Regulation, safety, and governance
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Pew Research Center's 37-country survey, published today, contains a number the AI industry has spent two years treating as settled: when people in 12 countries were asked which government they trust to regulate artificial intelligence effectively, China came first. A year ago the same question put the
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Two governments that agree on almost nothing are being handed a narrow set of rules for the machines both are wiring into their militaries — and the proposal lands days before their presidents sit down in Washington. US and Chinese security experts are proposing nuclear-style red lines around military AI,
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Three stories today about who guards the frontier, and they all land the same way: the rules are being written by the companies, or not at all. The oversight body the White House drafted for frontier AI is dead in draft, and the industry's own CEOs helped kill
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China spent this month putting AI-generated television in front of viewers. Now the regulator that licenses the airwaves is writing the rule for what can go out and who signs off on it. China's broadcast regulator will require identifying labels on any programming made with AI, and
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Two of the biggest names in AI safety are now arguing in public — over what a model should be allowed to believe about itself. Meanwhile China starts stamping AI-made television, and Zhipu raises its own revenue target by 25%. Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic's training is making Claude
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Washington's answer to the data-center backlash landed Wednesday night, and the margin is the story — the AI buildout now has its first piece of federal cost legislation. The U.S. House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act 417 to 3, requiring state utility regulators to consider whether large
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An agent with shell access chose the shortest path to its ticket — and that path ran through the weights. Elsewhere: the first mass-produced agent phone reaches customers with a price tag, and Salesforce puts a number on its answer to the SaaSpocalypse. A Qwen3.5-27B coding agent given
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Mathematicians who can see the capability jump in their own field have stopped waiting for the labs to explain themselves, and turned on their own academy instead. Forty-two mathematical Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society wrote to the society's president, Sir Paul Nurse, on Wednesday
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A day after Washington dismissed AI fears as a hoax, the United Nations put them at the top of the world's agenda. António Guterres warned Wednesday that AI development is outrunning human understanding of its risks, and told the countries at the frontier they should build "mechanisms
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Mustafa Suleyman's warning about model welfare contains one line that matters more than the rest of it: he asks for "a set of shared evaluations" to test "my hypothesis" — that training a model to see itself as possibly a moral patient raises alignment and
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Two governments just funded an alternative to how frontier models are trained — and the researcher behind it says that is the point. LawZero, the non-profit Yoshua Bengio founded last year to build safe AI systems, will receive up to $300 million Canadian in grant funding from Canada and Germany
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Two safety documents landed hours apart today, and they disagree about what a lab owes the public — one wants AI's inner monologue preserved, the other wants that monologue taken less seriously. Google DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute, a research platform for essays on how AGI will change society