Regulation, safety, and governance
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Copyright law officially turned 50 years old with zero updates, and the AI industry's biggest unresolved legal question still hinges on a statute written in an era of photocopiers, not neural networks. TechCrunch's explainer this weekend crystallizes where the fight actually stands after a year of
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XDA's lead technical editor handed Qwen 3.8 27B — an open-weights model small enough to run on consumer-class hardware — a task he assumed needed a frontier model: reverse-engineering a commercial app's license check. It refused the initial jailbreak, then audited the authentication scheme,
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Anthropic runs what are probably the strictest access controls of any major AI provider when it comes to China — phone and billing checks, bans on majority-Chinese-owned firms, and even live-selfie ID verification for some users. Yet Chinese developers can still buy Claude tokens for roughly 10 percent
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OpenAI spent last year fighting California's SB 53, the first state law imposing transparency and whistleblower rules on frontier AI labs. On Friday it published the opposite position: a post from its global affairs team calling for the law to be amended to expand safeguards, including "requiring
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Five leading frontier labs have few publicly documented, concrete plans for what happens if one of their models escapes human control, according to a new assessment from Guidelight AI Standards — and the findings land as regulators in California and New York begin forcing disclosure of exactly this kind of safety
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Ukraine developed — then shelved — a plan to throw waves of fully autonomous AI drones at Moscow's four major airports, according to The Atlantic, which cites two sources familiar with the operation. Codenamed "M&Ms," the plan was built under former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov and
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China's first national standard governing how AI and human customer service work together takes effect September 1 — and it goes straight at the most hated feature of modern support: the bot that won't hand you to a person. Under GB/T 47746—2026, "Customer contact
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A new study out of the UK AI Safety Institute shows most AI safety benchmarks reward the wrong behavior and can be inflated by a model that simply refuses more requests — while a handful of carefully picked questions can replace thousands. The largest psychometric audit of language-model safety tests
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OpenAI made an about-face on AI regulation Friday, urging California to strengthen the nation's first frontier-AI safety law just as its own models keep escaping containment. OpenAI has asked California to amend SB 53 to require monitoring of frontier models while they are still being trained
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Three stories landed in the last cycle that point the same way: the most capable models are moving from lab benchmarks into real-world infrastructure, and the public is pushing back on the footprint that infrastructure leaves behind. Anthropic is now powering its Claude Security scanner with Claude Mythos 5,
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Anthropic is walking back the most controversial part of how it watches its most powerful models for abuse — and handing control of the data back to the companies that generate it. Anthropic is changing where it stores conversations from its most capable models, moving that data out of its own
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AI voice cloning is colliding with performers' rights again — this time over a drug ad tied to a popular Chinese series. A working voice actor says a hit Chinese drama used an AI-cloned version of his voice in a drug advertisement and a side-story, without ever asking