AI Law & Policy

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

microsofts ai chief calls the risks genuine and says anthropic is compounding them Ninety-nine pages, read personally and word for word by Mustafa Suleyman, produced a 20-page taxonomy cataloguing every instance in which Anthropic's Constitution discusses Claude as though Claude were a someone.

Microsoft’s AI chief calls the risks genuine — and says Anthropic is compounding them

nvidia google back new alliance trading data center flexibility for qu At its core, this is a bargain. AI data centers promise to pull back on electricity when the grid is under stress, and utilities respond by connecting them years earlier than the usual timeline allows.

NVIDIA, Google back new alliance trading data center flexibility for quicker grid access

pace not pause how ai bosses and washington split over slowing the frontier A Saturday-morning essay from Dario Amodei was all it took for the president of the United States to be typing in all caps about it by Monday.

Pace, Not Pause: How AI Bosses and Washington Split Over Slowing the Frontier

chinas foreign ministry dismisses us ai chiefs call to slow down as a scare tactic Over the weekend, three of the biggest names in American AI made the case that their own industry ought to lift its foot off the gas. On Monday, Beijing replied in four words.

China’s Foreign Ministry dismisses US AI chiefs’ call to slow down as a scare tactic

anthropics dario amodei calls for the ai race to ease off the gas Two things have always happened simultaneously at Anthropic: shipping frontier models, and sounding the alarm about them. This week its chief executive put almost all of his weight on the second.

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei Calls for the AI Race to Ease Off the Gas