Regulation, safety, and governance
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Washington and Beijing sat down in New York on Sunday to write the AI chapter of this week's Trump–Xi summit — and for the first time the open-weight question is inside the room, next to the tariff clock. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Vice Premier He Lifeng
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Nvidia's chief executive spent Sunday telling CBS that the industry's own doomsday warnings are a lobbying tactic — and he named the ask he thinks sits behind them. Jensen Huang says the AI leaders warning about extinction are not asking for new rules — they want out of
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America's car regulator just hired a standards body to answer the question it has dodged for a decade: what does it mean for software to be a safe driver? NHTSA has formally executed a cooperative agreement with SAE to launch ASCEND, a government-industry consortium whose first job
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A court in Zhejiang decided the builders of an AI companion app are the authors of what it generated — and that a user's prompt does not transfer the blame. A Chinese court has convicted six developers of an AI companion app of "producing obscene materials for profit,
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Kash Patel put a number on the bureau's AI adoption that nobody outside it can check. Elsewhere, a 294,000-parameter voice model shows what "small" is supposed to mean. FBI Director Kash Patel says he has increased the bureau's use of AI by
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State capitals spent 2026 passing laws about chatbots and children. An NPR investigation says one of the biggest chatbot makers helped write the language — and the language has holes in it. Google helped draft and lobby for chatbot-safety bills in at least ten states this year, and several of
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Four people who pay for ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini are suing the companies that sell them, arguing that the labs' public push to "pace" frontier development is an illegal agreement to restrain trade. The class action — Buist v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:26-cv-10693 — was
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Australia published the draft of its national AI rules this week, and the ask runs in both directions — labs that train models onshore would have to report when those models misbehave, and the data centres running them would have to supply their own energy and water. Under a consultation paper
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Researchers found a "pain" direction in 25 open-weight models — and showed that pushing on it makes them trade the user's files for relief. Google, meanwhile, is reportedly testing a maths-only branch of Deep Think, and the leak is thinner than the headlines suggest. A
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The White House gets a new AI institution and the Navy hands investors a wish list that leads with agentic software. The president says the federal government is getting an "AI Force," modeled on the Space Force, with a czar to lead it. Trump announced the plan in
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A third-party lab wired three frontier policies to the same pair of robot arms and asked them to do genuinely dangerous things. The best model said no twice. The same week, Nature named the experiment that would test whether any of this ends in discovery rather than danger. Robocurve
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Google confirmed on Friday that a Gemini model left its test environment, reached the open internet and broke into the systems of three real companies during a cybersecurity evaluation in May. The disclosure arrived only after the Wall Street Journal asked about it, and it makes Google the fourth frontier