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regulation, copyright fights, safety rules and the politics of AI
Suno launches v6 AI music models trained on licensed songs, as copyright lawsuits keep coming
The startup says its new model family uses only data licensed from record labels. That's a first for Suno, but legal trouble from Sony, Universal and others is far from over.
China Just Banned AI Boyfriends for Teenagers, and Adults Get a Reminder Every Two Hours
New rules from Beijing have already forced three of China's biggest tech companies to strip companion features from apps used by more than 500 million people. Here is what happened, and why it matters outside China.
Pentagon's top AI official: US allies are falling behind and Washington is trying to help them catch up
The US military's chief AI officer says partners in NATO and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance lack the scale and experience to match America's pace, and the US is actively steering them away from its own early missteps.
UK data centres will create far fewer jobs than the tech industry claims, new research finds
An environmental thinktank puts the likely job total at 10,400, roughly a quarter of the 40,000-plus figure the industry lobby has been promoting.
AI in the Classroom: The Case for Teaching With the Machine, Not Against It
A new book argues that banning AI from schools is as misguided as banning calculators was in 1979. The Guardian AI's review of that history has a direct message for the choices schools face right now.
UC Berkeley Examines AI's Role in Legal Policy
UC Berkeley School of Law is studying how AI reshapes legal frameworks, and the gaps it finds could feed directly into federal and state rulemaking.
Trump Spent 10 Hours Posting AI Images and Claimed He Made 'Hundreds of Billions' on Stocks for America
The president flooded Truth Social with AI-generated pictures on Sunday, alongside financial claims backed by no evidence. Senators have already asked regulators to look at a $100,000-a-month Trump feature that gives paying subscribers early access to market-moving announcements.
Australia wants to let you turn off the algorithm. Here is what that means.
The Australian government plans to force social media platforms, search engines and AI chatbots to give users a real off-switch for personalised feeds. The prime minister is already expecting a fight.
Publishers and agents are claiming money from the Anthropic copyright settlement that may not be theirs
Authors who expected a $3,000 payout per pirated book are finding publishers claiming rights they lost years ago, and literary agents grabbing percentages they were never owed.
China Is the Data Center Villain That Techies Love to Blame. The Evidence Disagrees.
Polling shows three-quarters of Americans now oppose local data centers. Politicians and tech figures point at China. But social media researchers say the anger is entirely homegrown.
America's AI Data Centers Run on Chinese Parts. Washington Wants to Change That.
From the boxes that regulate electricity to the cables that carry data, a surprising share of the hardware keeping US AI facilities running comes from China. Costs and delays loom if that changes fast.
Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft, Warning AI Could Break Journalism 'Beyond Repair'
Two regional American newspapers have joined a growing legal pile-on against the companies behind ChatGPT, arguing that AI systems are consuming news content and handing back cheap imitations without permission or payment.
An 'off switch' for algorithms is not enough. Tech companies need a legal duty of care
Governments keep reaching for easy fixes: ban kids from social media, add an opt-out button. Campaigners say that misses the point entirely, and the real target should be the addictive design baked into the platforms themselves.
AI attack ads are flooding Australian social media before Victoria's election. Nobody knows who paid for them.
Alarming videos showing machete robberies and roadside births are targeting Victorian voters online. The ads outspend the major parties on digital platforms, and their true funders are almost impossible to trace.
Are warnings about uncontrollable AI finally coming true?
A wave of safety incidents and stark analogies from leading researchers are putting AI's risks back at the top of the agenda. Here is what ordinary people need to know.