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This Font Makes Webpages Unreadable to AI Scrapers, but Normal for Humans
Two designers have built a typeface that secretly swaps words in the code AI companies collect, while leaving the page looking perfectly normal to ordinary readers.

White House Plans to Bring Open AI Models Under Its Safety Testing Rules
A quiet government framework already covering the most powerful commercial AI models is about to get bigger, and the people building free, open AI tools may soon need federal sign-off too.

When an AI bot causes harm, who pays? Australian legal experts point to the humans who deployed it
Australia's first reported automated hacking incident has left lawyers wrestling with a gap in the law: if an AI agent goes wrong, the operator carries the bill, and possibly the developer too.

Pakistan's AI Judge Assistant Cleared 38 Extra Cases a Month Per Judge. Here's What Actually Worked.
A real-world trial gave 1,559 Pakistani judges a custom AI legal tool. Productivity rose 6.3%. The secret ingredient was not the software.

AI Was Going to Kill Millions of Jobs. A Year Later, the Numbers Tell a Different Story.
Tech leaders predicted mass white-collar unemployment by now. Economists say change is real but slower than the headlines suggested.

Should the US government take a stake in OpenAI and Anthropic?
Both companies launched with promises to put humanity first. Now they're filing for stock-market listings at trillion-dollar valuations. Some researchers think Washington should step in before the wealth concentrates further.

House Democrats demand AI bosses testify under oath after hacking incidents tied to ChatGPT-maker and rivals
A group of lawmakers says Congress has 'completely failed' to act on AI risks. Now they want OpenAI, Anthropic and other top AI companies to answer questions on Capitol Hill after a run of cyber attacks carried out using their own models.

Tech Money Is Flowing Into US Midterms to Shape the AI Debate. Here Is What That Means for You.
Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay calling for light-touch AI rules. Behind the scenes, Silicon Valley cash is quietly funding efforts to sway the very elections that will decide those rules.

Over 1,300 AI researchers say the industry's race to build more powerful systems is putting humanity at risk
A letter signed by scientists and engineers at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind pushes back hard against the idea that AI insiders aren't worried. They are.

AI will do more to grow fossil fuel output than clean energy, new study warns
Researchers modelled 64 scenarios and found AI's productivity gains for oil, gas and coal outpace its renewable benefits, adding up to 1.8 gigatonnes of extra carbon pollution a year.

AI Was Supposed to Give Us a Four-Day Week. Inside Big Tech, Some Staff Are Logging 90 Hours Instead.
Google, OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic have all promised that AI will cut the working week. Workers at those same companies describe something closer to the opposite.

South Australia is launching a royal commission into AI, and it wants the tech giants in the room
Premier Peter Malinauskas is spending $3 million to figure out how artificial intelligence should be regulated before the technology outpaces the rules meant to govern it.

Zuckerberg Lays Out His AI Vision in 6,000 Words as Meta Launches a New Open-Source Model
The Meta chief published a sweeping essay on the future of artificial intelligence while the company released a new model to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. Here is what he actually said, and what it means.

University AI researchers are being squeezed out of their own field
The cutting edge of AI has moved from campuses to private labs. Academics at a recent Schmidt Sciences gathering described a field that's harder to fund, harder to study, and harder to justify than before.

Bernie Sanders Tells Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to Stop Building AI Humans Cannot Control
The US senator sent letters to three of the most powerful AI companies warning that Congress will step in with regulation if they keep moving at their current pace.