The US Commerce Department has removed from its website the details of an agreement under which Microsoft, Google, and xAI agreed to submit new AI models to government scientists for security testing before release, Reuters reported on Monday. The orig…
The Nvidia CEO is not on the list of US executives travelling to Beijing for the Trump-Xi summit. Apple’s Tim Cook and Tesla’s Elon Musk are among those attending; the trip’s focus is reportedly agriculture, manufacturing, and aviation. NVIDIA CEO Jens…
An entry-level software engineer in San Francisco would need to be paid at least $162,000 a year to qualify for an H-1B visa under a Trump-administration proposal published in March, The same role in Dallas would jump to about $113,000; in New York, $1…
After two failed trilogues, Parliament and Council finally landed a compromise that pushes the high-risk compliance deadline to December 2027, lightens paperwork for smaller firms, and writes a long-promised ban on non-consensual intimate imagery into …
Singapore’s parliament has pledged that the country will not see jobless growth as artificial intelligence reshapes the economy, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday in coverage citing Channel NewsAsia. The statement reaffirms the position Prime Minister Lawr…
The agreement was signed with the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, the procurement vehicle driving the bulk of US military AI integration spending in 2025 and 2026. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google signed parallel classified-ne…
Sergei Vassilvitskii, distinguished scientist at Google since 2012, has written to Brussels warning that the Commission’s proposed anonymisation scheme for forced search-data sharing is, by his red team’s own demonstration, breakable in 120 minutes. Th…
The United States government now has a chief brand architect. Peter Arnell, the designer whose four-decade career includes creating the DKNY brand identity, redesigning the Pepsi logo in a project accompanied by a 27-page strategy document that referen…
The Mythos crisis forced the United States government to confront a question it had been avoiding: what happens when an AI model is powerful enough to threaten national security and the government has no formal mechanism to evaluate it before the publi…
The European Commission has formally recommended that member states keep Huawei and ZTE out of their connectivity infrastructure. The same restrictions are now moving toward becoming legally binding. China has already threatened to retaliate. When the …