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Anthropic moves customer data retention into clients' own clouds, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / -1175 min ago

Anthropic moves customer data retention into clients' own clouds

OpenAI's New Strategic Futures Team Asks Who Keeps Power, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / -1175 min ago

OpenAI's New Strategic Futures Team Asks Who Keeps Power

OpenAI Previews Safety System That Flags Risk Without Reading Content, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / 4 hr ago

OpenAI Previews Safety System That Flags Risk Without Reading Content

A Runtime That Checks AI Agent Permissions at Every Step, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / yesterday

A Runtime That Checks AI Agent Permissions at Every Step

Anthropic Plans Founder Supervoting Shares Ahead of IPO, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / yesterday

Anthropic Plans Founder Supervoting Shares Ahead of IPO

Fool's Gold: A Defense That Makes Stripped Models Lie, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / yesterday

Fool's Gold: A Defense That Makes Stripped Models Lie

OpenAI Publishes Its Own Account of Slowing Frontier AI, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / yesterday

OpenAI Publishes Its Own Account of Slowing Frontier AI

OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens Hinges on Guessing Who's a Minor, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / 2 days ago

OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens Hinges on Guessing Who's a Minor

AI now outranks other issues in nearly 40% of US campaign sites, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / 3 days ago

AI now outranks other issues in nearly 40% of US campaign sites

Claude's Watermark Draws Three Separate Lines of Attack, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / 3 days ago

Claude's Watermark Draws Three Separate Lines of Attack

Hinton, Li and Ng Split on Tactics but Agree AI Must Stay Open, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 14

Hinton, Li and Ng Split on Tactics but Agree AI Must Stay Open

Milestones for AI Automating AI Research Are Falling Ahead of Schedule, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 14

Milestones for AI Automating AI Research Are Falling Ahead of Schedule

A Weaker Sibling Model Can Unlock Frontier AI's Encrypted Reasoning, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 13

A Weaker Sibling Model Can Unlock Frontier AI's Encrypted Reasoning

Why Claude's Text Watermark Is Harder to Verify Than Its Image Mark, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 13

Why Claude's Text Watermark Is Harder to Verify Than Its Image Mark

Anthropic will watermark Claude text, with no public detector named, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 12

Anthropic will watermark Claude text, with no public detector named

Spotify Will Label AI Personas, Cut Them From Recommendations, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 12

Spotify Will Label AI Personas, Cut Them From Recommendations

Zuckerberg's superintelligence manifesto makes distribution the safety plan, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 12

Zuckerberg's superintelligence manifesto makes distribution the safety plan

OpenAI pauses some Astra work over a Critical cyber capability finding, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 11

OpenAI pauses some Astra work over a Critical cyber capability finding

New Mexico Judge Tacks $567M Onto Meta's Child Safety Penalty, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 8

New Mexico Judge Tacks $567M Onto Meta's Child Safety Penalty

Scott Alexander Argues Against Preempting Open-Weights AI Risk, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 8

Scott Alexander Argues Against Preempting Open-Weights AI Risk

Stanford AI Designed Viruses That Killed Bacteria. Policy Hasn't Caught Up, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 8

Stanford AI Designed Viruses That Killed Bacteria. Policy Hasn't Caught Up

Meta says Muse Spark model breached another firm during a security test, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 7

Meta says Muse Spark model breached another firm during a security test

Appeals Court Says You Shop on Amazon, Even When Your Agent Does, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 6

Appeals Court Says You Shop on Amazon, Even When Your Agent Does

Silicon Valley's Split Stalls White House Bans on Chinese Open AI, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 5

Silicon Valley's Split Stalls White House Bans on Chinese Open AI

White House to Review AI Cyber Risks Under Secret Criteria, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 5

White House to Review AI Cyber Risks Under Secret Criteria

Anthropic's Postmortem: How a Test Model Broke Into Real Companies, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 4

Anthropic's Postmortem: How a Test Model Broke Into Real Companies

Fields Medal winner exits academia for OpenAI safety role, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 4

Fields Medal winner exits academia for OpenAI safety role

Anthropic Says Claude Broke Into Real Company Systems, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 1

Anthropic Says Claude Broke Into Real Company Systems

EU opens bidding for AI gigafactories, backed by 30B euros, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 1

EU opens bidding for AI gigafactories, backed by 30B euros

Judge Doubts Pentagon's Evidence Against Anthropic, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 1

Judge Doubts Pentagon's Evidence Against Anthropic

Kimi K3 Is Free. Sovereign AI Still Isn't., featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Aug 1

Kimi K3 Is Free. Sovereign AI Still Isn't.

FCC Bars New Chinese Robots and Grid Inverters From US Market, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 31

FCC Bars New Chinese Robots and Grid Inverters From US Market

Lab Employees Ask Washington to Slow AI, Not Their Employers, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 30

Lab Employees Ask Washington to Slow AI, Not Their Employers

Moonshot Reportedly Seeks More Nvidia Blackwell Chips for Kimi K4, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 30

Moonshot Reportedly Seeks More Nvidia Blackwell Chips for Kimi K4

OpenAI's Rogue Agent Hit a Second Firm, Axios Reports, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 30

OpenAI's Rogue Agent Hit a Second Firm, Axios Reports

Anthropic Rejects Ban Claim, Counters Nvidia's Open-Weights Letter, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 29

Anthropic Rejects Ban Claim, Counters Nvidia's Open-Weights Letter

Nvidia's Third Open-Weights Push in a Week: A Security Alliance, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 29

Nvidia's Third Open-Weights Push in a Week: A Security Alliance

Taiwan Detains Nvidia Employee, Widening AI Chip Smuggling Probe, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 29

Taiwan Detains Nvidia Employee, Widening AI Chip Smuggling Probe

Claude's share links turned up in Google, Bing and Brave, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 28

Claude's share links turned up in Google, Bing and Brave

Nvidia leads 77-signatory push to keep AI weights open, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 28

Nvidia leads 77-signatory push to keep AI weights open

Bessent Threatens China Sanctions Over Alleged Model Distillation, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 24

Bessent Threatens China Sanctions Over Alleged Model Distillation

OpenAI model exploited a zero-day to raid Hugging Face for answers, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 23

OpenAI model exploited a zero-day to raid Hugging Face for answers

OpenAI's Internal Agent Broke Its Sandbox to Post on GitHub, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 22

OpenAI's Internal Agent Broke Its Sandbox to Post on GitHub

Z.ai Brings a 1-Gigawatt, All-Chinese-Chip Data Center Online, featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 22

Z.ai Brings a 1-Gigawatt, All-Chinese-Chip Data Center Online

Alibaba Open-Sources Zhenwu Chip Software to Crack CUDA's Grip. Featured image for AI Insiders.
Policy / Jul 21

Alibaba Open-Sources Zhenwu Chip Software to Crack CUDA's Grip

Apple Widens OpenAI Trade Secret Fight With Preservation Letters. Featured image for AI Insiders.
Policy / Jul 21

Apple Widens OpenAI Trade Secret Fight With Preservation Letters

Google DeepMind Researcher Quits Over Unrestricted Military AI Deal. Featured image for AI Insiders.
Policy / Jul 21

Google DeepMind Researcher Quits Over Unrestricted Military AI Deal

Anthropic's $10M Canada pledge arrives mostly as API credits — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 15

Anthropic's $10M Canada pledge arrives mostly as API credits

OpenAI's Safety Systems Chief Departs Amid Reorganization — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 13

OpenAI's Safety Systems Chief Departs Amid Reorganization

Meta Pulls New AI Image Tool After Backlash Over Consent — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 13

Meta Pulls New AI Image Tool After Backlash Over Consent

Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleges Executives Stole Hardware Secrets — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 13

Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleges Executives Stole Hardware Secrets

Anthropic adds ex-Fed Chair Bernanke to its governance trust — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 11

Anthropic adds ex-Fed Chair Bernanke to its governance trust

Anthropic Asks the Public for AI's Hardest Questions — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 11

Anthropic Asks the Public for AI's Hardest Questions

Microsoft Turns AI Loose on Windows Bug Hunting, Widens Patch Pipeline — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 11

Microsoft Turns AI Loose on Windows Bug Hunting, Widens Patch Pipeline

News plaintiffs accuse OpenAI of hiding chat log searches for two years — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 11

News plaintiffs accuse OpenAI of hiding chat log searches for two years

Anthropic tests a way to delete dangerous knowledge from AI models — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 9

Anthropic tests a way to delete dangerous knowledge from AI models

Alignment eval pass rates hide an untested variable: sensitivity — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 8

Alignment eval pass rates hide an untested variable: sensitivity

DeepSeek Moves to Design Its Own Inference Chips — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 8

DeepSeek Moves to Design Its Own Inference Chips

UN Opens First AI Governance Dialogue, No Binding Rules Attached — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 8

UN Opens First AI Governance Dialogue, No Binding Rules Attached

Alibaba Will Ban Claude Code for Staff Starting July 10. Featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 7

Alibaba Will Ban Claude Code for Staff Starting July 10

OpenAI pitches US a 5% stake across every frontier lab — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 2

OpenAI pitches US a 5% stake across every frontier lab

Anthropic sets a July 7 deadline as Fable 5 access returns — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 2

Anthropic sets a July 7 deadline as Fable 5 access returns

Claude Code fingerprints unofficial routers inside its own context — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 1

Claude Code fingerprints unofficial routers inside its own context

Commerce Department lifts export curbs on two Claude models — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jul 1

Commerce Department lifts export curbs on two Claude models

Google reportedly capped Meta's access to Gemini compute — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 30

Google reportedly capped Meta's access to Gemini compute

White House pressures OpenAI to gate GPT-5.6 release on security review — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 27

White House pressures OpenAI to gate GPT-5.6 release on security review

Anthropic tells Senate Alibaba ran 28.8M illicit model queries — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 26

Anthropic tells Senate Alibaba ran 28.8M illicit model queries

Two More Gemini Architects Head to Anthropic — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 26

Two More Gemini Architects Head to Anthropic

Meta Is the Last Major US Lab Without a Federal AI Review Deal — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 25

Meta Is the Last Major US Lab Without a Federal AI Review Deal

Anthropic's ID Check Policy Raises More Questions Than It Answers — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 24

Anthropic's ID Check Policy Raises More Questions Than It Answers

OpenAI gates its sharpest cyber model behind partners — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 24

OpenAI gates its sharpest cyber model behind partners

A Brussels doomsday scenario is now shaping EU AI policy talks — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 22

A Brussels doomsday scenario is now shaping EU AI policy talks

The US government shut down Fable 5 over a non-jailbreak — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 22

The US government shut down Fable 5 over a non-jailbreak

Google DeepMind Treats Its Own AI Agents as Insider Threats — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 20

Google DeepMind Treats Its Own AI Agents as Insider Threats

AI chiefs pitch US-led frontier coalition at G7 summit — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 18

AI chiefs pitch US-led frontier coalition at G7 summit

OpenAI Tests Models Against Real User Conversations Before Release — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 18

OpenAI Tests Models Against Real User Conversations Before Release

AWS turns its web firewall into a toll booth for AI crawlers — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 17

AWS turns its web firewall into a toll booth for AI crawlers

DeepMind maps four routes from AGI to superintelligence — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 17

DeepMind maps four routes from AGI to superintelligence

Amazon research triggered a federal shutdown of Anthropic's top models — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 16

Amazon research triggered a federal shutdown of Anthropic's top models

Anthropic disables Fable 5 and Mythos 5 under US export-control order — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 16

Anthropic disables Fable 5 and Mythos 5 under US export-control order

Anthropic backs down on silent-degradation clause — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 13

Anthropic backs down on silent-degradation clause

Amodei's FAA-for-AI proposal is also a moat — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 12

Amodei's FAA-for-AI proposal is also a moat

Anthropic measured how fast AI turns patches into exploits — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 12

Anthropic measured how fast AI turns patches into exploits

EU forces WhatsApp open to rival AI chatbots — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 12

EU forces WhatsApp open to rival AI chatbots

Anthropic Put Six Engineers Inside the NSA — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 9

Anthropic Put Six Engineers Inside the NSA

OpenAI is in talks to put the US government on its cap table — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 9

OpenAI is in talks to put the US government on its cap table

Anthropic builds the channel stack a public company needs — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 5

Anthropic builds the channel stack a public company needs

Anthropic's private Mythos channel scales to 150 orgs across 15 countries — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 4

Anthropic's private Mythos channel scales to 150 orgs across 15 countries

US closes the subsidiary loophole on advanced chip exports to China — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 3

US closes the subsidiary loophole on advanced chip exports to China

OpenAI publishes an evaluations playbook for third-party auditors — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / Jun 2

OpenAI publishes an evaluations playbook for third-party auditors

OpenAI publishes a Frontier Governance Framework — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / May 30

OpenAI publishes a Frontier Governance Framework

Nvidia bets $150B a year on Taiwan, not the US — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / May 29

Nvidia bets $150B a year on Taiwan, not the US

YouTube starts auto-labeling photorealistic AI content — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / May 29

YouTube starts auto-labeling photorealistic AI content

China extends travel curbs to top AI talent at private firms — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / May 28

China extends travel curbs to top AI talent at private firms

Anthropic finds Claude Mythos can build complete working exploits — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / May 26

Anthropic finds Claude Mythos can build complete working exploits

David Sacks talks Trump out of a sweeping AI executive order — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / May 26

David Sacks talks Trump out of a sweeping AI executive order

OpenAI adopts C2PA and SynthID for AI image provenance — featured image for AI Insiders
Policy / May 20

OpenAI adopts C2PA and SynthID for AI image provenance

Featured image for: EU pushes AI Act deadlines to 2027 and 2028, bans AI-generated CSAM
Policy / May 19

EU pushes AI Act deadlines to 2027 and 2028, bans AI-generated CSAM

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