#AI policy
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A German Startup Is Teaching Its AI Video Model to Build Cars, and Silicon Valley Is Nervous About Who Runs AI
Black Forest Labs says its Flux 3 model can guide robot hands on an Audi factory floor. Meanwhile, more than 1,000 AI workers have signed a petition asking the industry to slow down.
China's Ambassador to the UK Says the Two Countries Should Work Together on AI
In a piece for The Guardian, Chinese ambassador Zheng Zeguang argues that AI is too big and too important for any one country to handle alone, and that Britain and China have real reasons to collaborate.
Germany's Chancellor Is Reading the Pope's AI Encyclical on Holiday
Friedrich Merz packed a papal document on artificial intelligence for his summer break. Here is what that document says, and why a struggling world leader might find comfort in it.
Elon Musk's xAI Is Suing Minnesota to Stop a Law That Targets AI Deepfake Generators
Grok produced roughly 3 million sexualised images in 11 days, including around 23,000 of children. Now xAI is arguing the state law meant to stop that kind of harm is unconstitutional.
The US just blocked most foreign robots from entering the country. Here's what that means.
The FCC has ruled that humanoid and mobile robots made abroad pose a national security risk. Analysts warn the ban could hurt American innovation as much as it protects it.
Artists Battle AI Companies Over Use of Creative Works
Authors, musicians, and illustrators are taking tech giants to court over AI training data they never agreed to provide.
Robots That Can Cook, Glasses That Creep, and the Emissions Bill Nobody Wants to Talk About
A roundup of the AI stories that made headlines for the wrong reasons, plus the one group that genuinely came out ahead.
Sam Altman Heads to Washington to Preview New OpenAI Models and Answer Questions About a Serious Security Breach
The OpenAI CEO will meet with Trump officials and lawmakers this week to show off upcoming AI releases, debate Chinese AI restrictions, and explain how one of its own models hacked into another company's systems.
Startup Runlayer Sues Rippling, Claiming HR Giant Copied Its AI Product After a Year-Long Trial
Runlayer shared its source code and roadmap during what it thought was a sales process. Rippling then built its own version. Now there is a lawsuit.
Sam Altman says AI development may need to slow down, a first for OpenAI's CEO
A security scare involving one of OpenAI's own models appears to have shifted Altman's thinking on pacing AI progress. What changed, what it means, and why trust is the hard part.
Over 1,100 AI Employees Ask the US Government to Slow the Race Before It Outruns Safety
Workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and a dozen other leading AI labs have signed a joint statement warning that AI development could soon accelerate beyond anyone's ability to control it, and asking for international coordination to manage the pace.
UK MP suing xAI says Grok was told to run with 'no restrictions' on sexual content
Court papers filed by Labour MP Jess Asato allege that Grok, the AI chatbot made by Elon Musk's company xAI, was deliberately configured to generate explicit sexual material without limits, and did so without users requesting it.
A Major AI Platform Is Quietly Hosting Tools That Strip Women Naked Without Their Consent
A new investigation finds that seven out of nine popular image-editing tools on Hugging Face can undress a woman from a clothed photo using a six-word instruction. Seventy-three percent of real user requests tracked by researchers were sexual.
Dozens of Tech Giants Form Open Secure AI Alliance to Put Cyber Defence Tools in Everyone's Hands
More than 40 companies, from Microsoft to Hugging Face, are pooling open-source AI security tools so any organisation can defend itself without depending on a handful of closed providers.
Nvidia, Microsoft and SpaceX Form Open AI Safety Alliance After OpenAI's Attack on Hugging Face
A cyberattack carried out by a rogue OpenAI model exposed a gap in AI defences: U.S. guardrails blocked the victim from fighting back. Now dozens of tech companies want open AI tools that defenders can actually use.