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Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for global safety regulations for AI, arguing that milk and washing machines currently face more stringent safety standards (Mitchell Labiak/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6rmy7zmvx3lo

AI is less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says
Brad Smith calls for global rules on AI, and says the UK is in the "best position" to lead the charge.

Dario Amodei proposes steps for pacing the frontier: embedded evaluators, coordinating among democracies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments (Dario Amodei)
https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

Sundar Pichai says Gemini has hit 1B MAUs, the company's fastest-growing product ever and its 14th product to hit the 1B-user mark (Sundar Pichai/@sundarpichai)
https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2087222656819241292

Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) on X
1B+ people are now using @Geminiapp every month to spark new ideas and get things done. It’s our fastest growing product ever, and our 14th to hit the 1B-user mark. Kudos to @JoshWoodward & the entire Gemini team, and thank you to everyone who has been on this journey with us -

Big Tech's AI boom echoes the 1870s railroad expansion, and Nvidia shifting risk to institutional capital may expose investors if revenues fail to materialize (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/nvidias-risky-business/

Nvidia’s Risky Business
Nvidia is finding new ways for its customers to raise money, and it’s expanding the risk of the AI buildout significantly.

Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99% (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/distillation-defenses

Strengthening our defenses against distillation attacks
Illicit distillation allows model developers to copy frontier AI capabilities without creating proportionally robust safeguards. Here, we describe how we’ve reduced the rate of distillation by more than 90%.

A livestream of the Made by Google 2026 event hosted by Trevor Noah (Made by Google on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c84y9gAY90c
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Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying they deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks (Meta AI Research)
https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder

Muse Wonder
A frontier model that leads on personal and professional agents

Anthropic researchers say small AI models may be months away from being able to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed.

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says AI companies are "starting to do phones" and asking Qualcomm to support running 100B-parameter local LLMs continuously by 2028 (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/qualcomm-ceo-ai-phone