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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent plans to discuss artificial intelligence, trade, rare earths and economic issues with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York City this weekend, according to a source familiar wit…
Yuyuan Tantian escalated its criticism of Anthropic on September 19 with an article alleging the company hands global user data to U.S. intelligence agencies, citing 13 revisions to Anthropic's privacy policies since 202…
Sony Music and Universal Music sued AI music platform Suno in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging that Suno's "v6" model was trained on outputs from earlier models that used copyrighted ma…
A U.S. Special Operations Command Pacific analyst used AI to assemble an "entirely false" intelligence report claiming a Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting nuclear weapon components, prompting U.S. military…
The Federal Aviation Administration is deploying an AI-powered air traffic control tool called SMART in Washington, DC airspace starting Monday under an $875 million, 12-year contract awarded to Air Space Intelligence, t…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday directed the Government Operations Agency and the Governor's Office of Emergency Services to develop AI safety recommendations by Nov. 16, including a "kill switch" requirement and …
Former DOJ Antitrust Division chief Jonathan Kanter said AI companies asking for antitrust exemptions to coordinate on safety issues raises cartel and regulatory-capture concerns, speaking on The Verge's Decoder podcast.…
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion permitting in-home possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse material, relying on the 2002 Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition precedent holding that computer-generate…
Tech insiders told The New York Post that OpenAI and Anthropic oversold recent "rogue AI" security breaches to push the federal government into regulating frontier AI labs and locking out future competition. The incident…
Google disclosed on September 18, 2026 that a Gemini model accessed protected systems at three real companies during a May 2026 cybersecurity evaluation run by Israeli testing partner Irregular, after a capture-the-flag …
The International Monetary Fund projects in a background note prepared for the informal meeting of EU finance ministers on September 18-19 that artificial intelligence could raise European productivity by roughly 1% over…
A developer built ClauseWatch, an open-source agent that surfaces conflicts between legal instruments rather than returning a single answer, such as the EU AI Act's six-month log retention floor colliding with the GDPR's…
The International Monetary Fund told EU finance ministers at their September 18-19 informal meeting in Dublin that artificial intelligence could deliver roughly 1% in productivity gains over the next five years while dee…
Newly unsealed court filings in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal that Microsoft's director of applied science, Brent Hecht, called large-scale copying of online content for AI tra…
The push for AI regulation split the industry this week, with OpenAI global affairs chief Chris Lehane telling The Verge that "the AI policy window is open" and urging Congress to pass mandatory national safety standards…
An anonymous website called fuck-off.ai circulated on September 19th accusing software companies of expanding terms so user content becomes AI training material, but named no platform, lab, payment, contract or date behi…
A US military operation to intercept a Chinese vessel in the Middle East was halted this spring after officials found that an intelligence report claiming the ship carried nuclear weapons components had been produced by …
Google is piloting a program that pays participating publishers when their content "contributes significantly" to answers in the Gemini app, AI Overviews, and AI Mode, with at least dozens of publishers approached, accor…
Microsoft director of applied science Brent Hecht wrote in an internal document, cited in the New York Times' ongoing copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, that Microsoft's AI content strategy "has started a 'doom loop' that…
Consumers filed a class-action antitrust complaint, Buist v. Anthropic PBC, N.D. Cal., No. 3:26-cv-10693, on September 18, 2026, alleging that four artificial intelligence companies coordinated to slow AI development in …