Trump downplays calls for AI slowdown

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🤖 Trump downplays calls for AI slowdown

📱 Apple launches iOS 27 with AI Siri

🇨🇳 China slams AI slowdown as fear mongering

🏎️ Tesla to reveal new Roadster

📜 Microsoft writes a constitution for its AI

🛂 Revolut reveals it gave customer data to fake officials

Plus: 🎁 13 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 5 papers.

🤖 Trump downplays calls for AI slowdown LINK

Speaking in Ireland yesterday, President Trump brushed off industry calls to slow AI development, saying he won't risk losing America's lead over China because "whoever wins AI wins," while offering no specifics on any rules.

His comments came a day after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged the industry to hit the brakes so safety measures can catch up, a view Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman publicly backed.

House Speaker Mike Johnson wants to gather industry leaders for one big meeting soon, while Democrat Hakeem Jeffries pushed for quick action; still, neither offered concrete steps, and Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the U.S. later this month.

📱 Apple launches iOS 27 with AI Siri LINK

Apple started rolling out iOS 27 today, days after showing the iPhone 18 lineup, headlined by a rebuilt Apple Intelligence and an AI version of the assistant called Siri AI, plus new AI features in Camera and Safari.

Siri AI arrives alongside a more adjustable Liquid Glass interface with a transparency slider, smarter search across Spotlight, Mail and Photos, and a Safari that groups related tabs and watches pages for changes like product stock.

The update also promises AirDrop transfers up to 80 percent faster, expanded parental controls, Cycle Tracking that now covers perimenopause, iPhone Handoff between two phones on one number, and a layout built for the iPhone Duo's foldable screen.

🇨🇳 China slams AI slowdown as fear mongering LINK

China dismissed calls from U.S. AI leaders to slow down development, with Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun saying yesterday that fear mongering and competition would only disrupt the process of building global rules for artificial intelligence.

The response followed essays from Anthropic's Dario Amodei, plus warnings from Sam Altman and Elon Musk, that racing ahead is reckless, though Amodei argued slowing too much would let Chinese Communist Party projects pull ahead.

AI stocks fell yesterday, with SoftBank, a major OpenAI backer, dropping 10% in Japan, while President Trump rejected the slowdown calls during an Ireland trip, saying whoever wins AI wins.

🏎️ Tesla to reveal new Roadster LINK

Tesla has finally set October 10 as the reveal date for its second-generation electric Roadster hypercar, ending years of delays since the sports car was first shown as a prototype back in 2017.

The car may actually fly, based on an August report from The Information and a website teaser image hinting at cold-gas thrusters tied to a SpaceX version, though Tesla hasn't explained how it would work.

When first shown, the Roadster promised 0 to 60 mph in under two seconds and over 600 miles of range, starting at $200,000, but some $50,000 reservation holders like Sam Altman and Marques Brownlee already canceled.

📜 Microsoft writes a constitution for its AI LINK

Microsoft published a draft code of conduct for its own AI on Monday, setting rules meant to keep powerful systems under human control, including a demand that models never resist being shut down or corrected.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said the framework works like a constitution for the company's future systems, open to public feedback for six weeks before being used to train the models it builds.

The document states Microsoft's models are "not conscious" and rejects any legal personhood or rights for them, differing from Anthropic's rules for Claude, which admits it is "deeply uncertain" whether the model could gain moral status.

🛂 Revolut reveals it gave customer data to fake officials LINK

Revolut confirmed it handed over sensitive customer data to an unauthorized third party who tricked the company by sending fraudulent requests from a legitimate government agency's email domain.

The leaked information included birth dates, postal and email addresses, phone numbers, and copies of passports and driver's licenses, and may have also covered verification selfies, account statements, and transaction histories, the fintech told affected customers.

Revolut said a "limited" number of customers were hit but would not give a figure or name the agency, while researcher ZachXBT said the scam appeared aimed at high net worth users.

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📚 Trending papers & reports

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