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White House reportedly considers mandatory government vetting of AI models before release — executive order under discussion

… That team must develop testing procedures, security requirements, and compliance standards for AI models procured by the military. Was Mythos the catalyst? The obvious question in light of all this is whether Mythos was the catalyst for these new White House policy discussions. …

May 7, 2026 · Luke James
tomshardware.com › tech-industry › cyber-security

Google Chrome 'silently' downloads 4GB AI model to your device without permission, report claims — researcher says practice may violate EU law, waste thousands of kilowatts of energy

Security researcher Alexander Hanff, also known as "That Privacy Guy," has published a new analysis claiming that Google Chrome is silently downloading a roughly 4GB on-device AI model to users' machines without notice or consent. …

May 6, 2026 · Zak Killian
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Chinese grey market sells Claude API access at 90% off by using stolen credentials, model substitution, and harvesting users' prompts and outputs for resale as AI training data — 'transfer stations' operate through proxy networks that harvest user data

… These findings give credence to the warnings issued in recent weeks by both the White House and Anthropic, the former of which accused Chinese entities in late April of running “industrial-scale” distillation campaigns against U.S. frontier models using tens of thousands of proxy accounts. …

May 9, 2026 · Luke James
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AI is starting to out-design chip engineers in narrow areas as LLMs accelerate software chip design tool development — "There is still a lot of human guidance" says Berkley researcher

… Humans have a tendency when porting a design from one process node to another to assume the old topology must be close to optimal for the new one. “AI may not have those kinds of barriers,” said Nikolić. …

May 22, 2026 · Chris Stokel-Walker
tomshardware.com › tech-industry › big-tech

Nvidia’s ISP piracy defense backfires as judge refuses to dismiss copyright lawsuit over more than 197,000 pirated books — scripts in NeMo Framework allegedly ‘have no other purpose’ than to speed up infringement

… Google has even been pushing to have AI scraping tagged as fair use , saying that it wants “copyright systems that enable appropriate and fair use of copyrighted content to enable the training of AI models in Australia on a broad and diverse range of data while supporting workable opt-outs for enti… …

May 7, 2026 · Jowi Morales
tomshardware.com › tech-industry › semiconductors

TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly developing its own custom AI CPUs — company looks to ease China's dependence on US chipmakers

… Per a Reuters report, ByteDance's new chip is inspired by Groq's "language processing units," a fancy term for a chip optimized for inference tasks — running AI models instead of training them. The move comes in a context where inference-heavy agentic AI is quickly becoming the new normal. …

May 29, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira