
AI Companion Bots Are Becoming a Public Health Problem
A new Brookings policy brief argues that companion bots need public-health style oversight as emotional AI moves into daily life.
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A new Brookings policy brief argues that companion bots need public-health style oversight as emotional AI moves into daily life.

Colorado lawmakers killed a data-center regulation push, leaving the AI power boom to collide with local energy and water concerns.

OpenAI's Chris Lehane is framing AI as an intelligence utility, raising harder questions for government and business operating models.

CAISI is reportedly expanding pre-deployment testing with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI, making frontier model release governance harder to ignore.

U.S. officials are reportedly escalating claims that Chinese AI firms used distillation to replicate American frontier model capability.

The Trump administration releases a landmark legislative blueprint for AI, advocating for a 'light-touch' federal standard to ensure American dominance and prevent a patchwork of state laws.

In a landmark move, the UK government has officially ruled out 'opt-out' copyright laws for AI model training, prioritizing creator consent and mandatory licensing mechanisms.