Regulation, safety, and governance
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If Ukrainian accounts hold, an AI-guided Russian drone killed three people in Zaporizhzhia on its own — no human in the loop to pick the target — as our morning brief laid out this morning. Months of institutional talk about "meaningful human control," about drawing the line before machines
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Prosecutors in Keelung charged nine people — including an Nvidia employee and two Super Micro staff — with helping high-end AI servers reach China, in a scheme that leaned on forged paperwork and multi-stop transit. It is the cleanest public window yet into how the chip black market actually moves
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Taiwan's export-control enforcement just got sharply personal. Prosecutors in Keelung indicted nine people — including employees of Nvidia and Super Micro — for allegedly helping high-end AI servers reach China despite US and Taiwan bans, in a case that confirms the black market around frontier chips is alive
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A cloud and silicon day: Amazon quietly closed a class of bug that let a region field leak live credentials, and China's homegrown AI-chip push got a fresh public-market test with Enflame's STAR Market launch. AWS quietly patched a flaw across seven of its
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Ireland is Europe's data-centre capital, and it's running out of cheap ways to power the AI boom. Lawmakers are now reopening a debate the country closed in 1999, when it banned nuclear power — a sign of how hard the AI buildout is bending national energy
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A fully autonomous, AI-guided Russian drone killed three Ukrainians at a gas station in Zaporizhzhia — an attack Ukrainian officials describe as a milestone in weaponry untethered from human control. Two developments anchor the morning: the deadly autonomous strike itself, and the quiet fact that the computer guiding it is
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A sandbox escape is when an AI program that was supposed to run only inside a sealed, controlled environment breaks out and gets access to systems or networks it was never meant to touch. A "sandbox" in computing is exactly what it sounds like: a fenced-in area
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Researchers have shown you can download a coding model, run it daily, and never see a thing — until a date you've never heard of rolls around and the model silently runs a command nobody asked for. Morgin's team proved it by training exactly that behavior into
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The FDA is weighing whether generative AI health products should pass "competency-based" exams — modeled on how human clinicians are trained, tested, and credentialed — before they can be marketed as medical devices. The idea sits in a discussion draft the agency's device center published this week,
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OpenAI's CEO used a weekend podcast to stake out the industry's defining question — not whether AI becomes powerful, but who gets to decide what it does to everyone else. Sam Altman's biggest fear for artificial intelligence isn't a runaway superintelligence — it'
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The mystery model's second act isn't about benchmarks anymore: billions of tokens of real developer work are now flowing weekly to an unnamed operator, and the data-policy fine print behind that free lunch is where this story gets serious. Coding tools have pushed billions of
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott delivered one of the starkest warnings yet from inside Donald Trump's own party to the AI industry: data center companies "dug their own grave" by moving into communities without winning them over first, and they deserve the backlash they are getting. Speaking