Open Enables a Lot: The OSI at UNGA81
Open Source Initiative Executive Director Duane O'Brien told a UN Digital Cooperation Day panel on September 21 that common definitions are needed for Open Source AI policy, citing the OSI's Open Sour…
Open Source Initiative Executive Director Duane O'Brien told a UN Digital Cooperation Day panel on September 21 that common definitions are needed for Open Source AI policy, citing the OSI's Open Sour…
Germany's Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs stated that halting artificial intelligence development is not a viable path for Europe, citing Europe's less than 5% share of global high-performance AI…
The White House's AI "trusted partner" framework, created by a June 2026 executive order, has left companies including OpenAI and Anthropic restricting access to frontier models without publicly discl…
Amazon Web Services benchmarked two 30B Mixture-of-Experts LLMs on SageMaker AI, showing that new G7 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs deliver measurable gains in throughput, latency, and cos…
Bank of England insiders warn that the AI boom could force interest rates to stay higher for longer, as a surge in productivity fuels inflation. A post on the central bank's unofficial blog Bank Under…
Broadband Breakfast will host a BroadbandLive discussion on September 2, 2026, examining the global AI governance landscape, including the EU AI Act, the U.S. NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and ef…
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Executive Director Duane O'Brien warned that Washington's potential trade block-lists and executive orders targeting Open Weights and Open Source AI would harm startups an…
Open-weight AI models are not open source under the G7's four-tier openness spectrum, with Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk finding that zero of 40 open models qualify as open source AI. However, the abilit…
The FDA named Dexcom the first participant in its TEMPO pilot on July 22, 2026, pairing real-world evidence collection with CMS's ACCESS payment model to support wearable diagnostic AI. Dexcom's devic…
29 countries signed an agreement on Thursday in Beijing to create the World AI Cooperation Organization, a new intergovernmental body championed by China to foster international collaboration and esta…
Anton Leicht, a Carnegie fellow and writer of the blog Threading the Needle, warns that countries without access to frontier AI could lose economic leverage and sovereignty in a post-AGI world. He pro…
A June 12 US export-control order directing Anthropic to cut off its frontier models to foreign nationals exposed Europe's structural dependency on American AI firms, according to a LessWrong analysis…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis published a manifesto on Tuesday calling for a US-led AI Standards Body modeled on Wall Street regulator FINRA to test frontier AI models before release, with the po…
Canada is prioritizing AI safety and equity at the United Nations, with Ambassador David Lametti dedicating 10 to 15 percent of his time to the issue. Ottawa is collaborating with countries globally t…
Anthropic disabled global access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after a US export control directive, prompting EU leaders to push for a 'trusted partners' framework to restore allied access. Th…
G7 leaders met with CEOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind at the summit in Evian-les-Bains to discuss creating an international forum for setting standards on advanced AI models, an idea fl…
CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind participated as equals in a working lunch at the G7 summit in France, discussing AI deployment, international standards, and technology sovereignty. The …
Sen. Marsha Blackburn is negotiating with the White House on a bill package that would trade child safety and deepfake protections for preemption over state AI laws. The Fable incident has spurred Con…
The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to its Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 AI models, citing national security concerns, prompting the company to take the models offline. …
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung used the G7 summit to urge Washington toward diplomacy with North Korea, drawing a signal from US President Donald Trump that talks should remain the preferred app…