AI Law & Policy

musk counters anthropics 100 billion share pledge with a spacex stock On paper, Anthropic's pledge is worth roughly $100 billion. Elon Musk took less than a day to respond with an offer of his own, valued at about $10.5 billion.

Musk counters Anthropic’s $100 billion share pledge with a SpaceX stock gift for every American child

nevada po boxes and strip malls where the largest pro ai super pac network is sending its millions Since last year, a pro-AI super PAC has paid Lantern Production Consultants LLC roughly $20 million for polling, digital ads, research and strategy work. Yet the only trace of the firm anyone has found is a post office box.

Nevada PO Boxes and Strip Malls: Where the Largest Pro-AI Super PAC Network Is Sending Its Millions

washington backs down uks ai security institute regains early access to frontier models The instruction is gone barely a month after it was issued. According to reports, the White House has dropped its decision to bar the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) from getting early access to new AI models. The original order had told America's leading AI labs to stop handing their unreleased models to British safety testers.

Washington Backs Down: UK’s AI Security Institute Regains Early Access to Frontier Models

ai labs including openai and anthropic are quietly preparing for the day after an ai disaster The companies creating the most capable AI systems are already drafting their response to a disaster caused by one of those systems. They are not asking whether it will happen. They are planning for when it does.

AI Labs Including OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Preparing for the Day After an AI Disaster

sony and universal file a new lawsuit against suno saying its v6 model is still built on infringing music Suno pitched its latest model as a fresh start. Sony and Universal Music Group say it carries the same problem as before, just under a new version number.

Sony and Universal file a new lawsuit against Suno, saying its v6 model is still built on infringing music

californias newsom moves toward a mandatory ai kill switch while congress stalls With Washington unwilling to write the rules for artificial intelligence, California is drafting its own. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed an executive order on Friday that puts a state-required "kill switch" for frontier models up for consideration, together with a package of audit obligations that, if enacted, would be the strictest anywhere in the United States.

California’s Newsom moves toward a mandatory AI kill switch while Congress stalls

trump polls truth social on renaming ai announces an ai force and calls safety worries a hoax On Saturday, the U.S. president devoted part of his day to a Truth Social poll asking followers whether artificial intelligence should be renamed Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence or Supreme Intelligence. Before the posting spree ended, he had also unveiled a Space Force-style organization for the technology and dismissed the entire AI safety conversation as a Democratic hoax.

Trump Polls Truth Social on Renaming AI, Announces an ‘AI Force’ and Calls Safety Worries a Hoax

court filings show microsoft and openai called their own ai strategy a web doom loop Newly unsealed documents from the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft include a line that no corporation wants recited in open court. One internal Microsoft memo characterises the firm's own strategy as having "started a 'doom loop' that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time."

Court Filings Show Microsoft and OpenAI Called Their Own AI Strategy a Web ‘Doom Loop’

virginia bans data center ndas and launches an ai task force under spanbergers new order No place on Earth hosts more data centers than Virginia — and the state has now informed its own officials that they may no longer sign secrecy agreements covering them.

Virginia bans data center NDAs and launches an AI task force under Spanberger’s new order

ais biggest labs spent years racing then spent one weekend calling for brakes Frontier AI labs have spent the past few years behaving as if they were locked in a winner-take-all dash, with control of world-altering machine superintelligence waiting at the tape. Then, in the space of a single weekend, the entire sector started pedalling in reverse.

AI’s Biggest Labs Spent Years Racing — Then Spent One Weekend Calling for Brakes