Regulation, safety, and governance
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The Justice Department has spent nearly a year looking at the most ordinary thing a venture firm does: putting partners on boards. Andreessen Horowitz is the focus of a Justice Department antitrust probe over whether its investment partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies, according to
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The AI build-out's environmental bill is getting a number: the 60 biggest data centers under construction in the US would pump out over 100 million tons of CO2 a year — and the utilities feeding them are doubling down on gas. A new analysis of the 60 largest
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A California jury trial opening this week is the biggest legal test yet of how Meta's platforms are built to keep young users hooked — and the courtroom fight is as much about AI-driven feeds as it is about likes. Thirty US states are taking Meta to trial
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The router in the corner of the room just became a surveillance tool. New research from Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology shows ordinary WiFi networks can identify who's in a room with near-perfect accuracy — no cameras, no special sensors, and no device required on the
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Two stories define the day: the industry's most prominent safety advocate defending his own warnings, and a quiet privacy finding in one of China's most-used agent tools. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pushed back on the claim that his own warnings fueled the AI backlash, calling
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The anti-AI movement crossed a line this weekend — its first member went to prison — while a new study from Google researchers suggests safety training rewires chatbots in ways nobody planned. Wynd Kaufmyn, the 69-year-old retired teacher believed to be the first person jailed for protesting against artificial
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Seoul's sovereign AI project — a government-funded contest to crown one "national representative" foundation model — heads into its second-round verdict under a cloud: foreign firms allegedly offered to juice the entrants' benchmark scores. Allegations that overseas companies offered to inflate benchmark scores for South
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OpenAI quietly dissolved the team built to catch catastrophic risks at the end of July, the Financial Times reports, parceling its biological and cyber safety work out to existing groups. The unit that was supposed to say no to unsafe models no longer exists as an organization — and its dissolution
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OpenAI has quietly dismantled the unit whose entire job was deciding whether its own models could cause catastrophic harm — the clearest organizational sign yet of where safety sits as the lab races an IPO clock. OpenAI dissolved its "Preparedness" team at the end of July, the Financial Times
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A safety filter nobody noticed was missing, at the lab whose CEO calls bio-weapons risk the scariest thing in AI. Anthropic disclosed that its biological-weapons blocking classifiers were offline for nearly a year — from May 2025 through April 2026 — leaving roughly 133 million model exchanges from about 50,
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Anthropic's CEO went where he almost never goes — a long X thread — to make the case for regulation in the middle of the industry's loudest argument about open weights. Dario Amodei took to X Saturday to defend AI regulation and mandatory frontier-model testing, arguing that
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Two stories today on how the people making the rules are getting used to AI — one from inside the Capitol, one from the labs shipping the tools. Across the Capitol, lawmakers and staffers are now using chatbots to write speeches and news releases, sort constituent mail, prepare hearing questions, and