The European Union weakened some provisions of its landmark AI Act and delayed others after businesses and policymakers argued the law made European companies less competitive.
One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is embedded within a client organization to help customize solutions, such as building and tuning agentic workflows that suit the client’s particular needs.
AI agents seem to be increasingly capable of performing economically valuable tasks, but current benchmarks measure this capability only narrowly.
China shut down Meta’s attempt to acquire agentic technology that originated within its borders, a blow to further technical interchange and investment between China and the U.S.
While large language models can behave in human-like ways, the similarities are superficial. A simple strategy game revealed clear differences in their strategic approaches.
Commitments by large AI companies to limit emissions of greenhouse gases are at risk as those companies pursue a massive build-out of data centers, many of which will be powered by fossil fuels in the near term and possibly beyond.
Resistance to new data centers is mounting across the United States.
U.S. states are continuing to enact laws that regulate AI, despite President Trump’s efforts to discourage state-by-state legislation in favor of national laws.
People whose vision is impaired increasingly use AI to assess their own appearance, raising questions about the psychological impact of AI models that are trained on conventional standards of beauty.
Google added a music generator to Gemini and YouTube, putting a model that produces synthetic songs in front of hundreds of millions of users.
The anti-AI coalition continues to maneuver to find arguments to slow down AI progress.
Iran hit at least three Amazon data centers in the Middle East, an indicator of AI’s critical role in the United States’ war against Iran and possibly the first time such facilities have been targeted during warfare.
Meta and OpenAI are among the tech companies that are building private power plants that will operate independently of regional grids to supply electricity for their massive buildout of AI data centers.
OpenAI signed a contract with the U.S. military to provide AI systems that securely process classified information, displacing Anthropic’s Claude. OpenAI negotiated limits on how its technology can be used, but they leave room for interpretation.
The fourth global AI summit marked a decisive shift from focusing on theoretical hazards to spreading AI’s benefits throughout the world.
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