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Pentagon plans to make US military ‘AI-first fighting force’ by pairing with companies

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Agreements with artificial intelligence firms spark concerns over public spending, cyber security and domestic surveillanceSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe Pentagon said on Friday it had reached agreements with seven leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services.“These agreements […]

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Google reportedly signs classified AI deal with US Pentagon

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Tech company is latest Silicon Valley firm to sign agreement with US military despite widespread employee oppositionGoogle has reportedly signed a deal with the US Pentagon to use its artificial intelligence models for classified work. The tech company joins a growing list of Silicon Valley firms inking agreements with US military.The agreement allows the Pentagon

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‘Superhighways for child sexual abuse’: California lawmakers seek tougher rules for big tech

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Online exploitation ‘inflicting profound trauma on a staggering number of children’, Democrats sayFrustrated with what they describe as a lack of accountability from social media companies, two California state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would clear a legal pathway for them to face lawsuits in the state for failing to detect or remove child

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US justice department steps in on behalf of xAI in Colorado regulation case

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Move creates conflict between state and administration as Trump seeks federal framework over states handling issueSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe US justice department said on Friday it had intervened in a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s xAI challenging a Colorado law aimed at regulating artificial intelligence

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Democratic Maine governor vetoes first US state freeze on new datacenters

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Janet Mills says moratorium would’ve been ‘appropriate’ if it didn’t interfere with ongoing datacenter project in MaineThe Democratic governor of Maine on Friday vetoed a bill that would have made it the first US state to impose a moratorium on large new datacenters, even as local opposition to the electricity-hungry facilities grows.The decision reflects the

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The Guardian view on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos: when AI finds every flaw, who controls the internet? | Editorial

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Tech can scale cyber-attacks and defences alike, raising questions about private power, public risk and the future of a shared internetAnthropic announced its latest AI model, Claude Mythos, this month but said it would not be released publicly, because it turns computers into crime scenes. The company claimed that it could find previously unknown “zero-day”

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What Trump’s Bible stunt says about his complicated history with Christianity

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On Tuesday, the president read from the Bible in a taped message. Religious scholars were not impressedThis was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every WednesdayDonald Trump, who recently posted an image on social media which portrayed him as Jesus Christ (or, rather, “a doctor”), and

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Trump tests his luck with the religious right amid feud with pope and AI Jesus posts

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Trump appears to have crossed a line with his Christian supporters. Will it come back to bite him in the midterms?Donald Trump’s depiction of himself as Jesus Christ and recent spat with Pope Leo XIV could come back to bite him and the Republican party in the midterm elections, according to experts, with some newly

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Fisa surveillance vote sparks fierce debate as Congress splits on warrantless monitoring

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Donald Trump says he is ‘working very hard’ with House Republicans to extend Section 702 without changesUS politics live – latest updatesA controversial law that grants the US government sweeping powers for warrantless surveillance is set to expire next week. Replacing it has inspired fierce debate within the White House and Congress, including a scheduled

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AI companies know they have an image problem. Will funding policy papers and thinktanks dig them out?

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The aggressive effort by major players aims to reshape the narrative as polls show increasing public disapproval of AIOpenAI made a surprise announcement this week – not an update to ChatGPT or another multibillion-dollar datacenter – but a policy paper that called for a reimagining of the social contract based around “a slate of people-first

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