Can Anyone Halt Self-Improving AI? 1,100 Insiders Want Washington to Find Out
Urge: More than 1,100 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google signed a statement urging the US to back global tools for pacing AI self-improvement before it.
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Dyson Sphere Candidate Stars Get 3 Stunning JWST Revelations
JWST examined two stars flagged as Dyson sphere candidates after AI analysis of stellar data surfaced them. Here’s what astronomers found and why it matters.
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Google Ships Gemini 3.6 Flash Upgrade, and Managed Agents Stop Being an Experiment
Gemini managed agents: Google’s Gemini API Managed Agents now run on the faster 3.6 Flash model with new hooks and triggers, giving developers production-grade
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Core Scientific’s AMD Pact Reaches 2.5GW — Finding That Power Is the Next Question
Core Scientific and AMD announce a major AI infrastructure partnership, securing 500MW immediately with a path to 2.5GW total capacity and $136.7M in Q2.
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Nvidia Bets $5 Billion on Safe Superintelligence: Chip Supplier Turns Frontier-Lab Backer
Nvidia’s $5B investment in Ilya Sutskever’s SSI redraws the AI compute landscape. Here’s what it means for the frontier model race in 2026.
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Anthropic Breaks Its Silence on Open Weights AI, and the Answer Is a Flat No
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns open-weights AI from China poses a dangerous, potentially irreversible risk over a 30-year horizon in a new formal position.
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Can Europe’s AI Firms Finish Compliance by August 2? The Penalty Says They Must
The EU AI Act’s core obligations take effect August 2, 2026, covering nearly every AI system sold or deployed in Europe. Here is what changes and for whom.
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Crypto Whales Just Got a Cleaner Way to Buy U.S. Real Estate
Crypto buyers have long had the money to buy real estate, but not always the infrastructure to close like everyone else. CryptEscrow and First American Title are trying to change that. The companies announced a partnership that gives title agents a compliant way to convert digital assets into U.S. dollars during real estate closings, without…
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Sam Altman Says the AI Singularity Has Already Begun — Here’s the Reasoning Behind It
While it once seemed unfathomable that AI would surpass human intelligence, OpenAI’s founder believes an exponential intelligence explosion will let machines pursue recursive self-improvement within the foreseeable future. Against the backdrop of the Hugging Face attack, you’d expect Sam Altman to calm frayed nerves. He did the opposite. The OpenAI founder doubled down on his…
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Nvidia’s Vera Rubin Systems Go to SSI First, and the Chipmaker Now Shapes the AI Race
Nvidia has made a substantial investment in Safe Superintelligence and will supply the lab with next-gen Vera Rubin AI systems, Bloomberg reported July 27.
