AI
AI Now Writes AI. 22 Scientists Say the Window to Prepare May Close.
22 scientists, Hinton to OpenAI's chief scientist, say automated AI research could pack a year of progress into five weeks. They want auditors inside the labs.
Policy
AI
AI Labs Signed a 308-Word Accord. Trump Calls It 'Morally Binding.'
Seven signatures, four layers of self-audit, no enforcement: what the White House AI accord says and omits, plus the order renaming AI 'super intelligence.'
Geopolitics
Trump and Xi Built an AI Hotline. Nobody Defined 'Incident.'
The Trump-Xi summit produced a Super Intelligence dialogue and an AI incident hotline — one sentence, no date, and no definition of 'incident.'
AI
Trump Renames AI at the UN. A Day Later, Its Builders Ask for Rules.
Trump told the UN that AI is now 'super intelligence' and rejected a 'globalist scheme' to control it. A day later, Altman and Amodei asked for rules.
AI
Microsoft's AI Code: Never Resist Shutdown, Never Hide Your Reasoning
Microsoft's draft code for its own models bars resisting shutdown, own goals, or hidden reasoning. Six weeks of comment, then it shapes the 2027 models.
AI
Amodei Wants AI to Slow Down. Altman and Musk Agree. Trump Doesn't.
Amodei's essay asks AI labs to slow capability gains and puts outside evaluators inside Anthropic. Altman and Musk signed on within hours; Trump did not.
AI
NSA, CISA and FBI Name Six Chinese AI Labs in Distillation Advisory
Three U.S. security agencies formally accused six Chinese AI companies of industrial-scale distillation — and Anthropic's numbers arrived days later.
Education
111,000 Fewer International Students This Fall. Who Pays?
U.S. campuses are opening with a projected 111,000 fewer international students — a 9.5% drop worth $3.4 billion — and visa rules tighten again September 15.
Education
NYC Bans Student-Facing AI Through 8th Grade
The nation's largest school system is blocking student-facing AI for nearly 600,000 students through 8th grade — the broadest K-12 AI moratorium in the U.S.
Technology
California's Age Law Forgot Linux Exists. The Fix Passed 109–0.
California voted unanimously to exempt open-source operating systems from its age-verification law, after a year of warnings that Linux couldn't comply.