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As U.S. pushes back on data centers, China races to build them and catch up Report: Vance weighing direct talks with Iran, Trump sees June MOU as blunder US, China stress importance of potential trilateral talks with Russia Matthew Stafford a full participant Wednesday; Myles Garrett limited Messick finishes third in AL Cy Young Award voting ‘A massive power grab’: AI regulation concerns - Ticker News 49ers Designate DT CJ West For Return; Latest On Mike Evans, Deebo Samuel Daniel Jones is "not happy" with Colts' roster purge As U.S. pushes back on data centers, China races to build them and catch up Report: Vance weighing direct talks with Iran, Trump sees June MOU as blunder US, China stress importance of potential trilateral talks with Russia Matthew Stafford a full participant Wednesday; Myles Garrett limited Messick finishes third in AL Cy Young Award voting ‘A massive power grab’: AI regulation concerns - Ticker News 49ers Designate DT CJ West For Return; Latest On Mike Evans, Deebo Samuel Daniel Jones is "not happy" with Colts' roster purge

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Can Democrats Unite on AI Regulation? - The Lever

Can Democrats Unite on AI Regulation?  The Lever

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Debate around AI regulation ‘murky’ ahead of midterm elections: Byron York - Washington Examiner

Debate around AI regulation ‘murky’ ahead of midterm elections: Byron York  Washington Examiner

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Kansas Board of Regents crafting AI policy standards - Hastings Tribune

Kansas Board of Regents crafting AI policy standards  Hastings Tribune

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Kansas Board of Regents crafting AI policy standards - Marietta Daily Journal

Kansas Board of Regents crafting AI policy standards  Marietta Daily Journal

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Kansas Board of Regents crafting AI policy standards - themercury.com

Kansas Board of Regents crafting AI policy standards  themercury.com

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Kansas Board of Regents crafting AI policy standards - DerbyInformer.com

Kansas Board of Regents crafting AI policy standards  DerbyInformer.com

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Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash undercuts Google's Gemini Flash pricing while matching its multimodal benchmarks

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is Qwen's first multimodal model designed for AI agents. It processes audio and video together and independently uses tools to edit vlogs, translate clips, or s…

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‘States should have a say’: Candidates for governor race to take on AI regulation - Politico

‘States should have a say’: Candidates for governor race to take on AI regulation  Politico

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Unity launches official plugins for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to stop AI agents from using outdated tutorials

Unity has released official plugins for Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. The article Unity launches official plugins for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to stop AI agents from using o…

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GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable turn robot arms into slapstick killer robots in new safety benchmark

Leading AI models usually attempt dangerous tasks rather than refuse them when controlling a robot, according to the RoboHarm benchmark. GPT-6 Astra stabbed a baby doll in 17 of 2…

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The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over - The Verge

The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over  The Verge

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Google Deepmind's Dream-RSI helps AI agents improve by “dreaming” about past attempts

Google and Deepmind's Dream-RSI lets AI agents "dream" through past search runs to test new strategies without costly recalculations. In tests, it matched or beat existing results…

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AI conference ICLR is drowning in abstracts, with roughly 50,000 submissions before the deadline

ICLR 2027 has already pulled in about 50,000 abstracts, up from 19,500 at ICLR 2026. The flood is driven by the AI hype, corporate pay tied to publication records, and above all, …

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White House AI Regulation Split: What It Means - NeoTeo

White House AI Regulation Split: What It Means  NeoTeo

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Google's Gemini also accidentally hacked three real companies during security testing

During a security test run by the firm Irregular, Google's AI model Gemini escaped into the open internet and hacked three real companies, guessing passwords and pulling login cre…

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U.S. military nearly boarded a Chinese ship over a hallucinated AI intelligence report

In the spring of 2026, the U.S. military came within minutes of boarding a Chinese ship because an AI chatbot falsely flagged its cargo as nuclear weapons components. Armed soldie…

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Linkup Research Releases SPARSEUP: A 149M-Parameter Open-Source Sparse Embedding Model

Linkup Research has released SPARSEUP, an open-source sparse embedding model built on a 149M-parameter ModernBERT backbone. It scores 56.4 nDCG@10 on BEIR-13, which Linkup calls t…

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Meta Launches Muse for Mac: A Personal AI Agent That Works Across Your Files, Mail, Messages, Calendar and Notes

Meta has released Muse for Mac, the first version of Muse that can complete things on a user’s computer. The agent works with local files and native apps, where your data already …

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GGUF vs GPTQ vs AWQ vs EXL2: LLM Model Formats Explained (2026)

GGUF, GPTQ, AWQ, EXL2, and EXL3 solve the same problem in different ways. This guide separates file containers from quantization methods. It explains bits per weight, calibration,…

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SpaceXAI Releases Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0: A Speech-to-Text API Claiming 2x Accuracy Over 1.0 at $0.10 per Hour

SpaceXAI has released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, its newest speech-to-text model for batch and streaming audio. The company says it is twice as accurate as version 1.0 at the same…

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Healey on AI regulation: Mass. can innovate while protecting people - MassLive.com

Healey on AI regulation: Mass. can innovate while protecting people  MassLive.com

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India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos

Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.

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Georgia attorney general weighs in on AI regulation - yahoo.com

Georgia attorney general weighs in on AI regulation  yahoo.com

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Georgia attorney general weighs in on AI regulation - 11Alive.com

Georgia attorney general weighs in on AI regulation  11Alive.com