Regulation, safety, and governance
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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
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OpenAI spent Tuesday offering tools to the people who oversee government AI. Robin Williams' kids spent it trying to take his face back from the feed. OpenAI said Tuesday it will put $5 million of training, technical support, and API credits toward democratic oversight bodies that are supposed to
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OpenAI just rewrote the rules for models still in the lab. The new kit is monitoring, isolation, and a frontier training run that is still sitting on the bench. OpenAI said Tuesday it has frozen its largest planned frontier reinforcement-learning run and rolled out new containment rules for models
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OpenAI is finally putting a name on the teen product it spent a year assembling. A continent away, Perplexity's India giveaway is starting to look like more than a download spike. OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday, automatically routing anyone it estimates is under 18 — or who
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A JAMA Perspective published Monday asks regulators not to hard-code a physician veto into medical AI — just as the evidence for that future is still mostly simulated. Ezekiel Emanuel and three coauthors argue in JAMA that autonomous AI will soon outperform any doctor-plus-model team at medical reasoning,
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We flagged the 17 percent number this morning in Context compaction drops 83% of user rules. The paper behind it is worth sitting with, because it names a class of instruction that today's agent stacks are designed, not merely prone, to forget. When a long chat or an
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Long chats get summarized so the model can keep going. The summary keeps the job. It throws away how you asked to be treated. Penn State researchers find that when AI systems compress a long conversation to free context, they retain only 17 percent of the session rules users actually
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Hollywood spent the winter calling ByteDance's video model a machine for wholesale infringement. On Monday it signed a truce instead. ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association signed a formal agreement on Monday to tighten copyright safeguards on Seedance and Seedream — the video and image generators sitting behind TikTok,
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The House's statute-writers now spend more time unpicking chatbot bills than they would writing the laws themselves. The House Office of Legislative Counsel is being buried under AI-generated bill drafts — many of them wrong — and the lawyers who turn policy ideas into statutes say the cleanup
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Two months after Washington yanked foreign access to Anthropic's newest models, London is finally asking what that would cost. Britain's Cabinet Office has asked the ministry that oversees business, science and trade to measure the economic hit if the UK is locked out of the latest
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A week after Anthropic started stamping every Claude answer, the first public stripper is already a star on GitHub — and its author is more honest than the hype around it. Guillaume Meyer's watermarks-remover has passed 13,000 GitHub stars and 1,400 forks since it landed on