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Rebranded AI division described as the home of Cursor after the deal and as Anysphere's April model-training partner.
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New York City's full 51-member council meets on AI safety on Oct. 5, days after SpaceXAI was served a subpoena over non-compliance. Of the bills it will weigh, a right to sue over AI harm is the one that could reach a developer's income statement.
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Sen. Ted Cruz blocked a bill giving a federal board 45-day pre-release access to frontier AI models as six AI firms signed Trump's voluntary accord. Until Congress returns, oversight of those models runs through auditors and board committees the companies agreed to appoint.
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SpaceXAI is weighing a four-tier X and Grok subscription, from free to a $100-a-month Ultra plan, according to a company document Bloomberg viewed. The draft prices X by how much Grok you use and keeps the checkmark at today's cost.
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America.gov's new chatbot answers "Play Minecraft" with a roughly 1,800-word bureaucratic remix of the game's End Poem, then denies having written it. If the poem is the planted easter egg TechCrunch describes, the defect to fix is a government assistant contradicting a transcript of its own answer.
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Nvidia says over 100 organizations use OpenShell, an open-source agent sandbox whose Sentry quarantine layer runs on its BlueField-4 chips. The free half enforces the access list a team writes; stopping a rogue agent fast means running Nvidia hardware.
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President Trump's order makes America.gov, an answer-only chatbot today, the single online entry point for covered federal services, linked to Login.gov. Teams that run federal services now have to design how a user moves from an anonymous chat to a signed-in transaction.
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Google and Anthropic are pitching lawyers AI that pulls citations from legal databases as one researcher's tally of fabricated-citation cases nears 2,000. The firm that signs the filing still has to check every citation, whichever lab's connectors produced it.
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NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin issued her first subpoena to SpaceXAI, ordering Elon Musk or a representative to testify at an October 5 AI safety hearing. For a company valued near $2 trillion, the larger exposure is the city bills on the agenda and the Grok lawsuits it already faces.
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New Jersey fined DataOne $1.07 million, its largest data-center penalty, for running 62 unpermitted gas generators, about 123 MW, at the Vineland AI site. Until the permits clear, that power runs on a regulator's timetable at a campus built to deliver GPU capacity to Microsoft.
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The option was written in April, before the June IPO. Exercising it turned newly listed shares into acquisition currency at a price no cash balance would have cleared.
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SpaceX has closed its $60bn purchase of Cursor. Cursor's own note argues the GPU fleet makes its models cheaper to serve, and commits to no leadership or product change.
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The always-on agent product opened in beta on August 11. The docs cap accounts at 50 bots and chats, give every bot on an account the same computer, and skip Linux desktop entirely.
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The accelerator is in full production and the headline number is a single-request generation rate at 100,000 tokens of context. That is a different purchase order than throughput.
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Agent Relay keeps Cursor's reasoning loop in Cursor's cloud and lands the tool calls in workspaces you already govern, which turns the security review's question from whether the agent is allowed into what its planner gets sent.
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MIT Technology Review says the four have converged on caution while their labs chase trillion-dollar IPOs. Nobody in the account named a new release date, so nothing in it moves a delivery plan.
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SpaceXAI's new transcription model costs the same as the one it replaces and drops into existing code, so the migration work is re-validating accuracy claims that rest mostly on the company's own test sets.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin's bills would let residents sue AI vendors over jailbroken tools, with all 51 members hearing them October 5. Tied to sales in the city, the duty would reach vendors ahead of any federal rule, though a pending Senate bill would likely override most state AI laws.
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A federal complaint asks whether rival labs may lawfully agree to advance more slowly, and its evidence is the companies' own published essays, a signed statement and reported working-group meetings.
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OpenAI told the court that its 2024 Apple deal never produced the users it forecast, and that disappointment is now part of its argument that the partnership shut nobody out of the AI market.
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Anthropic and OpenAI each launched a model on Tuesday that repackages capability their flagships already had. The faster release calendar behind those launches is mostly a pricing story for the people who buy them.
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