AI represents the first time humans can perform cognitive work outside their bodies at scale, comparable to the steam engine's impact on mechanical work, according to an essay co-authored by Nathan E.…
AI Weekly Issue #520 reports that artificial intelligence has become a distributed decision-making force across institutions, with no single authority in control. Key incidents include Moonshot AI's K…
The European Commission's enforcement powers over general-purpose AI model providers took effect on August 2, enabling the EU AI Office to investigate providers, demand information and evaluations, or…
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has moved to reshape UK tech policy by scrapping a digital ID scheme, shuttering the Department of Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT), moving the Government Digi…
Laura Karpas, an audio intern at Tech Policy Press from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, interviewed researchers including Michal Luria of the Center for Democracy and Technology and J…
A group of AI researchers published a report warning that Europe risks economic and political irrelevance if it fails to compete at the frontier of AI development, with the U.S. government ordering An…
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie argue that anthropomorphizing language around AI hinders clear discussion of what these technologies actually do, and propose alternatives such as "probabilistic automat…
Meta employees in at least five US offices posted flyers on May 12 to protest the company's Model Capability Initiative, which collects employee computer use data to train AI models, with over 1,600 w…
US export restrictions on Anthropic's latest AI models have triggered a European scramble for AI sovereignty, exposing deep dependencies on American technology. The policy shift has accelerated Europe…
A weekly reading list shared by a blogger includes articles on AI detection failures in war propaganda, US law enforcement warnings about "anti-tech extremism," and the environmental impact of data ce…
South Africa holds approximately 88% of global platinum-group metal reserves critical to AI infrastructure and hosts the continent's largest data center market, giving it unique leverage over major te…