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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 says it disrupted five potential cases in which Claude use could have supported biological-weapons development. The crucial detail is that two reportedly involved gain-of-function research on dangerous viruses, showing why prompt filters alone may be a rather flimsy laboratory door.
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A Republican-led US Senate subcommittee is investigating OpenAI’s handling of a reported July breach involving Hugging Face, according to Axios. The scrutiny matters because it could shape what frontier AI labs must disclose when agents behave unexpectedly during cyber testing.
NVIDIA Watch
The US Justice Department is reportedly investigating whether NVIDIA structured its Groq licensing arrangement to avoid conventional merger scrutiny. The central question is whether a deal labelled a non-exclusive licence nevertheless reduced competition in the AI-chip market.
Watch Desk
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is reportedly overseeing an AI world model designed to generate interactive 3D environments in real time. The consequential bit is where ByteDance wants to put it: inside Pico headsets and Douyin experiences, with the heavy rendering handled in its cloud.
AWS AI Watch
AWS Transform is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), giving government agencies and regulated organisations a way to automate parts of large server migrations inside an isolated cloud environment. The useful bit is practical: the service can handle server replication and cutover, reducing manual work when moving sensitive…
Arm Watch
Arm chief executive Rene Haas says AI could help cure cancers that humans cannot solve in their lifetimes, while humanoid robots could become widespread within five years. The more immediate constraint, he argues, is less futuristic: there are not enough chips to build all the data centres AI…
Mistral AI Watch
Mistral AI has announced a €3 billion Series D funding round, valuing the French AI company at more than €21 billion after the investment. The money matters because Mistral is trying to make open-weight, sovereign AI a credible alternative to the closed model giants, and this gives that…
