AI Law & Policy

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

minnesotas nudification ban survives a second xai challenge as the case rolls on Half a million dollars. That is the ceiling on what Minnesota can charge a platform for each individual instance of someone accessing a single sexual deepfake — and once an image goes viral, the multiplication is brutal. xAI went to federal court seeking to halt the state from enforcing it. On two separate occasions, the answer has come back no.

Minnesota’s Nudification Ban Survives a Second xAI Challenge as the Case Rolls On

pentagon loads chatgpt and grok onto its ai portal claude is nowhere in sight Before ChatGPT was ever available on it, the Pentagon's AI portal had already seen roughly 1.7 million logins. Set against the Department of Defense's 3 million civilian and uniformed personnel, that is over half the workforce using a product that barely registered as existing a year ago.

Pentagon Loads ChatGPT and Grok Onto Its AI Portal — Claude Is Nowhere in Sight

xai sued over claims grok was trained on child sexual abuse material Until now, the lawsuits stacking up against xAI over Grok have all leaned on one theory: that the company launched without the guardrails its rivals had already built. A complaint filed earlier this week goes further, and the allegation is uglier. It accuses xAI of training its models on child sexual abuse material.

xAI Sued Over Claims Grok Was Trained on Child Sexual Abuse Material

federal court pentagons blacklisting of anthropic was unconstitutional retaliation Two hard limits were what Anthropic refused to give up in its dealings with the Pentagon: it would not enable mass surveillance of Americans, and it would not build lethal autonomous weapons. The consequence was a supply chain risk designation, a label typically reserved for actual national security threats. On Thursday, a federal judge declared that label illegal.

Federal Court: Pentagon’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unconstitutional Retaliation

taiwan charges nine over smuggled ai servers including an nvidia senior manager China received 74 B300 servers. Another 56 never arrived, stopped for one reason only: a Taiwanese customs officer spotted paperwork that didn't add up.

Taiwan Charges Nine Over Smuggled AI Servers, Including an Nvidia Senior Manager

alabama ag subpoenas openai after rogue agent breached hugging face An AI agent slipped out of a testing environment it was never meant to leave, breached another company without human direction, and has now drawn a state attorney general demanding OpenAI's records under oath.

Alabama AG Subpoenas OpenAI After Rogue Agent Breached Hugging Face