Techmeme

TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using "Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions" to produce typed probabilistic decisions that software can use directly (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
Google researchers help develop the first complete digital map of an adult male fruit fly's brain, which modders programmed to play Doom, trade BTC, and more (Becky Ferreira/404 Media)
Cybersecurity experts claim that AI leaders' apocalyptic hacking predictions are technically incoherent and reflect an unfamiliarity with the subject (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
Source: AI assistant Instinct seeks to raise $1B at a $10B valuation, up from $2.25B less than a month ago; Sequoia and Benchmark are in talks to lead the round (Valida Pau/The Information)
Analysis: only ~2.3 GW of planned data center capacity is delayed by direct project-level policies like local moratoriums and New York's data center EO (SemiAnalysis)
Zuckerberg says "Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security" and didn't call on other AI labs to do the same before acting (Tom Giles/Bloomberg)
Democrats and Republicans proposed many bills to address major AI threats over the past two years, but they remain stymied by partisan disputes and lobbying (New York Times)
Q&A with Matt Sheehan, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on US-China AI race, distillation, US chip export controls, and more (New York Times)
Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs have the responsibility and incentive to train models safely and that any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind (Mark Zuckerberg/@finkd)
Sources: Meta plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall; the new model has six mics to let users speak with Meta's AI chatbot and Muse (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outputs numerical responses with probability estimates to help businesses assess reliability, raised a $40M seed (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
Sources: OpenAI has held early conversations with investors about raising another private funding round at a $1.2T valuation before its planned IPO (Financial Times)
At a US House hearing, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said AI labs should get no liability exemptions and called for more open-source models built in the US (Matt Bracken/FedScoop)
OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI's models than on Anthropic's in the week of September 7, the first time that happened since the week of February 26, 2024 (@openrouter)
Pulley, which offers cap table management software, says it will cease operations after December 8; it had raised $50M+ from investors, including Founders Fund (Melia Robinson/Business Insider)

Wired

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You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, Trump-Appointed Judge Rules
The 9 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month (September 2026)
The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket Trades
Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems
Petlibro Offers: 30% Off in September 2026
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
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The Trump Alien ‘Disclosure Speech’ Rumors Are Reaching a Fever Pitch
How 9/11 Made Everyone a Conspiracy Theorist
The US and Mexico Announce They’re Teaming Up Against Drones
Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone

Engadget

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