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Challenges to state-level AI regulations conflicting with federal innovation priorities.

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Current US Domestic Developments Under Trump's Era

The latest U.S. domestic news highlights issues ranging from AI competition in defense contracts, blocked tariffs, resource funding, and contentious foreign student policies. Senator Elizabeth Warren addresses concerns with AI contracts, the U.S. trade court strikes down tariffs, and Trump's immigration policies spark debate, while cryptocurrency strategies and financial disputes unfold.

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SoftBank's Son Pitches $1 Trillion Arizona AI Hub

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is envisaging setting up a $1 trillion industrial complex in Arizona that will build robots and artificial intelligence, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people fa…

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Federal Bill Would Ban State AI Laws for Next 10 Years

A federal proposal that would ban states and local governments from having their own regulations around AI for the next ten years is moving closer to being signed into law. [Read More]

PetaPixel by Pesala Bandara

Musk’s AI Tool Implicates DOGE Data Cuts In Texas Flood Deaths

Trump administration and DOGE cuts to critical weather data services are implicated by Elon Musk's own AI tool, Grok 3, in contributing to the Texas flood deaths.

Forbes by Douglas B. Laney, Contributor, Douglas B. Laney, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglaslaney/

xAI explains the Grok Nazi meltdown as Tesla puts Elon’s bot in its cars

Several days after temporarily shutting down the Grok AI bot that was producing antisemitic posts and praising Hitler in response to user prompts, Elon Musk’s AI company tried to explain why that happened. In a series of posts on X, it said that “…we discover…

The Verge by Richard Lawler

Sexting With Gemini

Why did Google’s supposedly teen-friendly chatbot say it wanted to tie me up?

The Atlantic by Lila Shroff

Trump just handed China a major advantage on on AI

Late on Monday night, July 14, 2025, the ninth richest man in the world broke some momentous news: The US government would allow him, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, to sell H20 processors to Chinese customers again. To people following the Trump administration and …

Vox by Dylan Matthews

AI super PACs, the hottest investment in tech

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter about the collision between Big Tech and Washington (last week of summer edition). If you enjoy this, consider subscribing to get this newsletter weekly and everything The Verge has to offer. Ever since the US Supr…

The Verge by Tina Nguyen

My Latest Book: Rewiring Democracy

I am pleased to announce the imminent publication of my latest book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI will Transform our Politics, Government, and Citizenship: coauthored with Nathan Sanders, and published by MIT Press on October 21. Rewiring Democracy looks beyond…

Schneier.com by Bruce Schneier

Why Agentic AI Will Power Stablecoin Adoption

AI is growing fast, and stablecoins are critical to sustaining and accelerating this growth

Forbes by Sean Stein Smith, Contributor, Sean Stein Smith, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/seansteinsmith/

AI Is Too Big to Fail

AI spending looks like a bubble, but political capture and energy realities make backing down impossible.

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Nvidia Becomes First $5 Trillion Company as AI Demand Surges

Nvidia today became the first public company to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization, hitting the milestone 3.5 months after surpassing $4 trillion. Over the past week, Nvidia's shares have climbed 14.5 percent due to demand for its GPUs and the pos…

MacRumors by Juli Clover

All the industries OpenAI is trying to disrupt

Sam Altman is increasingly leading OpenAI into spaces beyond AI research, disrupting industries like search, social media, healthcare, and robotics.

Business Insider by Brent D. Griffiths

The age of AI-run cyberattacks has begun

Menu planning, therapy, essay writing, highly sophisticated global cyberattacks: People just keep coming up with innovative new uses for the latest AI chatbots.  An alarming new milestone was reached this week when the artificial intelligence company Anthropi…

Vox by Joshua Keating

Senator Warren presses Trump admin on potential AI bailout plans

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pressing the Trump administration for more information on potential plans to “prop up” major AI companies with money from taxpayers. In a letter to David Sacks, the White House special advisor for AI and Crypto, and Michael …

The Verge by Emma Roth

We remember the internet bubble. This mania looks and feels the same

The AI revolution is three years old Nov. 30. In just 36 months AI has gone from great-new-toy, to global phenomenon, to where we are today - debating whether we are in one of the biggest technology bubbles or booms in modern times. To us there is no debate. …

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What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab

Hello and welcome back to Regulator. It's been a very long two weeks away from your inboxes, but luckily for us, Big Tech and Big Government did not stop fighting. In fact, it's gotten even spicier. Let's get into it. Last week, I was following up on several …

The Verge by Tina Nguyen

It’s their job to keep AI from destroying everything

One night in May 2020, during the height of lockdown, Deep Ganguli was worried. Ganguli, then research director at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, had just been alerted to OpenAI's new paper on GPT-3, its latest large language model. This new AI…

The Verge by Hayden Field

Disney’s AI Slop Era Is Here

The studio has announced a landmark deal and $1 billion investment with OpenAI to bring hundreds of Disney characters to its generative AI platforms.

Gizmodo.com by James Whitbrook

Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI

Cast your mind back to May of this year: Congress was in the throes of debate over the massive budget bill. Amidst the many seismic provisions, Senator Ted Cruz dropped a ticking time bomb of tech policy: a ten-year moratorium on the ability of states to regu…

Schneier.com by Bruce Schneier

The Unholy Union of Big AI and Big Idiot

Trump's latest executive order attempts to strip away the rights of states to regulate AI for themselves, and protect their citizens.

Jezebel by Jim Vorel

Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal

The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly reporting that Donald Trump “blocked…

Techdirt by Mike Masnick

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Tool Admits It Posted Explicit Photos of Children

Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot admitted on Friday that it has been posting sexualized images of children on X, blaming “lapses in safeguard” for the content.“We’ve identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them—[Child sexual abuse material] is ille…

The New Republic by Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani

China to probe Meta’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus

Grab some popcorn for the Xi vs Zuck bout, which may not be the biggest fight on the card Chinese authorities have signalled they’ll likely probe Meta’s planned acquisition of made-in-China AI platform Manus.…

Theregister.com by Simon Sharwood

Microsoft scrambles to quell fury around its new AI data centers

It looks like the wave of campaigns against data centers are getting under big tech companies' skin - and Microsoft is the latest giant to promise to address frustrations on the ground in communities around their data centers. The company announced a five-poi…

The Verge by Justine Calma

What techies really talked about at Davos

Tech execs and founders dished on AI bubble fears, talent war intensity, and dealmaking density at the Swiss resort.

Business Insider by Ben Bergman,Alistair Barr

Why chatbots are starting to check your age

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. How do tech companies check if their users are kids? This question has taken on new urgency recently thanks to growing co…

MIT Technology Review by James O'Donnell

Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army

Analytics features arrive first; agentic AI comes later Salesforce is getting cosier with the US Army via a deal worth up to $5.6 billion, selling cloud analytics as the groundwork for a future agentic AI push across the service and the wider DoD.…

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

When the Chips Are Down

President Trump’s reversal of a ban on sales of advanced semiconductors to China undercut the strategic logic behind years of American policy that was meant to keep the US ahead in the race to develop AI systems.

The New York Review of Books by Julian Gewirtz

Siemens CEO Roland Busch’s mission to automate everything

Today, I’m talking with Roland Busch, who is the CEO of Siemens. Siemens is one of those absolutely giant, extremely important, but fairly opaque companies we love to dig into on Decoder. At a very basic, reductive level, Siemens makes the hardware and softwa…

The Verge by Nilay Patel

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions

In September, Alfred Stephen, a freelance software developer in Singapore, purchased a ChatGPT Plus subscription, which costs $20 a month and offers more access to advanced models, to speed up his work. But he grew frustrated with the chatbot’s coding abiliti…

MIT Technology Review by Michelle Kim

10 Wednesday AM Reads

My mid-week morning train WFH reads: • Andreessen Horowitz’s Rising Influence Over Trump-Era AI Policy: The VC giant is shaping how Washington thinks about artificial intelligence — and the stakes couldn’t be higher. (Bloomberg free) • “Everything is gambling…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

Trump's Genesis Mission gets its first set of 26 sure-to-succeed objectives

DoE bets AI can speed fusion, unlock decades of nuclear data, and probe fundamental physics The Trump administration has outlined the first 26 goals for its project to inject AI into the government's scientific research, and everything from securing critical …

Theregister.com by Brandon Vigliarolo

The Pentagon Just Sent a Terrifying Message to AI Companies

Donald Trump’s so-called Department of War is threatening to cut ties with Anthropic because it won’t help the Pentagon conduct mass surveillance on Americans or make fully autonomous weapons that the administration can use however it likes.A senior Trump adm…

The New Republic by Edith Olmsted

How Close Can AI Get To Writing A Techdirt Post?

I’ve talked on Techdirt about just a few of my AI-related experiments over the past few years, including how I use it to help me edit pieces, which I still write myself. I still have no intention of letting AI write for me, but as the underlying technology ha…

Techdirt by Mike Masnick

US tech giants open their wallets for AI-friendly politicians

Rush is on to influence candidates from both parties ahead of midterms Meta is among tech giants reportedly funding US politicians friendly to the AI industry, as concerns mount over a huge expansion in datacenter building and the effects of AI on everyday li…

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

The Pentagon’s battle with Anthropic is really a war over who controls AI

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth sometimes appears as if he’s more interested in the optics of playing the part of a military leader than he is in actually being a military leader.  Maybe that’s why he has chosen a Hollywood-esque high noon — or, at least, late …

Vox by Bryan Walsh

Trump orders federal agencies to drop Anthropic’s AI

On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, accusing Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, of attempting to "STRONG-ARM" the Pentagon and directing federal agencies to "IMMEDIATELY CEASE" use of its products. At issue is Anthropic CEO Dario A…

The Verge by Hayden Field, Richard Lawler

We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots

It's the day of the Pentagon's looming ultimatum for Anthropic: allow the US military unchecked access to its technology, including for mass surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons, or potentially be designated a "supply chain risk" and potentially l…

The Verge by Hayden Field

Trump Orders Federal Agencies To Stop Using Anthropic AI Tech 'Immediately'

President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. federal agencies to "immediately cease" using Anthropic's AI technology, escalating a standoff after the company sought limits on Pentagon use of its models. CNBC reports: The company, which in July signed a $200 mi…

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Oak Ridge spawns institute to curb AI datacenter power surge

Lab aims to link power, cooling, and workload management to ease strain on the US grid Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is hoping to turn its technical expertise to the problem of growing electricity demand from AI datacenters.…

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

10 Friday AM Reads

My end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much.: The dot-com era generated genuine public excitement. The AI boom is generating anxiety, skepticism, and resentment — even as the money keeps pouring in. (New…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

The nuclear nightmare at the heart of the Trump-Anthropic fight

President Donald Trump ordered the entire federal government to stop using products from the AI company Anthropic on Friday to stop what he called a “radical left, woke company” from encroaching on the military’s decision-making.  The public feud between the …

Vox by Joshua Keating

Pentagon Designates Anthropic Supply Chain Risk Over AI Military Dispute

Anthropic on Friday hit back after U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to designate the artificial intelligence (AI) upstart as a "supply chain risk." "This action follows months of negotiations that reached an impasse over two except…

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America Used Anthropic's AI for Its Attack On Iran, One Day After Banning It

Engadget reports: In a lengthy post on Truth Social on February 27, President Trump ordered all federal agencies to "immediately cease all use of Anthropic's technology" following strong disagreements between the Department of Defense and the AI company. A f…

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How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance

On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that his own company had successfully negotiated new terms with the Pentagon. The US government had just moved to blacklist Anth…

The Verge by Hayden Field

AI Bros Wanted Trump. Now They Learn What Happens When You Tell Him No.

Last year, in Fascism For First Time Founders, I warned the tech industry what happens when you cozy up to authoritarians. As I wrote then: Innovation requires trust. Not just between individuals, but institutional trust. People need to believe that contracts…

Techdirt by Mike Masnick

AI is now part of the culture wars — and real wars

Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers that goes inside Washington's increasingly existential clashes between tech and politics. If this was forwarded to you, can I interest you in a full-fledged subscription to The Verge for onl…

The Verge by Tina Nguyen

Inside the secret meeting that led to the AI political resistance

In early January, a group of 90 or so political, community and thought leaders gathered in a New Orleans Marriott for a secret conference on artificial intelligence - so secret, in fact, that no one knew who else had been invited until they walked into the ro…

The Verge by Tina Nguyen

Supreme Court Declines to Hear AI Image Copyright Case

The United States Supreme Court has ended the long saga over whether an AI can be registered as the author of an artwork after it declined to take up the case brought by computer scientist Dr. Stephen Thaler. [Read More]

PetaPixel by Matt Growcoot

How the US might be using AI in Iran

In the week leading up to President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, the Pentagon was waging a different battle: a fight with the AI company Anthropic over its flagship AI model, Claude. That conflict came to a head on Friday, when Trump said that the federal gove…

Vox by Peter.Balonon-Rosen, Sean Rameswaram

The Pentagon formally labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk

After weeks of failed negotiations, public ultimatums, and lawsuit threats, the Defense Department has formally labeled Anthropic a "supply-chain risk", escalating its fight with the AI company over their acceptable use policies and potentially bringing their…

The Verge by Tina Nguyen

Munificent 7 vow to spare US households from AI's rising energy costs

Bit tricky enforcing this. What's the penalty if they go up anyway? Seven of the top US AI companies and hyperscalers have officially agreed to protect American consumers from price hikes due to datacenter energy and infrastructure increases caused by the AI …

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

Anthropic and the Pentagon

OpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster by the highest officials in the US government towards some of the wealthiest titans of the big tech industry, and the overhanging …

Schneier.com by Bruce Schneier

Washington reportedly moves to tighten leash on AI chip exports

Draft rules could force Nvidia and AMD to seek government approval before selling abroad The Trump administration is reportedly planning new restrictions on GPU exports, aimed not only at controlling who gets them, but at driving AI investment back into the U…

Theregister.com by Dan Robinson

Anthropic is suing the Department of Defense

Anthropic has sued the US government over its designation as a supply-chain risk, the latest move in a weekslong battle between it and the Pentagon over the acceptable use cases for its military AI tech. The suit, filed in a California district court, accuses…

The Verge by Hayden Field

Trump’s AI-Powered World Wars

Nick Turse and Hooman Majd discuss war on Iran and other U.S. conflicts, and Sam Biddle breaks down how AI is being used. The post Trump’s AI-Powered World Wars appeared first on The Intercept.

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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks that his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the “power of vocationally-trained, working class, often male voters.” “This technology disrupts hu…

The New Republic by Malcolm Ferguson

Pete Hegesth Admits They’re Using AI in Iran War

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth admitted that the U.S. military is using “every tool of AI” in the war on Iran.“Every tool of AI, of cyber, of space, EW, counterUAS, you name it—we’re employing it. Blinding, confusing, and deceiving our enemy. Because we know …

The New Republic by Malcolm Ferguson

AI Czar David Sacks wants Trump to ‘get out’ of Iran

David Sacks, the White House's AI and crypto czar, has warned that a continued war in Iran could be catastrophic. On the All In podcast, Sacks said that "we should try to find the off-ramp." He expressed concern that Iran could demolish oil and gas infrastruc…

The Verge by Terrence O’Brien

Teens sue Elon Musk’s xAI over Grok’s AI-generated CSAM

Three Tennessee teens are suing Elon Musk's xAI over claims that the company's Grok AI chatbot generated sexualized images and videos of themselves as minors, as reported earlier by The Washington Post. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed on Monday, accu…

The Verge by Emma Roth

Anthropic's Claude claws its way towards the top of the AI market

Who knew questioning authority and signaling virtue would lead to growth? Anthropic has been killing it in the business market, success that appears to be at least partially attributable to pushback against the Pentagon.…

Theregister.com by Thomas Claburn

Trump takes another shot at dismantling state AI regulation

The Trump administration on Friday unveiled its new legislative blueprint for AI regulation, and the seven-point plan includes a clear message: The federal government should avoid many AI regulations beyond a set of child safety rules, and it should bar state…

The Verge by Hayden Field

Trump unveils national AI policy framework

The Trump administration released a national AI framework addressing safety, jobs, energy use and free speech as the U.S. seeks to stay competitive globally.

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The AI Industry Is Lying to You

Hi! If you like this piece and want to support my independent reporting and analysis, why not subscribe to my premium newsletter? It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5000 to 18,000 words, incl…

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WATCH: A.I. company Anthropic takes on Pentagon

Lawyers for the Pentagon and Anthropic appeared in a San Francisco courtroom Tuesday afternoon for the first major hearing in the AI company's challenge to its designation as a "supply chain risk.".

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Was the Iran War Caused by AI Psychosis?

AI sycophancy, RLHF bias, and Ender's Foundry simulations shaped Operation Epic Fury. 7 planning assumptions failed in 23 days as the Iran war defied every AI prediction.

Houseofsaud.com by Mohammed Omar

Federal Judge: Supply Chain Risk Designation of Anthropic Is ‘Orwellian’

The federal government tried to brand Anthropic, an American AI company, a national security threat for refusing to build surveillance and weapons tools. A federal judge looked at that argument and called it what it is: retaliation. On Friday, Judge Rita F. L…

Annielytics.com by Annie Cushing

The Download: AI health tools and the Pentagon’s Anthropic culture war

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work?  In the last few months alone, Microsoft, Amazon, and…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

Anthropic is launching a new AI model for cybersecurity

Anthropic is debuting a new AI model as part of a cybersecurity partnership with Nvidia, Google, Amazon Web Services, Apple, Microsoft, and other companies. Project Glasswing, as it's called, is billed as a way for large companies, and potentially even the go…

The Verge by Hayden Field

OpenAI made economic proposals — here’s what DC thinks of them

Happy ceasefire day and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech's rocky journey through the world of politics. If you're not a subscriber yet, you can do so here, but my only request is that you sign up before Donald Trump deci…

The Verge by Tina Nguyen

10 Friday AM Reads

My end-of-week morning train WFH reads: • The AI Jobs Scare Meets 250 Years of Data: What does history show? The economic stories of transformative technologies often display two important elements. 1) A rough patch at some point;  2) Business productivity (e…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

Trump’s Two-Faced AI Policy

The Trump administration’s AI policy is two-faced, torn between deregulation and despotism. In March, the administration released its National AI Legislative Framework, directing Congress to “prevent the United States government from coercing technology provi…

Techdirt by Andy Jung

Letters from Our Readers

Readers respond to E. Tammy Kim’s article about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Nicholas Lemann’s report about the Trump Administration’s attack on higher education, and Jill Lepore’s piece about whether A.I. needs a constitution.

The New Yorker by The New Yorker

The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap

In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple its stock price. The Newbird AI story is really just one of a bunch of things this week that made us wonder: have we rea…

The Verge by David Pierce

We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings

Palantir CEO Alex Karp is a man in charge of one of the most important and frightening companies in the world. Karp's new book, co-written with Nicholas Zamiska, is called "The Technological Republic." After claiming "because we get asked a lot", Palantir pos…

The Verge by TC. Sottek, Adi Robertson

The Download: introducing the 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now What actually matters in AI right now? It’s getting harder to tell ami…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

Reporters at news site are AI bots! OPENAI funding it...

Reporters at news site are AI bots! OPENAI funding it... (Second column, 4th story, link) Related stories:WEEKEND: Remaking of America's media order... AM/FM Radio Listening Hits All-Time Low... Altman Apologizes for Not Flagging Mass …

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Links 4/25/2026

Our fancy dally links: salmon high, Middle English pronunciation, moar Iran negotiaiton fakes, White House China AI freakout, EU stagflation, glum UK consumers, global shipping damage, Russia attack, medicine shortages

Nakedcapitalism.com by Yves Smith

France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American

Paris-based Mistral wanted to develop a top-tier AI model to rival OpenAI and Anthropic. That didn’t work out. But it turns out lots of folks don’t care if the AI is bleeding edge – as long as it wasn’t made in America or China.

Forbes by Iain Martin

Larry’s risky business

If you want to know whether the AI bubble is bursting, there's only one publicly traded company that will tell you: Oracle. That's right, the database company. Oracle has burned its boats and pivoted to AI, but not in any kind of usual way. It is not a founda…

The Verge by Elizabeth Lopatto

WATCH: AI agent error causes mayhem at tech company

Jeremy Crane, founder and CEO of PocketOS, shared in an in-depth post on X, explaining how the AI coding agent Cursor deleted his company's entire production database in about 9 seconds flat.

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White House Considers Vetting AI Models Before They Are Released

The Trump administration is reportedly considering an executive order to create a working group that could review advanced AI models before public release. The shift follows concerns over Anthropic's powerful Mythos model and its cyber capabilities, with offi…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers — state complains to federal energy regulators, says additional cost breaks ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ promises

Maryland is complaining to the federal energy regulator about PJM's plan to charge it $2 billion for grid upgrades that will mostly benefit data centers, especially as the state claims that the majority of these developments are being built in neighboring reg…

Tom's Hardware UK by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) , Jowi Morales

Study: “A few weeks of X’s algorithm can...

Study: “A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right‑wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly.” People using the “For You” feed were more likely to favor GOP policies, less likely to want Trump

kottke.org by Jason Kottke

The US Is Winning the AI Race

Energy matters for AI, but the decisive layers are cloud infrastructure, data, and commercialization. On those layers the United States is ahead by a wide margin.

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WATCH: Jury set to deliberate in landmark tech case

Elon Musk was an early investor in OpenAI and is suing its CEO, Sam Altman, and his top deputy, accusing them of betraying plans to keep the artificial intelligence company as a nonprofit.

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What’s the AI Endgame?

Chris Hayes on anxiety, automation, and how to emotionally survive the AI boom

The Atlantic by Charlie Warzel

You Can’t Escape AI Anymore

Once-speculative concerns about the technology have now become pressing matters.

The Atlantic by Matteo Wong

The post-search Google era begins

Google is many things, but most of the time it's a verb: It is what it is to search the internet for information. But what if it's an AI agent doing the searching? And it's doing it proactively? Without even telling you about it? In the world Google imagines,…

The Verge by David Pierce

Amazon Gets Into The AI Podcast Slop Business

Late last year we wrote about a new startup that was flooding the internet with AI-generated podcast slop. Featuring fake hosts having fake discussions, the startup proudly stated it was creating about 3,000 new AI-generated podcasts every single week. The ow…

Techdirt by Karl Bode

AI just hit its COVID shutdown moment

From SpaceX's IPO to Anthropic's massive revenue number, it looks like AI just had the day when the hype became real.

Business Insider by Zak Jason

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad pushing back on some of our criticism about John Oliver’s AI chatbot segment and his call for regulation: Isn’t the logical conclusion of this argument that we shouldn’t have government regulati…

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

Silicon Valley takes its AI pitch to Pope Leo

As Leo XIV prepares his first encyclical, tech firms and Western diplomats have worked to make their case for AI inside the Vatican.

Business Insider by Insider Inc.

Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto

Pope Leo XIV has called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit

Abcnews.com by NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press, KAITLYN HOUMANI Associated Press, PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity

“I want AI to be a tool that allows human flourishing!” exclaimed Brad Carson, a former member of Congress. “There is an option out there where AI is just a tool for us.” This is a normal thing to say in most circles. But Carson was speaking at an invite-only…

Vox by Sigal Samuel

The Download: climate tech goes public and the AI Hype Index returns

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Climate tech companies are going public. What’s next? Solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, hitt…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

The Race to Build AI Data Centers — Before the People Can Protest

From Utah to Georgia, communities are demanding data center moratoriums as concerns move from local zoning fights into national politics. The post The Race to Build AI Data Centers — Before the People Can Protest appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by The Intercept Briefing

AI is blowing up music. How should the Grammys handle it?

Today I’m talking with Harvey Mason Jr., who is CEO of the Recording Academy — that’s the outfit that puts on the Grammy Awards. I last talked to Harvey in 2024, when it was obvious that generative AI would upend the music industry, but still not exactly clea…

The Verge by Nilay Patel

OpenAI will voluntarily comply with Trump's new AI reviews order

OpenAI's head of countries, George Osborne, said that it will voluntarily comply with President Trump's new AI executive order. The order, signed by Trump on Tuesday, requests (not orders) access to the latest AI models 30 days before their release. The orde…

GSMArena.com by Ivan

Siri is good now??

You'd be forgiven for thinking this day would never come. Siri has spent a decade and half somewhere between "sort of useful at a few things" and "utterly disastrous, why did I even try, can it honestly not even set a timer." But the wildest thing just happen…

The Verge by David Pierce

Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan

Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked: “Will the future of humanity be determined by a handful of billionaires who have promoted and developed AI, with virtually no democratic…

Schneier.com by Bruce Schneier

China may have accessed Mythos

According to a new report from Semafor, the White House's decision to impose export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos was driven in part by fears that it had been accessed by a group linked to China. If the Chinese government actually had access to Mythos 5 …

The Verge by Terrence O’Brien

Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation

For months, Big Tech's Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive federal law, passed in Congress and signed by the president, applying one set of AI rules across the entire country a…

The Verge by Tina Nguyen

Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5

As the rest of the country celebrated the USA's first World Cup win and the New York Knicks championship, Anthropic spent its weekend fighting the Trump administration over its latest model release. At 5:21 PM on Friday, the company received a US export contr…

The Verge by Hayden Field

US Limits on Anthropic Fable AI Could Hurt Cybersecurity

Fable 5 was built to help with advanced cybersecurity work. Its sudden shutdown highlights a dilemma at the heart of AI security: the same tools can aid both defenders and attackers

Scientific American by Chris Stokel-Walker

AI Use by the US Government

On 14 April, the Trump administration quietly acknowledged the widespread use of AI to automate government processes. The office of management and budget (OMB) disclosed a staggering 3,611 active or planned use cases for AI across the federal government. The …

Schneier.com by Bruce Schneier

The Korean Telecom Giant At the Center of Anthropic's Mythos Controversy

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: The Trump administration's move to impose export controls on Anthropic's most powerful AI technology followed a spat over the company granting South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom access to its Claude Mythos mo…

Slashdot.org by BeauHD

The Download: AI bottleneck debates, and BCI trials take off

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth last …

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

The Download: the future of chipmaking and Anthropic’s government clash

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking It’s a bit of a schlep to get to the top of ASML’s newest mach…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

10 Thursday AM Reads

My morning train WFH reads: • The Coming Loop: I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops. The Flask creator on agentic AI and the feedback loops we’re about to build into every…

Ritholtz.com by Barry Ritholtz

OpenAI unveils GPT-5.6 amid US AI regulatory drama

Less than 24 hours after news broke that OpenAI would stagger its next model release at the request of the Trump administration, that model, GPT-5.6, is here. On Friday, the company unveiled the limited preview of its new GPT 5.6 model suite: Sol, the flagshi…

The Verge by Hayden Field

Trump’s AI power grab

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration is putting itself in charge o…

Vox by Cameron Peters

The Download: brain-melting heatwaves and unprecedented OpenAI restrictions

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Heat waves mess with your brain. Scientists are trying to figure out why. —Jessica Hamzelou It’s been hot in London this …

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

ChatGPT’s powerful GPT-5.6 models arrive, but not for you

The U.S. government ban on Anthropic’s powerful Fable and Mythos models has everybody spooked. That’s why it’s a little surprising that OpenAI, Anthropic’s biggest rival, is slowly rolling out its latest and most powerful GPT models. Yes, the GPT-5.6 ser…

PCWorld by Ben Patterson

Kevin O'Leary has entered a new villain era

Kevin O'Leary, the acerbic "Shark Tank" investor, is everywhere trying to sell a skeptical American public on the idea of a data center in their town.

Business Insider by Lauren Edmonds,Madeline Berg

The AI Cold War Just Got Chillier

Anthropic is cracking down on Chinese developers and companies using its models while pushing for greater collaboration at home.

Gizmodo.com by Webb Wright

The Download: a startup has a solution for AI’s groupthink problem

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, Cha…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, both our winners on the insightful side come in response to the German court ruling that Google is liable for false claims in its AI overviews. In first place, it’s an anonymous comment about Bruce Schneier’s reaction to the ruling: In second place…

Techdirt by Leigh Beadon

How Google And AI Nearly Made A Seasoned Reporter Spiral

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Last month, my colleagues and I published an investigation into a Texas oil refinery startup, America First Refining, that had secretly gotten investment from Dona…

Techdirt by Justin Elliott