Regulation, safety, and governance
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Agent safety is turning into an industry with a business model. Today's money went to the auditors and to the plumbing under the agents themselves. AIUC closed a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital, with First Harmonic participating, to sell enterprises an independent safety verdict on
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The pacing fight just picked up a witness from inside Google's lab, Britain's government put itself on record about listening, and someone finally ran the accounting on what the data centers have to earn back. Google DeepMind's AGI safety team produced its first public
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The week's AI slowdown fight turned political — and the two sides are now trading positions, pricing risk, and pulling back their own enterprise customers. Sam Altman asked for the meeting; the President spent Monday attacking the other labs. Trump met privately with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backstage at
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The pacing debate left the essays behind on Monday and hit three harder surfaces: the tape, the courts and the ballot boxes of three continents. Trump answered the labs' request for rules by saying he already has criminal power over them; Europe answered with an under-15 ban; China
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A federal appeals court has written the first real rule for agents that browse on your behalf, the defense-AI bandwagon is repricing at $20 billion, and the internet's newest spam problem is agents asking permission to exist. The Ninth Circuit vacated Amazon's anti-hacking injunction
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Monday's governance beat produced something the pacing debate has been missing: an actual institutional design. Then, a workstation card aimed squarely at local inference, and a look inside the cost culture behind China's cheapest humanoids. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called for a global "technology
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The AI slowdown debate went global today and every capital answered with its own agenda: Brussels reached for a ban, Berlin for a veto on slowing down, and Nvidia quietly repriced what a single desk AI box can hold. The European Commission will unveil an EU KIDS Act on Thursday
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Every headline this week is about speed: whether frontier labs should slow down, who told them to, and who refused. I think that is the wrong argument to be watching, and the tell is that nobody winning it is the one talking about it. The decision that will shape AI
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The AI pacing debate stopped being about risk on Monday. Washington's reply to the frontier labs asking for a rulebook was a reminder about the powers already on the books, and from Frankfurt came the counter-argument that Europe is buying the leverage it claims to lack. President
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Microsoft has put its own model constitution up for public comment, the UN's top human rights official is demanding "cast iron guarantees" on frontier AI, and the network layer under AI clusters just got $205 million of new money behind it. Microsoft published a 37-page
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The cyber-safety debate found a dissent inside itself today, the White House picked a side in the camera wars, and some people are knitting their way out of the surveillance net. AI models are "the most potent cyber weapon that has ever been created," Cohere CEO Aidan
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Beijing spent the same week it dismissed Washington's slowdown panic issuing another spec — and this one is about agents, not devices. China's national cybersecurity standards body released the Artificial Intelligence Safety Governance Framework 3.0 on Monday, and the new edition spends real time on models