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September 20, 2026, 5:10 PM

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María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg:
Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an “AI Force”, in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a “hoax”  —  President Donald Trump said he would name an artificial intelligence czar as he continued to push tech companies to race ahead with development despite growing fears safety.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A closer look at the upcoming Siri AI-powered home hub, a key pillar of Apple's strategy for the home; sources: Apple started cutting Fitness+ staff  —  Also: What happened with the iPhone Duo Pencil and layoffs at Fitness+.  —  Apple's new “intelligent personal hub” strategy is about much more than the iPhone.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan dismissed concerns after fraudsters tried to launder $10M+ from stolen cards to clean accounts via its wagers in February  —  CEO Shayne Coplan brushed off concerns about scheme involving stolen debit cards; now the prediction market is bolstering executive ranks as it eyes IPO
Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post  —  Under a new law, creators could face fines of $5,000 per post if they don't disclose that they were paid to make political content.
Josipa Majic Predin / Forbes:
Vercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5 workflow evals  —  Most of what an AI agent asks a frontier model to do is not writing.  It is choosing.  Which tool to call next, whether to retry, whether a command is safe to run.
Truman Dickerson / Business Insider:
Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regulation don't want new legislation, but to be “relieved of the laws we do have” because of “ulterior reasons”  —  Don't let the black leather jacket fool you, Jensen Huang isn't a doomer.  —  Nvidia's CEO said as much in an interview with CBS News aired on Sunday.
New York Times:
Experts say AI kill-switch legislation is far harder to implement than lawmakers assume, warning a rogue AI could actively try to dismantle the mechanism itself  —  A bipartisan group in Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California have floated ideas for building a mechanism that would instantly power down an A.I. system.
Owen Walker / Financial Times:
AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures  —  Anthropic and OpenAI taking more space in city's already squeezed prime property market  —  AI heavyweights including Anthropic …
Reuters:
Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT says its new fifth-gen technology platform enters mass production and unveils two 24Gb LPDDR5X phone memory products built on it  —  Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT (688825.SS) said on Sunday its fifth-generation technology platform had entered mass production …
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New York Times:
Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed  —  About a year into his job as a data analyst at DraftKings, Jayden Butts received a new assignment.
Katie McQue / NPR:
US policy analysts, lawmakers, and others say several state-level AI chatbot safety bills included language that could provide loopholes for tech companies  —  Cynthia Montoya's daughter, Juliana, was 13 when she began talking to AI chatbots.  It was 2023, and the technology was only beginning to enter widespread use.
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