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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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Mistral AI has publicly denied a claim of unauthorised access to its systems. In a statement issued on Friday morning, the French AI lab said it examined the allegation, found no evidence to support it, and can confirm its systems have not been compromised. The statement is short…
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Johns Hopkins University convened an evening on AI governance in Washington on Monday, and the exchange did something the week's op-ed war has not: it put an OpenAI executive, two prominent governance scholars and one very large demand on the same stage. The demand is that AI developers…
Watch Desk
Jessica Hische, a Berkeley lettering artist whose clients have included the New York Times, Tiffany & Co. and Wes Anderson, designed the icon and logotype for Meta's new Muse AI agent. When she announced the work, her fellow designers delivered a swift verdict, and she had predicted every…
AWS AI Watch
Amazon has told the industry's loudest running argument where it stands: powerful AI models should reach the public only when they are ready and safe, and governments belong in the room when the rules get written. That places one of AI's biggest investors, model builders and compute suppliers…
Watch Desk
Interactive practice is the part of digital learning everyone praises and nobody has time to build. Google Research has decided the supply problem is the thing to attack. On Thursday it published work on a system that turns a teacher's request into a custom, game-style learning simulation, and…
Geoffrey Hinton Watch
The Godfather of AI has handed the United States Congress a deadline. Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate who left Google in 2023 so he could speak freely about the risks, told a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill that lawmakers have 'maybe a year, but not much more than…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic has published its first set of measurements for tracking how fast frontier AI development actually moves, complete with a snapshot of its own numbers. The lab asking the industry to slow down has just handed the debate its first ruler. The post appeared on Anthropic's site on…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI has launched Astra for Law, a legal-industry edition of its GPT-6 Astra model, complete with a purpose-built legal search index, confidentiality controls and a partner list that reads like a legal awards dinner. It is a full-stack play for a single profession, and it arrives with numbers…
Meta AI Watch
Meta's AI glasses have picked up a new line of work: helping creators stage fake feel-good encounters with strangers identified through facial recognition, all filmed hands-free. One such clip has passed 60 million views, and the kindness on screen is the least honest thing in it.
OpenAI Watch
The New York Times's lawyers argue that OpenAI staff knew the 'existential threat' AI posed to publishers, and that co-founder Greg Brockman was 'motivated by the gazillions' he hoped to gain from models trained on copyrighted content. The Financial Times reported the claims on Thursday, in the decisive…
AWS AI Watch
MRH Trowe, one of Germany's leading commercial and industrial insurance brokers, has handed self-service AI agents to about 400 employees, and the first month of production cost roughly $14 per seat. The number turns heads. The quietly impressive part is that a firm bound by German financial-sector rules…
DeepSeek Watch
DeepSeek Harness has shipped its second alpha this week, and this one changes what the tool is rather than where it can reach. Version 0.1.6-alpha.2, published on 17 September, adds a full plugin system, sidebar previews of Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, and default limits on how far…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has published a first-person attack on Anthropic's Claude constitution. He says the lab is not watching mysterious emergence. It is training Claude to treat its own consciousness and moral status as a live question, and he argues that makes the model harder to…
Arm Watch
Arm has pulled more than 80 companies into a programme called Arm Total Design for Physical AI, and alongside it has published the first sketch of a Robotics Capability Framework: six levels that grade what a robot can do, from machines that follow fixed rules to systems that…
Watch Desk
JD Vance has dismissed calls for global regulation of AI safety risks, telling the companies building the most advanced models: 'If you're building Frankenstein, stop.' Speaking at an AI summit in Los Angeles, the US vice-president aimed the remark at Dario Amodei, and in doing so split from…
Watch Desk
King Charles will sit down with senior figures from Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind on Thursday and tell them the wider world is 'anxiously seeking your reassurance that we will not lose control of our destiny'. The line comes from his prepared remarks, released in advance of…
Watch Desk
The AI industry has quietly changed what it does for a living: less building models, more running them. That shift from training to inference is now forcing a rethink of the chips and memory everything else depends on, and it is redrawing who buys silicon from whom. The…
Moonshot AI/Kimi Watch
Kimi Code has shipped version 2.0.0, jumping from the 0.43 line it occupied days ago, and the changelog's single major change is a doorway: a /desktop command that opens the Kimi Code desktop app page in the browser. Under the milestone number sits a release about maturity, with…
Cohere Watch
Nick Frosst has picked a loud week to make a quiet argument. As Cohere signed its definitive merger with Germany's Aleph Alpha, a combination valued at roughly $20bn and pitched as the first transatlantic sovereign AI provider, the Toronto company's co-founder sat for a long interview and argued…
