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Nearly two months after Andy Burnham abolished the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), UK ministers Louise Haigh, Jonathan Reynolds and Lisa Nandy admitted in a letter that a "small number of policy…
A developer argues that AI agents functioning as "digital employees" represent a new security principal, because they combine probabilistic reasoning with deterministic enterprise permissions. The piece contends that ide…
Under Secretary of War Emil Michael discussed the Department of War's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic and the energy leverage strategy behind Operation Epic Fury on All-In Podcast Episode 263. The episode also…
Ant International open-sourced its Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP) on GitHub on Friday, putting it forward as a potential global technical standard for AI agents to make payments through mobile wallets. AMP was built on An…
Canadian mathematician and Fields Medal recipient Jacob Tsimerman has founded the Mathematical A.I. Safety Institute (MAISI), an independent research institute in the San Francisco Bay Area that plans to begin work in Ja…
OpenAI hired Jessica Schumer, daughter of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), away from Amazon, where she directed public policy in New York, to oversee policy and partnerships across the Northeast, Axios report…
AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic this week, warning that AI firms are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," while a senior Anthropic safety leader said on X t…
Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement over books used to train its Claude chatbot has descended into competing claims between authors and publishers over how the money is split, the New York Times reports. The se…
The Food and Drug Administration granted a rare de novo classification to Powerful Medical for an AI model that helps triage chest-pain patients during a heart attack, the agency's DEN250044 authorization issued last wee…
Anthropic blocked a possible attempt to use its AI to make biological weapons, according to the company's threat intelligence report. The disclosure follows a warning from a former top Anthropic researcher about the risk…
The Pentagon is in talks to provide a $5 billion loan to fund AI infrastructure, according to The Wall Street Journal. The reported discussions would mark a direct U.S. Department of Defense role in financing AI infrastr…
Anthropic reported on Thursday that it disrupted several attempts to use its AI models, including chatbot Claude, for research that could help develop biological weapons over the past eight months. In one May case, a sci…
Anthropic published findings alleging that Moonshot AI and DeepSeek secretly routed customer requests to Claude and passed Claude's answers off as their own models' output, with Anthropic attributing more than 23 million…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Generative AI Profile is voluntary internal guidance and does not demonstrate market demand for commercial generative-AI verification products, according to a fact-che…
A developer argues that liability for contracts signed by autonomous AI agents cannot rest on the software itself, since agents are not legal persons, and instead travels back to the humans or entities that deployed them…
Kiteworks acquired Bonfy.AI to extend runtime data governance across its control plane, enabling organizations to govern data exchanges as they happen whether initiated by a person, machine, or autonomous agent. The acqu…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees in a private company-wide meeting this week that the firm was considering slowing down its AI development, possibly coordinating the slowdown with other leading AI laboratories, accor…
Massachusetts now requires data centers larger than 25 megawatts to meet 100% of their electricity demand with clean energy generated on-site or nearby, or pay into a ratepayer protection fund, a stricter standard than t…
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic with a warning that AI companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence that could produce uncontrollable systems posing an existential risk to humanity by the end of the d…
An independent reimplementation of the Anthropic Institute's 2026 economic scenario model adds three parameters the institute's own explorer holds fixed: how easily the economy can add capital, how readily different kind…