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Ukraine will prioritize AI systems that can be self-hosted on its own servers to avoid dependence on providers who could restrict or cut access, a senior official said Tuesday. The policy, reinforced after the U.S. order…
OpenAI has offered the US government a 5% equity stake valued at $42.6 billion, part of a broader regulatory framework proposed by CEO Sam Altman to preempt AI regulation. The move has already impacted crypto markets, wi…
The internet faces a new naming and trust problem with AI agents, mirroring the early DNS era. Security incidents, such as an AI agent rewriting its own security policy at a Fortune 50 company, highlight the urgent need …
Chinese authorities are considering restricting foreign access to the country's most advanced AI models, including unreleased ones, in talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai. The move would reverse China's current open-…
Ekonomer varnar att USA:s fokus på AI-investeringar skapar ekonomisk obalans, med en svag arbetsmarknad och sjunkande arbetskraftsdeltagande. Professor Brett House vid Columbia University och Ben Harris vid Brookings Ins…
A new report from Google Cloud reveals that 83% of organizations need infrastructure upgrades to support production-grade agentic AI, as legacy systems cannot handle the scale and complexity of autonomous agents. The sur…
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for an AI Child Safety Pledge at the Global Dialogue On AI Governance in Geneva, urging companies to prove AI systems accessible to children are safe. He warned that unregulat…
A study of the top 10,000 websites' robots.txt files found that 38% of GPTBot rules were written in the last quarter of 2023, following the crawler's launch and the New York Times lawsuit. Most sites have since added rul…
Alberta is open-sourcing its AI playbook for government by releasing a series of white papers detailing how it used Claude and Gemini to upgrade government systems.
Wall Street suffered major losses on Tuesday as AI stocks tumbled and oil prices jumped, with the S&P 500 falling 0.6% and the Nasdaq dropping 1.2%. The downturn was sparked by a 6.9% plunge in Samsung Electronics shares…
Turkey blocked an LGBTQ+ cruise ship from docking at its ports, citing the group's incompatibility with the country's moral values. The cruise organizer, Atlantis Events, condemned the decision as discriminatory and harm…
A new analysis of AI safety risks categorizes threats by human and machine intentions, arguing that overly restrictive safety measures could prevent AI from achieving beneficial outcomes. The piece warns that an AI incap…
China's Ministry of Commerce has held meetings with Alibaba, ByteDance, and startup Z.ai to discuss limiting overseas access to the country's most capable AI models, including open-weight systems like Alibaba's Qwen and …
A draft Treasury Department report warns that an artificial intelligence bubble could jeopardize millions of Americans' retirement savings if the industry suffers a major downturn, as AI companies have become deeply embe…
London workers face the highest exposure to AI-driven job displacement among major global cities, according to a new OECD report. Nearly 80% of jobs in the capital are highly exposed to generative AI, while the UK's AI t…
AI-native startups are hiring 15% fewer entry-level workers than conventional startups, favoring senior employees with advanced degrees from prestigious institutions, according to Harvard Business School and INSEAD resea…
Democratic lawmakers are investigating whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's family profited from a $1.6 billion federal investment in USA Rare Earth, a deal arranged by Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm Lutnick led for …
Hackers are increasingly targeting digital supply chains rather than directly attacking organizations, exploiting trusted third-party suppliers to gain access to systems and data. High-profile incidents like the XZ Utils…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked seven U.S. tech companies for information about their military AI contracts and demanded the Pentagon release full contracts, citing concerns over opaque AI arrangements and autonomous weapons…
Security researchers uncovered a hidden tracking code in Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool that monitored users in China, prompting Anthropic to delete the code after public outcry. Anthropic engineer Thariq Shihipar confi…