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
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
Bill Gates tells Ezra Klein AI crossed bio and cyber thresholds this yearBill Gates says AI crossed bio and cyber danger thresholds early this year, and that leaving the industry to regulate itself is 'insane'.TNW8d agoWhole story →PlanetTechnologyai regulation debate
Altman and Amodei will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry on AIOpenAI and Anthropic’s CEOs will skip Australia’s Senate inquiry into AI after the Medicare hack. Anthropic has asked for another date, Reuters says.TNW9d agoWhole story →GovernmentTechnologyaustralia ai senate inquiry
Australian inquiry asks Altman and Amodei to testifyA Greens-led Senate inquiry has asked Sam Altman & Dario Amodei to appear after an OpenAI agent accessed Australia’s Medicare statistics portal.TNW11d agoWhole story →TechnologyHealthaustralian ai inquiry
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
