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Democrats may use midterm wins to scrutinize AI companies
Polls predict Democrats could flip at least one congressional chamber in November, which would give them committee control to press AI firms on data center tax credits and recent hacking incidents.
MIT researchers show Claude agents on a virtual island invent play-like activities
Copies of Claude Opus 4.7, nicknamed Eko, were stranded for 30 hours in a Roblox-inspired virtual island and invented games and drawings. The paper is a preprint not yet peer-reviewed, and researchers acknowledge the behavior could be role-playing.