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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs laws to protect workers from AI risks

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws Wednesday aimed at protecting workers from the threats of artificial intelligence , including potential job losses and workplace surveillance.

AI safety fears put OpenAI and Anthropic in the FTC's crosshairs

The probe comes amid scrutiny of previously undisclosed AI security incidents.

Why two of Silicon Valley's hottest AI coding startups are publicly feuding over one executive

Factory AI alleges a former board member held meetings with rival Cognition while advising the company.

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation

Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.

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It’s rare to see a government that’s tempted to regulate with a heavy hand instead decide to go for a light touch. Yet that was the welcome sight on Tuesday when President Donald Trump emerged from a White House meeting to tout commitments from technology leaders to do a better job of keeping increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems under human control.

Peter Thiel says that effective altruists got 'one big thing right'

Peter Thiel said that early effective altruists were right about AI. 'There was one big thing they knew that the other people did not,' he said.

Google's 'skills' replacement for Gems is available in Gemini chats starting today.

The reusable, custom instructions for Gemini are also rolling out to Workspace users starting October 5th and in the Gemini app starting October 13th. Google's shutting down Gems starting in November for individual users, and as early as March 1st, 2027 for Workspace users.

Ask Trump's AI chatbot who won in 2020. You might not get an answer.

Some users got answers. Others got refusals.

How Sam Altman Uses Dots to Take Back His Time

Plus: Why he only prompts on Ultrafast, how he builds new features, and why he believes AI will spark a new Renaissance

Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now

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Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet

Google promised Gemini 3.5 Pro in June, but it spent the summer trotting out smaller Flash models. Now, Google is ready to take on the frontier again with Gemini 4 Argon. The company claims this new AI offers industry-leading performance in coding, knowledge work, and cybersecurity, but you aren’t allowed to use it yet.

Google launches Gemini 4 Argon to reclaim the AI frontier

Google said its new Gemini 4 matches OpenAI's frontier Astra model in cyber defense, and outpaces rivals in some areas.