#AI policy
72 stories taggedAI policy.
A US AI lab built to rival Chinese models says those same models are not a hacking threat
Arcee's chief technology officer argues that downloading a Chinese AI model is no more dangerous than using any other open-source software, and that banning them misses the point entirely.
OpenAI and Anthropic Are Cheering Australia's AI Rules. Here's the Real Reason Why.
Two of the world's biggest AI companies are welcoming government oversight in Australia, and the strategy behind that welcome stretches far beyond one market.
Bloomsbury to collect millions from Anthropic's $1.5bn copyright settlement with authors
The Harry Potter publisher has 14,087 titles in the deal, with roughly $3,000 proposed per title. It is one of the largest payouts so far in the long legal fight over AI training data.
US Government to Spend $5 Billion Using AI to Crack Chronic Disease and Drug Discovery
Fifteen federal agencies will share the funding and gain access to powerful government supercomputers to run AI experiments on some of science's hardest problems.
Nearly 200 Companies Signed Trump's AI Electric Bill Pledge. It Has No Teeth.
Utility giants and data centre operators have joined a White House promise to protect consumers from higher electricity bills caused by AI. The pledge is voluntary, carries no penalties, and enforcement is largely out of federal hands.
US threatens sanctions on Chinese AI models over alleged intellectual property theft
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Washington will scrutinise Chinese open-source AI for stolen technology, and could punish companies found to have copied American models.
China's AI surge is giving Silicon Valley a serious headache
New Chinese models keep punching above their weight, and American tech giants are finding it harder to shrug them off.
Two Chinese AI Models Just Rattled Wall Street. Here Is What Is Actually New.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen3.8 claim to match the best American AI models at a fraction of the cost. The shock is less about the models themselves and more about how long the world ignored the warning signs.
Tech Workers Are Turning to Unions, and AI Is the Reason
From Google DeepMind to Meta, software engineers who once had every perk imaginable are now seeking collective bargaining rights. The trigger? AI is changing their jobs faster than their contracts can keep up.
The US Army Ran Out of AI Credits. Here Is What That Tells Us.
The Army promised its workers unlimited AI access. Six weeks later, the credits were gone. Now soldiers and civilian staff face new limits, and one worker says the tools were unreliable anyway.
Handmade Artists Are Leaving Etsy as AI-Generated Art Floods the Platform
Once a haven for human-made crafts, Etsy is losing its most loyal sellers to cheap AI art they say Etsy refuses to police.
Living next to a data centre: what UK residents are actually experiencing
Across Britain, roughly 450 large data centres hum away in industrial estates and on the edges of towns. The people living nearby are starting to talk about what that means for their daily lives.
Pope Leo XIV's speeches pass AI detection test, weeks after he called AI humanity's biggest threat
An Australian company has officially certified a collection of the Pope's writings as genuinely human-authored. The timing is hard to miss.
UK water industry says the country cannot supply enough water for its AI datacentre ambitions
Cooling a server farm drinks enormous amounts of water. Britain's water trade body says the government has not reckoned with that, and the AI growth plan has a fatal flaw baked in.
The US government's top AI standards job has turned over three times in four months
Chris Fall has quit as director of the main federal body responsible for setting AI safety standards, leaving a key role empty amid growing pressure over Chinese AI models and industry calls for independent oversight.