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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 …
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on September 18, 2026 directing state agencies to fast-track AI safety laws and develop an emergency "kill switch" capable of deactivating frontier AI models, fo…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order calling for independent auditors inside AI labs and a "kill switch" for AI models, with an expert panel given two months to deliver recommendations. Newsom said …
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York on September 19-20 to discuss artificial intelligence, rare earth minerals, and the broader US-China economic relationship, with US…
Newly unsealed court documents in a copyright suit brought by The New York Times, the New York Daily News and 10 other publications show Microsoft and OpenAI employees internally warned their AI models posed an "existent…
Tayoca has outlined a governed publication workflow that separates an AI system's access to internal evidence from its authority to publish, arguing the two controls must not collapse into one another. The approach stage…
OpenAI launched Astra for Law, a legal-work product that combines the GPT-6 Astra model with a dedicated legal search index and legal-specific instructions rather than a separately trained base model. OpenAI says the con…
UMG Recordings filed a second copyright lawsuit against Suno, adding 60,202 works to its claim that the AI music company used the songs to train its models. The filing follows Judge Saylor's denial of a motion for leave …