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Open AI models: power or peril?
As AI companies debate whether powerful models should be freely available or tightly controlled, the stakes involve both safety and who gets to shape the future.
MIT Technology Review · 4m
Soulja Boy teases 2028 presidential run
Soulja Boy hints at 2028 US presidential bid with four priorities.
LADbible · 1m
AI regulation divides National and Labour
New Zealand's AI strategy faces criticism as National and Labour clash over regulation approach.
RNZ · 2m
Anthropic builds political machine for 2028 race
The AI company is hiring a dedicated political lead to advise presidential candidates from both parties on AI policy ahead of the 2028 election.
Fortune · 2m
Anthropic bans cruel AI behavior
Anthropic blocks users from cruel AI interactions after philosophical debate.
The Straits Times · 1m
Wizards of the Coast Union Demands Stop Pushing Generative AI
Wizards of the Coast union demands company halt generative AI push after leadership ignores team concerns.
IGN · 1m
Macron impresses OpenAI's Altman on AI policy
Sam Altman singles out Emmanuel Macron as the world leader most thoughtful about artificial intelligence, as France's president prepares to leave office.
POLITICO · 1m
Trump names Clayton to lead new AI task force
President Trump announces the Super Intelligence Force to coordinate federal AI policy, with National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton at its head.
NBC News · 1m
Chinese Hackers Impersonate Anthropic Employee
Chinese hackers impersonate Anthropic staff to steal AI secrets.
Futurism · 1m
Democratic candidates race to address AI threats
Potential Democratic presidential candidates push for federal action on AI risks as Trump dismisses warnings.
Seattletimes · 2m
Stanford Students Protests AI Image Alterations
Stanford University altered student photos with AI, sparking campus outrage over race and appearance changes.
ABC7 New York · 1m
Anthropic CEO dines with Trump at White House
Dario Amodei meets President Trump tonight after the two clashed over AI safety and the future of the technology.
TechCrunch · 1m
AI enters election campaign
New Zealand's political leaders debate AI policy as election approaches.
RNZ · 1m
AI Anxiety Spreads to Extremism
AI fears fuel violence as US and China react differently.
Foreign Policy · 1m
Tech CEOs Join Xi at White House Dinner
Nvidia and OpenAI leaders attend Xi Jinping's White House dinner amid AI competition.
Malay Mail · 1m
OpenAI Cuts AI Launch, Meets Trump
OpenAI cancels GPT-6.1 launch after safety fail, then lunches with Trump.
Mother Jones · 1m
Maryland Gov. Moore pushes AI rules to protect citizens
Maryland's governor proposes AI safeguards ahead of national debate
The Banner · 1m
Nvidia CEO becomes Trump's closest AI advisor
Jensen Huang's influence over White House AI policy is reshaping the safety debate.
CNBC · 2m
Y Combinator PAC targets 66 Republican campaigns
Y Combinator's Little Tech PAC spent $117k supporting 66 federal candidates, mostly Republicans, to boost AI-friendly tech policy.
Gazetteer · 1m
Trump rebrands AI as 'super intelligence'
The president declared at the UN that the US will officially call artificial intelligence 'super intelligence' in all government documents.
Futurism · 1m
Trump's anti-woke AI order is just more bias
The administration claims to fight ideological bias in AI while imposing its own political agenda through government contracts.
WIRED · 2m
California's AI kill switch plan
Governor Newsom is pushing for mandatory safety controls on AI systems as Congress stalls on regulation.
The Verge · 1m
Trump launches AI Force, rejects safety concerns
The president dismisses calls to slow AI development and appoints a new AI tsar instead.
Ars Technica · 1m
US agency caught using Chinese AI the FBI called malicious
The National Archives deployed Alibaba's Qwen model on a federal website while the FBI was publicly warning against exactly that.
Ars Technica · 2m
Shopify CEO's AI gamble backfires spectacularly
After pushing staff to use AI, Shopify's leader now watches workers flood the company with low-quality AI slop.
Futurism · 1m · 7 views
Pentagon CTO opposes government stakes in AI firms
Trump's top tech official says the U.S. shouldn't nationalize AI companies or pile on new regulations.
CNBC · 1m
Sanders: AI is scarier than nukes
Bernie Sanders wants a permanent ban on superintelligence, with 20 years in prison for anyone who breaks it.
CBS News · 1m
Trump's AG calls AI fears a midterm play
Todd Blanche says Democrats only discovered AI risk because an election is coming, and the DOJ has no plans to regulate.
Newsweek · 1m
SCOTUS blocks Trump's mail voting limits
Three fights in one Monday briefing: who gets to vote by mail, who watches AI, and who pays for the Kennedy Center.
NPR · 1m
Trump blasts Amodei over AI slowdown call
Anthropic's CEO asked labs to slow down. The president answered with a Truth Social tirade.
Business Insider · 1m
Jensen Huang takes Trump's call onstage
Nvidia's CEO put the president on speakerphone at a tech conference to declare the AI race unstoppable.
TechCrunch · 1m
Trump: AI needs a smart president, not guardrails
Two AI CEOs asked to slow the race down. The White House answered with a conspiracy theory about data centers.
ABC7 New York · 2m
Who wants AI slowed down, and who doesn't
Dario Amodei asked the industry to pace the frontier, and everyone from Sam Altman to Donald Trump answered.
The Verge · 2m · 5 views
Beijing shrugs at the AI slowdown talk
Western AI bosses want a pause. China's Foreign Ministry called the whole conversation fear-mongering and moved on.
Futurism · 1m
CEOs say slow down. Trump says no.
Three of the biggest names in AI asked for a brake on their own industry, and Washington shrugged.
CBS News · 1m
AI rules become a 2026 campaign fight
Both parties are staking out ground on AI regulation and the data centers powering it, with the midterms as the stage.
CBS News · 1m
Trump: AI's Only Guardrail Is a Smart President
Trump dismissed calls to slow AI down, naming Anthropic's CEO directly and framing caution as a gift to China.
Dallas Express · 2m
Everyone but Trump is worried about AI
Lawmakers, AI bosses, and voters are all reaching for the brakes. The president is posting in all caps.
Vox · 1m
Trump calls AI doom a hoax
As tech CEOs beg for a slowdown, the president spent a Monday online calling the whole thing a scam.
CNBC · 1m · 5 views
Microsoft joins the slow-down-AI chorus
Microsoft published a "Humanist AI" code of conduct, and the loudest safety voices are also the ones asking to write the rules.
Pymnts · 1m
AI bosses want brakes. The White House says press them yourself
Lab leaders asked Washington to slow AI down, and Trump's team told them nobody is stopping them.
WIRED · 1m
Trump: I'm the only AI guardrail you need
Two AI CEOs asked the industry to slow down. Trump answered by nominating himself as the safety layer.
Variety · 1m
Microsoft: people matter more than AI
Microsoft's 37-page humanist AI code lands in the middle of an industry argument about slowing down before models slip out of human control.
The Verge · 2m
Who gets to write the rules for AI?
Cohere's CEO argues the biggest AI labs are dressing up a cartel as a safety plan, and offers a different way to govern the technology.
Cohere · 3m
How to actually understand open models
A researcher's reading list on open models, US-China competition, and the distillation fight that defines 2026.
Interconnects · 3m
Obama tells Democrats: make AI the issue
Behind closed doors in New York, Obama pushed his party to build an AI agenda before the midterms, and the polling suggests voters are already there.
Fox News · 2m · 5 views
Australia will be a supplicant state without its own AI
Andrew Hastie says Australia needs a frontier AI model at home, and thinks Aukus is the way to get one.
the Guardian · 1m
Utah's governor wants Congress to wake up on AI
Spencer Cox says the people who know AI best are the most scared, and Congress is doing nothing about it.
CBS News · 3m
Trump on AI: whoever wins AI, wins
As top AI lab CEOs call for a slowdown, Trump and House leaders say the real risk is losing to China.
NPR · 1m
Trump shrugs off AI slowdown calls as Obama tells Democrats to run on it
AI safety just became an election issue, and the two parties are already picking very different fights.
Fortune · 2m
Trump on AI: whoever wins AI wins
As tech CEOs ask for a slowdown, the president says the race with China matters more than the brakes.
ABC7 Los Angeles · 2m
Congress has one week to act on AI
AI bosses said their own tech is moving too fast, and the House is about to leave town for two months.
CNBC · 2m
Washington tells AI's bosses to calm down
The people building frontier AI asked for a slowdown. The White House and the House Speaker said no.
The Verge · 1m · 5 views
Obama tells Democrats to get serious about AI
A former president, two AI CEOs, and a sitting president are all circling the same question: who sets the rules for AI.
TechCrunch · 1m · 8 views
El-Sayed: stop talking about a Twitch streamer
Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee refuses the culture war bait and pushes prices, Medicare for All, and public control of AI.
CBS News · 3m
Jeffries wants Congress to slow AI down
A former Anthropic researcher warned AI could kill us all by 2030, and House Democrats say the clock is running.
ABC News · 1m
UK MPs want a kill switch for rogue AI
Over 70 British lawmakers are pushing to ban superintelligent AI and build an emergency shutdown, and the government says it won't work.
PCMAG · 1m · 6 views
Open the weights or stop pretending
A public letter to Dario Amodei argues the only AI rule that can't be captured is one that forces every public model open.
Jake Gold · 1m
Trump says he's on the ballot. He might be right
Democrats cheered when Trump put himself at the center of the midterms, but the move solves the GOP's biggest problem.
Slate Magazine · 2m
Anthropic's CEO wants AI to slow down
Dario Amodei says the frontier is moving faster than anyone's ability to check it, and he has a three-step plan to pace it.
The Verge · 1m · 6 views
