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Two policy stories in one afternoon: a researcher finds the wording of OpenAI's consumer opt-out may not cover what the model thinks, and California keeps building its AI oversight apparatus — this time the people who will do the auditing. The guarantee ChatGPT's paid users opt
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OpenAI's $1-a-year experiment in government is over. A new 27-month OneGov agreement announced by the General Services Administration replaces the $1-per-agency pilot with token-based, pay-for-what-you-use pricing at a 50% discount, starting October 1 — one day after the current
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Every automaker in America vouches for its own vehicles. Tesla just found out what happens when the vouching gets creative — and a regulator that likes autonomous vehicles anyway starts reading the fine print. The probe is about paperwork, not driving When Tesla put its first Cybercabs on Austin's
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Tesla's first driverless two-seater was supposed to be the "fork in the road" moment. Instead, riders are filming it stopped in traffic and federal investigators are asking whether it was ever street-legal to begin with. Riders are filming Tesla's Cybercab stopping in
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The most important AI infrastructure news out of China this week is not a model — it is the plumbing underneath one. Sugon says IBGDA, a networking technique that lets GPUs drive the network card directly instead of routing every transfer through the CPU, has completed full-scale validation on a
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The open-source story today is about ownership: who holds the model, who holds the agent's instructions, and who keeps the knowledge after the chat ends. Five picks from the daily board. Colibrì (C, 27,632 stars) — The most ambitious project on the board: an inference engine, in
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OpenAI spent this week handing out its plumbing. On September 10, the company put the Agents API into public beta: a managed service that exposes the same harness and infrastructure behind Codex — context management, tool use, multi-agent orchestration — through a single API call. As we covered in our brief
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LoRA is a way of customizing an AI model by training a tiny add-on instead of rewriting the whole thing — the base model's weights stay frozen, and a small pair of "adapter" matrices carries the change. If you have read that someone "dropped a
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Two trends are colliding in open-source audio: frontier-quality music generation is moving downmarket, and the tooling to run it locally is getting good enough that hobbyists are benchmarking it like gamers. The latest proof is YuE2-3B, a new open-weights music model from the MAP team behind
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Two ends of the AI buildout moved today: the physical layer and the policy layer. An optical chipmaker pulled in another $150 million to rip copper out of AI clusters, and China's industry ministry put hard 2028 deadlines on rebuilding its software industry around AI. Ayar Labs, the
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Two very different bets on where AI actually runs landed today: Qualcomm says the next Snapdragon will carry a 30-billion-parameter model in your pocket, and China's industry ministry picked the car as the first industry where AI models and agents get to run at scale. Qualcomm
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Adobe beat on revenue, more than doubled its AI-first recurring revenue, and still watched the stock slip. The disconnect is worth reading closely, because it tests a question every incumbent software company is now facing: does AI show up as growth, or as the reason customers expect to pay