The White House task force is intended to address AI safety concerns and maintain U.S. leadership in the technology. According to The Information, it plans to report on AI risks and opportunities within 120 days. Fortune reports that it will consult consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, infrastructure providers and AI companies.
The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his AI policy stance from rival developer Anthropic, according to Politico. Business Insider reports that Altman rejects the most catastrophic risks of AI but believes people will use the technology to do more good things than bad things.
Retail listings have emerged following an accidental marketing leak in August and an FCC listing last month, according to 9to5Google. The outlet also reports apps and notifications for the tracker.
The redesigned laptop is expected to introduce a touchscreen and OLED display, with a debut anticipated by next month. According to 9to5Mac, it would be Apple's first touchscreen MacBook and its first with Tandem OLED.
An Arizona appellate court threw out a manslaughter sentence after an AI-generated video of the victim was played in court, according to The New York Times.
Son said countries must cooperate to control superintelligence because it could become dangerous in the wrong hands, according to The Next Web.
Full Disk Access can expose system files, mail, messages and browsing history, according to The Economic Times. Apple's planned controls follow a dispute over allegations that Meta's Muse agent accessed a journalist's messages without permission, which Meta denies, PCMag reports.
Saif al-Din Khader, allegedly known online as Rey, is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the extortion group. Reports cite Reuters and three people familiar with the detention.
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
New York Times ·American AI companies’ performance lead over China narrowed sharply in past months to a record low after labs such as DeepSeek gained ground, threatening US tech supremacy, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.
Bloomberg ·AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.
TechCrunch ·On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.
TechCrunch ·Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits
Financial Times ·Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who warned that artificial intelligence could become too powerful for humans to control, will testify Monday at a New York City Council hearing alongside representatives of some of the world’s biggest AI companies.
Bloomberg ·Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps .
Simon Willison ·StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots.
The Verge ·Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seems to believe that he, the American artificial intelligence (AI) industry and the United States are the only ones who should have the right to determine the fate of humanity.
South China Morning Post ·Women hold just a fraction of new AI jobs but are overrepresented in roles with high risk of AI disruption There’s a common fear among people who work in Silicon Valley: snag one of the fast-growing, high-paying jobs in artificial intelligence, or get trapped in the “permanent underclass”, a phrase describing the fate of those…
The Guardian ·Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year.
Wired ·Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks.
Phoronix ·Anthropic has started asking Claude users to voluntarily share their voice conversations to help train and improve its AI models.
BleepingComputer ·Not all AI is created equal.
Wall Street Journal ·