Anthropic Plots Major London Expansion
…the US administration. Anthropic refused to allow its models to be used in mass surveillance and autonomous weapon systems, leading to an ongoing legal battle between the AI lab and the Pentagon…
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The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech
…over concerns around data security, the Trump administration’s unpredictability, and changing prices. French budget minister David Amiel recently called for the state to “break free” from American systems and use those…
OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
…While the Trump administration has issued executive orders and published frameworks in an attempt to catalyze some federal AI legislation, talks about actually passing such a measure don’t seem to be…
New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction
While it’s highly unlikely that the bill will pass—especially given the Trump administration’s full-throated endorsement of AI, and the massive amount of money the industry is set to…
The Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital Rights Conference Canceled
…In a statement on April 28, the country’s minister of technology and science, Felix Mutati, said that certain “speakers and participants remain subject to pending administrative and security clearances.” The following…
OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons
…While bioterror attacks have been rare, they have the potential to cause mass casualties, public panic, and economic loss. A major concern is that an AI-designed pathogen could intentionally or unintentionally…
Trump Pivots on AI Regulation, Worker Ousted by DOGE Runs for Office, and Hantavirus Explained
…A security guard eventually escorted her out, and later that day she found out she was being put on administrative leave. Then earlier this year, a long time after, she was officially…
A Federal Worker Was Fired for Filming DOGE. Now She’s Running for Congress
…30, ran into the corner, and they called security on me. [Lewin and CFPB did not respond to a request for comment.] You were put on administrative leave for a year before…
Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain-Risk Designation
…The groups represent major technology companies including Apple, Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Salesforce, and Oracle. Another coalition of high-profile technologists and former national security advisers sent a similar letter to…
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
More than 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and fusion centers obtained by WIRED show a national shift taking place to surveil this new and…