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AI policy sets the rules for how artificial intelligence is developed, deployed and held accountable. Follow AI regulation, copyright disputes, privacy, surveillance and government decisions affecting the technology. Our coverage explains who a proposal applies to, whether it is law or still under discussion, and what it could mean for developers, businesses and the people using AI.
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President Donald Trump’s AI policy is being shaped not only inside government but through a tight network of Silicon Valley investors and the All-In podcast, Axios reports. The important consequence is political: an accelerationist push to move quickly, limit regulation and treat China as the overriding threat is…
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Anthropic co-founder and chief science officer Jared Kaplan has warned that letting frontier AI systems train themselves could trigger an “intelligence explosion”, with a potentially decisive moment arriving between 2027 and 2030. The point is not that catastrophe is underway, but that one of the people building these…
Mistral AI Watch
Mistral AI and Cloudera are partnering to let organisations run Mistral models across public clouds, private systems and fully disconnected networks. The important bit is practical rather than glamorous: companies with sensitive data can use AI closer to the systems that already hold it, without sending every document…
Cohere Watch
Cohere argues that companies are treating AI too much like ordinary software, when the bigger challenge is redesigning work around systems that can collaborate, act and change how decisions are made. Its practical message is clear: define what AI may do, what people must still decide, and who…
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Voice AI agents are being asked to take real-world actions, but a new WorkOS analysis argues that spoken approval is a poor security control when there is no screen to show exactly what will happen. Its practical recommendation is clear: keep voice confirmation for reversible, low-sensitivity actions with…
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Shopify says it has built a continual-learning system that turns production failures into daily model updates, using PyTorch and vLLM to improve performance while sharply reducing serving costs. The company’s case study claims the approach cut those costs by 96% and produced quality it says exceeded frontier models.…
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NOFire AI has open-sourced Brig, a microVM sandbox designed to run AI coding agents on macOS and Linux. The practical point is isolation: agents run inside a Linux kernel while users choose which projects and credentials they share, although internet access is enabled by default.
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AI agents used for debugging can produce convincing nonsense, and a new proposal suggests making them cross-examine one another before engineers trust the result. The idea is simple but useful: one agent gathers evidence, while a separate adversary tries to disprove its conclusions.
OpenClaw Watch
Meta says its Muse AI assistant was heavily inspired by OpenClaw, while insisting that Muse itself was built from scratch. The admission matters because it turns a wave of user speculation about shared agent design into a clear account of how an open-source project influenced a mass-market product.
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America’s AI expansion is running into local resistance, with roughly $130 billion in data-centre projects reportedly blocked or delayed during the first three months of 2026. The central point is not that the technology has stopped improving, but that the electricity, land and infrastructure needed to run it…
DeepSeek Watch
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is a 552-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model built for long-context, tool-using agents, with a one-million-token context window and design choices aimed at reducing memory pressure. The important point is not that the model is small. It is that DeepSeek is trying to make a very large model more practical…
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Snorkel AI has raised $350m at a $3.5bn valuation, according to Reuters, putting a substantial price tag on the less glamorous work that makes AI systems useful: creating and checking the data they learn from. The company says its platform uses people and AI agents to develop and…
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ClickHouse has appointed former Snowflake and ServiceNow CFO Mike Scarpelli as an independent director and audit committee chair, giving the AI-focused database company a heavyweight finance and governance hand as it scales beyond $350 million in run-rate revenue.
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Adobe has released Premiere Mobile for Android, bringing a free, capable video editor and paid Firefly-powered generative AI tools to phones running Android 13 or newer. The important bit is not merely that Premiere has arrived on another platform: Android users can now edit multi-track projects, enhance audio…
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Alphabet’s robotics company Intrinsic has open-sourced key parts of its software platform, including tools for real-time control, pose estimation, motion planning and camera calibration. The release matters because it gives developers reusable building blocks for industrial robots, rather than another isolated demonstration with a suspiciously cinematic soundtrack.
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OpenRouter has launched a Batch API that cuts inference prices by half for users willing to let requests run asynchronously within a 24-hour window. The service is aimed at large, non-urgent workloads such as bulk text generation and embeddings, where immediate responses are less valuable than a lower…
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A new proposal argues that AI systems could improve their capabilities without open-ended real-world action by restricting them to generating verified formal proofs for preselected mathematical problems. The idea is notable because it treats recursive self-improvement as a containment problem with an unusually narrow laboratory: fixed hardware, fixed…
