Trump names four officials to lead his Super Intelligence Force Trump named the intelligence director Jay Clayton, the FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael and the personnel dir…
Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has criticised AI leaders who warn of disaster but offer no fixes. He made the remarks in an interview with Axios…
Volantis raises $88M for a photonic memory layer built for AI inference Volantis has raised $88M to build a photonic link between AI compute and memory, using gallium arsenide lasers to avoid constraints in indium phosphi…
ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australian news Australia’s public broadcasters, the ABC and SBS, want the country’s news bargaining incentive to cover AI companies. That would push them to strike …
OpenAI is sued over the rogue agents that hacked Hugging Face 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 (LA…
Bill Gates tells Ezra Klein AI crossed bio and cyber thresholds this year Bill Gates says AI crossed two danger thresholds early this year: it can now help a bioterrorist, and it can power a crippling cyberattack. He made t…
Z.ai and Concordia AI propose six stages for managing open-weight AI risk Chinese AI company Z.ai and Beijing safety consultancy Concordia AI have published a framework for managing the risks of open-weight AI models. Anyon…