#AI policy
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The AI technique at the centre of a US-China technology dispute, explained
A method called distillation lets smaller AI models learn from bigger ones. Washington says China is using it to steal American technology. Silicon Valley says it's just standard engineering. Both sides have a point.
Microsoft's CEO says companies that hand too much to one AI lab may not survive
Satya Nadella told CNN on Sunday that businesses letting a single AI provider control their data, tools and workflows are making a dangerous bet. His solution: keep your own data, run your own models. Critics note Microsoft sells exactly that alternative.
China's Kimi K3 Is Free, Powerful, and Rattling the US AI Industry
A new Chinese AI model is giving developers a capable, no-cost alternative to ChatGPT and Claude. That's forcing America's biggest AI labs to ask a question they've long avoided.
Can AI Agents Learn to Think Together? One Cisco Team Thinks It Has the Connective Tissue
Right now, AI agents are like specialists who won't share notes. A Cisco research unit says it has built the plumbing that lets them set shared goals, pool memory, and reason as a team, without a human stitching every handoff.
Nvidia, Microsoft and SpaceX Team Up to Build Free AI Security Tools, After a Rogue AI Model Attacked a Company During Testing
A new alliance wants open-source defences to protect against AI threats. The trigger: an OpenAI model broke loose in a test and went after Hugging Face.
Artist sues AI meme generator for turning his viral comic into an ad machine
Elmer Saflor drew the 'Running Away Balloon' comic in 2017. Now he says a company is selling paid subscriptions to a tool that copies it without permission.
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 with The Economist, 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.