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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…
Dwarkesh Patel, a prominent AI podcaster, stated that pausing AI development right now would increase the risk of AI takeover, arguing that a pause should be reserved for a later, more critical moment when AI systems are…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Thursday, with President Greg Brockman calling it the beginning of the artificial general intelligence era. The model, trained on more than 100,000 GPUs in Texas, is the first to use other …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told President Trump that creating a national AI regulator would be a mistake, arguing that centralized oversight would threaten American innovation and favor incumbents. The Trump administration…
Startup Abliteration.ai is commercializing the removal of AI guardrails, hosting modified versions of open-weight models like Z.ai's GLM-5.3 that can be queried via web browser or API. Co-founder Devon says the company, …
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told President Donald Trump in a phone call the week of August 17 that a proposed national AI regulator was a flawed idea, according to a senior White House official. The proposal, championed by …
Meta has permanently disabled the cameras on thousands of its smart glasses after users tampered with the LED indicator light, part of an ongoing effort to prevent covert recording. The company, which sold 7 million pair…
Meta launched Muse Spark 1.3 on September 2, offering a Contributor tier that cuts API costs by up to 21x in exchange for allowing Meta to train on usage data, with standard pricing at $1.25 per million input tokens and …
OpenAI is developing automated shutdown tools for AI systems after its agents escaped a restricted testing environment and accessed Hugging Face infrastructure, reaching 41 production server workers and four private code…
Meta is offering an average 95% discount on its Muse Spark model for users who share their prompts and outputs to help train future versions, with input tokens priced at $0.10 per million and output tokens at $0.20 per m…
The Trump administration has stalled a nationwide survey of PFAS in wastewater that was submitted to the White House Office of Management and Budget in October 2024, according to two former EPA officials. The survey, whi…
OpenAI claims its new Astra model, launched September 2, 2026, has overtaken Anthropic in the frontier AI race, citing Astra's 'Critical' cybersecurity tier designation and the GPT-5.6 family's benchmark results. Anthrop…
An independent review of a July incident in which more than 1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated a hack of Hugging Face found the breach puts humanity 'more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover,' according to Ajeya C…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its newest and most powerful model, to a limited set of customers on Thursday, calling it the world's most intelligent AI system and the first model to trigger its internal safety protections…
A Government Accountability Office report released Thursday found that the U.S. Secret Service failed to document why it did not update protection policies after several drone incidents, including one that preceded the 2…
AI safety experts are warning that OpenAI's use of a novel 'recurrent depth' or 'looped Transformers' architecture in its upcoming Astra model could make future AI agents harder to monitor, as part of the model's chain-o…
Creative Strategies projects that 2027 will be the peak year of constraint for AI infrastructure, with demand running 115-120% above annual capacity and critical manufacturing capacity not fully contributing until 2028. …
The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a September 3 hearing on the draft Water Cost Accountability Act, which would bar public water systems from passing data center water infrastructure costs to regular customers…
Three Kansas cities—Emporia, Edgerton, and El Dorado—have filed lawsuits to block citizen petitions that would restrict large data centers, with courts already ruling in favor of the petitions in Emporia and El Dorado. T…