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48 articles filed under Policy and regulation, newest first, from the outlets listed on the sources page.
- TechCrunch AIpolicyCrusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular “AI factories”
The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.
- WIRED AIpolicyThe AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess
By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may have set themselves up for years of regulatory headaches.
- TechCrunch AIpolicyMicrosoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
- Guardian TechnologypolicyMeta ordered to remove UK deepfakes as oversight board criticises ‘inadequate’ safeguards
Facebook told it was wrong in leaving up AI-generated videos of a Labour councillor and Muslim campaigner, amid calls to curb fakes Meta’s “supreme court” has ordered the tech company to take down deepfake videos of a UK…
- The Register AI + MLpolicyGrassroots coalition asks politicians to choose voters over Big AI's $140M machine
QuitGPT-led pledge targets Leading the Future's push for lighter regulation ahead of the midterms
- OpenAI NewspolicyHow Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT
Cooley built GO Public with ChatGPT Work to bring intelligence to the IPO process, helping lawyers surface issues earlier and focus judgment where it matters most.
- WIRED AIpolicyWashington Won’t Be Regulating AI Anytime Soon
Even with mounting concerns about AI models going rogue, legislation appears unlikely, and the White House is outright opposed to oversight.
- Guardian TechnologypolicyHouse speaker calls early recess before midterms amid AI regulation frenzy
Mike Johnson cancels votes on Thursday, meaning House members will avoid voting on impeaching Pete Hegseth The Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson , announced on Wednesday that he would again cancel votes sched…
- Guardian TechnologypolicyAllowing AI firms to collude to ‘pace the frontier’ is a dangerous proposition
Tech CEOs banding together is an old ruse recycled from corporate America to get a pass from antitrust laws Anthropic’s Dario Amodei is not the first corporate CEO to suggest that excessive competition is driving the wor…
- Guardian TechnologypolicyThe US government is failing Americans on AI | Shakeel Hashim
Trump and Republicans want companies to regulate themselves. It’s a dereliction of duty that will make AI less safe It is hard to get Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei to agree on much. But over the weekend, all thr…
- BBC TechnologypolicyAI app ads promoting 'objectification of women' banned by watchdog
The ad regulator said it had "zero-tolerance" for ads promoting AI tools that could sexualise or objectify women.
- The Register AI + MLpolicyAmerica is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them
Meeting expected energy consumption through 2030 will require $110 billion in new generation resources
- Guardian Technologypolicy‘We were bored of traditional fantasy cliches’: inside Playground Games’ 10-year effort to revive Fable
The distinctively British RPG is returning courtesy of the makers of Forza Horizon – with comedy talent such as Richard Ayoade and Natasia Demetriou voicing sweary characters. We had our first play and spoke to its devel…
- The Register AI + MLpolicyThe latest AI doomsayer is China’s intelligence boss
Beijing’s response is to ‘firmly grasp technological sovereignty’ and broad regulations
- Ars Technica AIpolicyOpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out
Musk stops attacking Apple over ChatGPT integration but not OpenAI.
- The Register AI + MLpolicyEx-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable
- The Register AI + MLpolicyMPs and peers tell UK to stop winging it on AI regulation
Rights committee demands watchdog with teeth as patchwork safeguards leave victims hunting for remedies
- WIRED AIpolicyAI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump’s Team Says It’s on Them
Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s weekend plea for regulation. The White House seems unlikely to oblige.
- The Register AI + MLpolicyThe myth of killer AI is a self-serving attempt at regulatory capture
Skynet is coming soon, and also there's this Nigerian prince with a $20 million fortune who wants to give it to you
- LessWrongpolicyThere is a channel to 900M weekly users. What goes in it?
Anthropic and OpenAI could talk to almost one billion people if they wanted to. I hesitated to publish this post 3 weeks ago. [1] I think that I should have published this sooner, before Jacob Coxon and Dario's 'We must…
- AI Stack ExchangepolicyIn Probabilistic Graphical Model (written by Daphne Koller), what's the meaning of "parameter" in representation of the distribution?
I just started to read the PGM book written by Daphne Koller. In the chapter of Bayesian Network Representation(Chapter 3), there are some descriptions about the standard parameterization of the joint distribution corres…
- AI Stack ExchangepolicyWhy are policy gradients popular in RL when there exists a dual LP formulation in terms of occupation measures that can be solved easily?
Why are policy gradient methods popular in reinforcement learning when there exists a dual LP formulation in terms of occupation measures that can be solved easily?
- Ars Technica AIpolicyChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses
“I didn’t know that AI could hallucinate facts,” New Mexico defense lawyer says.
- OpenAI NewspolicyRapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users
Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second.
- NVIDIA BlogpolicyPhysical AI Takes the Wheel: How the World’s Robotaxi Leaders Are Building With NVIDIA Technologies
The global robotaxi market — physical AI’s first commercial breakthrough — is projected to reach $400 billion by 2035, with over 6 million commercial vehicles in operation as driverless fleets are already moving people t…
- Mistral AI NewspolicyCloudera and Mistral Partner to Bring Specialized, Sovereign Intelligence to Enterprise Data
Cloudera and Mistral join forces to bring specialized, sovereign AI intelligence to enterprise data, helping regulated industries innovate on their own terms.
- Engadget AIpolicyAnthropic users are taking the company to court over Max subscription terms
A new class-action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of misleading advertising about Claude usage with its top-tier plan.
- UK Algorithmic Transparency RecordspolicyHM Courts & Tribunals Service: BenchNotes
This system enables First‑Tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber (IAC) judges to securely transcribe their oral decisions in real time using Azure Speech Services ASR models.
- UK Algorithmic Transparency RecordspolicyHMRC: Ask Security
A generative AI chatbot for internal use to allow HMRC colleagues access to HMRC Security Policies, Standards and Guidance.
- BBC TechnologypolicyTech Life
Scammers demand money from Instagram users over fake copyright claims.
- Google DeepMindpolicyAlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome
AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.
- Mistral AI NewspolicyMistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier
Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
- Ars Technica AIpolicyThe complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center
When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?
- Guardian TechnologypolicyPixel 11 review: Google sets the bar for standard flagship phones
Longer battery life, faster chip, actually useful AI tools and better cameras keep quality Android ahead of competition Google’s Pixel 11 continues to set the standard for what you should expect from the base model of a…
- Ars Technica AIpolicyNvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion
Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.
- OpenAI NewspolicyDaybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services
OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.
- OpenAI NewspolicyHow law firm Gilbert + Tobin governs and scales AI with OpenAI
See how Gilbert + Tobin combines CEO-led commitment, rigorous governance, and human accountability to scale ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex across the firm.
- Ars Technica AIpolicy“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit
Lawsuit: Anthropic’s torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts.
- OpenAI NewspolicyA milestone in expanding access to AI
ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and expands globally, supporting broader access to AI through free and affordable options.
- Ars Technica AIpolicyElon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
- NVIDIA Developer BlogpolicyRestore LLM Inference Capacity in Seconds with Shadow Engine Recovery in NVIDIA Dynamo
When an LLM engine process fails, the standard recovery path involves a cold restart. This requires loading weights into HBM from storage, compiling kernels,...
- NVIDIA Developer BlogpolicyBeyond VLAs: How World Action Models Reshape Robot Manipulation
A central challenge in robotics is building policies that generalize beyond the demonstrations they’re trained on. A policy that succeeds in a training scene...
- OpenAI NewspolicyIntroducing Intelligence Age
Introducing Intelligence Age, a new OpenAI blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom.
- OpenAI NewspolicyNew policy ideas for the Intelligence Age
OpenAI funds 14 independent projects exploring new AI policy ideas to expand economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience in the Intelligence Age.
- UK Algorithmic Transparency RecordspolicyStandards and Testing Agency: LLM - KS2 Writing Sample Generator
Large Language model used to generate examples of pupils' writing at various standards at the end of KS2.
- OpenAI NewspolicyApple is getting this wrong
OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.
- OpenAI NewspolicyUnivé builds an AI-ready workforce
See how Univé built an AI-ready workforce with ChatGPT Enterprise by combining leadership, responsible governance, and employee-led innovation to transform work at scale.
- OpenAI NewspolicyDavid Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC
David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC, bringing global leadership in finance, technology, and governance.