Newsom Orders California Toward AI Kill Switch Mandate
California’s AI kill switch order directs agencies to create shutdown rules for frontier models, expanding SB 53 beyond safety disclosures.
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California’s AI kill switch order directs agencies to create shutdown rules for frontier models, expanding SB 53 beyond safety disclosures.
Alchemy launched AgentCard, letting AI agents make purchases anywhere Mastercard is accepted, as agentic commerce infrastructure matures fast.
Security researchers used Anthropic‘s Claude to break into OpenAI, exploiting a rival AI model as an attack tool against one of the world’s best-funded AI companies. The incident occurred within the past week and became public on September 18, 2026. The Wall Street Journal first reported the breach. The researchers directed Claude to assist in…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang projects doubled chip shipments next year and argues AI safety rules belong in products, not models, as regulators debate both.
OpenAI launched Astra for Law, a legal-specific GPT-6 Astra configuration targeting AmLaw 200 firms, intensifying its rivalry with Anthropic in legal AI.
King Charles hosted OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Google DeepMind at Dumfries House, warning of AI’s existential risk without new binding rules.
Anthropic says an internal Claude model helped researchers find elliptic curves of rank 30 and 31, topping the prior record of 29.
Shoppers want AI to hunt down a cheaper price, not tell them what to wear, according to a finding in a new YouGov research, which sets consumers against an industry that has spent a decade building AI to keep them inside one store. Asked which AI features they actually want, consumers put price drop alerts…
Every few weeks another memory maker announces new capacity, and the market reads it as a date on a calendar. Build the plant, ease the shortage, move on. Steve Neamtz thinks that reflex is where investors are getting 2027 wrong. Neamtz is chief executive of Yorkville America, which launched a passive memory and storage ETF…
AI agent payments: Ripple’s developer kit lets AI agents pay repeatedly in XRP and RLUSD through Stripe and Tempo’s new agent payment standard.