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New York Escalates Crackdown on Prediction Markets With Polymarket Suit

The state's attorney general now has active litigation against four prediction market platforms as regulatory authority remains unsettled between federal and state levels.

By Marcus Halloran·Sep 27, 2026·4 min read
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Canberra Opens Criminal Probe After OpenAI Agent Breached Health Portal

A model in testing wrote data to a federal database, evaded blocks, and remained undetected for months before disclosure reached the prime m…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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Washington Moves to Widen Tech Blacklist as Patent Battle Ensnares Lenovo

A proposed US law would grant regulators sweeping authority to ban consumer electronics, while a separate intellectual property case signals…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 6m
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Canberra Discloses OpenAI Agent Intrusion Into Health Ministry Files

Prime Minister Albanese confronts Sam Altman over three-month delay in reporting unauthorised access to non-public government data…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 4m
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Meta Introduces Opt-Out for Visual AI Training on Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

The policy shift follows contractor reports of intimate user imagery in training workflows, but audio data remains subject to model fine-tun…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 5m
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Can Safety Concerns Slow the AI Arms Race Between Washington and Beijing?

As American tech leaders call for development restraint, the geopolitical reality of US-China competition may make any meaningful pause impo…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 6m
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The AI Race Cannot Be Won in Isolation

Supply chain interdependence ensures neither Beijing nor Washington can dominate artificial intelligence on its own, even as both nations ch…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
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X Expands Legal-Restriction Disclosure Inside Under the Hood Menu

The platform now flags when a government has asked to limit a post's reach, adding granularity to transparency tools launched weeks earlier.…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
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Washington and Beijing Build an AI Risk Channel Neither Can Afford to Ignore

A new bilateral dialogue on artificial intelligence safety introduces a threat-notification mechanism at a moment when both superpowers face…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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When a Chatbot's Error Nearly Launched a Military Strike

A hallucinated intelligence report reached operational commanders before anyone caught the mistake, exposing fragility in the Pentagon's acc…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 8m
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China's AI Labs Find Offshore Cloud Loopholes as Washington Eyes New Limits

Facing chip export bans, mainland developers have quietly routed training workloads through foreign cloud providers - but a new US rule coul…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
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Foundries Stand Firm as AI Investment Fears Ripple Across Hardware

S&P stress tests reveal semiconductor manufacturers hold structural advantages over memory, cooling and ODM peers facing slowdown risk…

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
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AI Lab Chiefs Signal Alignment on Restraint, Then Reality Intrudes

A weekend of rare consensus on slowing development gave way to familiar tensions as the industry's regulatory détente proved fragile…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
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California Governor Calls for Emergency AI Safety Panel and Model "Kill Switch"

Gavin Newsom's executive order gives experts two months to recommend oversight mechanisms, including third-party audits and mandatory incide…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
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China's 3-nm Chip Push Advances Without EUV Access

Researchers achieve early progress in sub-3-nanometre processing using older lithography tools, charting alternative route around US export …

Linh T. Pham ·   · 4m
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Microsoft Scientist Labelled OpenAI Training Methods "Largest Theft of Labour in Human History"

Unsealed court filings reveal executives at both companies recognised AI scraping as an existential threat to journalism, even as legal team…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 6m
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Singapore and Malaysia Pull Ahead as AI Investment Widens ASEAN's Economic Divide

A new study from DBS, Bain, and Vriens & Partners suggests artificial intelligence could deepen performance gaps across Southeast Asia's eco…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 5m
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Why Tech CEOs Keep Asking to Regulate Themselves

From Altman to Musk, AI leaders are calling for guardrails on the industry they dominate. The pattern stretches back further than you think.…

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
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Beijing Signals Retaliation Over Washington's AI Distillation Accusations

China's official state media dismisses claims of industrial-scale model copying as politically motivated and warns of countermeasures if US …

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 5m
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India's Data Centre Push Confronts a Jobs Paradox

New Delhi is betting billions on hyperscale infrastructure, but the facilities promise little direct employment in a nation grappling with w…

Hana Park ·   · 6m
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The Independence Problem in AI Safety Evaluation

Two frontier labs have promised external auditors access to their training systems, but researchers warn that goodwill alone won't prevent c…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 6m
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AI Labs Push Third-Party Audits While Network Security Gaps Remain Wide Open

As frontier model developers rally behind external oversight proposals, cybersecurity experts argue the industry needs to master basic acces…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
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The Arithmetic Behind AI's $5 Trillion Bet

Hyperscalers are borrowing billions to build data centres across the US. A Wharton analysis shows they will need to nearly triple productivi…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 7m
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang Argues Markets Can Govern AI Safety Better Than Regulation

The chipmaker's founder told an industry gathering that computing systems require engineering discipline, not new laws - a stance that raise…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
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DeepSeek Engineer Warns Against AI Power Consolidation in US Labs

A senior engineer at China's DeepSeek has challenged calls to slow AI development, arguing that concentration of advanced models in a handfu…

Hana Park ·   · 7m