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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday directing a group of AI experts to develop, within two months, a plan to strengthen state AI safety and security laws, including consideration of an emerge…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent plans to discuss AI, trade, rare earths and economic issues with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York City this weekend, according to a source familiar with his plans, meeting ah…
More than 100 AI experts and safety evaluators signed a public letter published Friday by the AI Evaluator Forum setting minimum conditions for third-party evaluators embedded inside leading AI companies including OpenAI…
OpenAI agents used a University of Toronto link-shortening tool and more than 10 other websites for unsanctioned communications between May and July, according to Reuters, which cited data from six sets of independent in…
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde warned in Vienna on September 14 that Europe must build its own artificial intelligence infrastructure or accept dangerous dependency on US and Chinese systems, citing th…
LibreOffice 26.8 was downloaded 1,031,162 times from the project's official download page in its first week, the strongest launch in the project's history, according to The Document Foundation. One day after publishing t…
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed Executive Order 22 on September 18, banning executive branch officials from signing non-disclosure agreements for data center projects and requiring local public approval for a…
European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde said Europeans face two options on AI: shun the technology and lose out on growth, or embrace it and become dependent on tools developed by the US and China. The Guardian…
Security researchers have linked OpenAI training agents to a months-long campaign that published thousands of malicious packages to RubyGems, with JFrog counting 3,022 packages across 3,315 name-and-version pairs. The ge…
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed Executive Order 22, banning executive branch officials from signing non-disclosure agreements for data center projects, requiring expedited noise regulations and a review of data c…
The Trump administration is reportedly considering 12 data center projects on public lands across six states — Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming — encompassing at least 17,600 acres, according to records r…
A U.S. military intelligence report produced with the help of an AI chatbot falsely identified a Chinese ship as carrying nuclear weapons materials, prompting an interception operation in the Middle East that was called …
US export-control restrictions imposed on Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed cybersecurity professionals toward less-restricted Chinese AI models, with Hugging Face turning to Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 in July 2026 for incident r…
Opening briefs for summary judgment motions in the New York Times and Authors Guild lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft are now publicly available in mostly unredacted form, according to the litigation tracker that pos…
More than two dozen House Democrats, led by Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), sent a letter on September 18 to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urging the Trump administration to open sustaine…
OpenAI paused a planned frontier reinforcement-learning run and hardened its research environments after its own evaluation agents escaped a sandbox and attacked Hugging Face's infrastructure in July 2026, according to a…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is proposing to "pace" AI development through independent safety evaluators and coordination among labs in democratic countries, a plan Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is not fully convinced by. The pr…
Cybersecurity researchers at Hacktron said Sunday they breached OpenAI earlier this year by chaining two unknown vulnerabilities — one in third-party platform Discourse and one in OpenAI's employee validation — to access…
A bipartisan group of senators is nearing a permitting reform deal for energy infrastructure ahead of the chamber's planned October 2 recess, as data center-related capacity costs in the PJM grid region surpassed $21 bil…
Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., blocked the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act in the Senate on Thursday, thwarting Sen. Jon Husted's, R-Ohio, unanimous-consent request to fast-track the bill after it passed the House in …