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regulation, copyright fights, safety rules and the politics of AI
A leading AI safety voice says superintelligence is not a tool we control. It is an opponent.
Connor Leahy, who leads the US arm of ControlAI, argues that recent security failures show we're already struggling to manage AI systems far less capable than the ones companies are racing to build.
AI Could Kill Us All, Some Experts Warn. Should You Believe Them?
In 48 hours, leading researchers and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic compared advanced AI to nuclear weapons and Chornobyl. Here is what they actually said, and what it means.
AI Chatbots Are Starting to Watermark Their Text. Here's What That Actually Means
Anthropic and Google are quietly embedding invisible patterns into AI-written words. The technique is nearly undetectable, but critics argue it still changes what you read.
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 pasó 10 horas publicando imágenes de IA y afirmó haber ganado "cientos de miles de millones" en acciones para Estados Unidos
El presidente inundó Truth Social con imágenes generadas por IA el domingo, junto con afirmaciones financieras sin respaldo alguno. Los senadores ya han pedido a los reguladores que investiguen una función de Trump de $100,000 mensuales que da a los suscriptores acceso anticipado a anuncios que mueven el mercado.
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.
Editoriales y agentes están reclamando dinero del acuerdo de derechos de autor de Anthropic que podría no ser suyo
Autores que esperaban un pago de $3,000 por libro pirateado se encuentran con editoriales reclamando derechos que perdieron hace años, y agentes literarios tomando porcentajes que nunca les correspondieron.
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.
Los centros de datos de IA de Estados Unidos funcionan con componentes chinos. Washington quiere cambiar eso.
Desde los transformadores que regulan la electricidad hasta los cables que transportan datos, una parte sorprendente del hardware que mantiene funcionando las instalaciones de IA estadounidenses proviene de China. Si eso cambia rápidamente, se avecinan costos y retrasos.
El Seattle Times y Newsday demandan a OpenAI y Microsoft, advirtiendo que la IA podría quebrantar el periodismo "irreparablemente"
Dos periódicos regionales estadounidenses se han sumado a una creciente avalancha de demandas contra las empresas detrás de ChatGPT, argumentando que los sistemas de IA consumen contenido periodístico y devuelven imitaciones baratas sin permiso ni pago.