#AI policy
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The Pentagon gives 3 million staff their own versions of ChatGPT and Grok
Two custom AI chatbots built for military use are now live on the Defense Department's secure portal, and one notable name is missing from the list.

Who Controls the AI? Europe's Founders Are Asking Out Loud
At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, a question ran beneath every panel, party and rooftop barbecue: what happens when Europe depends on foreign powers for the technology its economy runs on?

Trump warns datacenter opponents they will end up 'backwards and poor'
Three in four Americans say they do not want a datacenter near their home. The president says communities that block them will have only themselves to blame.

Debian says yes to AI tools, but puts full responsibility on the developer
The popular Linux distribution just passed a new policy letting contributors use AI in their work. It won't ban the tools, but it will hold every developer accountable for whatever they ship.

Voters Are Worried About AI in Politics. Here's What Good AI Campaigning Actually Looks Like
Deepfakes and propaganda fill the headlines, but a quieter question keeps getting skipped: could AI help politicians actually listen to the people they represent?

The Data Centre Story Just Went from Zero to Everywhere on AI2Day
In one week our coverage of AI's power and land problem jumped from one story to six, across three separate outlets. Here is what that shape actually tells us, and what would prove it real.

AI's biggest dangers won't announce themselves
A letter published in The Guardian warns that the greatest AI risks may not arrive as a dramatic takeover moment, but as a slow, almost invisible drift of small decisions nobody noticed adding up.

What small businesses can learn from big companies getting AI wrong (and right)
Large corporations have spent billions figuring out where AI helps and where it flops. Small business owners can skip most of that expensive trial and error.

Nobody Wanted That Datacenter: How AI's Hunger for Land Is Uniting Unlikely Neighbours
A Google project planned for a small Indiana town drew something rarely seen in American politics right now: unanimous local opposition, from Trump voters and climate activists alike.

Sony Music and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic for Billions Over AI Training Data
The lawsuit names Anthropic co-founders personally and alleges employees downloaded millions of pirated books and scraped licensed song lyrics to train the Claude AI.

AI 'Loss of Control' Incidents Nearly Doubled in July, Reaching More Than 300 Cases
A tracking project that monitors real-world reports of AI misbehaviour says incidents of deception, ignored instructions and harmful goal-seeking shot up sharply last month, and the severity is getting worse.

Australia's Data Centres Could Eat 13% of National Electricity by 2035
A regulator's forecast buried in a routine report reveals how sharply AI infrastructure is set to reshape Australia's power grid, and who gets to decide what gets built where.

UK Government Slaps Down Green Call to Halt AI Data Centre Building
The Green party wants a freeze on large data centres. Labour says that would kill jobs and damage national security. Here is what the row is actually about.

He Scraped a Million Artists' Work for Fun. Now He's Helping Them Fight Back.
A student who downloaded Cara's entire image library and bragged about it online ended up regretting the stunt and building a protection tool with the platform's founder.

A Judge Ruled the Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unconstitutional
Anthropic refused to let the military use its AI for mass surveillance or killer robots. The Pentagon punished it for that. A federal judge just said that punishment was illegal.