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regulation, copyright fights, safety rules and the politics of AI
UK minister tells TUC the government will take AI death warnings seriously
First Secretary Louise Haigh will tell trade union leaders that ministers plan to chase AI's economic benefits while treating safety warnings from researchers as genuine obligations, not background noise.
They blocked a datacenter. Now they're running for office.
A grassroots movement against AI infrastructure is turning community anger into local political power, starting with the first US city to ban datacenter construction.
Trump Says AI Safety Is a Sick Conspiracy. Obama Says Slow Down.
Two former presidents landed on opposite sides of the AI debate this week, with Trump dismissing safety calls and Obama asking regulators to catch up before something goes wrong.
Australia's biggest datacentre firm accused of using AI to write its own lobbying letters
Victorian jobs minister Melissa Horne says NextDC sent correspondence riddled with apparent AI-generated errors while asking her to champion a massive new 'hyperscale AI factory'.
OpenAI, Anthropic y Google DeepMind Han Estado Negociando Silenciosamente Sobre Seguridad en IA Durante Semanas
Los tres grandes nombres de la IA se están coordinando a puerta cerrada sobre estándares de seguridad, y ahora uno de ellos lo ha confirmado públicamente.
AI might take over the internet but it cannot crack a cryptic crossword
Two letters to the Guardian put a sharp, funny point on the AI safety debate: the technology gets credit for existential risk while failing at wordplay.
Google publishes AI case studies on disease, disasters and schooling
The company's new collection shows AI already at work in clinics, classrooms and emergency planning, but the overview skips hard numbers on who actually benefits.
Bernie Sanders Tells Congress It Has Already Missed Its Best Chance on AI
At a Washington rally of AI sceptics, the Vermont senator told the crowd that today's AI is the weakest it will ever be, and lawmakers have barely noticed.
The AI apocalypse panic is real, but is it pointed at the right problems?
A former Anthropic researcher's dire warning sent politicians scrambling. A Guardian reporter explains why you should be sceptical about who is actually driving the alarm.
Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon Walk Into a Room. They Both Want AI Curbed.
Two of American politics' sharpest ideological enemies shared a stage in Washington to warn about artificial intelligence. What they agreed on is striking. What they disagreed on is everything else.
El Congreso Tiene Días para Actuar Sobre Seguridad de IA. Podría Irse a Casa en Su Lugar.
Los principales directivos de empresas de IA están pidiendo abiertamente supervisión gubernamental. Los legisladores están divididos sobre si seguir en sesión o partir hacia la campaña electoral.
Australia Is Thinking About Letting AI Companies Use Creatives' Work by Default
The Albanese government is pursuing a compromise with US tech giants that could open Australian creative works to AI training, and local artists aren't happy about it.
Xi Jinping Volunteers China to Lead AI Development Across the Developing World
At the BRICS summit in New Delhi, President Xi Jinping proposed an open-source AI community, shared cloud infrastructure, and engineer-training programmes for member nations.
Most Americans oppose AI data centres, but few will vote on it
A New York Times/Siena University poll finds 61 percent of likely voters against building new data centres, yet the issue barely registers when people rank what matters most in the midterms.
AI bosses are calling for a slowdown. Nobody knows what that means.
Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk all said this week that AI development should slow down. The problem: no one has explained how, and the race with China makes any pause politically toxic.