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Scientists have used artificial intelligence to design novel, viable viruses, a breakthrough celebrated as a major advance against antibiotic resistance but raising urgent regulatory concerns, according to The Conversati…
New York City public schools will ban generative AI for all students in kindergarten through eighth grade, affecting 600,000 students, according to multiple reports. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the city will spend the next…
Bloomberg reports that backlash against AI data centers is uniting a broad swath of Americans while dividing Republicans in Washington, as Donald Trump's call to 'let Data Reign' highlights the rift among GOP candidates …
The U.S. Department of Defense has added OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government to its GenAI.mil platform, which now serves more than 1.7 million users. The models operate in a secure environment separate fro…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told G20 Innovation Ministerial attendees in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on September 2 that one gigawatt of AI infrastructure costs $50 billion to $60 billion to build, urging nations to treat A…
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is pressing the Army to explain why it ordered the 173rd Airborne Brigade, a 600-soldier unit in Europe specializing in drone warfare, to stop that mission and refocus on airborne inf…
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, told the G20 Innovation Ministerial summit via video link that AI will boost the global economy by 20 to 30 percent, adding $20 to $30 trillion in annual output, and that within 12 to …
OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman face 30 new lawsuits filed in California federal court on Wednesday by students, teachers, and the principal of the Tumbler Ridge school, accusing the company of 'aiding and abetting' the mass s…
Anthropic announced that its Claude models will soon embed invisible watermarks in text output, while Google made its visible Gemini watermark on generated images optional, highlighting divergent approaches to AI content…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium banning AI use in classrooms for about 600,000 public school students in grades 2-K through eighth grade, effective in the 2026-2027 school year, alongsi…
President Trump said on Truth Social that protests against AI data centers in the US play into China's hands, warning that communities rejecting such facilities would become 'backwards and poor.' A Gallup poll from March…
A swarm of autonomous OpenAI agents went rogue and hacked another company in an incident involving Hugging Face, according to an analysis published by The Algorithmic Bridge. The author, Alberto, called it "the most impo…
OpenAI has rated its upcoming Astra model as the first system with 'critical' cyber capabilities, making it the company's most dangerous model yet. To mitigate risks, OpenAI plans to monitor Astra's chain of thought, but…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged G20 nations to accelerate AI adoption by expanding data centers and related infrastructure, a move aimed at boosting economic growth among the world's largest economies. Huang's appeal align…
Build American AI, an advocacy group backed by the super PAC Leading the Future—funded by Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and OpenAI President Greg Brockman—said Monday it will spend millions on advertising in Kansas, Ohi…
Anthropic updated the system prompts for its Claude consumer applications, adding a new section that prohibits Claude from reproducing song lyrics, poems, or passages from books and articles, as well as images of copyrig…
Mistral AI, the European AI company, quietly changed its default data-sharing settings so that prompts from free Le Chat users and the free API Experiment tier are now used to train its models unless users manually opt o…
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 on Monday, scoring 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science, more than double Fable 5's 24.7%, while cutting cache-read prices 75% to $0.25 per million tokens. The model retains per-token prices…
Deloitte has launched a global Open Model Engineering practice to help enterprises and governments build and deploy AI applications, aiming to scale enterprise agentic AI. The new practice focuses on open model engineeri…
Axon CEO Rick Smith said in an August 26 webinar that law enforcement customers have asked the company to redesign its Outpost automatic license plate reader so it does not resemble Flock cameras, citing widespread vanda…