Tag: AI policy
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A California Congressman Wants Washington To Leash AI
Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, wants to write a hard rule into law: no AI system gets to rewrite its own core goals or improve itself without a human checking first, not until the government sets up real safeguards. He is calling it the Human Control Over AI Act. It would create a new…
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Trump and Amodei Finally Had Their Private Dinner
Six months ago these two men were openly at odds. Dario Amodei, who runs Anthropic, had been warning that AI companies need to slow down. Trump had been saying the opposite, that slowing down just hands the race to China. A federal court sided with the Pentagon over Anthropic in a supply chain dispute. The…
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The UN Just Put OpenAI and DeepSeek at the Same Table
Sam Altman sat down at the UN Security Council this week, and so did Anthropic’s Dario Amodei. Nothing strange about that on its own. Except in the same room were representatives from DeepSeek and Moonshot, the two Chinese labs that half of Washington has spent the last two years warning everyone about. France called the…
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Trump’s New AI Force Doesn’t Have a Job Description Yet
Donald Trump said this weekend that he’s standing up something called the AI Force. He compared it to the Space Force he created back in his first term. There’s also going to be an AI czar, and according to his own post on Truth Social, only high IQ individuals need apply. Nobody’s said yet what…
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The King Just Sat Down With AI’s Biggest Names
King Charles does not usually wade into tech policy, but this week he sat down with some of the most powerful people in AI and told them plainly that the pace of what they are building worries him. The meeting happened at Dumfries House in Scotland, home base of his charitable foundation. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang…
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The EU Just Invited AI Labs to Talk About Slowing Down
Ursula von der Leyen stood up this week and did something no head of a major regulatory body has done yet. She said the EU will invite the world’s frontier AI labs to sit down and talk about how to actually slow this thing down together. This did not come out of nowhere. Just days…
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The Free Ride for AI Crawlers Just Ended
Up until now, if your site ran ads and an AI company’s bot came crawling through to gather training data, there wasn’t much stopping it by default. Cloudflare just changed that, and the change goes live today. Starting now, Cloudflare is defaulting to blocking what it calls mixed-use crawlers, bots that quietly blend regular search…
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Microsoft Just Wrote the Rules for Its Own AI
On September 12, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay called “We Must Pace the Frontier,” and it says something you do not expect to hear from the person running one of the biggest AI labs on the planet. He thinks the industry needs to slow down. His worry is specific. He thinks that within…
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400 Leaked Pages Show How Close AI Labs Are to the Pentagon
A journalist outlet called The Intercept sued the government to get documents, and after that lawsuit, they got over 400 pages showing exactly how deep OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI are working with the Pentagon. Back in July 2025, all four companies signed contracts worth up to $200 million each. The paperwork lays out what…
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A Judge Just Called the Pentagon’s Anthropic Ban Illegal
A company said no to the Pentagon, and the Pentagon tried to make it disappear. Back in March, the Defense Department ordered every federal agency to stop using Anthropic’s products. It went further and told defense contractors not to do business with the company at all, even on work that had nothing to do with…