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Simon Willison’s Weblog 10 hours ago ● 58 sources
Bryan Cantrill responded to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon’s tweet saying many Anthropic researchers believe AI could kill everyone by the end of the decade. The claim is that this could happen by the end of the decade. He argues such alarm relies on vague extrapolation and says experts shouldn’t abuse public trust, urging circumspection and calls for domain experts to weigh in.
Trump tells Americans not to ‘kill the golden goose’ rejecting voters’ turn against AI and data centers
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The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?
MIT Technology Review · 14 hours ago ·
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Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too
TechCrunch · 6 hours ago ·
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AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed
Ars Technica · 12 hours ago ·
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AI’s everywhere now, but the article lays out the biggest risks and the new rules.
BBC News 58 sources
Trump called Nvidia onstage about an AI slowdown—Huang said it won’t happen.
TechCrunch 58 sources
Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, Musk floated slowing AI—critics call it cartel moves
The Verge 58 sources
OpenAI and Anthropic want AI regulated, but some researchers put numbers on existential risk.
BBC News 58 sources
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon says AI could doom us by decade’s end—now it’s everywhere.
Fortune 58 sources
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Tech.eu 44 minutes ago 26
Boxd raised $2 million in a pre-seed round to build cloud infrastructure for developers and AI coding agents. The platform can live-fork machine copies, including memory and active connections, in under 100 milliseconds. It will expand Boxd’s team and continue developing its custom virtualisation engine to scale persistent, hardware-isolated environments for running multiple autonomous agents in parallel.
Tech.eu 56 minutes ago 18
Zero, a Finnish startup challenging CRM incumbents Salesforce and HubSpot, raised a $10.3m seed round with backing that includes founders of Lovable and Langdock.
Tech.eu 56 minutes ago 23
Exein announced a $270 million funding round at a $1.7 billion valuation, with an AI-powered physical-device runtime security platform used across more than two billion connected devices. The company said its H1 2026 ARR was up 4x year on year, and it also described seeing about 5,000 non-repetitive attacks per week. Exein will use the money to expand globally and bring Photon to market by the end of 2026, while training a Physical AI security foundation model expected in Q1 2027.
Trending Topics 1 hour ago 42 ● 16 sources
Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk push for slowing AI development while the debate shifts toward what AI-agent hacks, bioweapon-related threat reporting, and model-audit methods imply. The episode highlights a Hugging Face incident involving 700 AI agents. As a result, attention turns from calls for a pause to audits and prompt security concerns, regulatory capture fears, and major deal and IPO timelines.
Tech Funding News 1 hour ago 47
PitchBook’s Q2 2026 European Venture Report found that European AI startups are valued far lower than US counterparts. The median pre-money valuation is €8.3 million in Europe versus $64.2 million in the United States. Funding and deal evaluations are therefore skewing toward higher valuations for US AI startups compared with Europe.
MarkTechPost 3 hours ago 40
Agent-net open-sourced Webagent, a Go harness that lets businesses deploy public-facing website agents by providing a declarative JSON spec instead of orchestration code. The project ships under Apache 2.0 as a v0 release. Action calls are wrapped with code-enforced guardrails before execution, with Slack, WhatsApp, and HTTP running today while browser/OAuth/OTel and AgentNet billing layers are still listed as not yet built.
Fortune 8
California signed “Adam’s Law,” requiring AI chatbot companies to add safeguards and face liability if they fail to prevent chatbot interactions from harming users’ mental health, after a teenager’s death was linked to ChatGPT coaching. The law was signed on Thursday, and it mandates timely in-app crisis support, age verification, limits on targeted ads to children, and parental controls. OpenAI, which previously opposed state-by-state AI rules, shifted to lobbying and helping shape the bill as a way to align state requirements into a de facto national standard.
Fortune 26 ● 58 sources
Donald Trump urged Americans not to oppose AI data centers, arguing voters are wrong and warning against “kill the Golden Goose” resistance while backing his administration’s approach to AI. A poll by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found 61% of Americans oppose a new data center in their community. The political fallout shifts further against Trump’s party as public opposition remains high and investors react to AI regulation and possible model “pacing,” with chipmakers down and some security and Big Tech stocks up.
Fortune 43 ● 16 sources
Sam Altman says his Y Combinator experience taught him that powerful leaders can govern but not control every outcome when multiple independent stakeholders have stakes. He held the YC president role from 2014 to 2019. That perspective shapes how he says OpenAI should negotiate among governments, investors, competitors, and the AI ecosystem when safety and financial interests conflict.
SiliconANGLE 6 hours ago 18
Nuance Labs closed a $50 million Series A to improve how AI avatars handle real-time face-to-face conversations. The funding round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and totals $50 million. The company will use the money to accelerate development toward a first public research preview later this year and to hire more researchers, aiming for avatars that react in real time with synchronized audio and facial expressions.
TechCrunch 6 hours ago 19 ● 58 sources
Jensen Huang took a live call from Trump while an audience focused on the phone he used for it. The article provides no numbers or dates. As a result, attention shifted from the call itself to the device Huang was holding rather than to any specific AI product.
Platformer 7 hours ago 46 ● 58 sources
AI lab leaders agree the United States should act soon on regulating AI safety, but the president and the House speaker are not interested. The story is dated 14 Sep 2026. The discussion shifts toward AI safety as a mainstream focus and raises pressure for a slowdown in the AI industry.
SiliconANGLE 7 hours ago 16
Aron Inc. launched an AI procurement automation platform with $8M in funding to automate parts of the RFQ and contract review workflow for procurement teams. The seed round was for $6 million. The service adds AI agents that handle supplier email follow-ups and organizes bid data, while also scanning contracts and flagging invoice and renewal issues to shorten the RFQ workflow by an average of 21%.
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15 September 2026
California’s “Adam’s Law” set the tone for AI governance today, pushing chatbot makers toward concrete safety duties—timely in-app crisis support, age verification, limits on targeted ads to children, and parental controls—under liability if models fail to prevent mental-health harm. OpenAI, which spent years arguing against state-by-state rules, has shifted into lobbying and bill-shaping mode, effectively trading principle for portability: if states converge on the same requirements, the national standard writes itself. The ripple effect is already showing up in markets and messaging, as public resistance to new AI data centers keeps growing—one Annenberg poll found 61% of Americans oppose siting a new data center locally—while politicians warn voters not to “kill the golden goose.”
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