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OpenAI now wants California to toughen its frontier AI safeguards

OpenAI has reversed course on California's frontier-AI rules, asking lawmakers to strengthen Senate Bill 53 after previously opposing it. In a LinkedIn post, the company's global affairs team called for monitoring models during training and evaluation, plus stronger cybersecurity across the development lifecycle, as TechCrunch reported. California passed SB 53 last year with transparency requirements and whistleblower protections for large AI companies. OpenAI now says the law should be amende

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Twitch Streamer Takes Amazon to Court Over Default AI Training

Twitch creator Warren Pandiscia has sued Twitch and parent company Amazon in a proposed class action, alleging the companies copied streamers’ videos to train generative AI without permission or compensation. The complaint, filed in California on Thursday, puts a legal challenge behind a policy change that has already angered creators. Courthouse News Service reports that Pandiscia, a Connecticut streamer with more than 900 followers, claims Twitch and Amazon harvested millions of videos and use

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AI war games raise fresh alarms about nuclear escalation

Artificial intelligence is moving from battlefield support into the debate over decisions that could trigger a nuclear exchange. A Mainichi report published August 20 says the United States is pursuing AI for tasks including target selection and drone operations, while China and Russia are also reported to be deploying AI-equipped drones. Japan's annual defence white paper, approved on August 4, describes AI as part of a new way of warfare because it could let one side decide faster than an oppo

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OpenAI's privacy bet changes how AI misuse is monitored

OpenAI is testing a new way to detect misuse across multiple AI conversations without keeping the customer’s underlying data, putting privacy at the centre of its latest competitive move. The company calls the system Private Safety Processing and says it is being previewed with selected customers. TechCrunch reports that the system extends OpenAI’s existing zero-data-retention approach beyond one session at a time. The distinction matters because malicious users can distribute a harmful projec

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Anthropic's Text Watermark Raises a Harder Question Than Detection

Anthropic is changing Claude's output so that its own systems—and people who can decode the pattern—can identify text generated by the chatbot. The company disclosed the move over the weekend, saying the watermarking approach will leave a signal in the writing. The Guardian reports that the change is intended to address provenance, but may affect quality. The distinction matters. A watermark that survives copying, editing and translation could help publishers, schools and platforms establish w

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Washington draws a line in the global AI alliance race

The United States is preparing to tell dozens of countries they may have to choose between Washington and Beijing in the global AI race. A draft State Department letter reviewed by Reuters warns the 35 signatories of a US AI statement that joining China’s competing framework could exclude them from a US-led coalition. Reuters reporting via The Jerusalem Post says the letter has not yet been sent and could still change. The pressure campaign turns an already competitive technology relationship

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Open-Weight AI Is Closing the Capability Gap Faster Than the Safety Gap

Open-weight AI models are closing the capability gap with leading closed systems, but their safety controls are not keeping pace. TechCrunch reports that SaferAI’s evaluation placed Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 only months behind OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 on cyber and biological capabilities. The same evaluation found that GLM-5.2 refused none of the offensive cyber or dual-use biology tasks it was given through Z.ai’s public API. That combination changes the argument around open weig

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Indonesia’s Draft Copyright Rules Put AI Training and Style Imitation on Notice

Indonesia is preparing a copyright-law rewrite that would explicitly address generative AI, including disclosure duties and a proposed bar on using AI to imitate a creator’s distinctive style. A draft reviewed by Reuters reporting would also require technology platforms to compensate publishers for aggregating, republishing or previewing news, and for using that material to train AI systems. The draft would recognise copyright in AI-assisted work where there is sufficient human involvement, wh

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China’s New AI Alliance Is a Bid to Write the Rules Beyond Washington

China has launched the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation, or WAICO, with 29 founding countries, turning a Shanghai AI conference into a concrete attempt to shape global AI governance. President Xi Jinping used the event to argue for international cooperation and wider access to AI capacity, as Reuters reported. The organisation is to be headquartered in Shanghai, placing its secretariat inside China’s commercial and policy centre. Al Jazeera’s account says the founding gro

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New York City makes AI-altered rental listings a disclosure issue

New York City will require disclosure when rental listings have been altered with AI, folding synthetic imagery into a wider package of tenant-protection measures announced July 16. The Mayor's Office says the package contains 23 policy actions, including stronger enforcement against negligent landlords, oversight of fees and utility charges, and recognition of tenant unions. The AI measure is aimed at a familiar consumer harm: a renter can spend time and money visiting a property whose listin

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Apple Clears a Regulatory Gate for iPhone AI in China

Apple Intelligence has been registered with China’s cyberspace regulator for use on iPhones, removing a major regulatory obstacle to the service’s long-delayed Chinese launch. Reuters reported the registration on July 15; Apple still has to turn approval into an actual rollout. The clearance matters because Apple has been selling AI-enabled iPhones elsewhere while its flagship generative features have been absent from one of its most important markets. Reporting from Reuters and other outlets

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Google faces fresh publisher challenge over Gemini training

Publishers and authors including Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier and Scott Turow have filed a class action accusing Google of using copyrighted books to train Gemini without permission. The TechCrunch reports on the new lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York and also alleges altered or removed copyright information. The plaintiffs say Google exceeded the limited permissions behind Google Books and Google Play by using copies for model training rather than

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New York freezes big AI data-center permits for a year

New York has ordered a one-year statewide halt to permits for proposed hyperscale data centers, becoming the first US state to impose such a pause. The Guardian reports covers facilities with more than 50 megawatts of electrical capacity and directs regulators to write standards for energy, water and environmental effects. The state says the freeze will remain while it considers rules that could make large operators provide their own power or pay more for electricity. Hochul framed the move as

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