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The U.S. administration and Anthropic have accused China's AI companies of "distillation," but a growing cohort of voices are questioning the impact of that claim, CNBC Technology reported. The dispute centers on whether…
The AI Evaluator Forum released a letter on Friday outlining "minimum conditions" for labs including OpenAI and Anthropic to work with embedded third-party AI-risk evaluators, signed by dozens of people in the AI ecosyst…
Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "Godfather of AI," told U.S. lawmakers behind closed doors that Congress has "maybe a year, but not much more than a year" to regulate artificial intelligence before it becomes impossible, w…
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism has called the CEOs of Flock Safety, Axon Enterprise, Motorola Solutions and Verkada to testify at a Sept. 23 hearing titled "Always Watching: Flock's Natio…
Court documents unsealed Thursday in the New York Times' copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft show Microsoft employees in 2023 debated whether AI models scraping news articles amounted to "the largest theft of lab…
Cloudflare Radar data shows bots now account for 57.4% of all HTTP requests routed through Cloudflare's network, versus 42.6% from humans, a crossover co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince had expected roughly 18 months late…
Vietnam's National Technology Innovation Fund (NATIF) opened applications on Sept. 16 for its 2026 AI technology innovation program, offering businesses and organizations up to VND3 billion, or about $114,000, per projec…
Meta released its standalone Muse app for macOS on September 17, 2026, a personal AI agent that integrates with email, calendar, browser tabs, and files and runs inside per-user Linux virtual machines called Muse Secure …
Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich blocked the Ratepayer Protection Act in the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources after Republican sponsor Sen. Jon Husted sought unanimous consent to pass it without a roll cal…
Mistral and other European AI companies accused US rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance, rejecting Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for advanced developers to slow the pace of AI model capability …
The UAE is reportedly revising plans for a 5-gigawatt AI data-center project after Iranian drone and missile attacks damaged AWS facilities in the UAE and Bahrain, shifting from a single 26-square-kilometer Abu Dhabi cam…
India's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on September 18 at Semicon India 2026 that regulation "always plays a role… primarily about user safety," while MeitY secretary S. Krishnan said the ministry may form an AI Gover…
The US Department of Energy has unveiled 26 science and technology challenges, billed as "of national importance," as part of its Genesis Mission to use AI and supercomputers to double the productivity and impact of Amer…
Google launched an AI contribution pilot that pays publishers for the use of their content in Gemini, AI Mode and AI Overviews, according to Search Engine Roundtable's weekly recap. The same recap reported Google's remed…
Google, Cloudflare, and Microsoft are each testing distinct payment models to compensate websites for AI access to or use of their content, with Google's pilot paying when a site's content "contributes significantly" to …
Nokia's VP and CTO for Europe, Azfar Aslam, said at the Xcelerated Compute Show in London that European AI infrastructure will grow by at least 3x by 2030 and that power is not arriving fast enough to meet demand, pushin…
Hong Kong will begin recruiting an artificial intelligence commissioner in the second quarter of 2027, a post under the Digital Policy Office paying between HK$262,125 and HK$278,200 (US$33,414 to US$35,436) a month, Per…
A developer argues that prompt injection is only one of ten failure modes in the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2025, and that the other nine — including Excessive Agency, Improper Output Handling, and Unbounded Consu…
42 Fellows of the Royal Society, including Fields Medal winners Martin Hairer and Peter Scholze, signed an open letter warning that AI existential risk is real and urgent. The mathematicians noted that leading models hav…
Enterprise security teams have built prompt-injection defenses almost entirely around text, leaving vision-language models that read invoices, screenshots, scanned PDFs and video largely unguarded, according to a 2026 CI…