P(doom): The Problem With AI Extinction Numbers
Doom probabilities are unfalsifiable, yet they shape the debate — while the UN Security Council heard concrete warnings and labs ship measurable safety work.
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REGULATION
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Talk Safety Standards
OpenAI's policy chief confirms weeks of safety coordination with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, as the White House plays the risks down.
REGULATION
Musk drops antitrust suit against Apple, not OpenAI
Apple is off the hook after a settlement nobody has detailed, while Musk's antitrust claims against OpenAI stay in play.
MODELS
Gates Foundation puts $1 billion into AI access
About 40 percent each for education and health, the rest for data and farming - and Gates wants governments, not the industry, to write the rules.
MODELS
Cloudera and Mistral put sovereign AI next to your data
The two companies want Mistral models to run inside Cloudera's platform — on-premises, in private clouds, even in air-gapped networks.
REGULATION
OpenAI Says the Window for AI Policy Is Still Open
Chris Lehane's post on OpenAI's site ties stronger model capability to stronger safety evidence, shared standards and durable rules.
REGULATION
China's New Rules Pull the Plug on AI Boyfriends
China's rules for companion chatbots took effect on July 15, 2026: a reminder every two hours, and no virtual romance for anyone under 18.
REGULATION
About 30 Robots March in Warsaw to Demand AI Rules
Roughly 30 humanoids and robot dogs circled outside Poland's digital ministry; the organizers want a public debate on AI and jobs.
REGULATION
Simulated Users: Testing AI Agents Before Production
Columbia professor Zhou Yu argues single-turn benchmarks break down for multi-turn agents, and offers simulated users as the fix.
REGULATION
Meta glasses case now covers people who were filmed
A 230-page consolidated complaint pulls 13 suits together in California and, for the first time, speaks for bystanders who never agreed to anything.
REGULATION
Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft
The two newsrooms say their reporting was used to train AI models without permission, and that the systems echo passages of it back to users.
REGULATION
US government backs OpenAI's fair-use case against the NYT
The Justice Department told a Manhattan court that training language models on copyrighted text should count as fair use, breaking with the Copyright Office.
REGULATION
OpenAI hit with 30 new suits over Tumbler Ridge attack
The complaints go beyond negligence for the first time, alleging staff spotted the warning signs in chat logs and never called police.
REGULATION
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic
The publishers accuse the AI company and two co-founders of torrenting tens of thousands of works, and want up to $150,000 for each.
Regulation
Taiwan indicts nine over AI servers shipped to China
130 Nvidia B300 servers were ordered, 74 reached Chinese customers, 56 were stopped by customs. The accused include Nvidia and Supermicro employees.
POLICY
U-turn: US governors slam the brakes on AI data centers
Pennsylvania, Texas, New York, Arizona, Illinois: once-courted data center projects now face moratoriums, conditions and cancelled tax breaks.
POLICY
Reversal: OpenAI wants California's AI safety law tightened
First against, now for: OpenAI urges California to extend AI safety law SB 53 with training-run monitoring and tougher cybersecurity duties.
Law
"Not everything technically possible can be legally justified" — watchdog rebukes police law
Lower Saxony's data protection commissioner Denis Lehmkemper names four planned powers as especially intrusive. Three of them concern AI systems directly.
CHIPS
Nvidia in talks with Korean chip startup Rebellions
Jensen Huang met Rebellions' CEO in Santa Clara: a partnership, investment or acquisition of the $2.3 billion inference-chip maker is on the table.
Tokenisation
Maldives & CEGStake to Host Digital Ownership Summit 2026
Visit Maldives and Switzerland's CEGStake AG will host the first Digital Ownership Summit on 12 December 2026, centred on real-world asset tokenisation.
Industry
Amodei: AI backlash is 'fundamentally a crisis of trust'
Anthropic's CEO responds to growing AI skepticism: the industry hasn't delivered on its promises yet — and needs smarter regulation, not less.
Policy & Law
Hidden AI Commands in Court Filing Cost Plaintiff E-Filing Rights
A Connecticut plaintiff hid tiny white-text AI instructions in his court filings. The judge responded by revoking his electronic filing privileges.
Policy & Law
Lawsuit against xAI: Grok allegedly enabled abuse imagery
A fourth plaintiff joins the case: Grok allegedly generated thousands of explicit images from a childhood photo. xAI has not commented.
Policy & Law
Anthropic explains how Claude's new watermarks work
Invisible patterns in word choice instead of visible labels: Anthropic discloses technical details and plans a public detection API.
Everyday Life
Microsoft Reshapes Copilot: One App, Fewer Features
Consumer and business Copilot apps are being merged into one – unsuccessful features like Podcasts and the Mico avatar are cut.