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China has built an AI governance system spanning recommendation algorithms, synthetic media and generative AI services, and a new framework extends its attention to risks across AI’s lifecycle. The Conversation’s account makes a useful counterpoint to calls in the US for rules that, in some areas, China has…
Read the report & discussion ↗Anthropic Watch
Anthropic has warned that autonomous AI agents could expose it to unpredictable legal claims if they take harmful or unexpected actions. The company’s prospectus, seen by Reuters, says it is unsettled how existing law applies to agents and whether their actions could legally bind the users who deploy…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI has announced two privacy measures for AI workloads: an enhanced safety-review system available now and a confidential-computing service still in preview. The practical change is that automated safety checks can run without OpenAI staff seeing the customer content being checked.
Watch Desk
Developing nations are calling for a greater role in shaping AI rules, warning that governance led mainly by wealthy countries could deepen global inequality. At a recent UN Security Council session, 128 delegations addressed AI, up from five four years ago, Reuters reports.
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic has opened a week-long study asking some Claude users what they want from AI, with an unusual condition: participants can choose to publish their full interview for anyone to read. The invitation offers a chance to put personal experience into the public record, but sharing may be…
Watch Desk
Investors are financing power plants, fuel cells and other on-site systems to get electricity to AI data centres faster than the grid can deliver it. The deals bring new money to a key AI bottleneck, but can tie data-centre operators to long contracts even as computing needs change.
Microsoft AI Watch
A compromised account gave the threat actor Microsoft calls Storm-3068 a route from a self-service password reset into Azure DevOps, development pipelines and Kubernetes resources, according to Microsoft. The company says attackers used a malicious pipeline to collect Kubernetes credentials, showing how a single identity can bridge code…
Baseten Watch
Baseten says OpenAI enterprise customers can now use their existing OpenAI commitments to access open models served by Baseten, either through Codex or the Responses API. The partnership gives companies a new way to combine open and closed models in AI coding workflows without setting up a separate…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI is in early talks to raise $30bn before an IPO, in a round that could value the company at about $1.4tn. The talks are preliminary, and no term sheet has been signed, according to The Information.
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI has announced Dots, always-on AI assistants designed to carry out tasks across connected apps in the background. Their reach is the headline: The Verge says they can access more than 4,000 supported apps through their own cloud computer.
AWS AI Watch
AWS has described an AI contract platform that turns information in PDFs into structured records, then lets users ask both portfolio-wide and document-specific questions. Its key design choice is to use AI for extraction and checking, but a database for the sums and comparisons that retrieval-based chat can…
Meta AI Watch
Meta is expanding Forum, its app for Facebook Groups, with an AI feature that surfaces relevant posts and comments in response to questions. The app is available in the US on iOS and Android, giving group members another way to find advice and discover communities.
AWS AI Watch
Condé Nast says an AI-powered search system built with AWS cut the time its editorial teams spent finding video from an average of 250 minutes to about two minutes per task. The system searches across more than 140,000 videos by what is seen, said and heard, returning relevant…
Watch Desk
Cloudflare is developing an AI tool to find and analyse cryptography across its codebase as it prepares for a post-quantum migration deadline in 2029. The practical challenge is scale: the company says CryptoLabe will look across thousands of repositories, configurations and dependencies to help identify what needs to…
Watch Desk
Oracle’s remaining performance obligations reached $664bn in its first quarter of fiscal 2027, as the company signed more than $30bn in new AI cloud contracts. The figure signals enormous contracted demand, but it sits alongside a costly build-out: Oracle reported $28.5bn in quarterly capital spending and expects $90bn…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft Research has introduced Quine, an experimental AI research system designed to connect biological data, scientific tools, literature and researchers. In work with the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Microsoft says Quine helped prioritise compounds for lab testing in pancreatic cancer research, with several highly ranked candidates…
Mistral AI Watch
Morocco’s digital transition ministry has launched two open-source AI tools developed with Mistral AI: a classifier for identifying Arabic dialects and a speech-recognition model that transcribes Darija, including speech switching between Arabic, French and English. That gives developers a practical starting point for building tools around how people…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic has agreements to pay SpaceX up to $84.5bn for Nvidia-based computing capacity through 2029, The Information reports, citing a confidential IPO prospectus reported by Reuters. The scale is striking, but the agreements can mostly be cancelled with 90 days’ notice, according to the report.
Watch Desk
FrontierSWE’s creators have released version 2 of their benchmark, expanding it to 34 technical challenges and introducing evaluations that run for up to 20 hours. They say Claude Fable 5.1 leads the results, ahead of GPT-5.6 and GLM-5.3, a ranking that puts long-horizon AI coding ability under fresh…
