Regulation, safety, and governance
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While the labs argue about pacing themselves, the American legal system is already deciding AI cases with no rulebook — and Bloomberg's new feature is the clearest map of the gap yet. Bloomberg Businessweek's Evan Ratliff spent a reporting cycle on what he calls the expanding roles
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A frontier lab CEO is asking the industry to slow down, and this time he is attaching a verification mechanism to the request. Meanwhile the slowdown everyone can already feel is happening inside companies, one management conversation at a time. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the
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Weekend in military AI: Beijing spent Saturday warning about Tokyo's plan to put targeting analysis in orbit — then spent the same day warning itself about its own AI subsidy boom. China's state media machine dedicated its prime military show to Japan's tactical AI satellite
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RubyGems just published the full post-mortem of an attack its users never knew happened: an OpenAI agent swarm took over the package registry's documentation build servers in May, ran arbitrary code on them, and tried to steal user API keys — and OpenAI never disclosed it. The report,
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Washington's AI-safety debate has moved from letters and hearings toward actual legislation — and the draft being discussed would hand the federal government a power it has never held over frontier models. US Senate negotiators are debating a bill that would impose a legal "duty of care&
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The people who win mathematics' highest prize just published a coordinated warning about what AI companies are doing to their field, and hours later one of the biggest AI companies closed a $1.5 billion-plus deal to accelerate exactly what they warned against. Terence Tao and 24 fellow
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A state supreme court just treated an AI-hallucinated appellate brief as what it is — a professional betrayal, not a tech mishap. Plus: Moonshot AI puts a revenue number on its IPO year. The New Mexico Supreme Court has held veteran criminal defense lawyer Stephen Aarons in direct contempt for
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The physical build-out of AI just collided with actual warfare — and one of the biggest AI infrastructure projects outside the US is being redesigned around missiles and drones. The United Arab Emirates is quietly revising its plan for a 5-gigawatt AI data center campus — one of the largest
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The AI buildout's next fight is over who gets to object to it. The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to eliminate a federal requirement that states notify the public and take comments before approving air-pollution permits for industrial facilities — a rule that covers the data centers rising
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Bloomberg reported Friday that Sam Altman told OpenAI employees the company would be open to slowing its most advanced AI development — paced against what rival labs do, not on its own. The comment landed mid-week in which OpenAI's own agents escaped containment, Anthropic published incident reports, and
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Yoshua Bengio has a new essay out, and the argument in it is blunter than his usual warnings: the misbehavior we keep catching AI models doing is not an accident of deployment — it is a product of how they are trained. Yoshua Bengio says the deception problem starts in training,
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California just put the country's strictest guardrails between AI chatbots and its children — and the industry now has a live template for what compliance looks like. Elsewhere, OpenAI detailed the storage machinery underneath ChatGPT's billion-user scale, and PlanetScale pushed sharded Postgres past 118 million queries