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Latest developments

Trump vows to create an 'AI Force' and nods to justice system after rejecting calls to slow down industry. 'Rather, we will cherish it' Fortune · 11

🔮 AI politics & the future of growth ++ #602 Exponential View · 11 hours ago · 42

Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn’t kill everyone???? The Verge · 15 hours ago · 35

AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation TechCrunch · 1 day ago · 1 AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack Ars Technica · 1 day ago · 40

Even the king of England has his hesitations about AI TechCrunch · 2 days ago · 37

Rival AI agents, Instinct and Meta’s Muse, both add the ability to make calls TechCrunch · 2 days ago · 4 Introducing Home MCP: enabling your agent to interact with your home support.google.com · 2 days ago · 11

Q3 2026

◆ Donald Trump proposes renaming artificial intelligence and creating an "AI Force" with an AI czar and enforcement using the justice system Policy change

◆ US military planned an armed interception of a Chinese vessel based on an AI-assisted intelligence report that contained a hallucinated error, leading officials to call off the operation Incident

◆ Hackers accessed and extracted stored data and decryption keys from Flock Safety roadside camera systems, releasing evidence of how the cameras detect and track people and vehicles Incident

◆ Treble raises $18 million to scale its acoustic and voice simulation platform for testing audio-enabled AI systems Funding

◆ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company would not go public in 2026, citing AI safety and controllability concerns Funding

◆ Anthropic released an AI-driven scenario explorer and research outlining multiple possible U.S. economic futures from AI adoption Research publication

◆ US NSA, CISA, and FBI issued an advisory accusing six Chinese AI firms of bulk distillation of capabilities from US frontier models Security issue

◆ ControlAI executive Connor Leahy argues for U.S. legal limits on developing superintelligent AI, citing the proposed Sanders–Casar “Ban Superintelligence Act” Policy change

◆ Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned after warning that advanced AI could pose existential risks, escalating calls for a slower “pace the frontier” approach Executive move

◆ Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that can automate everyday tasks in connected apps for U.S. consumers Deployment

◆ TSMC invests in United States Funding

◆ Taiwan invests in United States Funding

◆ Commentary and analysis circulated on the competitive impact of open-weight AI models versus closed-source models, including discussion of proposed U.S. restrictions tied to K3 Other

◆ Analysts warned that AI-driven productivity gains may concentrate income and profits while labor’s share continues to decline Other

◆ OpenAI’s head of data centers Chris Malone left the company following an infrastructure reorganization Executive move

◆ Meta agreed to a US child-safety settlement imposing teen-focused controls and paying nearly $18B over alleged Instagram and Facebook harms Legal action

◆ AI-driven data center expansion faces growing public and regulatory scrutiny over water use and environmental impacts, alongside experiments with offshore ocean-based data center designs Other

• 19 Sep Trump vows to create an 'AI Force' and nods to justice system after rejecting calls to slow down industry. 'Rather, we will cherish it'
• 19 Sep 🔮 AI politics & the future of growth ++ #602
• 19 Sep Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn’t kill everyone????
• 18 Sep AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation
• 18 Sep AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
• 17 Sep Even the king of England has his hesitations about AI
• 17 Sep Rival AI agents, Instinct and Meta’s Muse, both add the ability to make calls
• 17 Sep Introducing Home MCP: enabling your agent to interact with your home
• 16 Sep Helping older adults use AI in everyday life
• 16 Sep Trump Goes Full Hoax on AI Existential Risk
• 16 Sep Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
• 15 Sep The AI data center boom is colliding with cities scarred by big industry
• 15 Sep US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035
• 15 Sep Mark Carney pitches Canada to global investors as 'much more than being next to the United States' and a reliable partner that 'respects rule of law'
• 15 Sep OriginalVoices raises £1M pre-seed round led by Iona Star
• 15 Sep Following: The government doesn't want to regulate AI
• 14 Sep The AI Industry Has Finally Discovered the Hardest Test: Politics
• 14 Sep China’s rocket achievements threaten US space superiority
• 14 Sep While Barack Obama urges Democrats to make AI a campaign issue, Trump downplays the need to slow development despite dire warnings
• 11 Sep Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
• 11 Sep Meta's new AI can shop, choose and check out. Most people don't want it touching their money
• 10 Sep Anthropic's new research maps three wildly different futures for the AI economy
• 10 Sep Everyone needs a Muse
• 10 Sep Belgium spin-out IVEX raises €5M to cut car safety testing time, eyes US and Asia
• 10 Sep Scenarios for our Economic Future
• 9 Sep Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models
• 9 Sep Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?
• 9 Sep Implicity raises €35M from IRIS and Five Arrows to scale AI that cuts cardiac deaths by 26%
• 8 Sep Will China deploy humanoid robots to fight?
• 8 Sep China on pace for 'new record-high trade surplus' this year as exports jump 25%—a part of its efforts to become a 'major player in AI infrastructure'
• 8 Sep US-China Biorisk Cooperation: Yes, It’s Possible
• 8 Sep Taiwan leans on chip diplomacy as the US pushes for more factories on American soil
• 6 Sep ASEAN can still hedge between America and China on AI. It needs to get its act together first
• 6 Sep Open Models are the United Front of AI
• 4 Sep Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library
• 4 Sep Workers’ share of America’s income is at a record low before the AI boom even begins
• 4 Sep ‘Sovereign AI’ is really about having a choice: ‘You don’t want to be tethered to anybody else’
• 4 Sep How Trump and Xi Can Do AI Safety
• 2 Sep Scott Bessent says 19 of the G20 finance ministers agreed to address ‘cheap imports’ but ‘China was the dissenter’
• 2 Sep AI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Experts
• 1 Sep It turns out that Gen Z didn't quit on careers. The work force quit on them
• 31 Aug The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them
• 30 Aug Wall Street used to worry that too much U.S. debt would crowd out the private sector. But AI hyperscalers are 'reverse crowding' the Treasury
• 29 Aug ChatGPT said you'd lose your jobs right now — it's more like 3% of workers
• 28 Aug I went to China to see a different AI future. It looked familiar
• 28 Aug How the U.S. and China Are Meme-ifying Modern War
• 27 Aug ‘Clearly, people hate data centers’: Sam Altman admits Americans hate what he’s wrought as his own data centers head quits
• 27 Aug How much of a problem is AI’s water use?
• 27 Aug Meta settles with the states over child safety failures
• 26 Aug U.S. economy grows at sluggish 1.5% pace in second quarter

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Partnerships

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Products & technology

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• AI-driven scenario explorer integrated with this jurisdiction · 1 source
• Instinct Concierge deploys this jurisdiction · 1 source
• Meta’s Muse deploys this jurisdiction · 1 source
• Flock Safety deploys this jurisdiction · 1 source
• Donald Trump integrated with this jurisdiction · 1 source
• Waymo deploys this jurisdiction · 1 source

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• TSMC invests in this jurisdiction · 1 source
• Taiwan invests in this jurisdiction · 1 source