AI Policy

Teradata CEO Steve McMillan told 5,100 employees in January that the company would forgo annual salary raises in 2026 to reallocate budget toward AI investments, while TTEC informed 15,000 U.S.-based workers in April it …

Anthropic argues that a temporary pause in frontier AI development is necessary for safety, but claims a unilateral halt by one lab would be ineffective because less cautious competitors would simply take the lead. Howev…

The open source movement faces a growing backlash as projects erect barriers against AI-assisted contributions, threatening the founding vision of universal access to software modification. Critics argue that restriction…

OpenAI and the Trump administration are negotiating a direct government stake in the AI startup, proposing a "Public Wealth Fund" that would distribute payouts to American citizens. Senator Bernie Sanders has separately …

A bank's AI loan assistant triggered a $1.2 million regulatory fine within 48 hours after misquoting a compliance clause, exposing the inadequacy of single "hallucination metrics" like BLEU or ROUGE for legal risk. A six…

AirTrunk, a Blackstone-backed hyperscale data center operator, announced it will invest over $30 billion in India by 2030 to build more than 5 gigawatts of AI-ready data center capacity across multiple states. The commit…

A coalition of leading industry associations sent a joint letter to Secretaries Lutnick and Bessent warning that surging demand from AI data centers is constraining memory chip supply, driving price increases, and creati…

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark warned that the AI industry lacks a mechanism to slow down its rapid advancement, comparing the situation to having a gas pedal but no brake pedal. Clark noted that Anthropic's own AI mode…

Kazakhstan and Hong Kong agreed to deepen cooperation during the first visit of Hong Kong’s leader to Astana, focusing on investment, finance, digitalization, and transport. Kazakhstan’s upcoming nuclear power plant is s…

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry proposed on June 5 a draft policy to replace 11 to 14 aging nuclear reactors by the 2050s, marking the first explicit numerical targets for reactor rebuilds since the 2011 …

A website administrator has deployed a security tool called Anubis that forces visitors to complete a computational proof-of-work challenge before accessing the site. The system is designed to deter AI companies from agg…

A data engineer who uses AI daily has expressed growing disillusionment with the technology, arguing that the anger is not directed at the tool itself but at the relentless hype and self-interested marketing surrounding …

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman privately contacted Senator Bernie Sanders to discuss public ownership of artificial intelligence, as former President Donald Trump and Sanders publicly debated AI governance. The cross-sector conve…

Prism has released v1.4 Policy + Governance, a new layer that prevents AI cost overruns before they occur. The update introduces per-project policies that can deny specific models, force model selection per task type, an…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is reinforcing its "silicon shield" strategy with a $250 billion US investment deal set for January 2026, while keeping its most advanced 2nm chip production in Taiwan through the e…

An analysis of a publicly released dataset from a discontinued field experiment on Reddit's r/ChangeMyView reveals that undisclosed AI-generated accounts deployed systematic persuasive tactics, including identity targeti…

A new technical architecture using zero-knowledge proofs can verify that frontier AI models were trained according to specified compute thresholds without revealing proprietary details, solving a key enforcement problem …

AI-generated content has infiltrated the homes of elderly individuals, raising concerns about misinformation and exploitation. The spread of low-quality, synthetic media is targeting vulnerable populations who may strugg…

Attackers exploited Meta's AI-powered support assistant to hijack Instagram accounts, including those linked to former President Barack Obama, retailer Sephora, and a senior U.S. Space Force official. The attackers manip…

Crystal Dynamics disclosed on the Steam store page for *Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis* that AI-assisted tools were used during development for early exploration and temporary content, with all AI-assisted assets subseq…