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Harvard Expert: Regulate AI Like Any Other Technology - Harvard Magazine

Harvard Expert: Regulate AI Like Any Other Technology  Harvard Magazine

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Ocean City adopts AI policy amid legal, privacy concerns - Baltimore Sun

Ocean City adopts AI policy amid legal, privacy concerns  Baltimore Sun

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Ocean City adopts AI policy amid legal, privacy concerns - Yahoo

Ocean City adopts AI policy amid legal, privacy concerns  Yahoo

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The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical rep…

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The Collegian’s AI Policy - Hillsdale Collegian

The Collegian’s AI Policy  Hillsdale Collegian

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Sam Altman says OpenAI will have AGI by the end of 2026 if you accept his definition

OpenAI's leadership believes AGI is within reach, according to a TIME report. The company's upcoming model Astra already works as an automated research intern, according to chief …

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Coinbase CEO Slams California’s Crypto Tax Plan and Rejects AI Regulation - Crypto Economy

Coinbase CEO Slams California’s Crypto Tax Plan and Rejects AI Regulation  Crypto Economy

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Letter to the Editor: Markey’s confusion around AI policy is concerning - newtonbeacon.org

Letter to the Editor: Markey’s confusion around AI policy is concerning  newtonbeacon.org

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Bill Gates seeks meeting with Xi Jinping to discuss AI policy and international oversight - Crypto Briefing

Bill Gates seeks meeting with Xi Jinping to discuss AI policy and international oversight  Crypto Briefing

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Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B Multimodal MoE With 6B Active Parameters Previewing the Qwen4 Architecture

We look at Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, Alibaba's open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture. We break down where the 180B parameters ac…

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Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, targeting "ultimate cost efficiency"

Alibaba's Qwen team is previewing the Qwen4 architecture with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a mixture-of-experts model that activates just 6 out of 125 billion parameters per token. At one-…

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Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents

Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to …

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What Would Have to Be True for Agentic Coding to Replace Junior Engineers

Four falsifiable conditions for agentic coding replacing juniors, tested against METR, OpenAI, DORA and Stanford primary source evidence The post What Would Have to Be True for Ag…

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Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model

Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.

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Bill Gates Criticizes Tech Companies for Downplaying AI’s Risks - Bloomberg.com

Bill Gates Criticizes Tech Companies for Downplaying AI’s Risks  Bloomberg.com

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Employee revolt and failing agents forced Meta to scrap its AI layoff plan

Meta wanted to replace far more of its workforce with AI than previously known, according to Reuters, but the plan collapsed under rebellious employees and agents that failed to d…

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Pro-Kremlin deepfakes put surrender rhetoric in the mouths of Ukrainian lawmakers

Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels are spreading AI-generated deepfake videos of two Ukrainian lawmakers who appear to call for peace talks. The clips racked up 130,000 views in two we…

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The Download: the Kids issue arrives, and Bill Gates reveals his AI fears

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Kids issue If the desire…

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Chinese Moonshot AI negotiates hosting deals with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google

A Chinese AI company could land its model on major US cloud platforms for the first time, taking a cut of the revenue. The article Chinese Moonshot AI negotiates hosting deals wit…

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Shetland Arts AI policy sparks backlash from creatives and wider community as chief executive defends usage - Shetland Times

Shetland Arts AI policy sparks backlash from creatives and wider community as chief executive defends usage  Shetland Times

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Bill Gates warns AI is more dangerous than the tech industry will admit

Bill Gates warns in an essay and an NYT interview about mass unemployment and easier bioterrorism through AI, and he accuses his own industry of deliberately hiding the risks. "It…

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IBM drops open-weight Granite 4.2 family with built-in agentic capabilities under Apache 2.0

IBM is releasing its Granite 4.2 language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes, trained on about 15 trillion tokens with a context window of up to 512,000 tokens. The larger models use…

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Anthropic sees a market opportunity of more than $30 trillion ahead of its IPO

Anthropic wants to sell investors on a theoretical market opportunity worth more than $30 trillion ahead of its planned IPO. The article Anthropic sees a market opportunity of mor…

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AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?

Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords or logic puzzles, developers can test how…