Tag: AI policy
Voters in nine states put a fence around the AI buildout
Ballot measures and midterm upsets turned server farms into one of the most punishing issues of the 2026…
Switching off AI in schools now means switching off Google search
Google will leave Gemini and classroom tools dormant for K-12 accounts unless administrators opt in, and its search…
Seoul puts $16B behind chips and its own frontier models
President Lee Jae Myung's 2027 budget nearly doubles AI spending, with money set aside to build Korean frontier…
Hugging Face and universities team up to free publicly funded science
Project ProtoStar starts with a climate risk challenge and wants public research datasets and models to become reusable…
Mistral opens Le Chonk weights and bets on cyber defense
Mistral has published the full weights for its trillion-parameter Large 4 model, arguing a downloadable frontier model is…
A Delaware plan would let software run companies with nobody in charge
The state's draft Artificial Intelligence Company statute has drawn a congressional document demand over liability.
Schmidt calls the leading AI labs colonial trading companies
In a Foreign Affairs essay, Eric Schmidt and two co-authors argue that compute access, not model quality, now…
A subreddit bans AI projects and touches off a revolt
Moderators of r/opensource say generated code is incongruent with the community and want non-English speakers out too.
Pennsylvania puts AI disclosure labels on synthetic advertising across the state
The new law covers images, video, audio and text, but its exceptions leave most of the hard questions…
Fired OpenAI researchers say nobody told them what was leaked
Three former safety staff dispute the investigation and warn the case will chill outside scrutiny.
A quiet privacy policy edit links Gemini data to ads
Google added an exception for people who connect Gmail, Drive or Photos to its personal AI features.
Asked to name a candidate, the models split down party lines
Asked to name one candidate for the midterms the two most-watched model families landed on opposite parties almost…