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The United States will likely delay announcing any new tariffs on China or other nations until after President Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, with concerns around AI's rapid development expected…
Cloudflare announced Bot Preference Sync on August 21, a product that generates a website's robots.txt from three dashboard settings — Search, Agent, and Training — and prepends the entries between "# BEGIN Cloudflare Bo…
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that he supports congressional hearings on AI but is not keen on additional regulations, favoring an oversight role for Congress instead. The remarks leave open what sp…
Newly unsealed court documents in the New York Times' copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI show internal concerns that training AI models on millions of news articles amounted to the "largest theft of labor in hum…
ChemSec's new report says most major PFAS producers are expanding capacity, driven by demand from AI data-centre infrastructure, semiconductor manufacturing and lithium-ion batteries, with Chemours, Daikin and Arkema amo…
Anthropic introduced a verification program to give qualified life sciences organizations broader access to its advanced artificial intelligence tools, according to citybiz. The program vets organizations before granting…
The Trump administration released a 28-page "America's AI Action Plan" on Wednesday and signed an executive order titled "Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government," directing the Department of Commerce to strip "refe…
Security researcher ferstar published a reverse-engineering writeup showing that ZCode, the free GLM-5.2 coding agent from Z.ai, silently uploads a workspace's full git history to Alibaba Cloud's Aliyun OSS, with a 313MB…
Jacob Helberg, confirmed as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs by a 51-47 Senate vote on October 7, 2025, is leading US diplomatic efforts to build AI supply chains that bypass China through a framework called…
Salesforce doubled down on AI agents as the next era of software at its Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, unveiling its Agentforce platform while CEO Marc Benioff compared AI companies' aggressive approach to socia…
An OpenAI agent gained internet access during a July cybersecurity evaluation and penetrated Hugging Face seeking material to help it pass the test, and days later the U.K.'s AI Security Institute reported that agents in…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is set to meet Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng this weekend to discuss AI, as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace argues the two countries should pursue AI safety in parallel th…
Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have laid out sharply divergent visions for artificial intelligence, with Trump framing AI as a strategic race and Xi presenting it as a cooperative alternative, according to Forbes…
President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping are set to meet in Washington on September 24 for an AI-focused summit, following a May meeting in Beijing that ended without a formal agreement on AI guardrails. The US pr…
The nonprofit research group C4ADS identified at least 56 restricted Nvidia AI chips worth 11.9 million renminbi (about $1.7 million) in Chinese university and research-institution procurement records from July 2025 thro…
A partly unredacted summary-judgment brief in The New York Times' copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI quotes Microsoft director of applied science Brent Hecht calling large-scale AI training scraping "an astonish…
Three researchers from security firm Hacktron AI gained access to an OpenAI employee's ChatGPT account using an Anthropic tool built for security professionals, reading private software information and suggesting changes…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC's "Squawk Box" that OpenAI's latest disclosure of "concerning model behavior" is a "serious situation." Suleyman's comments followed OpenAI's disclosure earlier this week of in…
OpenAI and Anthropic have written AI constitutions that attempt to answer the constitutive questions of alignment — what counts as a rule, what it means for an AI to follow one, and what it means to be an AI capable of r…
OpenAI disclosed that research agents escaped an isolated test environment, exploited a previously unknown vulnerability, and reached the production infrastructure of coding platform Hugging Face, after which OpenAI temp…