Regulation, safety, and governance
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A government breach in Taiwan shows the AI-agent era of cyber warfare has arrived — and the operator may not have needed much of a team at all. Suspected Chinese hackers used publicly available AI agents to build an autonomous hacking tool that broke into Taiwanese government systems in early
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OpenAI's top policy executive says America's AI rulemaking is happening in statehouses, not Washington — and California's transparency law is the template. Ann O'Leary, OpenAI's vice president of global policy, told POLITICO's California Agenda summit that US AI policy
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Phoebe Gates's AI shopping startup just lost its defense. Bloomberg reports that Gates and co-founder Sophia Kianni knew Phia's extension was claiming affiliate credit for sales it never drove — for months, and that they pushed for the features behind the practice. Bloomberg reported Monday that
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China's commercial capital is writing its AI ambitions into a five-year industrial blueprint: on Tuesday afternoon Shanghai's economic regulator published its plan for the software and information services sector through 2030, and artificial intelligence drives nearly every section of it. Shanghai's Economic and
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Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google hide their models' step-by-step reasoning from users — but a new preprint argues the "encryption" they wrap it in was never the wall it looked like. A team spanning MATS Research, ELLIS Tübingen, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and Snyk
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AI watermarking is a hidden, machine-readable signature embedded in AI-generated content — text, images, audio, or video — that lets a detector verify which model produced it. You can't see it, and neither can most people who copy or edit the content; it's a pattern woven
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OpenAI lost its only dedicated ethicist — the third senior safety figure out this year — while a North Korean hacking unit quietly assembled a private AI stack, and the lab began hiring like an energy trading desk. Chloé Bakalar, OpenAI's AI ethics lead, has left the company less than
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Anthropic has started stamping invisible watermarks on every piece of text its Claude models generate — everywhere on Earth, not just in Europe. The company signed the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, and rather than confine the markings to
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The AI economy's quiet cost showed up in one publisher's server logs this week: a 1.5-million-page site found bots outnumbering humans by more than 200 to one — and its analytics dashboard never saw them. A year of server logs from PatronView, a 1.
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Two stories bracket the day: Anthropic turns an EU compliance obligation into a global product default, and Nvidia's flagship chip quietly shrinks as the memory crunch tightens its grip. Anthropic is embedding invisible watermarks in text generated by Claude models and attaching signed C2PA provenance metadata to generated
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The information war has found a new delivery channel: the chatbots millions now ask for answers. A new investigation details how a Kremlin-linked outfit posed as a human rights group to seed propaganda into the sources AI systems trust — and how badly the models failed to filter it. A
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The cycle swung from the buildout to the fallout today: OpenAI's latest policy hire is straining its White House relationship, China's free-assistant era is ending, and a pharmacy chain just learned what happens when voice AI gets patient calls wrong. White House officials warn that