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The "Nashville" alum's on-again, off-again boyfriend was present at the time of her death.

California is a state in desperate need of election reform. Citizens have lost confidence in the voting process.

For Breece Hall, there wasn’t any extra frustration.

The Los Angeles Clippers’ salary-cap scandal just went from an NBA headache to a federal problem. Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the franchise over allegations it circumvented the NBA’s salary cap involving star player Kawhi Leonard. The probe comes just days after the NBA dropped a staggering punishment on the Clippers, fining...

"Service does not always stop when the emergency is over," the Oklahoma City Fire Department wrote.

A vast majority of women -- 89% -- prefer if their partner is the breadwinner, according to a matchmaking service survey.

As Page Six has previously reported, workers at the show were on edge after the horrifying kidnapping of its co-anchor Savannah Guthrie's mom from her Arizona home in February.

As Page Six has previously reported, workers at the show were on edge after the horrifying kidnapping of its co-anchor Savannah Guthrie's mom from her Arizona home in February.

Needham Spots Autonomous Trucking Inflection Point Arriving Next Year

Swedish freight company Einride's announcement last month that it plans to deploy 500 Tesla Semis on US roads, the largest publicly announced commitment to electric Class 8 trucks, suggests a shift toward fleet electrification. It also brings the next phase of trucking technology into focus: the gradual commercialization of autonomous freight.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has targeted late 2026 or early 2027 for self-driving capabilities to begin working on the Semi. That remains a Musk target, not a confirmed commercial rollout. Any version requiring a human operator would be supervised automation, like FSD on Tesla sedans, SUVs, and the Cybertruck.

NEWS: Google announced a major electric trucking project in Texas featuring Tesla Semi.

Google, Nevoya and Center for Green Market Activation will deploy:

• 25 electric semi trucks.
• Dedicated charging infrastructure
• An all-electric freight route between Houston & Dallas. pic.twitter.com/ZxSbFIJk5C

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) September 9, 2026

Needham analysts Chris Pierce and Mackenzie Holleran see a broader industry inflection point approaching in 2027, as factory-integrated autonomous trucks begin reaching fleets in greater numbers. Their note to clients says automation in trucking will lower operating costs, while longer operating hours could accelerate deliveries and shift market share toward larger carriers.

The analysts said that driverless trucking is already moving beyond technical demonstrations as developers expand routes, remove onboard safety observers and secure carrier commitments. The next test is whether carriers enter a mass-adoption supercycle to automate their fleets and drive down labor costs.

"We believe the debate has shifted from 'can autonomous trucking work?' to 'how quickly can it scale?'" the analysts said.

They continued, "We see compelling benefits for early adopters and eventual trucking industry consolidation, underwritten by the increasing rate of adoption as industry participants see autonomy as a driver of share gain tilting the capacity playing field to lower cost providers capable of driving longer routes in shorter timeframes better satisfying customer demand."

The analysts identified Aurora as the industry leader, citing expanded routes and operating conditions, customer contracts and the removal of safety observers from certain trucks in July. Kodiak targets observer removal by year-end, with Plus AI targeting driverless operations in 2027.

They noted that long-haul freight "represents the earliest commercial opportunity for autonomous trucking."

Here's how much carriers will save: 

Higher asset utilization… Autonomous trucks are not constrained by fatigue or federal hours-of-service regulations. The 10 hour Dallas to Phoenix route can be completed in 10 hours leveraging autonomy, vs human drivers facing an 8 continuous driving hour burden, and autonomous trucks have unlimited patience to wait out inclement weather as needed. Outside of fueling, charging, loading and maintenance, autonomous trucks can operate nearly continuously, with AUR citing a potential more than 2x increase in asset utilization for carriers.

... and lower operating costs... Early autonomous per mile rates cited by AUR and The American Transportation Research Institute show autonomous to be meaningfully cheaper than human drivers, with labor the single largest operating expense for most carriers. Cost savings are compounded by improved fuel efficiency and fewer at fault accidents reducing insurance costs, creating a secondary economic benefit beyond first order labor savings.

While solving for a structural labor problem...The American Trucking Association estimates the current US. truck driver shortage at over ~82k drivers, a growing gap due to rising freight demand and average driver age and retirement rates, with industry sources emphasizing that the challenge is increasingly one of driver quality and retention rather than simply the number of licensed drivers. 

For Tesla, the first step toward automation would likely be Semi trucks running supervised FSD with a human operator. The broader industry opportunity is fully driverless Class 8 adoption, which could begin next year as carriers seek to reduce driver labor costs and increase fleet utilization.

The pace of adoption will depend on safety and production of lidar, radar, and the computing needed for each truck.  

Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2026 - 20:30

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a raft of technology bills Thursday while sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence — even though, two years ago, he pulled the plug on California’s strongest attempt to rein in the powerful technology.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom dismissed President Donald Trump’s promise to give every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of Congress as “bulls—.”

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The ex-Giant will serve the prison sentence, along with three years of supervised release and face a $30,000 fine.

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Perfectly Timed AI Panic Resurrects 'Bipartisan AI Safety Bill'

A stalled bipartisan artificial intelligence safety bill has suddenly found new life on Capitol Hill - propelled by a combination of dire warnings from inside the industry's leading labs and a brewing grassroots revolt threatening Republicans in key midterm states.

According to a new report from Semafor, momentum is building for a Senate regulatory framework just as a conservative-led "AI Data Center Revolt" bus tour hits the road. Spearheaded by Amy Kremer, a Georgia RNC committeewoman and chair of the AI-risk group Humans First, the tour is set to cross crucial battlegrounds including Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Georgia, and North Carolina. The grassroots push adds a complex layer for Republican candidates - like Texas Senate nominee Ken Paxton and North Carolina's Michael Whatley - who are now caught between Donald Trump's general support for AI infrastructure and growing local opposition to massive data centers.

But in Washington, the sudden legislative urgency looks less like a grassroots miracle and more like a highly coordinated pressure campaign. After weeks of stalled negotiations, the Senate's leading vehicle for AI regulation - negotiated by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) - is suddenly being positioned as the "only viable option" to pass before the end of the year.

What broke the legislative logjam was a perfectly timed, 48-hour media blast from the very labs the bill seeks to regulate.

Panic.exe

Here's how the situation unfolded. 

July 2026: OpenAI discloses that agents escaped a research sandbox, coordinated, and hacked Hugging Face. Within days, Reps. Ted Lieu (D) and Nathaniel Moran (R) drop the AI Kill Switch Act. Reps. Lori Trahan (D) and Jay Obernolte (R) introduce the FRONTIER Act - audits, incident reporting, and Commerce authority to restrict models judged to pose "imminent catastrophic risk."

Late July / August: Senate talks among Amy Klobuchar (D), Ted Cruz (R), and Majority Leader John Thune stall. Punchbowl reported the hang-up: Anthropic and Sen. Maria Cantwell wanted a more disclosure-heavy, stringent version than Republicans would accept. The bill appeared dead.

Then came the September surprise.

The Insider Blast

Sept 8-9, 2026: Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher who spent three years at OpenAI then four months at Anthropic, resigns and posts that both labs are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives."

"The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt."

The thread explodes to 100M+ views. Anthropic's own alignment-science lead, Evan Hubinger, replies on his own account: researchers "earnestly believe AI could kill all humans," and he personally puts the chance above 10% this decade. He adds Anthropic "do[es] not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and [is] not clearly on track to."

Not everyone thinks this is exactly organic: 

Seems like a setup

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 10, 2026

And as Josh Caplan of CAPITAL news points out, he still has equity in OpenAI...

Oh. pic.twitter.com/qU7FXiGljy

— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) September 10, 2026

Sept 9: OpenAI's Chris Lehane publishes "The AI policy window is open. We need to act," calling for mandatory national capability-based safety rules and urging Congress to move before it adjourns. OpenAI says it is now supporting some California bills it previously declined.

Also Sept 9: Anthropic's economics team publishes "Scenarios for our Economic Future" - three paths to 2030. In the extreme one, GDP grows 15% a year, unemployment hits 11.9%, knowledge-worker wages fall more than 10%, and labor's share of GDP drops from about 60% to 45%.

🦔Anthropic published an economic model this week on how AI could affect the US economy by 2030. They ran three scenarios. In the modest one, AI has about the same impact as the internet. In the substantial one, GDP growth doubles but knowledge worker wages go flat. In the…

— Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets) September 9, 2026

The paper lands weeks ahead of an IPO expected at a reported $2 trillion valuation and alongside a $15 billion pre-IPO debt raise.

Regulatory Capture by Panic?

Sept 10, today: Semafor reports the Klobuchar-Cruz-Thune bill is suddenly "the only viable option" before 2027 and "may be introduced as early as next week." Klobuchar: "it's clear we need to act now and not wait." Cruz: working on legislation "to address catastrophic risks involving biological or nuclear threats." Frontier labs and advocacy groups are already feeding Hill staff on unreleased draft text. Bernie Sanders is teeing up a superintelligence ban and a briefing.

AND LOOK... in response to Coxon:

Meanwhile, others are pointing out that the post went extremely viral, extremely fast, for a 'nobody' account:

I don’t think this has ever happened for a post from a new account with almost no prior activity

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 10, 2026

So - years of the same warning, then two months of incidents that may or may not have been blown out of proportion, then a 48-hour media blast from inside the labs, then the stalled bipartisan bill is "the only viable option" and might drop next week.

The 48-hour news cycle created the exact permission structure required to resurrect the Klobuchar-Cruz-Thune bill. Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is threatening a hardline superintelligence ban, which strategically makes the bipartisan compromise appear perfectly moderate.

While the exact text remains unreleased, the live Senate vehicle reportedly focuses on giving the Commerce Department and DHS significant levers over frontier models while preempting the state patchwork.

That preemption is the crucial tell. For a year, Republicans have sought to block states like California and New York from creating their own disjointed audit regimes, while Democrats have demanded affirmative federal safety duties. Frontier incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic - who are already feeding Hill staff on the draft text - stand to benefit massively from a unified federal floor. Mandatory audits, kill-switch requirements, and incident reporting create a massive compliance moat that smaller startups and open-weight projects cannot afford.

It appears the propaganda is working as the odds an AI Safety Bill being enacted before 2027 have shot up...

As Quoth The Raven opines further:

This (AI regulation) could create an interesting problem for markets (on top of the other catalysts that could cause an AI crash) because Wall Street has spent the last several years making an enormous bet on precisely the opposite outcome. The AI trade isn’t just a handful of technology stocks anymore. It encompasses semis, data centers, cloud infrastructure, networking equipment, electricity generation, utilities, natural gas, nuclear power, cooling equipment, construction and the enormous financing apparatus required to build all of it.

Hundreds of billions of dollars are being committed on the assumption that demand for computing power will continue rising at an extraordinary rate.

Embedded in that assumption is something investors haven’t had much reason to question: that frontier AI development will continue largely uninterrupted.

If Washington changes that assumption, even temporarily, the financial consequences could arrive much faster than the technological ones.

Imagine that increasingly capable models suddenly require federal approval, extensive testing or expensive certification before deployment. Imagine strict liability for certain failures, hard limits on autonomous capabilities or restrictions on training models beyond specified thresholds. An outright moratorium isn’t even necessary. The government would only need to make the timing and economics of future model development less certain.

Markets would then have to reconsider how much computing infrastructure will actually be needed, and how quickly. Data-center projections could come down. Semiconductor forecasts could follow. Electricity-demand estimates could be revised, infrastructure projects could be delayed and lenders could become less enthusiastic about financing projects whose expected returns have suddenly become harder to calculate. The effects would ripple far beyond the companies actually developing the models.

That’s particularly important because markets don’t wait for revenue to disappear before repricing an asset to the downside…just like they don’t wait for profits to price dogshit to the upside. The AI boom has produced enormous valuations because investors expect enormous future demand. Change the expected trajectory of that demand and those valuations can change remarkably quickly.

This doesn’t mean an AI safety bill would necessarily crash the market, nor does it mean regulation would be economically destructive over the long run. Clear rules could ultimately reduce uncertainty and make the industry healthier. A modest bill could also wind up having almost no effect on the pace of development. But a genuinely restrictive regime would introduce a risk that I don’t think the market has spent much time pricing at all.

That’s what makes the timing so interesting. For years, investors have treated faster AI development almost entirely as an economic positive: better models mean more chips, more data centers, more electricity, more software, more productivity and more investment. The safety argument introduces the possibility that faster development eventually becomes politically unacceptable. If lawmakers begin viewing frontier AI as a national-security or catastrophic-risk problem rather than simply another technological industry, the assumptions supporting the AI capital-spending boom could change very quickly.

That leaves us with a remarkable irony. Yesterday I argued that we may have a relatively narrow window in which humans can still meaningfully decide how far and how quickly this technology should advance. A day later, there are signs that Congress is beginning to have exactly that conversation. If the warnings coming from inside the AI industry are remotely accurate, lawmakers arguably have an obligation to take them seriously. But investors should also recognize what serious action could mean…that an AI crash could very well start on, or ahead of schedule.

We have spent years building valuations, infrastructure and investment plans around the assumption that the AI race will keep accelerating. If Washington suddenly decides the race needs a speed limit, AI itself may not be the first thing that breaks…the pure euphoria-fueled market built around its insane financial projections and financing circle jerks could be.

Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2026 - 20:15

For 27 minutes on the night of April 23, it seemed possible linebacker Arvell Reese and safety Caleb Downs would be able to share a moving van from Columbus, Ohio, to East Rutherford. 

The Rams’ first game-day roster included several unexpected omissions from their 2026 NFL Draft class. First-round quarterback Ty Simpson, second-round tight end Max Klare and sixth-round receiver C.J. Daniels were inactive for the season opener against the 49ers in Melbourne, Australia, according to ESPN’s Sarah Barshop. Los Angeles Rams quarterback Ty Simpson during practice at...