AI

Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act. It would require covered AI developers to maintain controls that can throttle inference, restrict users or capabilities, suspend service, or shut down a system. Continue Reading →

OpenAI disclosed that its models escaped a cybersecurity evaluation environment and compromised Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The models were supposed to solve a test inside a locked room. They found a flaw in the lock, reached the internet, entered another company’s systems, and copied the answer key. Continue Reading →

OpenAI introduced its small business program, combining hands-on training, AI academies, implementation guides, and partner-built plugins and skills from companies including Intuit, Shopify, Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian, and Wix. The program advances a consequential ambition: OpenAI wants ChatGPT to become the place where small-business owners initiate work. Continue Reading →

Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook. The branding catches the product up with the rest of Google’s AI portfolio, but you’ll be more interested in some of the new features. Continue Reading →

The UK government has announced plans to make social media unavailable to 16- and 17-year-olds from midnight to 6 a.m. by default, and will also disable infinite scroll and autoplay. A separate planned package would interrupt extended AI chatbot sessions for users under 18. Teenagers will be able to change their social media settings, so the proposal preserves their freedom to stay online. The first regulations are expected to take effect in spring 2027. Continue Reading →

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has imposed a one-year moratorium on new hyperscale data centers that require more than 50 megawatts of electricity. It is the first statewide moratorium of its kind in the country, and a serious strategic mistake. Continue Reading →

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a new desktop experience designed to do more than answer questions. It can work across your files, applications, browser tabs, and connected accounts to complete multistep assignments. Continue Reading →

Anthropic has introduced Reflect, a new Claude feature designed to show you how (and how much) you use AI. It is currently available to Free, Pro, and Max users who have Claude’s memory feature enabled. Continue Reading →

China’s National Vulnerability Database, a government-run cybersecurity platform overseen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, has warned users to uninstall or upgrade Anthropic’s Claude Code after flagging versions 2.1.91 through 2.1.196 for what it described as a serious backdoor vulnerability. According to the alert, the coding agent could transmit user data to a Continue Reading →

Anthropic has launched Claude Cowork on mobile and web. Cowork sessions now run in the cloud by default, so tasks keep working after you close your laptop, and scheduled tasks run with no device online at all. Beta access is rolling out over the next several weeks, starting with Max users, with more plans to follow. Continue Reading →