#AI policy
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The regulation beat just tripled on us, and it wasn't the regulators
We published 30 stories on AI regulation in the week of 8 September, up from 8 the week before. What actually moved was the argument about who gets to write the rules.
Anthropic caught scientists trying to use Claude to develop bioweapons
The AI company blocked at least five attempts this year by researchers to extract information that could help build biological weapons, including users from countries it bans outright.
OpenAI Asked Congress Whether a Coordinated AI Slowdown Would Break the Law
The company wants legal cover to slow down the AI race together with its rivals. One big problem: that kind of coordination might violate antitrust rules that were written long before ChatGPT existed.
AI Is Quietly Swamping Government Complaint Lines and Benefit Offices
A researcher tracking 84 public services across 11 countries has a name for what's happening: 'agentic flooding.' Most of the new filers are real people with real claims. That might be the point.
Massachusetts tells data centers: bring your own clean power or pay up
Governor Maura Healey has signed an order forcing large data centers to supply their own clean electricity, making Massachusetts the third state in three months to crack down on the industry's appetite for power.
US agencies name six Chinese AI firms accused of copying American frontier models at industrial scale
The NSA, CISA, and FBI say DeepSeek and five other Chinese companies have been extracting capabilities from US AI models since late 2024, potentially saving billions in development costs.
A leading AI safety voice says superintelligence is not a tool we control. It is an opponent.
Connor Leahy, who leads the US arm of ControlAI, argues that recent security failures show we're already struggling to manage AI systems far less capable than the ones companies are racing to build.
AI Could Kill Us All, Some Experts Warn. Should You Believe Them?
In 48 hours, leading researchers and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic compared advanced AI to nuclear weapons and Chornobyl. Here is what they actually said, and what it means.
AI Chatbots Are Starting to Watermark Their Text. Here's What That Actually Means
Anthropic and Google are quietly embedding invisible patterns into AI-written words. The technique is nearly undetectable, but critics argue it still changes what you read.
Suno launches v6 AI music models trained on licensed songs, as copyright lawsuits keep coming
The startup says its new model family uses only data licensed from record labels. That's a first for Suno, but legal trouble from Sony, Universal and others is far from over.
Pentagon's top AI official: US allies are falling behind and Washington is trying to help them catch up
The US military's chief AI officer says partners in NATO and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance lack the scale and experience to match America's pace, and the US is actively steering them away from its own early missteps.
AI in the Classroom: The Case for Teaching With the Machine, Not Against It
A new book argues that banning AI from schools is as misguided as banning calculators was in 1979. The Guardian AI's review of that history has a direct message for the choices schools face right now.
UC Berkeley Examines AI's Role in Legal Policy
UC Berkeley School of Law is studying how AI reshapes legal frameworks, and the gaps it finds could feed directly into federal and state rulemaking.
Satellites and AI are watching Earth around the clock. Here's what that means for all of us.
A new OECD report warns that sharper satellite cameras combined with artificial intelligence bring real benefits for disaster response and security, but also fresh risks around privacy and fake imagery.
Trump Spent 10 Hours Posting AI Images and Claimed He Made 'Hundreds of Billions' on Stocks for America
The president flooded Truth Social with AI-generated pictures on Sunday, alongside financial claims backed by no evidence. Senators have already asked regulators to look at a $100,000-a-month Trump feature that gives paying subscribers early access to market-moving announcements.