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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.
US Government to Spend $5 Billion Using AI to Crack Chronic Disease and Drug Discovery
Fifteen federal agencies will share the funding and gain access to powerful government supercomputers to run AI experiments on some of science's hardest problems.
Nearly 200 Companies Signed Trump's AI Electric Bill Pledge. It Has No Teeth.
Utility giants and data centre operators have joined a White House promise to protect consumers from higher electricity bills caused by AI. The pledge is voluntary, carries no penalties, and enforcement is largely out of federal hands.
US threatens sanctions on Chinese AI models over alleged intellectual property theft
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Washington will scrutinise Chinese open-source AI for stolen technology, and could punish companies found to have copied American models.
China's AI surge is giving Silicon Valley a serious headache
New Chinese models keep punching above their weight, and American tech giants are finding it harder to shrug them off.
Two Chinese AI Models Just Rattled Wall Street. Here Is What Is Actually New.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen3.8 claim to match the best American AI models at a fraction of the cost. The shock is less about the models themselves and more about how long the world ignored the warning signs.
Tech Workers Are Turning to Unions, and AI Is the Reason
From Google DeepMind to Meta, software engineers who once had every perk imaginable are now seeking collective bargaining rights. The trigger? AI is changing their jobs faster than their contracts can keep up.
The US Army Ran Out of AI Credits. Here Is What That Tells Us.
The Army promised its workers unlimited AI access. Six weeks later, the credits were gone. Now soldiers and civilian staff face new limits, and one worker says the tools were unreliable anyway.