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DOJ invokes national security to defend xAI's unpermitted gas turbines in NAACP lawsuit
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DOJ invokes national security to defend xAI's unpermitted gas turbines in NAACP lawsuit

The US Justice Department invoked national security concerns to defend xAI's unpermitted gas turbines in response to an...

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EU publishes its AI content labelling playbook ahead of the AI Act’s August deadline
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EU publishes its AI content labelling playbook ahead of the AI Act’s August deadline

The European Union published its AI content labelling playbook on June 10, a voluntary Code of Practice to help...

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AI Red Teaming Explained: What It Is and Why You Need It
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AI Red Teaming Explained: What It Is and Why You Need It

AI red teaming is a testing methodology that evaluates AI systems under adversarial conditions to identify...

AI News
DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit
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DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit

The DOJ argued in court that xAI is vital to national security and military operations, including the Iran War, in an...

Wired AI
Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic

Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5

Anthropic received a US export control directive from the Trump administration on Friday ordering it to suspend access...

The Verge AI
Anthropic Is Still at Odds With the White House Over Claude Fable 5
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic

Anthropic Is Still at Odds With the White House Over Claude Fable 5

Anthropic leadership met with White House officials to discuss concerns about Claude Fable 5, but the two parties...

Wired AI
Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties
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Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, faced protests at Stanford's graduation ceremony where students and attendees booed and...

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The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic

The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

The Trump administration forced Anthropic to withdraw its latest cybersecurity models, signaling government...

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All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic

All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House

Anthropic has blocked access to its new AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally following a White House order on June...

The Verge AI
Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic

Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI

The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to take its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline and block access for all...

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The US government may be asking Anthropic the impossible by demanding unhackable LLMs
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic

The US government may be asking Anthropic the impossible by demanding unhackable LLMs

The US government is in talks with Anthropic over allegations that the company released Claude 5 (referred to as Fable...

The Decoder
Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation
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Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation

Big Tech companies' Washington lobbyists are making a final push for federal AI preemption legislation that would...

The Verge AI
Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic

Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models

Cybersecurity experts are protesting US government export control restrictions on Anthropic's Claude models (Fable and...

TechCrunch AI
Anthropic Forced to Disable New Models by US Government
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic

Anthropic Forced to Disable New Models by US Government

Anthropic has been forced to disable new AI models by the US government following the release of two powerful new...

AI Business
Pokémon Go data helped train AI now linked to military drones
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Pokémon Go data helped train AI now linked to military drones

Pokémon Go players' AR scan data was used to train Niantic's spatial AI models, which are now being integrated with a...

The Decoder
Anthropic shutdown sparks sovereignty debate across Europe
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic

Anthropic shutdown sparks sovereignty debate across Europe

The European Commission is evaluating the impact of a US order that shut down Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models...

The Decoder
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns of "a small number of AI systems capturing all the economic returns"
Ethics & RegulationMicrosoft

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns of "a small number of AI systems capturing all the economic returns"

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that concentrated AI power among a few large models could monopolize economic returns...

The Decoder
The AI off switch: How Anthropic’s export controls sparked a global AI sovereignty scramble
Ethics & RegulationAnthropic

The AI off switch: How Anthropic’s export controls sparked a global AI sovereignty scramble

Anthropic's implementation of US export controls resulted in its two most powerful AI models going offline globally on...

AI News
The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg
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The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg

As AI companies conduct mass layoffs affecting tens of thousands of workers, a small group of AI insiders is...

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