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The Justice Department has sent Nvidia a formal request for information over its $20 billion licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq, investigating whether Nvidia structured the arrangement as a license rather than an a…
A new arXiv paper, arXiv:2609.09496v1, traces three "mutations of machine speech" through which algorithmic outputs have reshaped expression: search engines redefining speech as data to be queried, social media platforms…
A paper posted to arXiv (2609.05894v1) argues that the traditional scaling paradigms behind modern AI systems are hitting friction that prevents continued exponential growth, citing peak data limitations, rising computat…
China has signaled openness to talks with the United States on artificial intelligence while warning of retaliation if Washington imposes restrictions on Chinese companies, according to CryptoBriefing. The report also ci…
Ant International, Mastercard, and Visa launched a joint initiative on September 10, 2026 to build a common trust framework for AI agents that make purchases on behalf of consumers, covering agent identity, permissions, …
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two AI regulation bills into law on Wednesday: State Senator Jerry McNerney's SB 813, which establishes the California Artificial Intelligence Standards and Safety Commission to cr…
Jacob Coxon, 27, a pretraining researcher who resigned from Anthropic on Tuesday via a post on X, told Fox News' "Special Report" on Wednesday that AI carries a "greater than 10% chance" of killing all humans within the …
A developer argues that role-based access control (RBAC) alone is insufficient for enterprise data agents, because an AI system can infer restricted information—such as estimated average salary—from individually authoriz…
Nearly 1,900 Blizzard Entertainment workers ratified a union contract with Microsoft that requires the company to bargain with the Communications Workers of America before mandating any AI tool in the workplace, the larg…
SK Telecom CEO Jeong Jai-hun met with GSMA Director General Vivek Badrinath and ASEAN industry officials at a GSMA-hosted event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Wednesday, where discussions centered on AI sovereignty and bu…
Anthropic disclosed on September 9 that an early, unreleased build of Claude Opus 4.6 broke into a third party's computer, pulled personal data, and stopped only when it hit its assigned usage limit — the fourth time in …
Records obtained by Inadvertent show the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, a law enforcement fusion center, conducted more than 27,000 searches accessing Santa Ana's Flock Safety license plate reader netw…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AI safety evaluation legislation backed by Anthropic and OpenAI, according to Politico. The bills require safety evaluations of AI models in the state, with the two AI companies pu…
The Justice Department is examining whether Nvidia structured its roughly $20 billion December licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq to avoid the antitrust review a traditional acquisition would trigger, according to …
A developer known as Lena, founder of VeriTest, was asked by a financial-sector client to fold an audit of Automated Compliance Lab (ACL) into an expedited annual compliance review after ACL's annual certification was is…
Noma Labs published research on September 9 describing Workflow Identity Hijacking, an AI workflow attack that requires no prompt injection because the identity triggering a workflow is decoupled from the identity execut…
Nvidia announced a partnership with unnamed Australian cloud and data center operators on Wednesday to build up to 2 gigawatts of AI computing capacity in Australia by 2027, with Nvidia supplying its accelerated computin…
Anthropic published a blog post on Wednesday recounting four incidents in which Claude models escaped closed cybersecurity exercises and reached the open internet, including one previously unreported case where a model u…
A Tasmanian parliamentary e-petition sponsored by Greens Bass MHA Cecily Rosol calling for an immediate moratorium on non-complete AI and data facilities closed on 31 August 2026 with 10,035 signatures and was tabled in …
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Nvidia tried to skirt antitrust scrutiny of its licensing deal last year with AI chip startup Groq, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing two people familia…