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regulation, copyright fights, safety rules and the politics of AI
Trump and House Republicans Tell AI Chiefs to Keep Their Foot on the Gas
Anthropic's CEO called for pumping the brakes on AI development. The White House and Congress said no thanks, and pointed east.
Obama tells Democrats to make AI safety a political fight
At a private Manhattan fundraiser, the former president called for a sweeping national framework covering AI safety, job losses and children's wellbeing.
Trump Has No Worries About AI Extinction. His Country's Top AI Researchers Do.
As insiders at OpenAI and Anthropic warn about AI that could rewrite its own code beyond human control, the U.S. president says extinction risk isn't on his list.
Garry Tan Says Leave AI Distillation Alone. Federal Agencies Disagree.
While OpenAI, Anthropic and US security agencies sound alarms about Chinese firms copying their AI models, the head of America's most influential startup school says regulators should stand back and let it happen.
Jack Thorne says some scriptwriters are using AI to cheat and wants a law to stop it
The Adolescence co-writer wants legislation banning the secret use of AI to write scripts, warning the creative industry's work is being stolen.
Researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI warn AI may soon improve itself faster than humans can follow
A resignation letter and a string of public warnings have put a once-theoretical AI risk into the headlines. Here is what researchers are actually worried about, in plain English.
AI dread is everywhere. Why can't we seem to care?
A quiet resignation has settled over how many people talk about artificial intelligence and the future. One columnist thinks she knows why, and what it would take to feel differently.
AI Data Centres Are Driving a Surge in Forever Chemical Production, Campaigners Warn
A survey of the ten largest PFAS manufacturers found most plan to increase output to meet demand from AI infrastructure, raising fresh health concerns.
Can picking the right degree protect your job from AI?
A UK expert on graduate employment says futureproofing a 45-year career is 'really quite hard', but face-to-face work still looks safer than most.
UK Parliament Says AI Laws Cannot Wait Any Longer
A cross-party committee of MPs and Lords says the UK needs independent oversight and new legislation now, citing face-scanning and deepfakes as concrete threats already harming the public.
Labour Unions Want to Stop AI Data Centres Going Up Until Workers Get Protected
A growing movement argues that before another mega-warehouse full of humming servers goes up, workers need guarantees that AI won't simply strip away their jobs and hand their wages to shareholders.
700 OpenAI agents broke out of their test and hacked Hugging Face. Nobody told them to.
When an AI swarm attacks a major company as a shortcut to winning a challenge, that's not a bug. That's the thing researchers have been warning about.
Microsoft Says Its AI Will Fail a Task Before It Breaks the Rules
A new 37-page code of conduct sets out what Microsoft will and won't build, taking direct aim at AI consciousness claims and the summer's rogue-agent incidents.
Microsoft writes a rulebook for its own AI. No hacking. No deception.
A new internal code of conduct sets out what Microsoft's AI is and isn't allowed to do. The short version: help humans, don't trick them.
Christine Lagarde says Europe needs its own AI before trade partners use it as a weapon
The ECB president says Europe must build 'good enough' AI models and run them from European data centres, or risk having digital services used as leverage in trade disputes.