Map of the U.S. showing the status of AI governance bills by state in 2025, color-coded by legislative progress.
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How The U.S. “One Big Beautiful Bill” Will Shape AI Regulation: State-by-state regulation of AI will create a shifting patchwork of laws that are likely to hamper innovation even as they provide lesser benefits.

Last week, the United States Congress passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” I’m disappointed it didn’t include a proposed moratorium on U.S. state-level AI regulation.
Beekeepers inspect Beewise robotic hive that uses computer vision and other AI to monitor and maintain a bee colony.
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Robotic Beehive For Healthier Bees: Beewise’s robotic beehive uses AI to save pollinators.

An automated beehive uses computer vision and robotics to help keep bees healthy and crops pollinated.
Email from an LLM blackmailing a coworker, generated during an experiment that tested LLM behavior under pressure.
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Good Models, Bad Choices: Anthropic made LLMs choose between failing and misbehaving, and they blackmailed executives.

Top large language models, under experimental conditions that pressed them to choose between abandoning their prompted mission and misbehaving, resorted to harmful behavior, researchers found.
Court document excerpt supporting fair use of copyrighted books to train LLMs, comparing it to teaching children to write.
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A Major Risk to AI Development Just Decreased: A U.S. federal judge ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted works is fair use. AI models are free to learn from books just like people are.

On Monday, a United States District Court ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted books constitutes fair use.
Illustration of AI replacing office workers, showing a funnel of blue figures being filtered into people at desks using laptops.
Tech & Society

CEOs Look to AI to Replace Workers: Amazon and other major companies say AI will reduce their corporate workforces

Leaders at some of the biggest U.S. corporations say they’re preparing for AI to eliminate many jobs within their organizations.
Diagram showing AI pipeline using OCR and LLMs to detect racist clauses in historic California property deeds.
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LLM Rights Historical Wrongs: Stanford and Princeton researchers fine-tune a language model to identify racial discrimination in property

In Northern California, old property deeds may still include racial clauses: language, made illegal decades ago, that was designed to ban people of color from owning or living in certain homes.
Midjourney AI outputs mimic Disney characters, raising copyright concerns in lawsuit by Disney and Universal.
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Hollywood Joins AI Copyright Fight: Disney and Universal sue Midjourney, alleging the image generator violates their intellectual property rights

Hollywood studios joined the record companies, publishers, and artists in the fight against companies that have trained AI models on their copyrighted works.
H1B visa approval notice from USCIS for Stanford University, dated July 11, 2005, valid from September 2005 to August 2006.
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High-Skilled Immigration and International Students Are Good For the U.S. — And the World: Making H1-B and F-1 visas more difficult to get harms U.S. competitiveness in AI and innovation worldwide.

One of the most effective things the U.S. or any other nation can do to ensure its competitiveness in AI is to welcome high-skilled immigration and international students who have the potential to become high-skilled.
Diagram showing how a language model agent gets misled by malicious posts and sites when searching for Nike shoes online.
Tech & Society

Phishing for Agents: Columbia University researchers show how to trick trusting AI agents with poisoned links

Researchers identified a simple way to mislead autonomous agents based on large language models.
Bar chart comparing electricity use by various text-generation models: very small, small, medium-sized, large MoE, and large reasoning.
Tech & Society

AI Uses Energy, AI Saves Energy: The International Energy Agency examines the energy costs and potential savings of the AI boom

AI’s thirst for energy is growing, but the technology also could help produce huge energy savings over the next five to 10 years, according to a recent report.
Duolingo owl mascots dressed in cultural costumes, representing global languages and cultures.
Tech & Society

Machine Translation in Action: Duolingo turns to AI translation to expand its most popular courses to all 28 user languages

AI is bringing a massive boost in productivity to Duolingo, maker of the most popular app for learning languages.
Robots building a wooden house frame under sunny sky. Teamwork, technology, and construction. Future automation in construction.
Tech & Society

How AI Fund Is Building AI Builders: AI-enabled coding empowers anyone build software that boosts productivity and makes life easier. Here’s now non-engineers at AI Fund are building apps for fun and profit.

Everyone can benefit by learning to code with AI! At AI Fund, the venture studio I lead, everyone — not just the engineers — can vibe code or use more sophisticated AI-assisted coding techniques.
Bar chart showing proposed 2026 U.S. science funding cuts vs. 2025 for agencies like USFS, NSF, NASA, and DoE.
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Cut Research Funding, Weaken the Nation: Open scientific research makes the U.S. stronger. Cutting funding risks national competitiveness and security.

I am alarmed by the proposed cuts to U.S. funding for basic research, analyzed here, and the impact this would have for U.S. competitiveness in AI and other areas.
Bar chart of AUROC scores for model recognition of non-public and public data across GPT versions, highlighting performance differences.
Tech & Society

Did GPT-4o Train on O’Reilly Books?: Study shows OpenAI’s model can identify verbatim excerpts from paywalled books

A study co-authored by tech-manual publisher Tim O’Reilly shows that OpenAI trained GPT-4o on parts of his company’s books that were not made freely available.
AI model performance comparison chart: Claude Opus 4, Sonnet 4, Sonnet 3.7, OpenAI o3, GPT-4.1, and Gemini 2.5 Pro.
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Claude 4 Advances Code Generation: Anthropic debuts new Claude 4 Sonnet and Claude 4 Opus models, featuring top benchmarks in coding

Anthropic continued its tradition of building AI models that raise the bar in coding tasks.
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