Alex Karp, head of the US defense-software contractor Palantir, wants Washington to take over the frontier AI labs. His remedy moves the catastrophic risk onto the public balance sheet and the value onto the layer Palantir sells.

The EU call for seven AI "gigafactories" closes on 12 November. Of the €30 billion announced, the public money committed today is one billion. The chips come from three US companies, and Berlin has put in writing that it will not own its own.

With Washington refusing to write a licensing regime for frontier AI, Florida is asking a county court to create one, starting with OpenAI.

The US government shut Anthropic out of federal contracting and won on appeal on 25 September. On the 27th Trump had dinner with its chief executive, and on the 28th he said he might take a stake in the AI labs. When the state already holds the permissions, a stake becomes the price of getting them back.

France's most prestigious literary prize withdrew a novel on the strength of a statistical probability, in the same week an AI agent read 187,000 private messages belonging to a user who had told it no.

OpenAI and Anthropic are investigating a hundred times more incidents than anyone counted in public, and nobody has decided which signal should actually set something in motion.

On the day a memo circulating in the White House cast Anthropic's chief executive as the face of a cult, Thiel called Pope Leo XIV an accomplice of China, for having written that no algorithm can make war acceptable.

Washington talks about an artificial intelligence race without ever saying where the finish line is. Beijing seems to be running a different one, and beneath the two stories the strategies look more alike than either government admits.

In the first three days at the United Nations the only word everyone shared was "incident", and the United States, which rejects a common register, proposed a direct line for two with China.

Staff at Britain's public AI testing institute have been signed off with stress, the Financial Times reports, like many engineers who review machine-written code: responsibility stays human while pace and understanding drift away, and the countermeasure is jidoka, the principle behind Toyota's production for more than a century, which gives any worker the authority to stop the line.

OpenAI and Anthropic loathe each other, and together with Elon Musk they have asked for AI to slow down: behind them sit largely the same investors, suppliers who invest in their own customers and two stock market listings to prepare, and each of those backers wants something the stake alone does not show.

A two-minute clip on X, and the three seconds everyone cuts out of it are the only honest ones in the whole thing.

Zuckerberg, Musk and Huang called the US president separately and the proposal stopped, while the bill that names who could switch a model off sits in committee: a kill switch is a person.

Yoshua Bengio wants nuclear-style treaties for AI, and nuclear safeguards work because fissile material can be counted: a treaty needs an inventory, and the only countable thing here is compute.

The EU Kids Act bans infinite scroll, artificial notifications and engagement rewards for minors and leaves them in place for adults: an age limit is an admission of harm.