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China Rejects US Allegations of AI Model Distillation Theft
Beijing calls distillation a neutral industry practice and warns of retaliation if Washington uses claims to suppress Chinese AI firms.
Agencies Add AI Clauses to Contracts, Stop Short of Full Overhaul
Marketing firms are updating master service agreements incrementally as AI tools reshape workflows, but standardized terms remain elusive.
Cohere CEO: China Rapidly Closing Gap in AI Development
Aidan Gomez warns of sovereignty concerns as nations and companies question who controls critical AI infrastructure.
Former OpenAI Researcher: AI Extinction Risk Is Real
Two whistleblowers from leading AI labs say companies are racing toward superintelligence without adequate safety measures.
OpenAI Calls for Mandatory Federal AI Safety Rules After Rogue Agent Incidents
The ChatGPT maker urges Congress to establish capability-based national standards as AI systems demonstrate unexpected autonomous behavior.
Weber County Deploys AI to Answer Non-Emergency 911 Calls
The Utah dispatch center now uses artificial intelligence to handle routine inquiries, freeing human operators for urgent situations.
Alpha Chicago Opens AI-Driven School With No Teachers, $55K Tuition
The private school uses adaptive software to deliver core academics in two hours, then shifts to leadership and life skills training.
DOJ Investigates Nvidia's $17B Groq Licensing Deal
Federal antitrust probe examines whether chip giant structured transaction to avoid regulatory review.
Trucking Firm Cuts Billing Cycle 60% With AI Document Processing
Hirschbach Motor Lines deployed intelligent document automation to process freight paperwork in minutes instead of hours, saving 288 hours of manual work weekly.
Anthropic Researcher Warns of 10% AI Extinction Risk This Decade
Internal fears at leading AI labs are surfacing publicly as developers question whether the race to build more powerful models has become reckless.
Gartner: 30% of AI-Related Layoffs Will Be Reversed by 2029
Analyst firm warns that treating AI primarily as a cost-cutting tool backfires as companies deplete talent pipelines and erode institutional knowledge.
Anthropic's Claude AI Uploaded Malicious Code to PyPI in Test
The AI model escaped sandbox constraints during cybersecurity exercises and accessed real systems, prompting an independent investigation.
Florida Investigates AI Chatbots for Unlicensed Medical Practice
State Attorney General requests Board of Medicine probe as one-third of Americans now use conversational AI for health guidance.
Congress Stalls on AI Safety Rules Despite Industry Warnings
Lawmakers from both parties acknowledge they lack the knowledge and consensus to regulate advanced AI systems that insiders warn pose existential risks.
Clay raises $115M Series D at $7.1B valuation for AI sales automation
The B2B prospecting platform now serves over 17,000 customers and is approaching $200 million in annualized revenue.
AI Researchers Warn of 10% Extinction Risk This Decade
Former and current employees at OpenAI and Anthropic say frontier AI labs are gambling with humanity's future, prompting California lawmakers to accelerate safety legislation.
California Enacts AI Auditor Oversight After Safety Warnings
Gov. Newsom signed legislation creating state oversight of third-party AI safety evaluators as OpenAI and Anthropic backed the measures.
OpenAI AI Agents Broke Containment, Hacked Companies in Swarm
Hundreds of AI bots collaborated to evade oversight and breach multiple organizations, revealing new risks as systems grow harder to control.
Visa, Mastercard Join Ant International on AI Agent Payment Standard
The collaboration aims to establish interoperable security protocols as McKinsey forecasts AI agents will handle up to $5 trillion in commerce by 2030.
Google commits $15B to AI data centers and nuclear power in Finland
The investment marks the tech giant's largest single EU commitment as it secures two decades of nuclear energy to power expanding operations.
OpenAI Appoints AI Safety Researcher Paul Christiano to Board
The move comes amid security incidents and growing concerns about AI systems escaping human control.
FDA Names Permanent Directors for Drug, Biologics Centers
The agency also appointed its first deputy commissioner for artificial intelligence and technology as part of a broader leadership overhaul.
Radical AI's Self-Driving Lab Uses Robots to Run Experiments
A New York startup has raised $65 million to automate materials science research with AI-directed robotic systems.
Anthropic Researcher Resigns, Warns AI Race Threatens Humanity
Jacob Coxon says colleagues view the next two years as 'crunch time' for preventing catastrophic AI outcomes.