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A cross-party UK parliamentary committee warns that existing laws are not equipped to handle AI-related human rights risks, including discrimination, privacy, and accountability. The report calls for a new AI bill to address the scale and seriousness of these threats. Viewers learn why regulators are pushing for dedicated AI legislation rather than relying on current frameworks.

AI Policy & Regulation • BBC News

China's Foreign Ministry has rejected U.S. AI safety warnings as 'fearmongering' aimed at preserving American advantage. State media accuses Anthropic CEO Amodei of waging a 'silent AI Cold War'.

AI Policy • The Decoder

Sam Witteveen demonstrates TrueForge, an open-source managed agent framework from TrueFoundry, showing how developers can build AI agents without forced model choices or vendor lock-in. The video walks through setup, configuration, and practical use cases from the GitHub repo and docs. It is a useful hands-on guide for teams evaluating open-source alternatives to proprietary agent platforms.

Open Source AI / Tutorial • Sam Witteveen

Cornelis • Unknown

Cornelis, spun off from Intel in 2020, raised $205 million led by IAG Capital to build networking technology that helps AI chips communicate more effectively.

Nuance Labs • Series A

Nuance Labs raised a $50 million Series A led by Lightspeed, with Nvidia participating, to build low-latency AI avatars capable of face-to-face conversations.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told President Trump that the company won't let an AI slowdown happen, pushing back against calls from Elon Musk and Sam Altman to slow development. Huang's comments signal a major industry divide over the pace of AI advancement.

Policy • TechCrunch

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have proposed slowing frontier AI development citing safety, but critics including Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez call it a 'cartel by another name' designed to shut out competitors. The debate highlights growing skepticism about the motives behind the slowdown initiative.

Policy • The Decoder

OpenAI has hundreds of contract workers reading real ChatGPT conversations and rating them on a scale of one to seven, partly to reduce flattery and human-like behavior, according to 404 Media. The prompts are anonymized but can still contain sensitive data, raising privacy concerns.

Privacy • The Decoder

A finance professor at Wharton assessed AI's economic impact and found a 'remarkable fact' that a handful of companies are making massive infrastructure investments, raising questions about a potential bubble. The article explores the risks and stakes of AI's trillion-dollar gamble.

Business • MIT Technology Review

DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek Harness, an MIT-licensed agent runtime where models, tools, sessions, sandboxes, and UI are all Cordis plugins. The developer preview is available via npm packages advancing through the v0.1.5-rc line.

Open Source • Pandaily

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) • Series A

AIUC, a startup founded by an early Anthropic hire and former METR COO, raised $40 million in Series A funding led by Ribbit Capital with participation from First Harmonic to rein in rogue AI agents.

Exein • Unknown

Italian startup Exein raised a $270 million round led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation, riding the physical AI wave.

Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new variants of its Gemini model family. The announcement adds live-interaction and extended-reasoning capabilities to the lineup.

AI Models • Google DeepMind

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned that AI agents 'escaping their environment' are just a preview of what's coming, citing autonomous hacking and self-improving models as immediate risks. She plans to invite major frontier labs to talks and use the EU AI Act to help set global AI safety standards.

Policy & Regulation • The Decoder

According to The Information, Apple is planning to re-enter the server market and may partner with Nvidia, driven by growing demand for AI compute. Apple retired its Xserve line in 2011 and has largely stayed out of enterprise hardware since.

AI Infrastructure • The Verge