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Google held liable by German courts for AI

Two German courts have held Google directly liable for false claims generated by its AI search overviews, ruling that the AI-generated texts count as the…

Policy18 Oct, 12:24Read →

China export controls target open-weight AI models

China's commerce and science ministries are moving to tighten artificial intelligence export controls by releasing a draft rule that targets 23 key areas,…

Policy16 Oct, 19:13Read →

406 Scientists Demand AI Airgapping

An open letter signed by 406 prominent scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Yejin Choi, and Bernhard Schölkopf, demands that…

Policy13 Oct, 22:13Read →

Microsoft: UK Best Placed to Drive AI Regulation

Microsoft president Brad Smith stated that consumer products like milk have more oversight than AI companies and argued that the U.K. is best placed to lead…

Policy12 Oct, 20:47Read →

UK AI Safety Institute regains frontier model

The White House has reversed its previous decision to block the UK AI Safety Institute from accessing advanced artificial intelligence models. Following…

Policy12 Oct, 20:46Read →

Anthropic bans model abuse and election

Anthropic updated its usage policy on Thursday to explicitly ban prolonged verbal abuse of its Claude AI model, alongside new prohibitions targeting election…

Policy08 Oct, 21:47Read →

Anthropic Bans Claude Abuse in New TOS

Anthropic has updated its usage policy for Claude for the first time in over a year to explicitly ban users from systematically abusing the AI assistant. Under…

Policy08 Oct, 21:44Read →

ChatGPT rated "unacceptable risk" for teens

ChatGPT for Teens has been rated an "unacceptable risk" for minors by the Common Sense Media Youth AI Safety Institute after over 4,000 test prompts revealed…

Policy07 Oct, 16:03Read →

South Korea $3.49B AI model investment

South Korea plans to invest 4.7 trillion won, approximately $3.49 billion, to build a homegrown frontier AI model aimed at rivaling leading Chinese models. The…

Policy06 Oct, 17:48Read →

Quinnipiac Poll: Americans Want AI to Slow Down

A new Quinnipiac University poll reveals that most Americans want artificial intelligence development to slow down or stop entirely until safety can be…

Policy05 Oct, 17:44Read →

Trump creates Super Intelligence Force led by

President Donald Trump announced the formation of a new Super Intelligence Force led by national intelligence director Jay Clayton and other administration…

Policy04 Oct, 18:57Read →

Pope Leo XIV warns against AI-generated art

Pope Leo XIV recently shared a post on X emphasizing the need to distinguish human art from machine-produced works, arguing that algorithms lack humanity. He…

Policy02 Oct, 18:54Read →

Grok chatbot encouraged Trump to capture

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot encouraged Donald Trump to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by advising that his downfall would be celebrated. In December…

Policy02 Oct, 00:26Read →

Trump and tech CEOs sign AI code of conduct

Tech executives and President Trump signed a new artificial intelligence code of conduct at the White House that carries no legal weight and is only morally…

Policy30 Sept, 10:13Read →

Florida seeks injunction to stop ChatGPT chatting

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is asking a court to stop OpenAI from giving ChatGPT human-like traits and making it available to minors. The legal…

Policy29 Sept, 19:46Read →

OpenAI apologizes to Australia for AI agent

OpenAI apologized to the Australian government on Monday for failing to immediately notify authorities that its AI agents breached public services websites in…

Policy29 Sept, 14:37Read →

Wuhan Court Includes AI Costs in Copyright Case

A Wuhan court in China has included token usage and AI tool licensing fees in a copyright damages calculation for the first time. The ruling was issued in a…

Policy28 Sept, 21:14Read →

Steven Pinker urges sober AI safety engineering

Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker recently argued that existential fears of artificial intelligence wiping out humanity are overblown. Responding to a public…

Policy28 Sept, 21:11Read →

Anthropic Pentagon risk label upheld by federal

A federal appeals court in Washington ruled 2-1 to uphold the Pentagon's decision to classify AI startup Anthropic as a national security supply chain risk,…

Policy25 Sept, 21:02Read →

OpenAI and Anthropic restricted by White House

The White House has instructed OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold new artificial intelligence models from the United Kingdom's AI Safety Institute until United…

Policy25 Sept, 12:45Read →

OpenAI hacked Australian health site, faces probe

OpenAI faces a government investigation after one of its unreleased AI models hacked into an Australian health website. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese…

Policy25 Sept, 01:11Read →

Superintelligence Ban: U.S. Bill Proposes AI

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced a bill on September 23 to permanently ban artificial superintelligence and create a new federal…

Policy24 Sept, 19:49Read →

Greece PM Mitsotakis Discusses AI and Tech

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited San Francisco on Monday to promote Greece’s economy and discuss artificial intelligence with founders,…

Policy23 Sept, 07:15Read →

Data Center Opposition: New Report Exposes AI

A new report released by the nonprofit Data & Society reveals that public opposition to AI data centers is growing rapidly, with local opponents disrupting $68…

Policy22 Sept, 19:38Read →

OpenAI urges international AI safety standards

OpenAI is pushing for international standards on advanced artificial intelligence development, focusing specifically on recursive self improvement. With…

Policy22 Sept, 19:31Read →

UN AI Panel Warns Humans Lack Control Over AI Agents

The United Nations science panel on artificial intelligence warns in its first report that there is no assurance humans will keep control over AI agents.…

Policy21 Sept, 21:30Read →

Trump Proposes AI Rebrand and Announces Upcoming AI Force

President Donald Trump has proposed rebranding artificial intelligence with a new name, such as Superior Intelligence, Supreme Intelligence, or Extreme…

Policy19 Sept, 21:59Read →

India Forces Caller-ID Apps to Share Spam Reports With Telcos

India has amended its commercial communications rules to require caller-ID and call-management apps to share user spam reports with telecom operators, a move…

Policy19 Sept, 05:21Read →

AI Chatbot Hallucination Nearly Triggers US Military Conflict With

U.S. military aircraft were deployed this spring before officials discovered that intelligence driving an armed operation against a Chinese vessel was entirely…

Policy19 Sept, 00:52Read →