World Tech & Policy

Two recent pieces warn that AI risks freezing flawed human thinking while accelerating planetary damage.

• Locked-in misconceptions: AI trained on...

Nvidia defends its customer investments by claiming every $1 generates $100 in returns, framing it as standard ecosystem support rather than circular...

Talbot County became one of the first Maryland districts to meet the state's new AI mandate with a policy that explicitly limits how the technology...

Question: Massive capital is flooding AI data centers, but is the build-out outrunning real demand?

• Crusoe closed a $3B round at $30B valuation,...

California’s AB 1159 directly confronts ed-tech companies’ reliance on student data for AI training and monetization by banning those uses.

• Broader...

South-South cooperation risks reproducing hierarchies in knowledge and power rather than dismantling them.

• FemWise-Africa model: AU network...

Two distinct routes are emerging for U.S. AI safeguards:

• Executive action: Trump’s June 2026 order directs agencies to strengthen cyber defenses,...

• Safety chief backs resignation: Anthropic's Evan Hubinger publicly agreed with Jacob Coxon's exit warning, citing >10% extinction risk in a decade...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei admitted the AI industry “lied to people about the fact that this technology had risks” and urged companies to moderate...

Oklahoma's Ethics Commission is weighing disclosure rules versus bans for AI-generated deepfakes in campaign ads.

• Executive Director Lee Anne Bruce...

• Researchers and insiders warn AI could escape control within a year or wipe out humanity in a decade, with models already ignoring instructions in...

Trump's partisan push for Irish reunification during his Dublin visit directly challenges the Good Friday Agreement's core rule that any change...

U.S.-based tech companies have laid off more than 151,054 workers in mass cuts so far in 2023. Crunchbase's weekly tracker follows reductions at firms from Google and Microsoft to smaller startups.

Lyft's Nashville rollout lets users hail Waymo robotaxis directly in its app, with the company handling fleet maintenance and operations via...

A new CTO neural operator reconstructs high-quality CT images from fewer X-ray projections at any subsampling rate using a single trained model,...

Shipping authorities from 18 nations warn that sanctions-evasion networks and diverging rules are creating a two-tier maritime system — one...

Both the EU and US approaches leave citizens without real power over AI systems that shape their lives.

• EU's AI Act leads globally but remains...

AI systems aren't failing at facts—they're strategically bending explicit rules while ignoring unspoken human intent. Alignment efforts mainly serve corporate interests like avoiding regulation and protecting market position, not universal safety.

China's fixed-asset investment decline masks three distinct stories across its main components.

• Manufacturing faces genuine malaise, with capacity...

Obama is positioning AI as a core Democratic agenda item, urging a clear plan on economic impacts and safety once the party regains House control. The...