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Exclusive: Inside Sen. Mark Warner's AI plan

Warner is introducing legislation requiring mandatory government testing of frontier AI models.

OpenAI Faces Stark Doubts About ChatGPT Ads. It's Beginning the Long Fight to Prove Them Wrong.

OpenAI, led by CEO Sam Altman, is working to grow its ChatGPT ad business amid skepticism about its ambitious revenue projections.

Vibecoded apps flood Apple.

According to sensor tower, apps added to the App Store almost doubled to about 560K in the first half of 2026, compared to about 600K added in all of 2025. The surge comes as AI makes it increasingly trivial to develop apps. That’s good if it means useful apps finding an audience, bad if Apple’s reviewers can’t keep up and more junk and malware slips through.

NYT recognizes Google Zero.

Nilay called it back in 2024, and now the Gray Lady is on board with recognizing the demise of the open web. It takes a look at at how Google went from being a gateway to the internet to becoming the internet for many users who never leave the cozy confines of its AI summaries.

Tom Hayes says UBS’s ‘Project Chocolate’ probe shows he was targeted from outset

Trader nicknamed ‘Tommy Chocolate’ argues bank’s rate-fixing investigation was stacked against him

China weighs tighter export controls on AI models and chips

Beijing consults companies on ways to stop west acquiring its advanced technologies and star start-ups

Investors bet on AI drug discovery despite approval gap

US specialist venture firm Dimension Capital raises $800mn fund to back AI-designed medicines

AI is becoming a geopolitical weapon, warns EU digital chief

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What do we do when the household appliances start chatting among themselves?

Your toaster may ‘talk’ to your fridge, they may even talk to you, but we’d do well to remember that we’re defined by our human communities, not our electronic ones

US removes ‘safety’ from AI Safety Institute

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Anthropic's landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved

The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.

OpenAI and Hugging Face Partner to Address Security Incident During Model Evaluation

Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident after they detected and contained an AI agent that compromised their infrastructure, something we expect to become more commonplace with the proliferation of increasingly cyber-capable models. After investigating, we now know that this particular incident was driven by a combination of OpenAI models — including GPT-5.6 Sol and an even more capable pre-release model, all with reduced cyber refusals for evaluation purposes — while being internally tested on a benchmark of cyber capabilities.