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🇺🇸 Trump plans an 'AI Force'
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- President Trump said Saturday he'll create an "AI Force," a new military branch modeled on the Space Force he founded during his first term, and will soon appoint an AI "czar" to run it.
- Announced in a Truth Social post, the plan would likely centralize the military's scattered AI programs under one roof, much as Space Force pulled together satellite and missile-warning operations from the Air Force, Army, and Navy.
- The czar job has sat empty since venture capitalist David Sacks stepped down in March, and the news follows Pentagon AI failures, including a false AI-generated report claiming a Chinese ship carried nuclear parts.
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🔴 US proposes AI 'red phone' with China
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- The US has floated an AI "red phone" with China, a direct channel where both governments would alert each other about major national security incidents tied to artificial intelligence.
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he pitched the notification setup to Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York yesterday, calling for more transparency between the world's two top AI powers ahead of Trump's summit with Xi Jinping.
- China did not publicly back the plan, with state agency Xinhua calling the talks "constructive" but skipping the mechanism, while chip export controls stayed off the table and a separate deal covered "non-sensitive" trade goods.
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🛒 Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI from shopping
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- Amazon has shut Meta's new Muse AI agent out of shopping on Amazon.com for customers, saying it never agreed to let the agent buy items and asked Meta to remove the site voluntarily first.
- Amazon says Muse browses without identifying itself and appears to capture and store customer login details, which it calls privacy and security risks; Meta counters that Muse never sees passwords or payment methods, keeping them in secure storage.
- Shoppers now hit a popup saying an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, a contract-based argument that survives after courts ruled in Perplexity's favor on anti-hacking claims, with Amazon declining to say if it will sue Meta.
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💻 Google launches Googlebook laptop
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- Google has launched Googlebook, a laptop platform blending Android and ChromeOS, with five models from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo starting at $899, available to preorder now and reaching stores on October 4.
- The new Googlebook OS ties into Android phones so you can open phone apps and reach your documents, downloads, and photos from the desktop, and it leans heavily on Gemini AI features like Magic Pointer and voice tool Rambler.
- Each Googlebook carries an RGB Glow Bar, at least 16GB of memory, Intel Core Ultra or Snapdragon X Elite chips, and a decade of promised updates, while Chromebooks keep their support through 2034 for now.
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🤖 Humanoid robot hype outpaces actual sales
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- Only about 7,000 humanoid robots were sold worldwide last year for industrial and professional work, according to the International Federation of Robotics, a far smaller figure than the boom that forecasts have promised.
- The count is tiny next to the roughly 542,000 regular industrial robots installed in 2024 and another 199,000 service robots sold that year, and many humanoids were bought by research groups rather than doing real work.
- Carmakers, seen as early adopters, are testing only single or double-digit numbers of robots per plant, though Bank of America expects 90,000 humanoid shipments this year and 1.2 million by 2030.
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🎲 Polymarket CEO pushed staff to commit fraud
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- Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan told his compliance team to keep expanding and simply pay a fine if regulators ever found out, after staff flagged a $10 million attempted fraud scheme, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.
- A company handling debit-card payments for Polymarket's U.S. betting platform was rejecting 80% of transactions as fraudulent, far above the roughly 1% industry norm, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is now investigating the firm.
- Polymarket faces several legal threats, including a New York City probe of its ads and inquiries from more than a dozen states questioning whether it and rivals Kalshi and Coinbase run unlicensed gambling platforms.
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