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Global health report urges action on AI misuse and nuclear risk
A Lancet commission of 35 experts ranked 17 threats to human health through 2100. Only two could end humanity, and one of them is AI.
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Senate probe finds AI data center job claims may overstate benefits
A report from Senators Warren, Van Hollen and Blumenthal says AI data centers bring few lasting jobs while tax breaks and grid costs land on local households.
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Britain should develop domestic AI to avoid foreign cutoffs
The new head of the Alan Turing Institute says Britain needs AI it controls, after Washington briefly blocked Anthropic's newest models from leaving the US.
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Trump pushes to rename AI as super intelligence, reshaping rules
A September executive order already tells federal officials to say Super Intelligence. Now Trump says he will ban the term AI outright. Here is what has changed so far.
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EU tests Chinese AI models on secure servers to map risks
Two EU bodies are running Chinese open-weight AI models on locked-down computers to see what they can do and what could go wrong. Here is why it matters.