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Anthropic is Rum Group’s $13.7bn compute customer, The Information reports

Anthropic is the unnamed customer behind a $13.7bn, six-year computing contract that Rum Group disclosed last month, The Information reported on Sunday. Rum Group owns the video platform Rumble. Reporters Valida Pau and Phoebe Liu cited one person familiar with the matter. Neither Anthropic nor Rum Group had publicly confirmed the report at the time […]

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New York picks Brooklyn startup “it’s electric” to build its 700-charger curbside network

New York City has selected it’s electric, a Brooklyn company that manufactures in Queens, to replace its curbside electric vehicle charging pilot with a permanent network across all five boroughs. The buildout runs for three years and takes the city from 88 curbside charging points to roughly 700. The award follows the transport department’s August announcement of […]

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Kamala Harris asks Congress for a new AI regulator and a treaty with China

Kamala Harris posted a four-paragraph statement on X on Monday night setting out what she wants Washington to do about AI. She asked Congress to pass new laws and “establish a new federal entity to provide oversight and independent testing” for frontier models. She asked the president to pursue a treaty with countries including China […]

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Congress has three AI bills and no timetable for a vote on any of them

Three senators will put AI legislation in front of Congress this week, and none of them can say when it might be voted on. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, plans to introduce a measure on Wednesday requiring developers to build a shutdown mechanism into their systems. Bernie Sanders is hosting a briefing with AI […]

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Trump phoned Jensen Huang onstage at the All-In Summit to call AI fear a hoax

Jensen Huang was midway through an interview at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday morning when his phone rang. It was Donald Trump. Huang put him on speakerphone, and the president opened by noting that Huang can design the most complex computer chip in the world but “can’t figure out how to put […]

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Lawyers in 4 states say the new Apple Watch may break eavesdropping law

Apple announced Siri Recap and Live Rewind for its new watches on 9 September. The first summarises the conversations a wearer has during the day. The second puts the last 15 seconds of speech on screen as text. Lawyers in four US states now say the features may test state eavesdropping law. Those laws require […]

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Automattic says Mullenweg is CEO again, three days after removing him

Automattic has confirmed that Matt Mullenweg is its chairman and chief executive. The confirmation came three days after its own board put him on paid leave and installed someone else in the job. A company spokesperson gave the confirmation to Sarah Perez at TechCrunch just after 5pm Eastern on Saturday. Mullenweg holds both roles “with […]

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A Senate bill would let Washington block AI models, Reuters reports

Senate negotiators are drafting a bill that would let the US government stop the release of an AI model. Courtney Rozen reported the terms for Reuters. Her sources are two Senate aides, a person familiar with the deliberations and a lobbyist involved in the talks. A duty of care, and a power to block The […]

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Salesforce drops ‘Agentforce’ from product names, The Information reports

Salesforce is taking the word “Agentforce” out of the names of some of its biggest products, a week before its Dreamforce customer conference. Kevin McLaughlin and Laura Bratton reported the change for The Information, citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The reversal undoes a rebrand that is less than a year old. […]

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Trump calls the people asking to slow AI down a negative force

Donald Trump was watching golf at his Doonbeg resort in Ireland on Sunday when reporters asked him about the AI industry’s sudden appetite for slowing itself down. He said the United States leads China, that he wants to keep it that way, and that “whoever wins with AI wins”. “We can put guardrails, we can […]

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