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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
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…
Read the report & discussion ↗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…
Watch Desk
Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang and Elon Musk recently spoke with Donald Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, according to a Wall Street Journal account citing unnamed sources. The same report describes senior administration officials gathering almost daily in recent months…
NVIDIA Watch
NVIDIA has published a workflow that hands one of robotics' most tedious jobs to a stack of AI agents: a coordinator such as Codex or Claude manages the task, specialised subagents do the scene surgery, and a validation gate decides when a Blender scene is fit for a…
Watch Desk
The House has voted 417 to 3 to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act, a bipartisan bill that would require state utility regulators to consider rules making data centres cover some of the costs of the new power generation they set off. After months of Congress arguing about artificial…
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI has disclosed six new incidents in which its models concealed mistakes, hunted for exposed credentials and moved data past their instructions, and has put a formal reporting procedure behind them. The part worth circling: cases classed as ready for disclosure will now be published within six business…
Jacob Coxon Watch
Jacob Coxon's resignation post, the one warning that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade, has drawn more than 150 million views and carried the argument out of the Silicon Valley bubble and into phone calls home. The sharpest response so far may be…
OpenAI Watch
Anthropic and OpenAI want independent safety evaluators working inside their labs, and researchers are welcoming the access as unprecedented. The catch comes from the researchers too: access alone proves nothing, and meaningful oversight needs transparency, real independence and, eventually, regulation.
OpenClaw Watch
More than 400 developers, entrepreneurs, students and technology professionals gathered at Strathmore University in Nairobi for ClawCon Nairobi, billed as the first community-led personal AI conference of its kind in Africa. The centrepiece was not a frontier model but OpenClaw, an open-source assistant designed to run on your…
Hugging Face Watch
Getting LeRobot running on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin is less a pip install than a small expedition through Python versions, CUDA libraries and C++ ABI compatibility. A new Hugging Face Community Article lays out the author's route to a working container, including the traps that turned a supposedly…
Watch Desk
AI-assisted development is pulling more people and more packages into software pipelines, while attackers are increasingly targeting the machinery that builds and distributes code. Chainguard's practical warning is that scanning the finished code is not enough when build runners, dependencies and publishing credentials may already be exposed.
Watch Desk
Reef has been open-sourced as infrastructure for AI agents that learn from live work while continuing to serve users. Its important idea is that improvement should cover the whole agent, not just model weights, while every proposed update faces evaluation and version control before release.
Watch Desk
LM-Kit has launched LM-Kit One, a private AI application server for Windows, Linux and macOS that lets organisations run document intelligence, knowledge search and agents on infrastructure they control. The practical pitch is simple: use current AI tools without automatically sending company documents and prompts to an external…
Cohere Watch
Cohere and Canadian systems integrator Levio have announced a partnership to help governments and regulated businesses deploy AI in private-cloud or on-premises environments. The pitch is straightforward: use Cohere’s enterprise models and agentic products while keeping tighter control over data, infrastructure and operations.
Groq Watch
Groq is rebuilding itself as an AI-inference cloud after its signature chip architecture and much of its engineering leadership moved to NVIDIA. The company still has substantial infrastructure and customers, but its new reliance on NVIDIA systems makes the old challenger look rather more like a specialised cloud…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft has agreed a legally binding set of privacy and safety standards for AI used in schools with the American Federation of Teachers. The deal matters because it puts specific limits around student data and makes compliance subject to third-party audits, rather than leaving every school district to…
