Business
U.S. Lifts Ban on AI Chips for China: Market opens for Nvidia and AMD GPUs, following a White House meeting with Jensen Huang
Nvidia will resume sales of H20 processors in China.
Tech & Society
Tech & Society
White House Resets U.S. AI Policy: How the White House's Action Plan aims to build AI leadership, infrastructure, and innovation
President Trump set forth principles of an aggressive national AI policy, and he moved to implement them through an action plan and executive orders.
Business
How to Comply With the EU’s AI Act: EU issues code of practice to help AI developers follow AI Act regulations
The European Union published guidelines to help builders of AI models to comply with the AI Act, which wasenacted last year.
Tech & Society
California Reframes AI Regulations: California proposes new guidelines to balance AI innovation and regulation
A committee convened by California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed principles intended to balance AI innovation with careful governance. The group sought to rethink AI regulation after Newsom vetoed earlier proposed legislation.
Business
Meta Lures Talent With Sky-High Pay: Meta’s hiring spree pushes up salaries for AI engineers higher across the industry
Publicly reported compensation for AI talent has skyrocketed in the wake of Meta’s recent hiring spree.
Letters
How The U.S. “One Big Beautiful Bill” Will Shape AI Regulation: State-by-state regulation of AI will create a shifting patchwork of laws that are likely to hamper innovation even as they provide lesser benefits.
Last week, the United States Congress passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” I’m disappointed it didn’t include a proposed moratorium on U.S. state-level AI regulation.
Science
Robotic Beehive For Healthier Bees: Beewise’s robotic beehive uses AI to save pollinators.
An automated beehive uses computer vision and robotics to help keep bees healthy and crops pollinated.
Machine Learning Research
Good Models, Bad Choices: Anthropic made LLMs choose between failing and misbehaving, and they blackmailed executives.
Top large language models, under experimental conditions that pressed them to choose between abandoning their prompted mission and misbehaving, resorted to harmful behavior, researchers found.
Letters
A Major Risk to AI Development Just Decreased: A U.S. federal judge ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted works is fair use. AI models are free to learn from books just like people are.
On Monday, a United States District Court ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted books constitutes fair use.
Tech & Society
CEOs Look to AI to Replace Workers: Amazon and other major companies say AI will reduce their corporate workforces
Leaders at some of the biggest U.S. corporations say they’re preparing for AI to eliminate many jobs within their organizations.
Machine Learning Research
LLM Rights Historical Wrongs: Stanford and Princeton researchers fine-tune a language model to identify racial discrimination in property
In Northern California, old property deeds may still include racial clauses: language, made illegal decades ago, that was designed to ban people of color from owning or living in certain homes.
Business
Hollywood Joins AI Copyright Fight: Disney and Universal sue Midjourney, alleging the image generator violates their intellectual property rights
Hollywood studios joined the record companies, publishers, and artists in the fight against companies that have trained AI models on their copyrighted works.