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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.
Lead story
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei’s call to “pace the frontier” is being challenged on strategic as well as safety grounds. In a new Stratechery analysis, Ben Thompson argues that slowing model progress could ease the infrastructure, product and competitive pressures now building around frontier AI.
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Zhipu AI says it will open-source its ZCode programming tool and commission recurring security audits after a controversy over reports that the client uploaded users’ repositories to cloud storage. The important point is that this involves source code, credentials and enterprise data, not merely an awkward privacy setting…
AWS AI Watch
AWS is expanding its AI security push as agents gain access to customer data, transactions and other sensitive systems. The central shift is practical: organisations are being urged to pair AI tools with controls that sit outside the model, continuous monitoring and human oversight for high-stakes decisions.
Watch Desk
An independent developer has released two open-weight versions of Boris-2 after uncovering training and data-pipeline mistakes that held the model back. The useful lesson is not simply that another model is now available: the project shows how much performance can depend on unglamorous engineering details, and how sharing…
Hugging Face Watch
Hugging Face has published a practical guide to reading model cards before downloading or deploying an AI model. Its useful argument is simple: a model ID is not a recommendation, and the README may be the difference between a sensible local experiment and an expensive, legally awkward surprise.
NVIDIA Watch
NVIDIA says demand for its AI infrastructure could exceed available production capacity by roughly $100bn next year, while the company is also using guarantees and other financial support to help customers buy more of its hardware. The result is a revealing picture of an AI boom constrained not…
Watch Desk
A MarkTechPost comparison of 11 open-source agent harnesses shows that running AI locally is no longer one problem with one obvious answer. The practical choice now depends on whether you value sandboxing, coding power, messaging, hardware flexibility or sheer simplicity.
Watch Desk
Arcee AI, the US developer of open-weight models, has raised at least $150m in a Series B at a reported pre-money valuation of $1bn. The round is a useful signal that investors still see room for smaller, specialist AI companies, even as the biggest laboratories hoover up headlines,…
Cohere Watch
Cohere and OpenText have announced a strategic partnership aimed at putting AI agents into production for governments and regulated industries. The practical change is a planned connection between Cohere’s North platform and models and OpenText’s Aviator AI agents, with customers able to deploy the combined systems on-premises or…
Watch Desk
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, makes artificial intelligence a matter of human dignity, public policy and democratic control. The document argues that AI should serve human flourishing rather than quietly persuading people to treat human limits as defects and machine intelligence as a replacement for human…
AWS AI Watch
AWS and Sonata Software’s domestic arm have signed a five-year agreement to pursue cloud modernisation and AI projects across India. The important bit is not another glossy AI promise, but the delivery machinery: Sonata says it will expand dedicated AWS sales, technical and implementation teams for customers in…
AWS AI Watch
African banks are moving beyond AI experiments and helping Amazon Web Services shape how agents handle customer interactions, software development and potentially transactions. The important shift is not another chatbot pilot, but the arrival of AI in places where mistakes can touch people’s money.
Meta AI Watch
More than 70 people have sued Meta over its AI-enabled smart glasses, alleging that the devices captured intimate footage and sent material to workers involved in training Meta’s artificial-intelligence systems. The allegations matter because they challenge the gap between a recording light, user consent and what an AI…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI and Microsoft executives made private and courtroom statements about AI systems replacing journalism, according to newly public filings reported by Reuters. The remarks give publishers a sharper argument in a case that could help decide whether training AI on millions of news articles counts as fair use.
Cohere Watch
Cohere and Germany’s Aleph Alpha have signed a definitive merger agreement that would combine Cohere’s models with Aleph Alpha’s compliance and orchestration platform on Schwarz Group’s STACKIT cloud. The proposed Toronto-Berlin business is a serious attempt to give regulated buyers an AI stack outside US cloud jurisdiction, not…
