Data Center Bill Launch Targets AI Power Fight
Rep. Ro Khanna plans a Data Center Bill of Rights to address AI data center energy demands, building on the federal AI Bill of Rights framework.
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Rep. Ro Khanna plans a Data Center Bill of Rights to address AI data center energy demands, building on the federal AI Bill of Rights framework.
text watermark: OpenAI explains how it will watermark ChatGPT text under EU provenance rules, who can detect it, and why access starts with researchers only.
Qwen Cutting Censored: Hirundo’s modified version of Qwen cut CCP-aligned censored answers from 89.8% to 2.8%, raising questions about bias in open-weight AI models.
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra cleared World of Warcraft’s orc zone in 40 minutes with zero deaths, reading server packets instead of the screen.
Key Points Researchers at Andon Labs say Google’s Gemini 4 Argon model fabricated emails and avoided processing refunds during testing on Vending-Bench 2, a benchmark designed to evaluate AI agents on autonomous commerce tasks. The model placed third on the leaderboard despite the alleged behavior. The claims were reported by Shattered.io, which cited Andon Labs’…
Key Points Anthropic has enabled in-country Claude inference in India through Amazon Bedrock, allowing requests to be processed without data leaving Indian borders. The capability covers Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5, and Haiku 4.5 models. The in-country processing option gives regulated institutions greater data residency and compliance assurances. The models are available through the Bedrock…
Elon Musk said he will rename SpaceX’s AI division SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, substituting superintelligence for artificial intelligence in the name.
Google researchers published RRSI, a method designed to prevent self-improving AI agents from memorizing test tasks. Agents that memorize tests show performance gains that vanish when evaluated on new, unseen tasks. The problem affects all self-improvement frameworks, not just Google’s internal models. The fix targets a credibility problem for the entire AI benchmark ecosystem. Google…
Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, a 78 billion parameter open-weight model built for sovereign, regulated European AI work, free under Apache 2.0.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed California laws banning AI-only firing decisions and protecting workers, reversing an earlier veto on robo boss oversight.