OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman is set to meet senior Trump administration officials, senators and economists in Washington this week as policymakers debate AI security and access to Chinese models. Ashley Capoot and Kate Rooney report for CNBC that Altman plans to preview OpenAI’s upcoming model family and answer questions about cybersecurity, AI agents and …
Powerful AI models that companies can download, run and adapt are becoming a serious competitive force against the closed systems offered by OpenAI and Anthropic. A new wave of open-weight models from China, including Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 and Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8, has sharpened a debate in Washington and Silicon Valley over whether open models …
New York has become the first state to halt new data center construction, and the tech industry worries it will not be the last. Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on Tuesday pausing permits for hyperscale data centers larger than 50 megawatts, giving regulators up to a year to draft rules on energy prices …
Apple CEO Tim Cook and EU technology chief Henna Virkkunen met by video call on 30 June to discuss whether Siri AI can launch in Europe. Both sides described the exchange as “constructive.” Neither side announced any concrete progress. Siri AI is Apple’s rebuilt voice assistant, set to launch with iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 …
The Trump administration has lifted export restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, ending an 18-day disruption that blocked access for users worldwide. Sophia Cai and Cheyenne Haslett report for Politico that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick informed Anthropic it no longer requires an export license, provided the company proactively detects security risks, …
The US government has ordered Anthropic to restrict access to its two most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, to US citizens only. Anthropic, unable to verify the citizenship of its users, responded by taking both models offline entirely. The move marks the first time the US government has issued an export control …
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders plans to introduce the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, a bill that would give the American public a direct ownership stake in the largest artificial intelligence companies in the United States. Sanders writes for the New York Times that AI is built on collectively created human knowledge and that its …
Google is giving website owners the option to exclude their content from its AI-generated search features, including AI Overviews and AI Mode. The move follows a ruling by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), as Igor Bonifacic reports for Engadget and Imran Rahman-Jones reports for BBC News. Google plans to add a toggle inside …
Pope Leo XIV has released his first encyclical, calling for strict international regulation of artificial intelligence and warning that the technology risks concentrating power in the hands of a few, spreading disinformation, and fueling armed conflict. The 83-page document, titled “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity), was presented at the Vatican today and is addressed to the …
US tech companies successfully convinced the European Union to keep environmental data from individual datacenters hidden from the public. Ajit Niranjan reports for The Guardian that Microsoft, alongside industry groups DigitalEurope and Video Games Europe, lobbied EU officials to classify all datacenter performance indicators as confidential commercial information. The lobbying effort was strikingly effective. The …