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Virginia delegate: state will regulate AI in 2027Virginia Delegate Cliff Hayes says the state legislature will create AI regulations in the 2027 session, after a Trump executive order threatening federal broadband funds delayed action ahead of the 2026 session.
Community Discusses How to Write Top-Conference PapersA researcher asks how best to write for NeurIPS, ICLR and ICML audiences and cites Michael J. Black's blog arguing papers should be story-oriented rather than results-oriented, inviting community opinions.
Zuckerberg admits Meta lacked AI certainty on $200B betMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company had to commit to spending tens of billions of dollars last year on AI infrastructure before knowing whether its AI products would succeed. The admission highlights the huge capital risk tech giants face in the AI race.
Facebook launches "Your Algorithm" feed control toolMeta launched its AI-powered "Your Algorithm" feature on Facebook Tuesday, letting users influence what appears in their feeds after first debuting it on Instagram. The move extends a trend of social platforms ceding more algorithmic control to users.
Wisconsin candidate Crowley unveils AI regulation planWisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Crowley unveiled an 11-point AI regulation plan, including limits on AI chatbots for children under 13, a ban on addictive design for minors' accounts, tougher penalties for AI-generated sexual images of minors, and letting families sue AI platforms.
Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses reviewed without cameraA Verge reporter tested the Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses and found the lack of a camera no loss, using them for music, calls and calendar queries. The AI voice assistant still stumbled on tasks like calendar connection.
Deslop launches Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScriptThe tool ai-deslop offers a set of Oxlint rules that reject low-evidence, low-signal AI-generated code patterns, targeting unsafe types, duplicate code, and low-value tests. Rules are vendored from anti-slop under the deslop/* namespace, published as an npm package and compatible with any oxlint JS-plugin runtime such as Bun, Deno, or Node.js.
AI chatbots favor Walmart, may boost its businessA Gartner survey found about 34% of U.S. consumers would use AI for holiday gift recommendations, and UBS research shows Walmart is often chatbots' default answer for everyday consumption. The trend could boost Walmart, whose stock is up only about 2% this year.
OpenAI, Anthropic Rethink Independent Safety EvaluationsWeeks after agreeing to a voluntary program allowing outside evaluators into their labs, OpenAI and Anthropic are seeking to limit what evaluators can disclose, fearing proprietary information could reach rivals. Measures under consideration include monitoring embedded evaluators, barring them from working at multiple labs, and reconsidering editorial control over publications.
Michigan spinout red-teams robots with AI simulationUniversity of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield.
NYC Moves Toward AI Regulation as Unions, Whistleblowers TestifyNew York City held a hearing where union leaders and whistleblowers testified about AI's threat to workers, pushing for regulation and protections. Related labor developments include NYU postdocs joining the UAW and DoorDash's $131 million settlement with NYC over wage theft claims.
Pluto Security raises $42M over AI security risksPluto Security raised $42 million as unpredictable employee use of AI tools fuels fears of new security holes in enterprise systems. The funding targets security challenges created by widespread AI adoption inside companies.
Redditor revisits 2019 GPT-2 'too dangerous to release' headlineA Reddit user surfaced a 2019 Guardian article in which OpenAI said GPT-2 was too dangerous to release in full. The model was trained on about 10 million Reddit articles totaling roughly 40GB. The poster quipped that 'some people never change.'
Barrett Proposes Federal Office on Emerging Tech Threats, AIBarrett proposed establishing a federal office dedicated to addressing emerging technology threats and AI-related risks. The proposal aims to strengthen federal oversight and security responses to technologies such as AI.
Michael I. Jordan Dismantles AI Doom RhetoricMachine learning pioneer Michael I. Jordan dismissed superintelligence warnings as science fiction, calling young AI researchers' resignations a 'grand moralizing performance' and companies' calls for regulation 'theater.' He said none of the steps in Hinton's argument that the brain can be reproduced in silicon and scaled to superintelligence is credible.
Global Chip Selloff Spreads, Apple Launches Smart Home Push, Meta Releases New AI ModelThe chip selloff spread from Asia to the US, intensifying pressure. Apple released smart home devices including the HomeView Hub to challenge Amazon and Google. Meta launched a new AI model with "frontier capabilities" to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic.
SambaNova CEO: AI's Next Phase Is About EfficiencySambaNova CEO Rodrigo Liang said the AI infrastructure boom is entering a new phase focused on inference, efficiency and return on investment. He noted the company closed its Series F with new strategic investors, that enterprises like JPMorgan run AI infrastructure behind their own firewalls, and that frontier models and private AI systems can coexist.
LFM2.5-24B-A2B: fast, private on-device agentsHugging Face released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B-parameter model with only 2B active parameters for on-device agents. It supports 131K context and tool use, runs at 184 tok/s on Apple M5 Max and up to 21K output tok/s on an NVIDIA B300 GPU, and scores 48.09 on LiveClaw versus Qwen3.6-35B-A3B's 38.19.
Google Play now supports private AI-built appsGoogle Play now lets users run personal Android apps built with Google AI Studio privately, without publishing to the store. The apps won't appear in search or listings and are visible only to the creator, subject to Play policies. Initially available to US users aged 18 and up.
Mia Goth blasts Instagram over AI fake imageActress Mia Goth called it "incomprehensible" that Instagram allowed an AI image of her to spread. The post came from a blue-checkmarked account, drew hundreds of thousands of likes and was reported as authentic by entertainment outlets.
Cerebras vs. SoundHound AI: revenue trends comparedRevenue trends for Cerebras Systems and SoundHound AI reflect the AI boom. Cerebras saw consistent quarter-over-quarter growth until Q2 2026, when $28 million in customer warrant amortization deducted from revenue. SoundHound AI showed gradual quarterly growth and completed its acquisition of LivePerson.
Wall Street Banks Face New Pressure, AI Trade Cracks FurtherWall Street's biggest banks kicked off earnings season with mixed results amid new profit challenges. The AI trade cracked further as the chip selloff extended. Apple launched a $299 smart-home product. UnitedHealth raised its outlook, and J&J weighed an orthopedics spinoff.
Tencent open-sources Agent Memory running fully local on SQLiteTencent open-sourced Agent Memory, which runs entirely locally on SQLite to provide memory for AI agents. The release was shared and discussed in the r/LocalLLaMA community.
Nvidia's Huang Plans $2 Billion in Europe AI Deals in Next WeekNvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in Paris that the company plans to announce $2 billion in European AI investments next week. The tour will also take him to London and Berlin, highlighting Nvidia's push into Europe's AI market.
Scientists Fear AI Stealing Ideas, OpenAI and Anthropic Face ControversyResearchers are widely using AI as a research tool but fear companies may present users' ideas as their models' output. OpenAI and Anthropic both denied training on uploaded data, but trust concerns are growing.
DeepMind releases Gemini 4 Argon modelGoogle DeepMind launches Gemini 4 Argon, positioned as a model built to solve the hardest problems, now available to everyone. The release marks Google's next-generation frontier model in the AI race.
Emory University launches AI in finance centerEmory University's Goizueta Business School launched the Center for AI in Finance to study AI's impact on financial decisions, businesses, and student careers. It has funded projects on improving financial marketing and reducing AI market manipulation risks. Director Tucker Balch stressed human judgment remains key in investing.
Grok 4.7 now on Amazon Bedrock for long-horizon agentsAWS announced that Grok 4.7 is available on Amazon Bedrock, letting developers build long-horizon AI agents.
MNX launches pre-IPO futures for OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeekMegaETH-powered MNX goes live with pre-IPO futures for OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek. The platform lets traders bet on the valuations of private AI companies.
Anthropic Redesigns Source Control in Five MonthsAs Claude's autonomous coding pushed daily merges from about 2,500 in May to over 30,000 by September, Anthropic migrated its monorepo from git to an in-house version control system called Scion in five months and built a code review surface called Antique, addressing developer infrastructure bottlenecks built for human scale.
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