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NYC Council Weighs AI Kill Switch as Ex-Anthropic Researcher Urges Slowdown

NYC Council Weighs AI Kill Switch as Ex-Anthropic Researcher Urges Slowdown

Jacob Coxon told New York City lawmakers they still cannot control advanced AI systems. The council is weighing ten proposals, including outside validation and a human-operated shutdown requirement with a $25,000 penalty. Four major AI companies testified under oath; a fifth did not appear after a subpoena. Yet the central technical question may be the one raised by a civic group that supports the bill: who can stop a model once other people run their own copies?

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DeepSeek Narrows US AI Benchmark Lead to 3% After September Release

DeepSeek’s September release narrowed the US lead over China to roughly 3% in a LiveBench score comparison. The V4.1 Flash model moved close to Anthropic’s leading system on LiveBench’s overall tests, which include reasoning and coding. Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Robert Lea expects the improved performance to bring Chinese developers further market share gains. In the leaderboard captured on October 4, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Max Effort scored 81.1 against 83.4 for Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 Max Effort. That is a difference of 2.3 score points, or about 2.8% of

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Repo Radar: Hindsight, the One Repo Worth Your Week

Repo Radar #19 follows Hindsight, Vectorize's MIT-licensed agent-memory project. A two-session test reported two unwritten coding rules affecting later work. It builds memory banks for agents; configuration and scripted installs default to cloud, while interactive setup asks where memory should live. Separate user reports describe empty or irrelevant pages in static shared-bank setups through coding-agent package 0.8.0. We examine the test's limits and how to check storage and retrieval.

Tutorial: Mac Studio as Your Private AI Server

Set up a new Mac Studio as a private AI server, connect a second Mac through SSH and run local jobs for meeting notes, code review and document summaries. This beginner walkthrough includes commands, checks and a reusable acceptance record. It uses the 256GB M5 Ultra configuration as its reference and explains the announced 512GB model due in late October. Sample requests were checked on an existing local service; this is not an M5 Ultra benchmark.

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