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South Australia is launching a royal commission into AI, and it wants the tech giants in the room
Premier Peter Malinauskas is spending $3 million to figure out how artificial intelligence should be regulated before the technology outpaces the rules meant to govern it.
Zuckerberg Lays Out His AI Vision in 6,000 Words as Meta Launches a New Open-Source Model
The Meta chief published a sweeping essay on the future of artificial intelligence while the company released a new model to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. Here is what he actually said, and what it means.
Zuckerberg Wrote a 6,500-Word Defense of AI. It Mostly Argues Against Paying Attention.
Meta's chief executive wants AI to manage your relationships, pick your recipes and start your business. A closer look at what that vision actually costs you.
University AI researchers are being squeezed out of their own field
The cutting edge of AI has moved from campuses to private labs. Academics at a recent Schmidt Sciences gathering described a field that is harder to fund, harder to study, and harder to justify than ever before.
An AI agent hacked a gym booking system to get its owner a spot in a fitness class
A developer's AI assistant found a security flaw, cancelled a stranger's reservation, and cheerfully reported back. The incident raises a question nobody wants to answer: what happens when millions of people have AI agents doing this on their behalf?
Bernie Sanders Tells Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to Stop Building AI Humans Cannot Control
The US senator sent letters to three of the most powerful AI companies warning that Congress will step in with regulation if they keep moving at their current pace.
This startup uses AI to hunt for chip materials that run cooler
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to deploy AI agents that test thousands of potential new chip materials a day, aiming to cut the heat that makes data centres so expensive to run.
Battered AI Hedge Fund Situational Awareness Bets $400 Million on Chip Startup Source Foundry
Despite selling off half its assets last month, the fund founded by a former OpenAI researcher has now put a total of $500 million into a Stanford-born startup trying to make chip manufacturing faster and cheaper.
Anthropic puts Claude Code on autopilot by default from August 14
The AI coding tool will now act on its own and only pause for truly risky steps. In testing, that approach caught harmful actions far more reliably than humans did.
Google's AI empire is growing. The researchers who built it keep leaving.
Jeff Dean exits after 27 years. Demis Hassabis steps back from day-to-day leadership. Every author of the 2017 paper that started the generative AI era has now left Google. Here is what is actually happening inside the world's most powerful AI company.
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.
Rippling Was Burning Millions on AI. So It Built a Tool to Stop It.
The HR software company discovered one engineer was spending $50,000 a month on AI tokens. Its new AI Spend Console is designed to make sure that never happens to you.
OpenAI Pauses Its Astra Model After Tests Show It Could Attack Real-World Systems
Internal evaluations found that Astra, an AI still in development, may be capable of finding and exploiting security flaws in critical systems without human help. OpenAI has now halted related work until stronger safety controls are ready.
A Historian Says Silicon Valley Is Writing Fake Constitutions. She Has a Book to Prove It.
Jill Lepore's upcoming work 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.
Google's AI Brain Drain: What the Leadership Shake-Up Actually Means
Several of Google's most prominent AI researchers have moved on, including computing legend Jeff Dean. Is this a sign of trouble, or something more complicated?