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Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regulation don't want new legislation, but to be "relieved of the laws we do have" because of "ulterior reasons" (Truman Dickerson/Business Insider)
Truman Dickerson / Business Insider : Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regu…
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AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures (Owen Walker/Financial Times)
Owen Walker / Financial Times : AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are p…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)
Ken Bensinger / New York Times : California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will…
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Experts say AI kill-switch legislation is far harder to implement than lawmakers assume, warning a rogue AI could actively try to dismantle the mechanism itself (New York Times)
New York Times : Experts say AI kill-switch legislation is far harder to implement …
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Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an "AI Force", in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a "hoax" (María Paula Mijares Torres/Bloomberg)
María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg : Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and …
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Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed (New York Times)
New York Times : Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely…
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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signs an EO to slow down data center approvals, create an AI task force to evaluate workforce displacement, and more (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
Lauren Feiner / The Verge : Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signs an EO to slow do…
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Mistral and other European AI startups accuse US rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance, rejecting Anthropic's calls to pace the frontier (Reuters)
Reuters : Mistral and other European AI startups accuse US rivals of using safety c…
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Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated (Anthropic)
Anthropic : Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: ho…
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Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are "much more science fiction than science" and the latest "wave of PR" is probably intended to shape regulation (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)
Micah Barkley / Bloomberg : Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are “much…
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NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" and a Microsoft executive called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times)
Financial Times : NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face a…
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A survey of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and 8,607 US adults: populations in 34 of 37 surveyed countries expect AI to cause net job loss rather than growth (Pew Research Center)
Pew Research Center : A survey of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and 8,607 US adults…
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X adds a "Trade" option to its Cashtag feature, letting US users complete trades at brokerages including Interactive Brokers, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : X adds a “Trade” option to its Cashtag feature, letting …
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Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, raised an additional $53M seed led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterpri…
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Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge : Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, l…
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