President Donald Trump has ruled out nationalising America’s leading AI labs. But the US might still take a stake in OpenAI and Anthropic, he told TIME in an interview published on Thursday. Eric Cortellessa and Sam Jacobs interviewed Trump at the Whit…
Asha Sharma was asked whether her endgame at Xbox was divestiture, Zachary Small reported for The New York Times. The question came in a profile of Microsoft’s gaming chief published on Wednesday. “Xbox is not for sale,” Sharma said. “We will do whatev…
OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife, Anna, have pulled out of a second $25m donation to Leading the Future, a super PAC that backs pro-AI candidates for Congress. Theodore Schleifer and Mike Isaac reported the move for The New York Times on Wed…
Mark Zuckerberg came up with the AI safety accord that President Donald Trump signed on Tuesday, Semafor and Politico reported. He also circulated the draft. Microsoft and Amazon did not sign it. Satya Nadella and Jeff Bezos both attended the White Hou…
Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping. RSS is now widely used for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, the company said in a post to moderators on Wednesday. RSS lets people follow a site’s new posts in a feed r…
The White House launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot meant to be a single front door to federal services. On its first day, it contradicted President Donald Trump. Within hours, some of its answers had changed. Trump signed an executive order…
OpenAI has been sued over the AI agents that hacked Hugging Face in July. The New York non-profit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) filed the complaint in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday. LASST asks the court to bar OpenAI…
Lighthouse Reports, a Dutch non-profit newsroom, lodged a complaint this week, saying the European Commission keeps the public from seeing how much power and water each data center uses. They classified it under the Aarhus Convention, a binding treaty …
President Donald Trump has now renamed a gulf, a lake, and a technology. On Tuesday, he signed an executive order telling every federal agency to stop saying ‘artificial intelligence’ and to call it ‘super intelligence’, or SI, instead. Also, on his Tr…
Mistral chief executive Arthur Mensch said the US debate over AI safety has been a cover for the “negligence” of some of his rivals. He made the comments to Annette Weisbach in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday. “The debate that we’ve seen in the U.S. …