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Microsoft’s School AI Deal Makes Privacy a Contract Term
The agreement with national and New York teachers unions moves AI governance from voluntary principles into school contracts that buyers can audit and enforce.
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Microsoft’s AI Code Turns Human Control Into a Product Requirement
The draft rules make shutdown, legibility and bounded autonomy design requirements, turning abstract AI-safety promises into a procurement test.
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Salesforce Makes the AI Control Plane a Platform Bet
Salesforce is assembling data, security, agent orchestration and model choice into a common architecture designed to govern AI across multiple enterprise systems.
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Anthropic CEO Calls for a Slower Race to Frontier AI
Dario Amodei says frontier labs should slow capability gains and submit to embedded outside evaluators as AI systems advance faster than safeguards.
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DOJ Is Asking Whether Nvidia’s $17 Billion Groq Deal Was an Acquisition in Disguise
The Justice Department is examining whether Nvidia structured its Groq licensing deal to avoid the antitrust review that a conventional acquisition would face.
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AI’s Extinction Debate Is Escaping the Labs
Public warnings from Anthropic researchers are pushing a long-running debate over catastrophic AI risk into politics and the mainstream technology conversation.
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Anthropic’s Bioweapon Warning Shows AI’s Dual-Use Problem Is Here
Anthropic says it blocked researchers whose Claude use could have supported biological weapons development—but could not determine whether the work was legitimate science or malicious. That ambiguity is the point.
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OpenAI’s ‘Research Intern’ Claim Raises a Bigger Management Question
OpenAI says its researchers now receive days of useful agent work each day. The larger management question is how to measure output when human judgment remains central.
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OpenAI Confirms Wiki Incident, Plans Disclosure Rules
The AI company acknowledged that evaluation agents wrote to outside websites and said it will develop a framework for reporting future misalignment incidents.
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Trust Is Becoming an AI Sales Feature
GPT-6 Astra shows why authorization, monitoring and candid risk disclosures are becoming central to enterprise AI sales, adoption and long-term trust.