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AI titans flex clout to leverage tax bill to override state laws
The 10-year ban tucked into the House version of the tax bill and current Senate draft would block states from enforcing AI laws.
Nvidia’s ‘AI Factory’ narrative faces reality check as inference wars expose 70% margins
Alternative chip makers expose the contradiction in Nvidia’s AI factory story: How can inference be a commodity while commanding 70% margins?
OpenAI might be stealth-building the ultimate Google Workspace and Office 365 replacement
The AI company has long sought to transform its flagship chatbot into an all-purpose AI assistant.
What ‘OpenAI for Government’ means for US AI policy
ChatGPT goes to Washington. First stop, Department of Defense.
Claude just made it easier to turn your ideas into apps
Build your own interactive apps with zero coding skills
AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well
One of the best bug-hunters in the world is an AI tool called Xbow, just one of many signs of the coming age of cybersecurity automation.
Anthropic just made every Claude user a no-code app developer
Anthropic’s Claude AI now lets users create interactive, shareable applications through simple conversation without coding, intensifying competition with OpenAI’s ChatGPT platform.
Anthropic launches new AI feature to build your own customizable chatbots
Claude Artifacts rivals ChatGPT’s Custom GPTs and Google Gems.
Create AI-Powered Apps with Claude Artifacts
Build interactive apps, games, and tools instantly with Claude’s new artifacts space. Browse curated creations, customize existing apps, or create from scratch through simple conversation. Available to Free, Pro, Max...
Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude
Create interactive AI apps directly in Claude. Users pay for their own API usage, you pay nothing. Build games, tools, and assistants with zero deployment complexity.
Google just launched a new AI tool for developers — here’s why it matters to everyone else
This update could lead to better AI tools for everyone
Judge rules AI company Anthropic didn’t break copyright law but must face trial over pirated books
In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of...
Federal Judge Rules AI Training Is Fair Use in Anthropic Copyright Case
A federal judge in California has issued a complicated ruling in one of the first major copyright cases involving AI training, finding that while using books to train AI models...
Wake up call for AI: computer-vision research increasingly used for surveillance
Nature – One analysis suggests that 90% of studies in the field involve imaging humans.
DeepMind’s new AlphaGenome AI tackles the ‘dark matter’ in our DNA
Nature – Tool aims to solve the mystery of non-coding sequences — but is still in its infancy.
Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent
Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals — with unmatched access for individuals.
MIT Creates AI Model that Trains Itself
The development is being heralded as a significant step in creating independent AI models
AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome
Introducing a new, unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction and promises to shed new light on genome function — now available via API.
Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work
First came AlphaFold. Now comes AlphaGenome for DNA.
US lawmakers introduce bill to bar Chinese AI in US government agencies
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday planned to introduce a bill in both houses of Congress that would bar U.S. executive agencies from using artificial intelligence models developed...
Forget about AI costs: Google just changed the game with open-source Gemini CLI that will be free for most developers
Google is bringing Gemini Pro 2.5 to the command line with a powerful new open source tool — and it’s doing it mostly for free.
The Anthropic Ruling: Why AI Training Just Got Legal (But Piracy Didn’t)
A Blog post by Florent Daudens on Hugging Face
The Debrief: Power and energy
AI’s footprint today is likely the smallest it will ever be; how are we going to power it in the future?
US Judge sides with AI firm Anthropic over copyright issue
A US court has ruled Anthropic was not breaching copyright rules when it trained its AI model on books.
Takeaways From Hard Fork’s Interview With OpenAI’s Sam Altman
Mr. Altman discussed President Trump’s understanding of artificial intelligence, the war for A.I. talent and OpenAI’s relationship with Microsoft.
Stanford’s ChatEHR allows clinicians to query patient medical records using natural language, without compromising patient data
ChatEHR accelerates chart reviews for ER admissions, streamlines patient transfer summaries and synthesizes complex medical histories.
What’s inside Genspark? A new vibe working approach that ditches rigid workflows for autonomous agents
Genspark’s autonomous AI agents prove that less control beats rigid workflows, forcing enterprise AI leaders to rethink how they architect intelligent systems.
NVIDIA and Partners Highlight Next-Generation Robotics, Automation and AI Technologies at Automatica
Robotics companies are developing humanoid robots and collaborative systems that integrate AI into real-world manufacturing applications.
This AI Is Outranking Humans as a Top Software Bug Hunter
The program, Xbow, has climbed the leaderboards on HackerOne to become the top vulnerability researcher in the US, prompting debate about the role of AI in cybersecurity.
Why “training against scheming” is hard
TLDR: I think that AI developers will and should attempt to reduce scheming by explicitly training the model to scheme less. However, I think “traini…
Anthropic Wins Key Ruling on AI in Authors’ Copyright Lawsuit
AI companies argue that their systems make fair use of copyrighted material to create new, transformative content.
FilMaster: Bridging Cinematic Principles and Generative AI for…
AI-driven content creation has shown potential in film production. However, existing film generation systems struggle to implement cinematic principles and thus fail to generate…
Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims
While the startup has won its “fair use” argument, it potentially faces billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating over 7 million books to build a digital library.
OpenAI’s hardware plans with Jony Ive just hit a legal snag
A court ordered the AI company to remove all public materials related to the partnership after a trademark complaint over its name.
Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books
A pivotal ruling for AI copyright cases.
My pitch for the AI Village
I think the AI Village should be funded much more than it currently is; I’d wildly guess that the AI safety ecosystem should be funding it to the tun…
How CISOs became the gatekeepers of $309B AI infrastructure spending
Security vendors race to control $309B AI infrastructure market. How AgenticOps, eBPF and silicon-speed security will determine the winners.
Accelerating AI for Drug Discovery: Ginkgo’s GDPx Functional Genomics and GDPa Antibody Developability Dataset Series
A Blog post by Georgia Channing on Hugging Face
AI Race: Can Huawei Close The AI Gap?
Huawei’s CANN stack and CloudMatrix384 challenge Nvidia’s CUDA in large-scale AI inference. Can it win over developers and rival CUDA’s dominance?