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Experts say AI kill-switch legislation is far harder to implement than lawmakers assume, warning a rogue AI could actively try to dismantle the mechanism itself (New York Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an "AI Force", in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a "hoax" (@mapamijares / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed (New York Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Google says it didn't consider Gemini's hacks worthy of disclosure because Gemini acted "appropriately" and stopped after determining it hacked real companies (@TerrenceOBrien / The Verge) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Sources: the USPTO and US Copyright Office were surprised by the DOJ's brief supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in their dispute with the New York Times (Axios) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Raindrop, which develops tech for monitoring AI agents to catch failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV (Chris Metinko / Axios) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work (@anuproy05 / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
A look at AI safety groups METR, Redwood Research, and Apollo Research, as AI misalignment incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic thrust them into the spotlight (@haydenfield / The Verge) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
EU Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra rebuffs calls for an EU-wide digital services tax until "all possibilities" for taxation at the global level are exhausted (Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Vantora, formerly UP․Labs, which builds AI-native startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers, raised $100M+ from Silversmith Capital Partners (@kirstenkorosec / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Business intelligence startup Veridion, which develops an AI-powered, real-time map of ~640M businesses worldwide, raised a $20M Series A led by Hoxton Ventures (Tamara Djurickovic / Tech․eu) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
India requires caller ID and call-management apps to share users' spam reports with telcos; Truecaller calls it a "one-way exchange" that is "anti-competitive" (@JagmeetS13 / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Internal email: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program; sources say a significant number of Flock's ~1,500 employees may depart, as customers flee (Wired) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Nex, which makes Nex Playground, raised a $150M Series E; Nex has sold 1M units of the motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids since its launch in 2023 (@sophiemjourno / GamesIndustry․biz) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Anthropic adds support for the AGENTS․md instructions spec to Claude Code; OpenAI contributed AGENTS․md to the Agentic AI Foundation last year (@ThomasClaburn / The Register) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Sources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown (Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Ad tech company Infillion says it is acquiring Foursquare, which will continue operating as an independent brand (@kerrymflynn / Axios) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8 (Georgia Hennessy / Business Insider) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Sources: ~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback (Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
Leaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from $36B this year to $350B in 2030 (Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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