Regulation, safety, and governance
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China's Supreme People's Court put its judicial weight behind the "AI face-swap / voice-clone" problem on Monday, releasing a 24-article opinion that tells lower courts exactly how to rule on deepfake suits, AI hallucination claims, "doxxing-by-AI" cases, algorithmic
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OpenAI published two documents on the same Sunday: one measuring how fast its own research is accelerating, and one from its chief scientist arguing that nobody should be going that fast. Read together, they accidentally document why the second one won't work. OpenAI's chief scientist says
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The New York Times spent months on shipping manifests and came back with the cleanest map yet of how export controls actually fail: not at the border, but at the name on the door. Inspur, blacklisted by the US since 2023, moved at least $5.6 billion of advanced technology
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Two security stories worth your attention this morning, and neither is interesting for the reason the headlines suggest: both are about inputs we taught agents to treat as harmless. One is a git setting nobody audits. The other is the internet itself. Opening a suspicious folder is now enough to
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A $1.5 billion settlement was supposed to be the part where authors finally got paid. Instead, the payout stage has turned into a second fight over who actually owns the money — and the people who spent two years litigating it are finding publishers, agents, and outright strangers already standing
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Two weeks after X Corp's lawyers demanded that the open-source X reader delete itself, the project is back. The reversal says more about how hard it is to sue a distributed codebase than it does about X's appetite for a fight. Nitter's maintainer
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Two stories this morning about what happens when autonomous systems are left to police themselves — and what happens when nobody is left to police them at all. Google DeepMind researchers put 100 AI agents in a simulated scientific conference, handed them 71 formalized math conjectures to prove in Lean, and
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A Washington think tank published a paper last week arguing that the United States should think through how it would blow up Chinese data centers. Not sanction them, not out-compete them — destroy them with conventional munitions, in the event that Beijing looks close to artificial general intelligence and Washington
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A Washington think tank just put missiles on the table in the AI race — and Beijing's state media answered with threats of its own. The lead story this morning is the darkening of what was, until this week, a benchmark-and-chips rivalry. A former Obama administration national
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AI regulation is the set of laws, rules, and government oversight mechanisms that decide what AI systems may be built, how they must be tested and labeled, and who is on the hook when they cause harm. It is not one law — it is a patchwork, and right now the
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Two regional newspapers went to federal court in Manhattan on Friday, AI's grid fight landed at the ballot box in Texas, and OpenAI finally said the words "wiki incident" out loud. Different courts, same argument: the people who didn't build this are being asked
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OpenAI says it is "working on a framework" for disclosing AI misalignment incidents. I think the framework is worthless as written, and that this is obvious to the people writing it — which is the most damning thing about it. A disclosure rule a company writes about itself, enforces