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Great new blog by my @ITIFdc colleague @patrickgrady_ on the EU Kids Act, arguing the regulation risks pushing children off the online communities they depend on without giving them viable alternatives.
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Berlin-based search engine Ecosia, used by government services, is dropping its French AI partner, Mistral, its CEO told POLITICO.
The company will now bet on open-source models, including those from China.
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The scale of Manchester City’s alleged cheating means serious punishment is the only way for the Premier League, one of Britain’s biggest global brands, to save its reputation economist.com/britain/2026/0…
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Europe has put open-source AI at the center of its push for tech sovereignty and greater technological independence.
But while it is unlikely to match the United States and China in the race for the most powerful closed models, it has a real opportunity to lead in open AI...🧵
ALT A man smiling with a text about Europe's open-source AI bet.
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NVIDIA’s new "Open Agent Safety Platform" is a good example of how to pursue safety without slowdowns in AI.
In this case, build safety into the infrastructure itself, with continuous monitoring and real-time enforcement.
No need to restrict the development & deployment of AI.
Today, with over 100 industry partners, we introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, bringing together OpenShell and Sentry.
Artificial intelligence is extraordinary technology that will advance discovery, productivity, security, health, and prosperity for generations to come.
But its full promise can only be realized when people have confidence that AI is being built to be safe and deployed with wisdom and responsibility.
This is bigger than a single product. It's the beginning of an open ecosystem to build the trust layer for safe agent systems.
Together, we are building the foundation of the AI economy.
Trust and innovation are not in conflict. Safety is how trust is earned. We must build not only the most capable AI, but the most trusted AI, so that this extraordinary technology can realize its enormous promise for the world. nvda.ws/4hcoq7m
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An Open Letter to Scott Alexander: The dangers of AI are real, but doomerism may be counterproductive.
quillette.com/2026/09/26/an-…
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If you believe the risk is coming from 1-3 people in a garage with no money and no compute, you just don't understand this technology and haven't learned anything this summer.
Risk comes from the asymmetry of capabilities created by secret labs training frontier agents and running them with massive amount of compute. Open-source is exactly the solution to this asymmetry and empowers hospitals (and any smaller orgs) to defend themselves!
We're used to thinking of open-source models as an unadulterated good. But in the case of AI, they can actually pose additional dangers, as @ReidHoffman and I got into at #CGI2026. I appreciated this nuanced discussion.
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
apnews.com/article/openai-sa…
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We have just finished the inaugural meeting of the Rhine Group. We discussed the central elements of Europe's competitiveness agenda, including basic science, AI/compute and cybersecurity, defense, energy, entrepreneurship/start-ups.
I will be updating you on any progress we may have. Some of the projects we will pursue include:
- We'll help Europe catch up on compute (Mario Draghi diagnosed the problem and some solutions in a recent FT piece)
- We’ll help European universities and scientific institutions and explore a Rhine Chair program with European universities.
- We’ll work on some key EU policy challenges, including facilitating the flow of capital to entrepreneurs.
- We will set up a grants program that I will explain and announce here.
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People outside the AI labs should have a real say in how this technology develops, and a clear way to judge if it's happening safely.
Standards should help prevent the concentration of power, including by making sure new companies and open-model companies can compete.
They should also help countries and companies compare evidence and learn from failures.
We think the US should lead this effort. Here is our proposal:
openai.com/index/building-st…
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EU competition chief Teresa Ribera said today she would consider giving artificial intelligence companies more room to coordinate on safety without falling foul of antitrust law. politico.eu/article/eu-open-…
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7 things to remember about the "AI will kill us all" claims. Points 3 and 4 are the most vital for this discussion, and for anyone who is thinking of trusting AI agents.
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🚨 The European Commission just announced an EU Kids Act, to be presented on Thursday.
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Right. Dario was already claiming that GPT2 was too dangerous to open source back in 2019.
I made fun of them then.
Everyone should make fun of them now.
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Scientists: “Here is the scientific evidence we are passing the point of no return with climate change.”
Everyone: “Whatever.”
Bro who worked at Anthropic for six weeks: “AI is gonna kill us all in three years!”
Everyone: *panicking* “OMG, we have to do something!”
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this claim, that AI has a real risk of killing all of humanity in the near* future, has been stated regularly without evidence for over a decade. it hasn't even come close in that time.
is it reasonable? two sanity check comparisons: climate change, and life w/o internet. 1/n
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Young people are constantly told that democracy is dying, capitalism is exploitation, technology is dehumanizing, climate change means collapse, and the next generation will inherit a poorer and more dangerous world.
It's no wonder that so many of them are anxious about the future.
Serious problems deserve serious attention, but teaching young people to interpret every challenge as evidence of impending catastrophe doesn’t make them wiser. It teaches them helplessness.
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Meta will enforce a two-hour daily limit on Instagram and Facebook for children as part of a record $17.1B settlement with 29 states over social media addiction claims:
• The “Productive Pauses” for children include mandatory pauses after 15 minutes of continuous use and again at 60 and 90 minutes to interrupt endless scrolling
• “Nighttime blocks” restricting children’s access from 12:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.
• Limited school-time access for children, eliminating push notifications on weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. during the school year
• Robust age assurance measures to more effectively verify the age of young users
• Safer, age-appropriate content controls, including stronger safeguards against bullying, content promoting eating disorders, and content related to suicide and self-harm
• Stronger, more user-friendly parental controls
• Limits on social comparison features, including beauty filters and visible “like” counts, that have been linked to poor mental health outcomes in kids and teens
• Both the implementation and effectiveness of the features will be regularly assessed by an independent auditor and the settling states
variety.com/2026/digital/new…
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An announcement: Under the leadership of Mario Draghi and @patrickc we have set up the Rhine Group: policymakers, economists, entrepreneurs and business people pushing European reforms and the Draghi agenda.
rhinegroup.eu/
