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Microsoft Finds Phishers Using Invisible Unicode to Dodge Email Filters

The campaign turns a technique associated with hidden instructions for AI systems into a filter-evasion tactic, exposing a weak point where email text looks different to people and software. Microsoft has identified a phishing campaign that inserted invisible Unicode tag characters inside finance-related lure words, making messages appear normal to recipients while attempting to evade email content filters.

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NHTSA Opens Audit of About 1,000 Tesla Cybercabs as Austin Service Starts

The review puts Tesla’s evidence for treating federal safety requirements as inapplicable to its control-free robotaxi at the center of any broader rollout. Tesla has begun commercial Cybercab deployment in Austin, but its purpose-built robotaxi now faces a federal audit of the safety-compliance case behind its design. The immediate constraint is not a finding of noncompliance.

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Independence Voters Recall Council Member After $6B AI Data-Center Tax-Break Vote

The recall is the third election loss for an Independence official who backed the incentives, while a city pause on future projects does not affect Nebius’s approved plan. Independence, Missouri, voters recalled City Councilmember John Perkins after his vote for tax breaks tied to Nebius ’s proposed AI data center. Nearly 70% of his district supported removal, according to unofficial Jackson County results.

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California Webinar Urges Water Rules as Tulare, Kings AI Sites Await Review

The immediate choice for rural hosts is whether developers must disclose water use and cooling plans before local boards consider a project. Rural California communities are being urged to require the details that shape a data center’s local water demand before a project moves toward formal review: annual use, cooling design, water source and wastewater treatment. The recommendations came from an Aug.

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Bill Gates Calls for Taxes on AI Tokens and Robots, With Jobs Reserved for Humans

The proposal would use taxes and protected roles to shape automation’s labor impact, but it has no governing framework and faces a direct competitiveness objection from the robotics industry. Bill Gates is proposing a two-part intervention in AI-driven automation: tax the tools that replace workers, including AI tokens and robots, and reserve some work for humans. Gates set out the ideas in an essay on Gates Notes.

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Altman Warns AI Power May Concentrate as He Revises Disruption Timeline

The OpenAI chief’s argument links two tensions: society needs a voice in AI’s direction, but businesses are changing their systems far more slowly than model capabilities advance. Sam Altman is warning that AI’s future could be set by a small group of companies or individuals, while also conceding that the economic disruption he once expected after GPT-4 has arrived more slowly than he predicted.

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ARIA Bars Fully AI-Made Music From Australian Charts, but Keeps AI-Assisted Tracks Eligible

The Australian industry body is drawing a line between AI as a production aid and AI as a principal creator, tying eligibility to human authorship, performance and legally authorized tools. The Australian Recording Industry Association is excluding wholly AI-generated songs from its official charts while preserving a path for recordings where people remain responsible for the song’s core writing and performance.

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FDA Opens Door to Clinician-Style Tests for Medical AI

The agency is exploring a shift from attempting to test every possible AI interaction toward proving that a finished device can safely perform a defined clinical role—and continue doing so after changes. Generative AI medical devices may eventually be judged less by whether regulators can anticipate every possible prompt and more by whether a finished product can reliably carry out its intended clinical task.

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Zuckerberg’s superintelligence promise runs into AI’s trust test

Broad access may answer who gets powerful AI. It does not by itself settle how agents are authorized, outputs are traced, or promised benefits are proved. Mark Zuckerberg’s argument starts with an attractive symmetry: if advanced AI concentrated among a few would produce worse outcomes for everyone else, Meta should instead build personal superintelligence aligned to individuals.

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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei Says AI Must Deliver, Not Advertise, Its Way Out of a Trust Crisis

His prescription sets a harder test for the industry: produce actual public benefits while accepting rules that constrain frontier labs and the concentration that AI scaling tends to produce. Dario Amodei has conceded that the AI industry’s credibility problem cannot be solved by better promotion. The available sentiment numbers establish the scale of the problem, though not its cause.

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