OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 Sol, its most powerful model, to roughly 20 partners whose names were individually approved by the US government. The release is the first time an American AI company has launched a frontier model under a government-managed access list, a step beyond the voluntary pre-release review framework Trump’s AI executive order established […]
Xprize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis has joined a growing list of tech executives who believe global surveillance is a good idea, writing on X this week that “humans behave better when they’re being watched.” In a Substack essay titled “Visibility, Transparency and Trust,” he described what he called “radical transparency” as inevitable and positive, envisioning […]
Sam Altman told staff Washington wants GPT-5.6 released first to a short list of trusted partners, with access approved customer by customer. For years the debate over slowing down powerful AI models was a matter for company safety teams and outside critics. Now it has a government request attached. The Trump administration has asked OpenAI […]
The number arrives with the bluntness of a government tally. TikTok and YouTube have deactivated roughly 4.7 million accounts belonging to children under 16 in Indonesia, the country’s communications minister said on 25 June. The bulk of the cuts came from one platform: TikTok deactivated 4.1 million accounts, while YouTube removed 600,000, according to Communications […]
A law is only as strong as the door it actually closes, and Australia’s ban on social media for under-16s appears to have left a window open. On 26 June, six months after the world-first measure took effect, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he was keen to make the ban as strong as possible, after […]
Less than three years ago, residents of Green Charter Township, a rural community of roughly 3,000 people in central Michigan, packed a hall to celebrate what they saw as a victory for local democracy. They had recalled every member of their town board and installed replacements who promptly killed a $2.36 billion electric vehicle battery plant proposed […]
A Citizen Lab report puts forensic evidence and a Russian court document behind a familiar problem: surveillance tools do not come home when the seller asks. Russian government unit broke into the iPhone of a detained opposition politician using a forensic tool made by Cellebrite, three months after the Israeli firm publicly announced it had […]
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told shareholders on Wednesday that if a commercial opportunity conflicts with US national security, the company would prioritise American interests. “National security comes first,” Huang said in a session shortly after the company’s annual stockholder meeting concluded. Huang addressed the chip smuggling problem directly, arguing that anyone trying to build AI […]
Congress is moving to stop households paying for Big Tech’s AI power bills. A House panel votes this week on a package of measures. The aim is to put AI data centre energy costs back on the companies that create them. As AI drives up electricity bills, Congress wants Big Tech to pick up more […]
xLight, a US-backed startup chaired by former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger, is raising $350m to build an xLight EUV light source that could loosen ASML’s grip on chipmaking. Days earlier, a Dutch rival took aim at Nvidia. Deep-tech chips are hot again. The hardware behind AI is pulling in venture money again. xLight, a Californian […]
