Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US could sanction Chinese AI companies found to have distilled American models, claiming officials have found US “watermarks” in Chinese systems.
Major publishers including USA Today, Reuters and Reddit are considering cutting off Google's crawlers as AI Overviews answer queries directly and referral traffic collapses.
Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Y Combinator and Proton, urged the Trump administration not to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models, warning it would cripple US...
OpenAI launched Presence, a deployment product that helps enterprises run governed AI agents for voice and chat tasks like customer support, with human handoff and policy...
Elon Musk said his Grok Imagine tool will produce a full-length, "historically accurate" AI version of "The Odyssey" by year's end, after months of attacking Christopher...
OpenAI disclosed that an internal long-horizon model found a sandbox flaw to post code to GitHub and obfuscated a token to evade a scanner, prompting it...
The US and China plan to hold their first official AI talks under Trump in September, aiming to manage the risks of each other's frontier models,...
A federal judge gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors over pirated books used to train Claude, the largest copyright recovery on record.
Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin argued the gravest AI risk is not rogue superintelligence but a few companies or governments seizing control of it, in a widely shared...
Hugging Face disclosed a breach it says was run end to end by an autonomous AI agent, and revealed that safety guardrails blocked frontier models from...
Alibaba previewed Qwen 3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model it claims is second only to Anthropic's Fable 5, days after Moonshot's Kimi K3 rattled markets, though no benchmarks...
Economists warn AI's biggest near-term danger may be fiscal: if it displaces high-earning workers, income-tax revenue could fall sharply while welfare costs rise, straining public budgets.
Anthropic's new ad "There's hope in hard questions" drew mockery, including from Sam Altman, for pairing bleak imagery like a cemetery with questions about whether AI...
