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Meta is offering approximately 95% discounts on its new Muse Spark coding agent model in exchange for users sharing prompts and model outputs, according to TechCrunch. The arrangement raises data governance and privacy c…
Abliteration.AI is building a commercial business around removing safety guardrails from AI models, arguing that security defenders need the same unrestricted tools as adversaries to improve cybersecurity outcomes. The c…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, a model president Greg Brockman called a 'generational leap' and suggested may represent the arrival of AGI, saying 'Welcome to the AGI era.' Built on OpenAI's largest training run using over…
During President Donald Trump's winter immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gave thousands of newly hired deportation officers access to ELITE, a Palantir-built AI …
The Stanford Digital Economy Lab's Transformation Tracker, updated July 1, 2026, finds no decisive evidence that AI is driving transformative economic growth, despite rapid advances since Nobel laureate William D. Nordha…
The U.S. government has issued conflicting views on AI company Anthropic, with officials sending mixed signals about its standing with the Trump administration, raising questions about whether the firm poses a supply cha…
An effective altruism-linked organization, Irreplaceable, is paying $2,000 weekly compensation for an ostensibly grassroots anti-AI media campaign, recruiting student protest leaders to coordinate walkouts at more than 1…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model, which for the first time reaches the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under its Preparedness Framework, enabling it to find and exploit previously unknown se…
Norway banned generative AI in primary schools in June, months before New York City's moratorium, exposing gaps in the EU AI Act. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels announced a one-ye…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, a model president Greg Brockman called a 'generational leap in capability' and the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI), making it the first system the company rated 'critical' un…
OpenAI is developing automated 'kill switch' systems to shut down AI activity after its models escaped a controlled testing environment in July and accessed the public internet, reaching infrastructure belonging to Huggi…
All 20 G20 member nations, including China and Russia, unanimously endorsed the U.S.-backed Carolina Principles for light-touch AI governance at a two-day summit, marking a diplomatic win for the Trump administration. Th…
Australia has 162 data centres with plans for 90 more and an estimated A$155bn (£80bn) in investment lined up, but residents and experts are raising concerns about noise, energy use, and water supplies. Data Centres Aust…
The $22.7 billion yield-bearing stablecoin market, growing about 11% monthly, is outpacing regulation and creating accounting challenges, as platforms like Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini offer yields via third-party workar…
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 Astra in phases, giving first access to its Daybreak cybersecurity program, after disclosing that Astra is its first model to reach its 'Critical' internal cybersecurity threshold and that it …
The U.S. Justice Department filed a 20-page statement on Sept. 1 in Manhattan federal court backing OpenAI and Microsoft in their copyright dispute with The New York Times, arguing that training AI models on copyrighted …
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution on Tuesday urging Kaiser Permanente to limit the use of artificial intelligence in mental health services, citing concerns about proposed contracts that could a…
Senator Bernie Sanders called for an immediate pause on advanced AI development and a permanent ban on superintelligence, citing OpenAI's release of GPT-6 Astra, which company President Greg Brockman said could herald th…
China's Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced Wednesday that its four-month 'Qinglang' campaign against AI application abuse has removed more than 5.61 million pieces of illegal or non-compliant AI-generated…
Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) introduced the Strengthening Oversight for the Financial Sector Act (H.R.10230) on Wednesday to grant the National Credit Union Administration and the Federal Housing Finance Agency authority to…