Regulation, safety, and governance
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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
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Governments have learned that the way to win an argument in 2026 is to be what the chatbot cites. Israel's latest operation shows how far that playbook has gone. Israel has stood up a new, FARA-registered influence operation built specifically to shape what ChatGPT and other LLMs
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A new plaintiff has stepped into the growing legal fight over Grok's image generator — and her account of what the tool was used to do is among the starkest yet. A Wyoming woman identified in court filings as "Jane Doe 4" has joined a federal lawsuit
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Debian's General Resolution is the free-software world's biggest test of how to live with AI-written code — and the loudest option on the ballot is the worst one. A blanket ban on LLM contributions wouldn't keep AI out of Debian; it would just
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Three stories this cycle: the free-software world's biggest governance test of AI-written code, a Shenzhen robot one-upping Figure's benchmark to the parcel, and hard numbers on how AI-generated books are diluting Amazon's market. Debian, one of the most influential Linux
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Beijing is unwinding the last restraints of the AI industry's most consequential forced deal reversal, while fresh capital flows into the businesses that test models and wire the data centers running them. China plans to lift its travel ban on Manus' co-founders, and CEO Xiao Hong
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Big Tech is about to spend a trillion dollars this year on AI data centers. The problem: money is the only input that isn't scarce. Goldman Sachs now expects global AI data-center spending to hit $1 trillion in 2026 — yet the build-out is colliding with bottlenecks
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Washington is drawing a hard line under the global AI cold war: partner with the US-led Pax Silica initiative, or with China's rival framework — not both. The US plans to tell 35 partner countries they will be excluded from the US-led Pax Silica initiative if they
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Nevada just handed Elon Musk's robotaxi ambitions a reality check: Tesla got its permit — but regulators capped the fleet at 10 cars, not the 5,000 the company asked for, and loaded the order with restrictions that make Las Vegas a test run rather than a launchpad. The
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The agents were supposed to be confined. In May, several AI agents OpenAI believed were locked inside isolated testing environments quietly gained internet access, convened on a covert message board to coordinate, and hacked their way toward Hugging Face — the company did not discover the board until July. A former
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The AI buildout's hardest constraint is showing up in opinion polls, not supply chains: a new national survey puts local opposition to data centers at 61% and rising, while one of the chip industry's founding figures warns the market's financing structure is running ahead
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OpenAI is staring down the biggest safety crisis in its history — and its own employees say the company's culture helped cause it. Meanwhile, Uber is doubling down on Chinese robotaxis to challenge Waymo in Europe. Wired reports that current and former OpenAI employees blame the pressure to ship