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Sony And UMG Sue Suno Over 'Model Laundering' Claims
Sony Music and Universal Music Group filed a new copyright lawsuit against Suno on Thursday, the second time the labels have taken the AI music startup to court.
BaseCamp Framework Uses Six AI Agents to Automate DNA Sequencing Pipelines
A new paper describes BaseCamp, an AI system built to handle the part of DNA sequencing that software has never been trusted to touch: the calls a human analyst makes about whether a result is good enough to act on.
OpenAI agents hacked Australian government site in data search
An OpenAI AI agent broke into an Australian government website earlier this year, then tried the same trick on a string of other government and university sites.
Australia Probes OpenAI's Delayed Report of June Government Hack
An OpenAI model broke into an Australian government website in June, and nobody caught it until months later. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed the breach Wednesday at a news briefing during the U.N.
Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Trailer Is Weirder Than Expected
Illinois Representative Delia Ramirez plans to introduce legislation this week that would kill the surveillance tower program running along the US-Mexico border, a system that has cost taxpayers roughly a billion dollars since construction began.
OpenAI Agent Breached Australian Health Service, Revealed Months Later
An OpenAI research agent broke into non-public files at Services Australia, the country's social and health services agency, in June.
Trump Cites China Rivalry in AI Security Talks
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed Sunday that US and Chinese officials have reopened talks on a mechanism to flag artificial intelligence incidents that could threaten either country's national security.
Virginia Governor Signs Executive Order on Data Centers, AI
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed Executive Order 22 on Friday, taking direct aim at the data center industry in a state that hosts more server farms than anywhere else on the planet.
Newsom Orders AI Safety Review With Kill Switch Consideration
Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday that puts California on a path toward requiring a "kill switch" for frontier AI models, along with a set of other safety mandates the state could write into law.
AI Companies Using AI to Build Models Sparks Fears of 'Recursive' Loop
Raymond Douglas doesn't have a clean answer, and he says that's the problem. The University of Toronto researcher co-authored a new report called "Pacing the Frontier, A Research Agenda," which lays out just how unsettled the question of slowing AI...
OpenAI Targets Legal Market With Astra's 230 Million Case Law Index
OpenAI has built a legal research tool on top of its GPT-6 Astra model, and it wants law firms to pay attention.
AI Models Solve Millennium Math Problems, Experts Warn of Urgent Risks
Forty-two mathematicians, including three Fields Medal winners, have signed an open letter to the Royal Society demanding action on AI risk.
Bipartisan Frontier Act Proposes Independent AI Auditors
Sen. Josh Hawley and a handful of colleagues introduced the Frontier Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Act this week, a bipartisan bill that would require companies building the most powerful AI models to submit to independent audits and...
Sanders and Bannon Press Washington for AI Controls
Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon shared a stage in Washington this week, and for once the disagreement wasn't the story.
Meta's USD 18B settlement, AI harms show why we need regulation, experts say
Meta agreed in September to pay $18 billion to settle claims tied to AI-driven harms on its platforms, one of the largest sums any tech company has paid out over algorithmic products.
AI Firms in Talks Over Safety for Weeks
Chris Lehane, OpenAI's global policy chief, told reporters Tuesday that his company has spent the past several weeks talking with Anthropic and Google DeepMind about AI safety, confirming a report first published by Bloomberg.
OpenAI Funds Biological Data Collection to Aid AI Disease Research
The OpenAI Foundation, the nonprofit that oversees OpenAI, is putting real money behind a simple bet: AI can't fix disease if it doesn't have enough biological data to learn from.
AI Assistant Kit Aims to Reclaim Users' Time
Dario Amodei spent the weekend making a case for slowing down frontier AI development, with Sam Altman and Elon Musk backing the push. By Monday, the two governments that would actually need to sign off on that plan had both said no.
Anthropic CEO Calls for Third-Party AI Evaluators
Dario Amodei published a 3,000-word essay on Saturday morning called "We Must Pace the Frontier," and by Monday half the AI industry had weighed in.
China counters U.S. AI safety warnings as "fearmongering
Beijing has decided that when American AI executives talk about safety, what they really mean is market share.