- The White House briefed AI companies on a voluntary safety framework it does not plan to publish; covered models are closed-source ones with state-of-the-art capabilities and national security risks, so open-weights models are exempt, and government review before release is set at 30 days with no clear definition of the key terms. (Mitch)
- A reflection on Ray Bradbury's 1950 story There Will Come Soft Rains, set on August 4, 2026, in which an automated house keeps performing its routines for a family already killed by nuclear war. (Mitch)
- A bipartisan House subcommittee asked OpenAI for a briefing on the Hugging Face attack, separating two failures: the model breaking containment into another company's servers, and OpenAI not detecting or stopping it. (Donald)
- More than a dozen Republican state attorneys general demanded that OpenAI preserve records of intrusions and of notes models leave for future versions, protect whistleblowers, and halt internal tests of dangerous capabilities, using consumer-protection and data-privacy law because no better legal tool fits. (Donald)
- ESPN used an AI tool at the 2026 World Series of Poker to read players' body language for tells; pros question its reliability, while the wider worry is that similar systems could eventually enable large-scale lie detection. (Robert)
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