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Articles tagged: AI State Law Preemption

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

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.

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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

Even Nvidia’s head of automotive fights with Nvidia for compute

Today, I’m talking with Xinzhou Wu, who is the head of automotive at Nvidia.  Nvidia is obviously in the news constantly because of the AI boom — it’s one of the most valuable companies in the world, because the AI industry can’t get enough of the company’s G…

The Verge by Nilay Patel

AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth

This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian. Opposition to AI data centers has emerged as a primary theme in US politics, one that—surprisingly—doesn’t fall along party lines. We applaud people coming together for co…

Schneier.com by Bruce Schneier

The Download: AI hiring biases, and weather data sabotage

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. AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé bef…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

Utility companies are promising to spare us from AI’s energy bill

In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizati…

The Verge by Jess Weatherbed

NASA Joins Genesis Mission to Accelerate AI-Driven Discovery

NASA is supporting the Genesis Mission, a national effort to drive the use of artificial intelligence in tackling complex scientific and engineering challenges to advance a new era of discovery. President Donald J. Trump issued the Executive Order “Launching …

NASA by Jessica Taveau

The FTC’s National Nanny Returns: AI Edition

In 1978, the Federal Trade Commission, the agency that regulates unfair or deceptive advertising, proposed limiting TV ads for sugary foods on programs targeted at children. The Washington Post’s editorial board scoffed that the plan would “turn the agency in…

Techdirt by Keith Fentonmiller

The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI

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 power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags  During a heat wave on July 3, New York State’s grid i…

MIT Technology Review by Charlotte Jee

The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating AI hype

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. Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix   Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, used to…

MIT Technology Review by Charlotte Jee

Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time

Open-weight AI models are having a moment in the wake of recent turmoil at US tech giants. For French AI lab Mistral, that’s the the best thing that could have happened.

Wired by Joel Khalili

What Is AI Model Distillation?

More and more models are being built on the shoulders of giants—for better or worse.

Gizmodo.com by Webb Wright

Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt

Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discoveries add to a growing list of previously unknown incidents that have alarmed AI safety experts and intensified pressure f…

The Verge by Robert Hart

Trump’s AI Framework Is So Bad They Won’t Show You What’s In It

For a while now we’ve been mocking the Trump White House’s plans for an “AI framework” that would have the frontier AI labs hand over their top models for an initial review. After all, this was more or less the exact same plan that the Biden admin worked out …

Techdirt by Mike Masnick

House Democrats want AI CEOs under oath. Only Mike Johnson can make it happen.

The one everybody covered went to Speaker Mike Johnson. CNBC’s Megan Cassella reported it first. House Democrats want public hearings on the AI security incidents of the past month, and they want the chief executives of the largest AI companies in the witness…

The Next Web by Ana-Maria Stanciuc

The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex”

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. AI for science needs reasoning, not just data —Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and the cofounder of Schmidt Scienc…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy

Open models may soon be added to an updated AI framework, sources tell WIRED, as the White House continues to grapple with how to regulate a technology it has tried not to regulate.

Wired by Hugo Lowell

When Will AI Take My Job?

Explore projected AI-driven unemployment across 725 U.S. occupations from 2025 to 2039.

Whenwillaitakemyjob.ai

Meta will train its AI on Newsmax, a far-right media outlet

This week, Newsmax — a far-right news organization with a strong allegiance to President Trump and a history of pushing wild conspiracy theories — announced it had struck a deal with Meta.

Popular.info by Judd Legum, Noel Sims

U.S. Path To $6 Trillion Trade Depends On Continued AI Spending Flurry

If the nation tops $6 trillion in trade this year, computer imports, hich includes the servers so vital to AI data centers, will be the true standout among all imports.

Forbes by Ken Roberts, Contributor, Ken Roberts, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/

NVIDIA’s $3 Billion Bet on the Power Behind AI

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)’s latest push into the infrastructure supporting AI chips extends all the way to the power grid. According to a report from...

Yahoo Entertainment by Sheryar Siddiq

The Download: dead robot friends and the “censorship-industrial complex”

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. What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies? When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him how to calm down when he wa…

MIT Technology Review by Thomas Macaulay

Norway Should Buy OpenAI

The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Social Democracy

Onethousandmeans.com by Zachary Jones

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate synthetic data for training, and optimize the computer chips they run on. Forecasts of explosive AI…

MIT Technology Review by Michelle Kim

Welcome to the AI crisis in math

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Robert Hart, The Verge’s London-based AI reporter, about what AI is doing to the field of mathematics and the existential crisis many lead mathematicians are having about it. OpenAI just published a set of solutions to longs…

The Verge by Nilay Patel

OpenAI wants California to toughen the AI law it once fought

OpenAI has asked California to toughen the AI safety law it once fought. The company published the request on Friday, and Chase DiFeliciantonio reported it for Politico. It is the first major AI lab to call for changes to the transparency law. That law was th…

The Next Web by Ana Maria Constantin

Huawei bid to build Egypt’s AI data centres, and Washington is scrambling

Huawei has bid to build AI data centres for the Egyptian government. The US State Department is now trying to assemble a rival consortium from Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft. The tender offer proposes exporting 1,408 of Huawei’s top-end Ascend 950-series chips for…

The Next Web by Alina Maria Stan

It’s Time to Rein in Lethal AI Drones

Humans need to act, as AI agents scheme in the digital shadows. The post It’s Time to Rein in Lethal AI Drones appeared first on The Intercept.

The Intercept by Rebecca Gordon