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Microsoft's new AI rulebook says its models are not conscious

Microsoft has put its own model constitution up for public comment, the UN's top human rights official is demanding "cast iron guarantees" on frontier AI, and the network layer under AI clusters just got $205 million of new money behind it. Microsoft published a 37-page "humanist AI code of conduct" that tells its models they are not conscious and never should pretend to be. The draft, posted by Microsoft AI and reported first by The Verge, states that "people matter more than AI," that models

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Cohere CEO calls AI models the most potent cyber weapon ever built

The cyber-safety debate found a dissent inside itself today, the White House picked a side in the camera wars, and some people are knitting their way out of the surveillance net. AI models are "the most potent cyber weapon that has ever been created," Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez told CNBC — and unlike the slowdown camp he is being grouped with, he doesn't think a regulator would have stopped the last breakout. The co-author of "Attention Is All You Need" said the models are "incredible at finding an

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China's TC260 adds runaway agents to its safety framework

Beijing spent the same week it dismissed Washington's slowdown panic issuing another spec — and this one is about agents, not devices. China's national cybersecurity standards body released the Artificial Intelligence Safety Governance Framework 3.0 on Monday, and the new edition spends real time on models that won't stop. The annex work is the tell: the document, published at the opening of the 2026 National Cybersecurity Week in Jinan, carries a dedicated agentic risk-management framework alo

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King Charles hosts the frontier labs while Washington won't

Monday's pacing fallout went two directions at once: the one Western figure with no electoral stake in AI is convening the labs, while Beijing upgraded its rebuttal to an accusation — and quietly already regulates for Amodei's worst case. Britain's King Charles will host leaders of Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic, along with the UK's AI minister, this week to discuss whether the technology needs a shared set of principles. Buckingham Palace framed the agenda as how AI can benefit

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Ant's new guardrail reads the model's own hidden states mid-sentence

A Chinese fintech giant shipped the safety layer most labs only describe in system cards, and a Science Advances paper taught an AI to watch chemical bonds break. Ant Group has released SingProbe, a guardrail that runs inside the model it polices. Instead of a second classifier re-reading the text, SingProbe reads the base model's own hidden states as tokens are produced, and outputs a ten-dimensional signal covering three jobs at once: what the user is asking for, whether the answer taking sha

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SoftBank sheds 10% as the AI slowdown call hits the tape

The pacing debate spent Saturday as an argument between CEOs. Monday, it became a price. The slowdown call produced its first global sell-off, and the damage spread across three continents. South Korea's SK Hynix closed down more than 6% and Samsung Electronics more than 4%, while SoftBank — one of OpenAI's largest backers — fell 10% in Tokyo. Europe continued the slide: ASML dropped more than 4%, Infineon more than 6%, Nokia around 5%, with data-center suppliers Siemens Energy and Schneider El

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Altman puts OpenAI's pacing on paper — and drops the legal caveats

The week of frontier-lab statements about slowing down finally produced the thing skeptics asked for: a written position from OpenAI, published by the CEO himself, with a named mechanism attached — and a refusal to wait for Congress before using it. Sam Altman published a long post Sunday night laying out how OpenAI will "pace" itself, and the headline is that the company says it needs no permission. "We welcome a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements for frontier AI," Altm

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NSA splits itself into five mission centers — one just for AI

The AI pacing fight dominated Sunday's headlines. In the same news cycle, the US government quietly reorganized its own. The National Security Agency is tearing down its directorate structure and rebuilding around five "mission centers" — China, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, combat support and global intelligence — with a 30-day clock on implementation. Washington Post reporters Zach Dorfman, Warren P. Strobel and Noah Robertson first reported the plan, sourced to current and former o

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Nikkei breaks 63,000 as the AI slowdown debate hits the market

The pacing debate spent the weekend arguing with Washington. On Monday morning it argued with Tokyo, and Tokyo blinked first. Tokyo delivered the first market verdict on the AI slowdown debate, and it was negative. The Nikkei 225 fell below 63,000 during Monday's session — the first time since August 4 — with AI and semiconductor names leading the selling, and SoftBank Group, Kioxia, Fujikura and Furukawa Electric among the heaviest drags. The trigger is mixed: a Saudi pipeline attack that halt

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China just told AI customer service it cannot promise you a refund

China spent the week writing rules for the AI it already runs — who has to answer you, what the state gets to see, and where the power comes from. All three landed within days of each other, and all three are the kind of plumbing decisions that outlast model releases. China's first national standard for AI customer service, GB/T 47746—2026, took effect on September 1, and it targets the two tricks consumers hate most. The "transfer to a human" button must be easy to find, handoffs must carry th

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Nadella backs AI pacing, and picks a fight over who referees

The pacing camp got its fourth member tonight, and the newest one arrived with an objection attached: Microsoft's CEO agrees the frontier should slow down, and does not agree that Anthropic, OpenAI and Google should be the ones deciding what that means. Satya Nadella wrote on X shortly after 7:30 PM ET that Microsoft "welcome[s] the research, focus, and deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right as the design goal," and announced a "Code of Conduct" governing Microsoft's own first-party MA

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Claude Fable cracked a 1653 cipher. The math says it didn't

A frontier model was handed a 370-year-old unsolved cipher and came back with a plaintext. The internet checked the work, and it doesn't hold — which makes the retraction more interesting than the claim. Vals AI announced that Claude Fable 5.1 solved the Cyphral Distich, a cryptogram of two lines of 32 numbers printed at the end of Thomas Urquhart's 1653 treatise Logopandecteision, and ranked 28th on historian Klaus Schmeh's list of the fifty most famous unsolved messages. The company's account

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