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The UN's AI science panel warned in its first thematic report that there is "no assurance humans will keep control" over AI agents. Co-chair Yoshua Bengio cited OpenAI's Hugging Face incident as the first case combining a misaligned goal, the ability to pursue it, and an environment that allowed it, and said leading systems may soon be able to act autonomously.

AI Safety • The Decoder

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discusses the U.S.-China AI dialogue, calls for an AI development slowdown, and the administration's stance against providing AI leaders a liability shield. Viewers gain insight into AI regulation, global competition, and the policy landscape shaping the AI industry.

AI Policy • CNBC Television

AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries "most of the time," according to a Saturnos report covered by the Financial Times. The report and commentators note that models may be decent at general personal finance principles, but training lag on tax policy makes them unreliable for direct money decisions.

AI Reliability • Financial Times

SB Energy

SoftBank's SB Energy delayed its IPO, originally planned for this month, as investors question the company's sought-after valuation of more than $50 billion.

Fareed Zakaria warns about the risks of designing AI with human values and ethics, emphasizing the critical need for monitoring and control before autonomy outpaces oversight. The segment includes a conversation with Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and head of Microsoft's AI division, offering expert perspective on AI's future.

AI Ethics & Governance • CNN

Anthropic introduced Opus 5.5, stating it delivers performance comparable to its Fable-tier models while offering significantly reduced pricing. The release continues the frontier model race’s pivot toward cost-efficient, high-capability deployments tailored for enterprise workloads.

Model Launch • TechCrunch AI

Snorkel AI • Series E

Snorkel AI raised a $350 million Series E, tripling its valuation to $3.5 billion, to fuel its data-as-a-service approach. The seven-year-old startup is benefiting from booming demand for AI training data.

NSCALE

Nscale's upcoming IPO will test Wall Street's appetite for concentrated AI bets. The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue, a concentration risk investors will weigh.

Prompt Tips

Keep AI personas from converging in multi-turn panel discussions.

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, its most expressive audio generation models yet, allowing users to create custom character voices and direct scene dialogue. The models are available across Google AI Studio, Gemini API, and other products. This enhances AI voice generation capabilities.

Model Release • Hacker News

TEKEVER • Series D

TEKEVER announced the first close of a $580 million Series D, valuing the AI-powered autonomous systems company at $6.4 billion. The Portuguese-founded defence company is a provider of AI-powered autonomous systems.

Snorkel AI • Series E

Snorkel AI raised a $350 million Series E, tripling its valuation to $3.5 billion. The seven-year-old startup uses a data-as-a-service approach to fuel AI training data demand.

Enveda • Unknown

Enveda raised a funding round that valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. The company is testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s.