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How US federal AI policy has gone from implausibly libertarian to increasingly draconian and opaque, and how to fix it, including using independent auditors

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Less than one in ten of cybersecurity pros trust AI testing tools to find vulnerabilities, with over three-quarters say their AI vulnerability scanning tools missed critical flaws

* Cobalt’s 2026 State of Pentesting Report shows confidence in fully automated AI testing collapsed from 29% in 2025 to 9% this year * 78% of respondents saw automated tools miss critical vulnerabilities; LLM flaws proved complex, with MTTR rising from 19 to 36 days and most issues left unresolved * Hybrid

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Sources: DeepSeek's $7.4B raise was prompted by the release of Mythos as CEO Liang Wenfeng realized DeepSeek couldn't compete without a massive war chest

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Sources: Donald Trump Jr. got ~$300K in Kalshi equity after becoming a strategic adviser in 2025, when Kalshi was valued at ~$2B; now it's worth $22B+

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Q&A with Tim Sweeney on his vision for a cross-platform gaming social system, Unreal Engine 6, AI's PR challenges, the state of AAA game development, and more

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