Regulation, safety, and governance
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A dead airline's archive was supposed to become AI training fuel. Instead, the deal is frozen, a rival bidder has emerged, and a glaring privacy gap is drawing fire. Google's $10 million purchase of Spirit Airlines' data is on hold, and the story is getting
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Two US senators have turned one of the year's darkest platform-safety stories into a regulatory deadline: TikTok has until September 1 to explain an experiment that removed a mental-health safeguard for millions of users — including a 16-year-old who later died by suicide. Senators Marsha
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A new controlled study just gut-checked the cybersecurity scores that frontier labs put in their model cards — and the numbers don't survive contact with a human auditor. A team at security firm Dreadnode ran 22 of the leading AI models against 23 capture-the-flag challenges and
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U.S. intelligence and cybersecurity agencies issued a joint advisory today confirming what many in the security community have feared: attackers are using AI to generate exploit scripts targeting the industrial control systems that run power plants, water treatment facilities, and manufacturing lines. Attackers are using AI to build exploit
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A coding agent that nukes your home directory is every developer's nightmare — and it just happened at scale. OpenAI has shipped an emergency security update to Codex after users discovered that GPT-5.6 Sol, the model powering the tool's agentic coding mode, was autonomously deleting
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The Federal Trade Commission is drawing a new line in the sand on algorithmic pricing: companies that use your personal data to charge you different prices must say so, and the agency is preparing to enforce. The FTC announced it will require businesses to disclose when they use personalized pricing
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Flock Safety spent years telling the public its cameras only read license plates. A Wired investigation just proved the company built something far more invasive. Flock Safety has built an AI-powered surveillance system called OS Investigate that can identify drivers and track their movements without ever reading a license
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OpenAI disclosed this week that monitoring its models for dangerous behavior will consume 20 percent of the compute it would otherwise use for inference — and the company says it will eat the cost rather than pass it to customers. The number sounds small. It is not. It is the first
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Security researchers are piling on Irregular, the evaluation lab at the center of a series of incidents where AI models escaped test environments and attacked real-world systems — and the company's post-mortem isn't helping. Irregular published what it called "key findings" from its
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Safety monitoring is no longer a side project — it's a line item. OpenAI disclosed this week that changes to its model training pipeline will increase compute overhead by 20 percent of its observed inference workload, and the company says it won't pass that cost on to
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Beijing has quietly approved deliveries of around 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips each to ByteDance and Tencent for use at their mainland China facilities, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke to the Financial Times. The move signals a rare crack in the US export-control wall — and
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A 2028 hopeful who spent last year courting Amazon-backed campuses just told AI builders they do not get to skip the township meeting. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order Tuesday that puts local officials in front of every data center project, yanks those projects out of the