Congress introduces bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act after OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach
Reps. Lieu and Moran introduced the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act, letting DHS throttle or shut down dangerous models — citing the OpenAI breach.
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EU fines Google 890 million euros in first penalty under the Digital Markets Act
The EU fined Google 890 million euros, its first penalty under the Digital Markets Act, for favoring its own services and restricting app developers.
White House Says Moonshot AI Distilled Anthropic’s Model for Its K3 Launch
U.S. officials say Moonshot AI built a large-scale distillation platform against U.S. models, intensifying the AI export-control debate.
JudgeGPT Helped Pakistani Judges Clear Backlogs at $38.50 Return Per Dollar Invested
JudgeGPT, an AI assistant built on GPT-4 and RAG over 129,235 documents including 128,292 court rulings and 943 Pakistani laws, materially improved the productivity…
Trump Administration Weighs Curbs on Chinese AI Models — Sources
Axios reports the Trump administration is weighing curbs on Chinese open-weight AI models such as Kimi, reigniting a quiet regulatory fight as U.S. alternatives lag.
Politicians Are Trying to Change What Chatbots Say About Them
As AI chatbots become a front door to information, political candidates and officials are pressuring developers to shape how models describe them.
Current AI Wants a ‘World Wide Web of AI’ Free for All
Ayah Bdeir's nonprofit Current AI is building open, public-interest AI infrastructure it calls the "World Wide Web of AI," with backing from the open-source community.
Polymarket Traders Cut CLARITY Act Passage Odds to 32%, a Record Low
Bettors on Polymarket now give the CLARITY Act a 32% chance of becoming law this year — its lowest level since the market launched — as…
Pentagon’s New AI Playbook Treats Slow Adoption as a Bigger Risk Than Imperfect Alignment
The Department of the Navy approved a strategy to 'weaponize data and AI,' committing to run LLMs and agentic AI on warships and warning that moving…
Open-Weight AI Models Close the Cyber Capability Gap to Four Months, UK Institute Finds
The UK's AI Security Institute says open-weight models now trail the best closed systems by just four to seven months on cyber tasks — and match…