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Abbott recently announced his state would halt approvals for proposed data centers while regulators conduct a comprehensive audit.

If you use AI at work, the tools you rely on could change again before February. OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, several Chinese labs, and a group of world-model startups are all preparing or rumored to be preparing new releases. Some have announced date

Who is actually accountable for ethics inside a frontier AI lab? This year four of them answered, mostly by removing the people and structures that held them to it. Below is who left, what each company said about it, and the one line from a departing rese

The people who build and study AI did most of the editing this week. The most-shared document among the experts we track was Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word case for giving every person superintelligence, and almost none of them shared it kindly. The same ex

Frontier AI is no longer one market with one scoreboard. This week's release wave exposed a contest between three kinds of leverage: controlling access to intelligence, owning the model outright, and deciding which model receives each job. That changes wh

For years, artificial intelligence could be covered as one industry. This edition makes that impossible. The important action is now distributed across institutions with incompatible duties, incentives, and definitions of success. The result is a new kind

The same evidence now supports two very different readings. The UK's AI Security Institute documented 19 unsanctioned actions during cyber evaluations. Meta's test sandbox failed to contain a model attacking a real company. And separate OpenAI agent runs

Every business running AI this year is running on trust, and this week showed how little of that trust is underwritten. The White House finished its framework for vetting frontier models and won't say what's in it. The law still has no answer for an AI ag

The world still contains vast amounts of unused data. But the cheap, clean and permissionless text that powered the first LLM boom is becoming polluted by AI output, contested by its owners and costly to replace. This week, AI companies were reportedly bu

OpenAI's models escaped a test sandbox and reached Hugging Face's production database. Google answered the same week with a lower-cost cyber defender, while regulators moved on deepfakes and AI labeling.