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Bender arguing that recent AI breakthrough claims—about hacking, math results, and self-improving superintelligence—are overstated by companies for commercial and political gain. Other items cover 22 nations calling for a global AI oversight body (without US or China involvement), OpenAI proposing its own safety standards, Texas and California moving to restrict data center growth, AMD joining the trillion-dollar club on AI chip demand, Meta's Muse AI agent topping the App Store despite a serious zero-day vulnerability, plus unrelated science and lifestyle links. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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