine.
Google Project Zero explains techniques for testing race conditions.
Mullvad reports another Android traffic-leak mechanism.
Hugging Face publishes its security.txt contact and disclosure policy.
Brown researchers map the design space and tradeoffs of async/await.
A five-year operator's account covers running petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters.
PlanetScale details a 118-million-queries-per-second result on Neki.
A technical essay proposes ways to measure codebase sloppiness.
Minitap alleges Google used Artemis/Minitap open-source code without attribution.
Litelm offers a lightweight alternative implementation to LiteLLM.
Rune, a developer tool platform, has been released as open source.
GrapheneOS has released its rewritten Messages application.
Toast is a newly released terminal IDE project focused on polished defaults.
A new Rust and Godot-based terminal multiplexer implements panes and related UI.
Usenet Rewind launches an archive search engine for Usenet material.
MIT Media Lab revisits Logo programming for accessible computational thinking.
UC Berkeley's Snap! provides a visual programming language for CS study.
A practical animation engineering post explains inverse kinematics and foot locking.
Daniel Tudor / Financial Times : South Korea's espionage laws, broadened for the first time in over seven decades, take effect on Sept. 13 as foreign spies increasingly target its chip sector — Seoul broadens its espionage legislation for the first time in more than seven decades — South Korea is arming itself …
Davis Janowski / Wealth Management : NYC-based Luminary, which develops AI-powered workflow tools for estate planning and wealth transfer management, raised a $22M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital — The fintech, which launched in 2022, now supports client assets totaling more than $500 billion and plans to further expand its AI capabilities and commercial team.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Amazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app — Amazon is going to make it easier to shop when you're watching TV. The retail giant on Thursday announced a series of new features …
Reuters : Sources: Anthropic is in talks to bring on Nvidia as an anchor investor in its IPO, seeking up to $100B at a ~$2T valuation; Nvidia may invest up to $10B — Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia (NVDA.O) as an anchor investor into what could be the largest IPO in history, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal : Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do “benign tasks” — The incident, which wasn't previously linked to OpenAI, happened two months before July's Hugging Face hack
Bloomberg : Citrini Research founder James van Geelen has sold the firm to SemiAnalysis for an undisclosed sum; sources: van Geelen plans to launch a new fund — James van Geelen, the founder of independent investment-research shop Citrini Research, has sold the firm to semiconductor and AI researcher SemiAnalysis.
Kate Knibbs / Wired : FOIA docs: the CFTC launched at least three previously unreported investigations into Polymarket trading, including about Google's 2025 Year in Search Ranking — The agency that oversees prediction markets has investigated Polymarket trades on Biden pardons and the Iran war …
Terence Tao / What's new : A group of 25 Fields Medal recipients says AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics — I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week.
Tom Rees / Bloomberg : The UK's Office for National Statistics cites AI as a major driver of the country's summer growth spurt, with GDP growing 0.4% in July, above expectations — No one in the City of London saw Britain's summer growth spurt coming. — Even the most optimistic economists' forecasts for July had the economy expanding 0.1%.