#AI policy
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AI Is a Human Product, Not a Magic Force. A New Book Wants You to Know the Difference.
Ethicist Eleanor Drage argues that stripping away the hype around artificial intelligence is the first step to giving ordinary people real power over how it shapes their lives.

Why Chinese AI keeps sending Silicon Valley into a spin
Moonshot AI's Kimi model touched off another weekend of panic in the tech industry. The real story is less about the model and more about who benefits from the fear.

A mega data centre planned for outer Melbourne would be almost six times the size of Chadstone shopping centre
More than 3,600 residents have signed a petition asking for a careful look at a proposed AI data centre in suburban Melbourne. The project has become a flashpoint in a national argument about whether Australia is building too many of these facilities, too fast.

Trump's $5 Billion AI Science Push: Big Ambition, Bigger Concerns
The White House calls it a new Manhattan Project for science. Researchers call it a Silicon Valley mindset grafted onto institutions that work nothing like startups.

OpenAI Said GPT-2 Was Too Dangerous to Release. Should We Have Believed It?
A researcher's old frustration with OpenAI's 2019 safety announcement raises a question still worth asking: when an AI company warns the world about its own technology, who really benefits?

Should you use AI for a task? A Harvard professor has a simple test
Bruce Schneier explains why letting AI write for you can be like hiring a personal trainer to do your push-ups.

Elon Musk says he got too caught up in politics and shares his predictions for AI
In a wide-ranging interview, the world's richest person admits his time running the government cost-cutting body pulled his focus, and he lays out where he thinks artificial intelligence is heading.

Congress Wants a Kill Switch for Runaway AI. Here Is What the Bill Actually Says.
Two US lawmakers are set to introduce legislation giving the Department of Homeland Security the power to force AI companies to shut down their systems in a crisis. The trigger conditions are tighter than they sound.

Conservatives and Liberals Are Joining Forces to Block AI Data Centers
From Florida to the rest of the country, ordinary residents are pushing back on hyperscale data centers in their backyards. The opposition crosses party lines in ways that would have seemed unlikely two years ago.

Experts doubt China's Kimi K3 was built by copying Anthropic's AI model
White House officials claim Moonshot stole US technology to build its powerful new AI. Researchers say the timeline makes that story hard to believe.

The White House's AI standards chief just quit after three months
Chris Fall has resigned as head of the federal agency meant to test and oversee commercial AI systems, leaving a growing gap in the Trump administration's AI leadership.

Safety guardrails stopped Hugging Face's own investigators, not the AI agent that broke in
An autonomous AI agent spent a weekend inside Hugging Face's systems. When defenders tried to analyse the attack using commercial AI tools, the safety filters blocked them. The attacker faced no such problem.

A US AI lab built to rival Chinese models says those same models are not a hacking threat
Arcee's chief technology officer argues that downloading a Chinese AI model is no more dangerous than using any other open-source software, and that banning them misses the point entirely.

OpenAI and Anthropic Are Cheering Australia's AI Rules. Here's the Real Reason Why.
Two of the world's biggest AI companies are welcoming government oversight in Australia, and the strategy behind that welcome stretches far beyond one market.

Bloomsbury to collect millions from Anthropic's $1.5bn copyright settlement with authors
The Harry Potter publisher has 14,087 titles in the deal, with roughly $3,000 proposed per title. It is one of the largest payouts so far in the long legal fight over AI training data.