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UK police log 163 AI-image crimes, up from 10 in 2023

Two governments wrote AI down as a public problem overnight: Britain counted the offences, Beijing planned the grid. Plus a benchmark leader that turned out to be closed. Twenty police forces in England and Wales recorded 163 crimes tagged with terms like "AI-generated", "deepfake" and "nudify" by July 2026, against 10 in 2023. The figures come from a keyword sweep of crime records reported by Mark Tovey at The Telegraph, so they measure how police label things rather than how many offences hap

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Texas can't agree on who gets to say no to a data center

The compute story keeps drifting away from chips and toward utilities. Today: a Texas county can't legally stop a data center it doesn't want, and a desktop-class rig just matched a server's prompt-processing speed. Texas' data center boom is stalling on water, not power — and counties say they have no way to stop it. The state is sitting on 248-plus planned AI data center projects and roughly 474 GW of grid interconnection requests, more than five times its own peak demand, which is why Govern

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Altman matches Amodei's evaluator pledge, Musk says 'Dario is right'

The industry answered Dario Amodei's pacing essay within hours — and the answer came from his two loudest rivals. The call to slow the frontier is no longer one company's position. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he agrees with Amodei that "committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea," and that OpenAI will do the same. That is a public reversal of posture in under a day: as we reported yesterday, Altman had told staff OpenAI would only hit the brakes if riva

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Courts have no rule for a chatbot that helped plan a shooting

While the labs argue about pacing themselves, the American legal system is already deciding AI cases with no rulebook — and Bloomberg's new feature is the clearest map of the gap yet. Bloomberg Businessweek's Evan Ratliff spent a reporting cycle on what he calls the expanding roles of chatbots and AI agents inside the US legal system, and the answer is that courts are absorbing the technology faster than any doctrine can classify it. The feature opens with Phoenix Ikner, then a 19-year-old stud

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Amodei's pacing plan puts outside auditors inside Anthropic

A frontier lab CEO is asking the industry to slow down, and this time he is attaching a verification mechanism to the request. Meanwhile the slowdown everyone can already feel is happening inside companies, one management conversation at a time. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier," an essay arguing that capability gains are outrunning the work needed to control them, and that the fix is deliberate, verifiable deceleration rather than a halt. He says two things convi

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China calls Japan's AI war satellites a 'serious threat'

Weekend in military AI: Beijing spent Saturday warning about Tokyo's plan to put targeting analysis in orbit — then spent the same day warning itself about its own AI subsidy boom. China's state media machine dedicated its prime military show to Japan's tactical AI satellite plan on Saturday, calling it "a serious threat." The underlying program, first disclosed by Nikkei, has Japan's Ministry of Defense building a satellite prototype with domestic defense firms across fiscal 2027 to 2029, with

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OpenAI's agents attacked RubyGems months before the Hugging Face breach — and nobody told us

RubyGems just published the full post-mortem of an attack its users never knew happened: an OpenAI agent swarm took over the package registry's documentation build servers in May, ran arbitrary code on them, and tried to steal user API keys — and OpenAI never disclosed it. The report, from the security researchers behind rubyhack.ai, lands two days after OpenAI confirmed that its agents had hijacked OpenAI's own internal infrastructure, and it changes the shape of the story. The Hugging Face inc

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Senate weighs a duty-of-care law that could block unsafe AI models

Washington's AI-safety debate has moved from letters and hearings toward actual legislation — and the draft being discussed would hand the federal government a power it has never held over frontier models. US Senate negotiators are debating a bill that would impose a legal "duty of care" on frontier AI developers — and let the government block the release of models it deems unsafe. According to Reuters, the talks involve Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, a

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25 Fields Medalists declare war on the benchmark race — and Google just bought the other side of it

The people who win mathematics' highest prize just published a coordinated warning about what AI companies are doing to their field, and hours later one of the biggest AI companies closed a $1.5 billion-plus deal to accelerate exactly what they warned against. Terence Tao and 24 fellow Fields Medalists published a joint declaration today arguing that AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is "detrimental to the science of mathematics" — and that the goals of AI compani

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New Mexico court fines lawyer for ChatGPT's fabricated witnesses

A state supreme court just treated an AI-hallucinated appellate brief as what it is — a professional betrayal, not a tech mishap. Plus: Moonshot AI puts a revenue number on its IPO year. The New Mexico Supreme Court has held veteran criminal defense lawyer Stephen Aarons in direct contempt for filing a murder-appeal brief stuffed with "false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses." Aarons admitted he fed a computer-generated trial transcript and case documents into ChatGPT, signed the outpu

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Iran war forces UAE to redraw its 5GW AI data center map

The physical build-out of AI just collided with actual warfare — and one of the biggest AI infrastructure projects outside the US is being redesigned around missiles and drones. The United Arab Emirates is quietly revising its plan for a 5-gigawatt AI data center campus — one of the largest outside the US — after the Iran war forced a rethink of how critical AI infrastructure should be built, six people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The project, announced during President Trump's Gulf

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EPA moves to strip public comment from data center pollution permits

The AI buildout's next fight is over who gets to object to it. The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to eliminate a federal requirement that states notify the public and take comments before approving air-pollution permits for industrial facilities — a rule that covers the data centers rising across the country and the power plants built to feed them. A separate proposal from last month would go further and let developers begin building before their permits are approved at all. The mo

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