- 1Regulation
US and China Hold New York Talks on AI Risks and Trade Ahead of Trump–Xi Meeting
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- 2Safety
Gradual Dependence or Distraction? Debates Over AI's Existential Risk
Leading AI researchers and company leaders warn that unchecked development could produce gradual, hard-to-reverse dependence on autonomous systems, possibly with catastrophic outcomes; others argue this apocalyptic framing distracts from immediate harms.
- 3Industry
Slower AI development could weigh on US markets and economy
Recent calls to slow development of leading artificial intelligence models have raised concerns among investors and policymakers, because AI spending has become deeply embedded in the US economy and stock market.
- 4Research
Study finds LLMs overestimate social punishment, risking biased predictions in applications
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the World Bank report that large language models systematically predict harsher social sanctions for norm violations than human respondents expect.
- 5Tools
ScrollEd turns textbooks into short vertical feeds to meet students where they scroll
ScrollEd, a Palo Alto startup, converts text files and textbooks into short-form vertical feeds with AI-generated video, audio, text and quizzes to make studying more like scrolling social media.
- 6Business
Bolt and Lucid sign preliminary deal to pursue at least 25,000 robotaxis across Europe
Bolt and Lucid have signed a non‑binding agreement to deploy at least 25,000 autonomous taxis in Europe, a move Lucid says could help stabilise its finances.
- 7Model launches
TypeSafe AI’s Jev: a non-language model that delivers calibrated, low-cost decisions for software automation
TypeSafe AI has released Jev, a transformer-based model that forgoes natural language outputs and instead returns calibrated probability-based decisions.
- 8Regulation
Industry Debate Over Slowing Frontier AI: Proposals, Support and Skepticism
Senior AI executives including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman have promoted proposals to “pace the frontier,” suggesting third‑party safety evaluators and coordinated standards.
- 9Safety
US Near-Miss After AI Misidentification Highlights Risks of Automated Warfare
US forces reportedly nearly intercepted a Chinese ship in the Middle East this spring after an AI chatbot misidentified cargo, a close call that a source told CNN “almost started a war.” Analysts and…
- 10Industry
World-model startups keep commercial plans under wraps despite promising use cases
Leading world-model developers including Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs and Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs have drawn attention and funding, but are reluctant to disclose concrete product plans or timelines.
- 11Research
Vals aims to set a new standard for AI evaluation
Vals, a startup founded in 2024, builds proprietary benchmarks to measure modern AI models on real-world, domain-specific tasks rather than public academic tests.
- 12Tools
Vocci launches a note-taking ring: compact hardware, limited software and privacy questions
Vocci has released a lightweight ring designed for meeting note-taking that records conversations, offers AI-generated summaries, and promises up to eight hours of battery life.
- 13Business
Cornelis raises $205M to expand networking fabric for AI chips
Cornelis announced on Monday that it raised $205 million in a funding round led by IAG Capital Partners to expand its networking technology for AI accelerators.
- 14Model launches
PrismML shrinks LLMs to run locally — Bonsai 2 27B compresses Qwen3.8 to 5.9 GB
PrismML, a Caltech-founded startup led by Babak Hassibi, released Bonsai 2 27B, a compressed version of Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 27B that fits into 5.9 GB of storage — a roughly 9–10× reduction in memory with about 98% of the original’s benchmark performance.
- 15Regulation
Trump proposes appointing an AI 'czar' and creating an AI task force
President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he plans to appoint a new artificial intelligence adviser — an "AI czar" — and create an AI task force, without giving further details.
