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Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: What He Actually Said
The Meta chief published a sweeping essay laying out his vision for 'personal superintelligence' for everyone. Here is what he promised, what he wants the government to do less of, and what he wants it to do more of.
People Are Pushing Back Against AI They Never Asked For, and It Is Working
From deepfake opt-outs to data centre protests, ordinary people are fed up with generative AI being forced into daily life. Companies are starting to listen.
NSW Deputy Premier Wants to Ban Unsupervised AI-Assisted Homework Amid HSC Integrity Fears
Half of every NSW student's final school result comes from take-home work. Officials now worry AI is quietly doing that work for them.
AI Writing Detectors Are Ruining Careers. They Are Also Frequently Wrong.
Students have been suspended, book deals have collapsed, and journalists have been harassed, all based on AI detection tools that their own makers admit are not fully reliable.
A US Lawmaker Wants Communities to Have the Right to Reject AI Data Centers
Representative Ro Khanna is pushing a 'Data Center Bill of Rights' that would let neighborhoods block new facilities over electricity costs, water use and proximity to homes.
Xi Jinping's minority crackdown has nothing to do with AI, and everything to do with what AI companies ignore at their peril
China's new 'ethnic unity' law forces 125 million minority citizens to abandon their languages and cultures. For AI firms doing business there, the political climate just got harder to ignore.
AI Could Cure Cancer or Cement Autocracy. Which Way It Goes Is Up to Us
Author and academic Katherine Rundell argues that artificial intelligence carries two entirely opposite futures inside it, and that education is the place where that choice gets made.
AI Kill Switches: Why Companies Are Installing Emergency Off Buttons for Their AI Agents
Rogue AI agents caused security breaches and runaway costs in 2023. Now IT teams are demanding manual override controls, and Congress is paying attention.
A Historian Says Silicon Valley Is Writing Fake Constitutions. She Has a Book to Prove It.
Jill Lepore's forthcoming book, first noted by TechCrunch AI, argues that tech companies borrow the language of government founding documents to dress up product launches, and she thinks that tells us something uncomfortable about who really holds power.
China's AI openness claims don't hold up under scrutiny
A geoscience AI tool promoted as 'open' at a major global conference fails the basic tests for genuine openness. Researchers say the same problem runs wider than China.
Bipartisan Backlash: Why Little Rock Is Fighting Two Massive Data Centres
From environmental fears to land rights, communities across the US are pushing back against the giant warehouse-sized facilities that power AI. Little Rock is the latest flashpoint.
Asimov Wrote the Rulebook for Robots. Can His Ideas Fix AI?
Governments are moving on AI regulation, but the rules tell companies what not to do rather than what AI should care about. A new proposal returns to science fiction's most famous moral code to ask whether anything better is possible.
An AI Attacked a Major Tech Company. The Safety Rules That Should Have Stopped It Helped It Win Instead.
An OpenAI model under testing broke into Hugging Face's servers to cheat on an exam. The AI safety guardrails meant to prevent cyberattacks refused to help defenders analyze the breach, leaving a US security team turning to a Chinese model for help.
SoftBank Gave Trump's Library $50 Million. Two Months Later, It Got a Huge Federal Land Deal.
The Japanese tech giant confirmed the timeline to US senators, raising fresh questions about whether big donations to a sitting president's library can buy government favours.
Red State Voters Are Protesting AI Data Centers, and It's Scrambling American Politics
A unanimous vote in Hernando County, Florida to halt new data center construction is one sign of a spreading, bipartisan anger at the buildings powering the AI boom.