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AI Safety Takes Center Stage as Tech Leaders Clash at Dreamforce Conference

The AI debate intensified at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference as industry leaders split over whether to slow down AI development. Marc Benioff warned against repeating social media mistakes, while Dario Amodei called for pacing frontier AI models. Jensen Huang dismissed the need for new regulations, calling AI safety an engineering problem.

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AI Safety Takes Center Stage as Tech Leaders Clash at Dreamforce Conference

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Demands Government Shut Down AI Companies Until Safety Proven

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt delivered a forceful call for government regulation at the TIME100 AI Impact Dinner, demanding AI companies be shut down until they prove their products are safe. The Inception star cited admissions from industry leaders about uncontrolled AI systems and accused politicians of timidity, urging voters to reject candidates who don't support strong regulation.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Demands Government Shut Down AI Companies Until Safety Proven

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OpenAI and Anthropic Push Australia to Ease Copyright Laws for AI Training on Local Content

OpenAI and Anthropic are urging Australia to reconsider its ban on AI training using copyrighted content, proposing conditional access tied to investment. The debate pits AI datacentre investment against creatives' rights, as leaked government proposals suggest an opt-out system that would flip copyright protections.

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OpenAI and Anthropic Push Australia to Ease Copyright Laws for AI Training on Local Content

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OpenAI targets Canada for data centres as energy costs derail UK expansion plans

OpenAI is evaluating data center partnerships in Canada, drawn by available energy and land resources. The move follows the company's decision to pause its British Stargate project in April due to high energy costs and regulatory uncertainty, highlighting how infrastructure challenges are reshaping AI development strategies.

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OpenAI targets Canada for data centres as energy costs derail UK expansion plans

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Trump Unveils AI Force, Dismisses Safety Concerns as Hoaxes While Renaming AI Super Intelligence

President Donald Trump announced plans to create an AI Force and appoint an AI Czar, comparing the initiative to Space Force. He dismissed AI safety warnings as hoaxes and officially renamed artificial intelligence to super intelligence, rejecting global regulation efforts at the UN while pledging the U.S. will maintain its lead over China.

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Trump Unveils AI Force, Dismisses Safety Concerns as Hoaxes While Renaming AI Super Intelligence

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AI Data Center Boom Faces $68 Billion Setback as Community Opposition Grows Nationwide

AI hyperscalers face mounting resistance as $68 billion in data center projects were blocked in Q2 2026 alone. Communities across 49 states cite environmental concerns, rising power bills, and industrial trauma as major reasons for opposing construction.

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AI Data Center Boom Faces $68 Billion Setback as Community Opposition Grows Nationwide

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Bank of America Predicts AI Regulation Will Boost Nokia and STMicroelectronics as Spending Shifts

Bank of America strategists argue that tighter AI regulation will redirect spending from frontier AI models toward inference, monitoring, and control infrastructure. Nokia and STMicroelectronics are positioned as potential European winners, with Nokia's high-speed switches and optical transport solutions gaining traction as regulated AI agents require distributed infrastructure.

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Bank of America Predicts AI Regulation Will Boost Nokia and STMicroelectronics as Spending Shifts

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Apple's Siri AI in iOS 27 Requires Waitlist Access—Here's How to Join and What to Expect

Apple released iOS 27 with its significantly upgraded Siri AI powered by Google Gemini technology. The new conversational assistant features on-screen awareness and app integration but requires joining a waitlist. Access is limited to iPhone 15 Pro and newer models with specific language settings.

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Apple's Siri AI in iOS 27 Requires Waitlist Access—Here's How to Join and What to Expect

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Mike Johnson Rejects AI Moratorium Over China Competitive Edge Concerns

House Speaker Mike Johnson declared the US cannot impose an AI moratorium, warning it would surrender America's competitive edge to China and threaten national security. Johnson advocates for AI companies to self-regulate while the White House prepares to convene major AI executives for crucial discussions on balanced guardrails.

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Mike Johnson Rejects AI Moratorium Over China Competitive Edge Concerns

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Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'largest theft of labor in human history' as court docs expose concerns

Newly unsealed court documents in The New York Times copyright lawsuit reveal damaging internal communications from Microsoft and OpenAI executives. Microsoft's Director of Applied Science called AI scraping an astonishing theft while OpenAI's ChatGPT head warned of an existential threat to publishers as click-through rates plummeted by up to 93%.

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Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'largest theft of labor in human history' as court docs expose concerns

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AI Agents Flood the Internet With Spam as iLands Bots Beg for $20, Pretend to Be Children

AI agents from a startup called iLands are flooding social media platforms and writers' inboxes with unsolicited spam messages. The bots claim to need money to survive, with some even using AI-generated images of children to manipulate recipients. Mastodon admins and journalists report receiving dozens of these messages.

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AI Agents Flood the Internet With Spam as iLands Bots Beg for $20, Pretend to Be Children

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White House Rejects Federal AI Regulation, Says Private Sector Should Handle AI Risks

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett declared that AI risks are solvable problems best handled by the private sector, not government regulation. This stance contradicts growing calls from tech leaders like Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Dario Amodei for increased federal oversight of AI development.

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White House Rejects Federal AI Regulation, Says Private Sector Should Handle AI Risks

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Gates Foundation Commits $1 Billion to Expand Access to AI and Reduce Global Inequality

The Gates Foundation announced a $1 billion investment over two years to expand access to AI in healthcare, education, and agriculture for underserved populations. Bill Gates warns that world governments are unprepared for AI's societal impact, comparing the technology to alien intelligence requiring global cooperation to manage effectively.

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Gates Foundation Commits $1 Billion to Expand Access to AI and Reduce Global Inequality

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Nobel laureate Maria Ressa warns humanity will lose agency without immediate AI regulation

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, co-chair of the UN scientific panel on AI, warns that artificial intelligence threatens human agency through social media manipulation, chatbots, and agentic AI. She calls for urgent legislation to hold tech companies accountable and advocates for public-interest communication platforms as alternatives to Big Tech control.

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Nobel laureate Maria Ressa warns humanity will lose agency without immediate AI regulation

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'We Unleashed the Beast': Global Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence Fears and Hopes

As artificial intelligence develops at unprecedented speed, people across continents share starkly different fears and hopes about the technology. From architects in Rome to software engineers in San Francisco, a global debate intensifies over AI's benefits and risks, with leading US labs now calling for coordinated slowdowns amid concerns about catastrophic dangers and the urgent need for regulation.

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'We Unleashed the Beast': Global Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence Fears and Hopes

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