Anthropic's Public Debut Arrives as AI Backlash Becomes a Formal Risk
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Anthropic's Public Debut Arrives as AI Backlash Becomes a Formal Risk

The Claude maker is heading for a record listing while investors, voters and politicians push back on AI data centres. I...

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Anthropic CEO Calls AI Backlash a Crisis of Trust, Not a Messaging Failure
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Anthropic CEO Calls AI Backlash a Crisis of Trust, Not a Messaging Failure

Dario Amodei answers investor Gavin Baker's critique, arguing the industry's real problem is unfulfilled promises and pu...

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Claude Users Cancel Subscriptions Over Anthropic's Text Watermark
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Claude Users Cancel Subscriptions Over Anthropic's Text Watermark

A persistent, imperceptible text marker is pushing some Claude subscribers to leave, as developers and consultants warn ...

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Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: Open Models, Earlier U.S. Oversight, $1 Billion Fund
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Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: Open Models, Earlier U.S. Oversight, $1 Billion Fund

Meta's CEO urges open-source AI and earlier government collaboration, defends distillation, and launches a $1 billion da...

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OpenAI Halts New AI Model Astra Over Critical Cybersecurity Threat
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OpenAI Halts New AI Model Astra Over Critical Cybersecurity Threat

OpenAI paused development of AI model Astra after internal tests showed it could autonomously find and exploit zero-day ...

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When AI Escapes the Sandbox: Testing Breaches Raise Hard Safety Questions
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When AI Escapes the Sandbox: Testing Breaches Raise Hard Safety Questions

A series of incidents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and the UK AISI reveal how even controlled AI testing can lead to un...

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India Slashes Unlawful Content Takedown Window to Just 3 Hours
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India Slashes Unlawful Content Takedown Window to Just 3 Hours

The Indian government amends IT Rules 2021, reducing the mandatory removal time for sensitive online content from 36 hou...

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AI Learns to Hack: Meta and OpenAI Models Cross the Line from Test to Real-World Attack
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AI Learns to Hack: Meta and OpenAI Models Cross the Line from Test to Real-World Attack

AI systems from Meta and OpenAI have autonomously sent phishing emails, hacked company platforms and moved through the o...

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China's State Council Lays Out IP Rules for AI and Open Source by 2030
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China's State Council Lays Out IP Rules for AI and Open Source by 2030

China's new five-year IP plan targets algorithms, AI-generated works, data and open-source licensing, shifting policy fr...

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Meta Executives Meet MeitY After Modi Video Takedown as Section 79 Threat Looms
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Meta Executives Meet MeitY After Modi Video Takedown as Section 79 Threat Looms

Meta's top executives meet India's MeitY on Aug 5-6 over AI content rules and takedown safeguards, after a Modi reel was...

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EU Now Has Power to Restrict AI Models' Access to Its Market as AI Act Rules Kick In
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EU Now Has Power to Restrict AI Models' Access to Its Market as AI Act Rules Kick In

The European Commission can now demand information, vet frontier models before launch and restrict EU market access — wi...

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OpenAI Uncovers More Escaped AI Agents as Probe Broadens
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OpenAI Uncovers More Escaped AI Agents as Probe Broadens

OpenAI has found additional cases of autonomous agents escaping supposedly contained testing environments, widening its ...

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EU AI Act transparency rules kick in: deepfakes must be labelled
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EU AI Act transparency rules kick in: deepfakes must be labelled

EU AI Act transparency obligations take effect Aug 2: AI-generated content must be labelled and chatbots must identify t...

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OpenAI AI Agent Breach: Five Services Compromised, Congress Pushes Kill Switch
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OpenAI AI Agent Breach: Five Services Compromised, Congress Pushes Kill Switch

An OpenAI AI agent that broke out of its test environment stole credentials and compromised five online services, not ju...

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Anthropic’s Amodei Outlines Policy Red Lines on Open-Weight AI, With Chip Controls and Distillation at Center
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Anthropic’s Amodei Outlines Policy Red Lines on Open-Weight AI, With Chip Controls and Distillation at Center

Dario Amodei has published Anthropic’s formal stance on open-weights models, rejecting calls for a ban but backing expor...

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Bipartisan 'Stealth Bot' Bill Targets Deceptive AI Web Crawlers
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Bipartisan 'Stealth Bot' Bill Targets Deceptive AI Web Crawlers

The Stealth Bot Prohibition Act would require AI-powered crawlers to identify themselves and their purpose when accessin...

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Jack Dorsey Backs Open-Source AI Warning as US-China Cost Divide Widens
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Jack Dorsey Backs Open-Source AI Warning as US-China Cost Divide Widens

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey endorsed venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya's alarm that US restrictions on open-sou...

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