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Jim Love begins by marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, remembering those who were lost, those whose lives were changed, and the first responders who ran toward danger. Then, was the extraordinary viral rise of former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon entirely spontaneous? Coxon resigned after working at OpenAI and Anthropic, warning that leading AI companies are racing toward potentially uncontrollable superintelligence. His resignation post reached more than 100 million views despite his previously minimal public profile. Coxon later acknowledged that friends helped shape and amplify the message and that he deliberately tried to make it viral. That raises a larger question: who is funding and amplifying the increasingly intense public debate over AI safety? California Governor Gavin Newsom has now signed new AI safety legislation, including SB 813, establishing independent assessments of advanced AI systems, and AB 1405, creating standards and a registry for AI auditors. OpenAI and Anthropic supported the measures, while OpenAI is now publicly calling for mandatory national AI safety regulation. Meanwhile, identity verification company IDScan has confirmed a breach of its cloud systems. The incident has been linked to a dark-web service offering access to more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver's licence records, including photographs. IDScan has not confirmed that 153 million people were affected. And an old friend is disappearing. Microsoft is retiring Project Online and Microsoft Publisher, the desktop publishing program that introduced many of us to the possibilities of publishing on a personal computer. 00:00 September 11 Remembrance 00:47 Headlines and Intro 01:10 Jacob Coxon Viral Resignation 02:48 Who Funds the AI Narrative 04:45 California AI Safety Laws 06:39 IDScan Identity Breach 08:14 Microsoft Retires Publisher 09:32 Wrap Up and Farewell