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Commerce ordered Kalshi to pull its AI compute price tracker

Two stories today about where AI's bottlenecks actually are: who is allowed to put a price on compute, and whether an agent that works today will work tomorrow. The US Commerce Department ordered Kalshi to take down its AI-compute forward curve last month, citing national security concerns, and Kalshi quietly complied. The product was not a futures contract in the ordinary sense — it pulled together data from several markets where users bet on the cost of renting Nvidia chips and published an o

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Musk wants rivals to run test harnesses on each other's models

Two stories today run the same test on AI's gatekeepers: who gets to check the work before it ships, and what the answer looks like when the checker isn't the government. Then a biology dataset turned into a toy shows what happens when the public gets the keys. Elon Musk wants the top labs — plus "three or four of the leading Chinese companies" — to let rivals run a "test harness" on their models before release. Speaking at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday, the SpaceX chief named his

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FTC chair is 'deeply suspicious' of the labs' antitrust ask

Washington got two answers on AI policy within a day: the administration's competition chief pushed back on the industry's safety-for-antitrust trade, and OpenAI told Congress it will take a mandate it once argued against. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said "everyone should be deeply suspicious" of AI companies that come to Washington asking for new regulations and an antitrust exemption at the same time. Speaking at Georgetown University on Tuesday, Ferguson said that combination is a request f

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AIUC raises $40M to put a trust mark on enterprise AI agents

Agent safety is turning into an industry with a business model. Today's money went to the auditors and to the plumbing under the agents themselves. AIUC closed a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital, with First Harmonic participating, to sell enterprises an independent safety verdict on the agents they buy. The company — formal name Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company — built AIUC-1, a standard and testing service modeled on the SOC 2 playbook, and its pitch is blunt: enterprises

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Google DeepMind safety researcher quits, says AI 'could kill us all'

The pacing fight just picked up a witness from inside Google's lab, Britain's government put itself on record about listening, and someone finally ran the accounting on what the data centers have to earn back. Google DeepMind's AGI safety team produced its first public exit note, and it landed in the middle of the industry's loudest argument. Bilal Chughtai, who worked on safety and alignment research at DeepMind until July, posted this week that he "earnestly believe[s]" AI has the potential t

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Trump met Altman privately at the GOP convention, then attacked Amodei

The week's AI slowdown fight turned political — and the two sides are now trading positions, pricing risk, and pulling back their own enterprise customers. Sam Altman asked for the meeting; the President spent Monday attacking the other labs. Trump met privately with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backstage at the Republican midterm convention on Thursday, according to MS NOW, which cites three people familiar with it; Altman requested it, and the discussion covered AI and its growing power. Two days la

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Today in AI — September 14, 2026

The pacing debate left the essays behind on Monday and hit three harder surfaces: the tape, the courts and the ballot boxes of three continents. Trump answered the labs' request for rules by saying he already has criminal power over them; Europe answered with an under-15 ban; China answered with another spec. In between: a 7B model built by seven students with an agent workforce, a school-paper result that made markets, and the first real legal rule for AI agents that browse the web. Models &

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Ninth Circuit: the user accessed Amazon, not Perplexity's agent

A federal appeals court has written the first real rule for agents that browse on your behalf, the defense-AI bandwagon is repricing at $20 billion, and the internet's newest spam problem is agents asking permission to exist. The Ninth Circuit vacated Amazon's anti-hacking injunction against Perplexity's Comet browser, holding that the human user — not the company that built the assistant — "accessed" Amazon's computers. The panel's August 4 opinion in Amazon.com Services, LLC v. Perplexity AI,

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Carney wants a Financial Stability Board for AI

Monday's governance beat produced something the pacing debate has been missing: an actual institutional design. Then, a workstation card aimed squarely at local inference, and a look inside the cost culture behind China's cheapest humanoids. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called for a global "technology stability board" to oversee AI, modelled explicitly on the Financial Stability Board that coordinates financial regulation. "There's a need for coordination," Carney said in a Bloomberg int

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Brussels will propose barring under-15s from chatbots and feeds

The AI slowdown debate went global today and every capital answered with its own agenda: Brussels reached for a ban, Berlin for a veto on slowing down, and Nvidia quietly repriced what a single desk AI box can hold. The European Commission will unveil an EU KIDS Act on Thursday that restricts under-15s from social media, video-sharing platforms, online games and — explicitly — AI chatbots and AI companions, according to preparatory documents seen by Politico Europe and Reuters. Commission Presi

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The Take — Forget the pause. The fight is over the spec

Every headline this week is about speed: whether frontier labs should slow down, who told them to, and who refused. I think that is the wrong argument to be watching, and the tell is that nobody winning it is the one talking about it. The decision that will shape AI for a decade is not the pace of the next training run — it is who drafts the document that says what "safe" measurably means. A pause is a sentence. A spec is an artifact, it ships, and whoever writes it gets to keep the drafting pen

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Trump's answer to the pacing ask: he already has criminal power over the labs

The AI pacing debate stopped being about risk on Monday. Washington's reply to the frontier labs asking for a rulebook was a reminder about the powers already on the books, and from Frankfurt came the counter-argument that Europe is buying the leverage it claims to lack. President Trump spent Monday telling the AI industry it needs no new guardrails, then listing the ones he says he already holds. In an all-caps Truth Social post, he wrote that "the only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is

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