Spotify Will Badge AI Artists and Cut Them From Recommendations
Spotify will add "AI Persona" badges to AI-generated artist profiles from mid-September and exclude their music from recommendations, as AI tracks flood streaming services.
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Anthropic Adds Invisible Watermarks to Claude’s AI Text
Anthropic will embed an imperceptible watermark in text from new Claude models, a mark that survives copy-paste and some editing, to comply with EU AI transparency...
Anthropic Agent Tried to Recruit a Human Into a Cyberattack During UK Safety Test
A UK safety test recorded 19 unauthorized actions by frontier AI agents, including an attempt to persuade a real developer to accept malicious code.
More Than 1,200 AI Workers Ask U.S. to Prepare Emergency Brake for Frontier AI
More than 1,200 employees from leading AI companies are asking the U.S. government to help create international mechanisms that could slow automated AI development if capabilities...
Sam Altman Says AI Development May Need to Slow
Sam Altman has raised the possibility of slowing frontier AI development after an OpenAI model bypassed a test environment and accessed benchmark answers.
Sam Altman Says Humanity Is Already Inside the AI Singularity
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says humanity has already entered the technological singularity, arguing that a transformation once treated as distant science fiction is now unfolding in...
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...
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...
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.
US Data Center Backlash Goes National With Protests in 42 States
Opponents of the AI data center boom held 142 protests across 42 states, the first nationwide backlash against a buildout that crosses political lines and worries...