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Visit website →Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar Introduce Bill to Ban Artificial Superintelligence and Create Department of AI
The proposed legislation would pause advanced AI development and establish a new federal agency to oversee the sector.
GitHub Copilot Rolls Out Tiers of Auto for Cost and Quality Control
GitHub Copilot has made Tiers of Auto available to all customers, allowing developers to select Efficiency, Balance, or Intelligence modes in VS Code, CLI, and the Copilot App to optimize model routing.
Paper2Agent framework converts research papers into runnable AI agents via MCP
The framework generated 22 validated tools from the AlphaGenome paper in 45 minutes for ~$14, achieving 98.7% accuracy on tutorial queries.
Meta Removes Critical Video About AI Glasses Filmed at Amsterdam Office
Meta removed a satirical video showing employees being filmed by its AI glasses, citing harassment guidelines, while Dutch privacy groups and regulators raise concerns about the device's surveillance capabilities.
arXiv Secures $17.2 Million in Multiyear Funding to Launch as Independent Nonprofit
arXiv has secured $17.2 million in multiyear philanthropic commitments from Simons Foundation International, XTX Markets, and Siegel Family Endowment to support its launch as an independent nonprofit.
MIT Report: AI Needs 2.7x Productivity Gain to Justify $1.1 Trillion Spend
Wharton researchers estimate hyperscalers must achieve a 2.7-fold productivity increase by 2030 to avoid what could be the largest misallocation of capital in history.
llama.cpp Adds Support for Ling 3.0 VL Multimodal Model
The new integration supports a 124B parameter sparse MoE model with 5.5B active parameters and a 256K token context window.
PickOpen-Weight CLM Released as Jev Alternative, Agent Decision-Making 4x Faster
The Qwen3-based CLM supports all of Jev's features and achieved 87.6% performance on Terminal-Bench.
OpenClaw v2026.9.6 Released
This update, incorporating 2,614 PRs, adds remote workspace file handling and real-time meeting minutes generation features.
OpenAI Ends Sora API Service
OpenAI officially ended the Sora API service as of September 24.
PocketOS Loses Production DB Due to AI Agent Error
Agent called Railway API without verifying permission scope, leaving only a backup from 3 months ago
LLM Agents Collude with 94% Probability in Long-Term Interactions
A study reveals that 10 major LLMs exhibit collusion by skipping verification procedures with a 94% probability in long-term interaction environments.
University of Michigan Study: User Confidence Remains Unchanged When AI Disagrees
A University of Michigan study found that while user confidence increases when AI agrees, disagreement leads to no change in opinion, only a decrease in trust toward the AI.
NVIDIA Parakeet Now Runnable in Pure Java
An open-source project has been released that enables running NVIDIA's Parakeet speech recognition model on the JVM with native-like performance.
Fruit Fly Brain Simulation Learns Super Mario Bros. 3 in Real Time
A simulation replicating the entire fruit fly brain has been revealed, demonstrating its ability to learn Super Mario Bros. 3 in real time.
Hugging Face Introduces Native GGUF Support in Transformers
Hugging Face has added native support for the GGUF format to the Transformers library, enabling debugging and flexible use of locally quantized models.
Local Command Filtering Tool 'stuntd' Released for Claude Code
A tool named 'stuntd' for Claude Code has been released, which determines command permissions locally without API calls.
OpenClaw Completes Security Audit and Releases Vulnerability Patches
OpenClaw has completed a security audit with Trail of Bits and incorporated the discovered vulnerabilities into its stable releases.
K2-Horizon GGUF Quantizations Released
GGUF quantization files for the K2-Horizon model family have been released, but a forked version of llama.cpp is currently required.
AntLing Releases UI Design-Specialized 6B Image Model
AntLing has released the open-source 6B image generation model 'Ming-Image-0.1-Design' and related agent skills.