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The Trump administration refused to lift export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model after the NSA confirmed its guardrails could be bypassed, sparking debate between cybersecurity experts who defend the model's defensive uses.
The U.S. government is reportedly allowing the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) to expire, removing key cybersecurity and sustainability standards for federal data centers amidst the AI boom and community backlash.
An analysis of South Korea's widespread embrace of AI, driven by government policy and cultural enthusiasm, contrasting with growing skepticism in the US.
The US government is allowing the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) to expire without replacement, signaling a hands-off approach to data center oversight amid growing AI infrastructure demands and public opposition.
A comment argues that if AI systems can be banned without due process, the transformative potential of AI will be limited, using the example of Mythos.
China is reportedly planning a $295 billion investment in AI data centers over five years, prioritizing domestic suppliers like Huawei to reduce reliance on US chipmakers such as Nvidia.
The UK is advancing its sovereign AI ambitions with NVIDIA technologies, as multiple cloud providers double their AI infrastructure on UK soil, and the Sovereign AI Fund backs homegrown startups using the Isambard-AI supercomputer for innovations in coding, reinforcement learning, and self-improving AI.
The Dutch government announced that only European companies will be allowed to operate the DigiD platform after August 2028, citing national security risks from US legislation that could allow American authorities access to Dutch citizen data. The decision follows blocked attempts by US firm Kyndryl to acquire Solvinity, the current operator.
Trump's AI executive order for pre-deployment testing of frontier models faces challenges due to gutted security teams and issues with transparency and observability, potentially limiting its effectiveness.
President Trump signed a scaled-back AI executive order requiring companies to give the federal government 30-day early access to advanced AI models before public release, after internal debate and industry pushback.
President Trump signed a narrower executive order on AI oversight requiring voluntary submission of new AI models for government review 30 days before release, after industry objections shortened the earlier 90-day proposal.
The US Office of Management and Budget has proposed new federal grant rules that would make peer review optional, allow cancellation of grants at any time for vaguely defined 'national interest' reasons, and ban grants on certain cultural topics, threatening the US scientific research enterprise.
China is expanding travel restrictions to include top AI talent working at private firms, making it harder for foreign companies to poach them and limiting their ability to travel abroad.
President Donald Trump has delayed signing an AI security executive order that would require government evaluation of AI models before release, citing concerns it could hinder US leadership in AI.
The Maltese government has announced that it will provide a one-year free GPT Plus subscription to citizens who pass AI training courses, potentially becoming the first universal AI country.
New 'kill switch' laws like SB6 allow local governments to remotely cut electricity to high-density racks during power spikes, raising concerns about the reliability of remote computing and prompting calls for local-first backups.
DeepSeek secured a $7 billion funding round, the largest in Chinese AI history, backed by government funds and its founder, alongside massive integration into Chinese government, healthcare, and public services under national policy.
The U.S. government has established voluntary pre-release security review agreements with every major domestic AI lab, marking a significant step in federal oversight of frontier model development. The policy aims to proactively assess national security risks before powerful AI systems are publicly deployed.
Anthropic is reportedly exploring a $50 billion funding round that could value it near $1 trillion, while VP JD Vance held a private AI call with Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about AI risks to critical infrastructure.
Two South African Home Affairs officials were suspended after AI-generated 'hallucinations' were discovered in a key policy paper on citizenship and immigration, highlighting the risks of unchecked AI use in government.