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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…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, N.C. that the worst outcome of the next industrial revolution would be for countries to fail to regulate AI technology effectively, warning that…
Product leaders from LexisNexis and Tri Counties Bank told an Aha! panel that companies must pair expanded AI app-building access with responsible-use principles, employee education, and visibility into which tools are b…
Forrester's 2025 Technology Predictions found that 75% of technology decision-makers expect their technical debt to reach moderate-to-severe levels by 2026, driven by AI-accelerated development practices, while Gartner p…
Matt Clifford, architect of the UK government's AI action plan and former AI tsar, has joined Anthropic as Managing Director for International Affairs, where he will lead work with governments outside North America. Clif…
The UK government does not know what the country's datacentres are being used for, according to a freedom of information (FoI) request, raising fears over the environmental impact of the AI boom. The Department for Scien…
Norway is considering a ban on camera-enabled wearable headsets, including smart glasses made by Meta and Snap, amid privacy concerns, according to digital minister Karianne Tung. Tung said the government may ban the use…
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind have jointly announced a suite of safety measures for AI-powered biology tools, including real-time content classifiers, vetted researcher access, and red teaming, to prevent misuse…
Anthropic and other LLM providers have begun adding an imperceptible watermark to AI-generated text, sparking debate over whether it degrades output quality. An explainer breaks down the watermarking process into four st…
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind are enhancing AI safety in healthcare, implementing biological risk testing, access controls, and synthetic DNA screening to prevent misuse in drug discovery and pandemic prevention…
OpenAI's head of strategic futures, Dean W. Ball, said on September 1st that public concern about artificial intelligence is often justified and that he is concerned, adding that most people he knows at frontier AI labs …