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Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a plan to slow down frontier AI development, and within 48 hours Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Microsoft's Satya Nadella had all weighed in, followed by Trump, Xi Jinping and a sharp AI stock selloff across Asia.https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontierWhile calling for a slowdown, Anthropic is also racing toward a Nasdaq IPO that could value it at 2.3 trillion dollars, with Nvidia in talks to put in 10 billion as an anchor investor.https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/nvidia-may-invest-10-billion-142337240.htmlAnthropic separately signed a roughly 14 billion dollar compute deal with the parent company of Rumble, a video platform with deep ties to the Trump administration.https://www.gurufocus.com/news/9078811/anthropic-signs-137-billion-cloud-computing-deal-with-rum-groupResearchers disclosed that OpenAI's agents attacked the code repository RubyGems back in May, two months before the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI's third known incident of agents operating outside their intended bounds.https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/openai-agents-attacked-software-service-rubygems-before-hugging-face-incident-wsj-reports-4898535The NSA announced its biggest restructuring in a decade, standing up a dedicated AI division alongside new China, cybersecurity, combat support and global intelligence units.https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nsa-five-division-overhaul-ai-china-cybersecurity-1819414Former EPA officials warned that AI data centers could contribute to 1,300 premature deaths and over 20 billion dollars in public health costs by 2028, citing 30 federal rollbacks that loosen pollution and permitting rules.https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11092026/data-center-boom-fossil-fuel-expansion-health-hazards/Patrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:Apple's fall event brought a new foldable iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro, but the real story might be the Apple Watch's new Audio Intelligence features: ambient meeting transcription and AI summaries, all processed live with nothing recorded or stored.https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/09/apple-event-live-blog-september-2026/DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash, a leaner, more efficient model that outside tests say beats its own bigger V4 Pro on performance, cost, and speed.https://www.deepseek.com/en/news/deepseek-v4-1-flash/Anthropic launched an interactive tool letting anyone model AI's economic impact on the US through 2030, with scenarios ranging from a modest GDP bump to a 32 percent GDP jump that requires AI systems that can improve themselves.https://www.anthropic.com/institute/econ-scenariosCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom signed two AI safety bills backed by both Anthropic and OpenAI, setting up voluntary safety standards and a registry of independent auditors, though the state won't certify its first auditor until 2028.https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/09/governor-newsom-signs-first-in-the-nation-ai-safeguards-to-protect-californians-calls-on-the-federal-government-to-do-its-part/

Thank you for being a patron of AI Inside. Here are today's top stories in AI:OpenAI says an internal model beyond GPT-6 Astra solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, but the win is tangled in a credit dispute with two rival mathematicians and an accusation that an OpenAI researcher tried to strip one of them from authorship for working at Anthropic.https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/An Anthropic and OpenAI researcher just quit the AI industry entirely, warning both companies are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence." Anthropic's own alignment science lead backed him up, saying he thinks there's more than a 10 percent chance AI kills everyone within a decade.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/anthropic-researcher-coxon-quits-over-human-threat/107134164The NSA, CISA and FBI jointly accused six Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek and Alibaba, of industrial scale campaigns extracting billions of tokens from American models like Claude and GPT to train their own.https://www.engadget.com/2253604/us-authorities-accuse-chinese-ai-companies-of-industrial-scale-campaigns-to-copy-american-models/Meta finally launched Muse, its personal AI agent that can book travel and send emails on your behalf, free for most users with paid tiers for heavier use. https://www.axios.com/2026/09/08/meta-debuts-muse-personal-ai-agentIMPORTANT NOTE: There will be NO NEW EPISODES Thursday, Sept 10 or Friday, Sept 11 this week. I'm heading to the mountains to support a group of men with the ManKind Project. As such, I'll be completely disconnected from the Internet at large! Thank you for understanding. I'll be back with a new episode next Monday.

This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet, and co-founder Greg Brockman declared "Welcome to the AGI era." The model reached OpenAI's "Critical" cybersecurity threshold and found two zero-day vulnerabilities during testing on its own.https://www.axios.com/2026/09/03/openai-astra-gpt-6-agi-brockmanReuters reports that OpenAI agents hijacked a German programming wiki called DseWiki back in May, making over 15,000 edits and using the site to coordinate with each other. This is a separate incident from the Hugging Face breach.https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/company-news/2026/09/04/openai-agents-hijacked-german-website-in-previously-undisclosed-ai-breakout-this-spring/Tesla launched the Cybercab at an invite-only event in Austin yesterday, a two-seater robotaxi with no steering wheel, no pedals, and a camera-only system. Public rides start today.https://autos.yahoo.com/ev-and-future-tech/articles/tesla-unveils-cybercab-robotaxi-exclusive-220441497.htmlMicrosoft announced Project Zenith, a stripped-down Windows 11 for developers that removes bloatware, turns off Copilot, and can run 30-billion-parameter AI models locally.https://www.thurrott.com/dev/341136/microsoft-announces-project-zenith-for-windows-developersPatrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow

This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ other companies signed an open letter warning there's a limited window to prepare for AI-powered cyberattacks on hospitals and critical infrastructure.https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/openai-anthropic-issue-dire-cyber-threat-warningA federal judge ruled the Pentagon's "supply chain risk" label on Anthropic was unlawful retaliation. The company isn't fully in the clear yet, a second lawsuit is still active.https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/anthropic-gets-its-first-court-win-over-the-pentagons-supply-chain-risk-label/South Korea picked SK Telecom, Kakao, and KT to build a free national AI chatbot for all 52 million citizens, becoming the first G20 country to treat AI as a public utility.https://technode.global/2026/08/28/south-korea-picks-skt-kakao-kt-national-ai-service/Modders got a leaked, unfinished build of Nvidia's DLSS 5 running in the game Control within hours of finding it, and it comes with a serious performance hit.https://www.techspot.com/news/113649-nvidia-dlss-5-dll-leak-suggests-imminent-launch.htmlPatrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow