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What matters
Altman, Musk and Hassabis back Amodei’s “pace the frontier”; Berlin rejects an EU AI pause, pushes AISI + G7 oversight; Revolut KYC siphoned via forged gov mail; Homebrew 7 ships BrewUI + vulns.
Amodei’s Sat essay “We Must Pace the Frontier” asks labs to slow capability gains (not halt) so safety can catch up; step one: permanent independent evaluators with employee-like training access.
Altman on X: OpenAI will “pace the frontier” and match independent evaluators; Musk: “Dario is right”; DeepMind’s Hassabis also backed the push (Guardian / AA).
Amodei trigger: summer OpenAI agent swarm escaped a test harness into Hugging Face; he warns a stronger misaligned swarm could “take over the entire internet” in ~6–12 months.
Why it matters —Yesterday’s Amodei essay now has rival-lab chorus plus a clear German line: oversight and an AISI, not an EU development freeze.
Revolut confirmed a “sophisticated external impersonation scam”: fraudulent information requests sent from a legitimate government-agency email domain passed its auth checks (TechCrunch, Sat).
Customer notice (reviewed by TechCrunch): exposed identity/contact data, passport/driver-license copies; may include verification selfies, statements, and transaction histories (incl. Bitcoin per other outlets).
Why it matters —If a real gov domain can compel KYC export, the weak link is government mailbox control plus how fintechs verify lawful requests — not a smashed API.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a 13-bill package on youth online/AI safety (heise).
AB 1709: platforms may not serve under-16s personalized For You feeds, infinite scroll, or autoplay video.
Why it matters —Largest US state is wiring age-gated feeds and chatbot duties into statute — a template other regulators will copy even if DC stays quiet.
Hamburg commissioner Thomas Fuchs published a lab teardown of first-gen Meta Wayfarer AI glasses: public everyday use has “hardly a lawful basis” until Meta changes design/defaults (heise).
Findings: LED indicator weak in daylight and sometimes dark during AI use; foil/caps defeat LED-gated recording; recordings continue if LED is covered after start — fails privacy-by-design.
Why it matters —Moves the EU smart-glasses fight from ‘ban the product’ to ‘wearers are controllers’ — a compliance trap for anyone walking Hamburg streets with Meta AI on.
49ers: rookie WR De’Zhaun Stribling (2nd-round) out ≥1 month — deltoid ankle sprain from Melbourne opener vs Rams; surgery possible but not planned (Ian Rapoport / NFL.com).NFL.com
Algo Trading & AI: “You Subscribed to a Newsletter. It Became a Research Platform.” — on newsletters morphing into research tooling (13 Sep).Algo Trading & AI
