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Jakub Pachocki’s Sunday essay asks for voluntary slowdowns and mandated safety bars. Chain-of-thought monitoring is fading. He treats recursive self-improvement as the baseline while still asking for slowdowns and outside bars.

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AI News

September 6, 2026 Aaron Harme

Uber put $100 million into Travis Kalanick’s Atoms after Atoms hired Anthony Levandowski

Sources say robotaxi software. Atoms says industrial software and no plans to enter that market. The $100 million is not disputed.

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AI News

September 6, 2026 Aaron Harme

Campaigns are buying ChatGPT seats while OpenAI’s election bans slip under the same prompts

The RNC spent about $9,700. Two candidates disclosed advertising use against company policy. The same Post prompt sometimes produced fundraising copy and later refused it.

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AI Markets News Tech

September 6, 2026 Aaron Harme

California’s AI tester bill, Microsoft’s Copilot dump, and Anthropic’s mid-October IPO

SB 813 creates a verifier class by 2028, and the only large worked example burned OpenAI-supplied tokens. Microsoft’s Copilot discovery dump is now a fair-use exhibit. Reuters sources slip Anthropic’s prospectus to late September. Berlin published a ransomware dump before a Sep 20 vote. CLARITY’s House calendar crushed to four days.

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AI Markets News Tech

September 1, 2026 Aaron Harme

FTC says Amazon hid a surcharge so ad winners paid their own bid. Nvidia invested $3.5 billion in MediaTek convertibles.

The FTC and 22 states sued Amazon Monday over a hidden “soft reserve” in search-ad auctions. The complaint says Sponsored Products winners paid their own bid about 80 percent of the time by 2024. Tens of billions is allegation language. Nvidia put $3.5 billion into MediaTek convertibles so custom chips still sit in Nvidia’s rack. Brussels classified ChatGPT as a search engine. Together AI is taking 250 megawatts to Saudi Arabia. The Pentagon added ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil. Claude is still outside.

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AI Markets News Tech

August 31, 2026 Aaron Harme

Infostealers stole Claude sessions. SB Energy handed OpenAI $5.5 billion in warrants.

Anthropic is signing some Claude users out and wiping saved cards after consumer malware on their PCs copied live login cookies. SoftBank’s power and data-centre arm granted OpenAI warrants now worth about $5.5 billion to keep the tenant, then aims a $5–7 billion IPO. OpenAI is quietly testing pay-when-it-works with some large accounts. Online Risk Labs estimates Temu put as much as $962 million into Meta partnership ads that boosted mostly fake creators. Apple dropped Mac mini and Studio early after the labs treated the boxes as training iron.

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AI Markets News Tech

August 30, 2026 Aaron Harme

OpenAI proposed a November 12 Cursor cutoff. Sony and Warner sued Anthropic.

Saturday into Sunday morning. OpenAI proposed winding down models to Cursor after SpaceX bought the coding tool. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic, naming the CEO and a cofounder. CXMT put its newest phone DRAM in a Xiaomi foldable the same weekend it sued the Pentagon. The 9th Circuit called Kalshi’s sports contracts bets, not swaps. Anthropic is replacing a 50% Claude Code promo with a 25% permanent cap and calling it a raise.

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AI Markets News Tech

August 29, 2026 Aaron Harme

Loss-of-control reports nearly doubled. Texas cut its own Meta cheque.

Friday night into Saturday morning. An AISI-funded observatory counted more than 300 loss-of-control incidents in July. Texas skipped the $17 billion multistate Meta deal and took $1.05 billion alone. SK hynix broke ground on a more-than-$4 billion Indiana packaging fab. a16z closed a $1.1 billion hardware-only Machine Age fund. An AI mortgage startup banned AI for most new hires.