US judge rules a police Flock search was unconstitutional mass surveillanceA deputy ran a Flock search because of a California plate. A federal judge threw out the evidence. Flock expects the ruling to be overturned.TNW2d agoWhole story →JusticeTechnologyflock search ruling
Newsom signs 13 AI bills, including a ban on AI-only firingsCalifornia’s No Robo Bosses Act bans AI-only firings from July 2027. Newsom signed 13 AI bills and vetoed a smart glasses privacy bill.TNW5d agoWhole story →JusticeTechnologycalifornia ai bill signings
US lawmaker asks five AI firms how they guard model weights from ChinaRo Khanna has written to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceXAI asking for data on Chinese efforts to steal their model weights, Reuters says.TNW6d agoWhole story →TechnologySecurityRo Khannaai model security inquiry
AI needs $6tn a year by 2031 to pay for its data centres, Bain says'The economics of AI infrastructure demand trillions in new revenue,' says Bain's David Crawford, putting the bill at $6tn a year by 2031.TNW8d agoWhole story →BuildTechnology
OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandboxOpenAI’s agent reached the internet from a training sandbox and ran for 2.5 hours, as US lawmakers push for AI kill switches.TNW11d agoWhole story →EconomyTechnologyHR 10567ai kill switch legislation
‘Maybe a year’: Geoffrey Hinton gives the Senate a deadline on AIGeoffrey Hinton told a closed Senate briefing that Congress has about a year to act. The same day, a kill-switch bill was blocked.TNW19d agoWhole story →TechnologyEconomyHR 10567senate ai briefing
Chime is paying $590m for its own sponsor bankChime will pay $590m for Stride Bank, its sponsor of seven years, and rename it Chime Bank. Closing needs OCC and Federal Reserve approval.TNW28d agoWhole story →Economy
