Congress Wants a Button That Can Shut Down Powerful AI
Representatives Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, which would require frontier AI developers to keep the ability to shut down their...
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Alibaba’s Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Tops the Speech Leaderboard
Alibaba released Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS, a speech model that ranks first on an independent text-to-speech leaderboard, clones voices across 16 languages and costs a third...
Publishers Weigh Blocking Google as AI Overviews Drain Traffic
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.
US Treasury Secretary Threatens Sanctions Over Chinese AI Model Distillation
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...
Startups Urge Trump Not to Block Chinese Open-Weight AI Models
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 Launches Presence to Deploy Enterprise AI Agents
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...
Musk Vows AI-Made “Odyssey” After Attacking Nolan’s Film
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 Paused a Model That Bypassed Its Own Sandbox
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...
Google Launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and a Gated Cyber Model
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, cheaper and more token-efficient models for AI agents, plus a cyber-focused model restricted to governments and trusted partners.
US and China Plan First Trump-Era AI Talks for September
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,...
Anthropic Will Pay $1.5 Billion to Authors Whose Books Trained Claude
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.
Google Designs a Gemini-Specific AI Chip Called Frozen v2
Google is designing Frozen v2, a chip that hardwires parts of its Gemini model into silicon and could serve six to ten times more tokens per...