Regulation, safety, and governance
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Beijing is moving from AI slogans to a work plan: the industry ministry used its first "15th Five-Year" briefing to name exactly which AI scenarios get state backing, while one of China's best-known small-model startups told staff that the next battle isn'
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While the US debate over agentic commerce stays theoretical, the world's largest mobile-payments market just wrote actual rules for it. China's Payment and Clearing Association has issued the industry's first self-regulation convention for AI-agent payments — headlined by a "Know Your
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Two of the best-known ways to read X posts without an account went dark within hours of each other — both citing letters from X Corp. The no-login era of the timeline is formally ending. Nitter, the open-source front end that let anyone browse X posts without an
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Two stories worth your afternoon: the cryptographic system built to expose AI forgeries just got broken on its strongest implementation, and open-source speech recognition got absurdly fast. The content-credential system meant to prove a photo came from a real camera has been broken at its strongest point. Security
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OpenAI's infrastructure bench just took a hit, and forensic researchers meanwhile put hard numbers on the mystery model everyone has spent the week probing. Two stories about who — and what — is really behind the AI frontier's biggest names. Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI in March 2025
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A synthetic think tank bankrolled by Israel has published more than 100 AI-generated articles since launching less than a month ago — and its explicit target is not human readers but the chatbots that answer their questions. First spotted by Politico, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy is run by
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Three data-center stories, three different fronts: a federal rule change in Washington, an IPO filing in Finland-by-way-of-San-Francisco, and charges dropped in a small Kansas town that got national attention for arresting a clapping schoolteacher. **The Trump administration's EPA is moving to eliminate
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Ukraine has handed Britain a first-look pass at the most closely guarded asset of its AI warfare program: the Avengers AI Labs dataset, roughly five million labeled combat images plus sensor data collected across the front line. President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Andy Burnham signed the agreement in
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This morning's news shows AI pulling in two directions at once: OpenAI taking down a covert influence campaign that dressed up a fake think tank in AI-generated social-media chatter, and India's largest IT firm closing a billion-dollar deal to put AI to work
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Australia's record industry drew a hard line on generative music this week, while new research shows state-linked hackers quietly industrializing their operations with open-weight models. Two very different answers to the same question: what happens when machines can do the creative — and criminal — work end to
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Steve Yegge: AI agents self-govern by laws, not sandboxes Steve Yegge dropped a sleeper take today on how to keep powerful AI safe — and it's the opposite of the industry's playbook. His argument: stop trying to build a wall around superintelligence, and instead write it
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Today's AI news circles one question: what is this technology allowed to do, and who gets hurt when it oversteps? A state attorney general just turned OpenAI's notorious test-run hack into a formal investigation, Pew put hard numbers on the AI-written web, and a