AI, security and power
Cybersecurity, biosecurity, regulation and infrastructure: the decisions shaping how AI is deployed and who carries the risk.
What has been approved, who can enforce it and how it may affect you without turning every announcement into a dystopia.READING ROUTE
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01OPENThe US launches Gold Eagle to stop AI-discovered flaws from crippling banks and hospitals
The White House wants companies, researchers and agencies to respond together to the most dangerous vulnerabilities. The idea is sound; knowing who is involved and what happens when someone refuses to cooperate is much harder.
02OPENDeepMind wants AI to spot the next pandemic early. The problem is what the same technology enables
DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs want to speed up biological-threat detection and treatment design. But models that help defend us may also make harm cheaper.
03OPENEurope is putting labels on AI: what changes for chatbots, deepfakes and publishers on August 2
From August 2, chatbots must identify themselves at the start and deepfakes need a visible label. Publishers keep an exemption when a person reviews the text and takes responsibility for it.
04OPENNew York puts giant data centers on hold—and asks who should pay for the grid
Kathy Hochul has frozen state permits for new data centers of 50MW or more for up to a year. New York wants to know how much power and water they will use—and, above all, who will pay for the infrastructure they need.
05OPENAI giants are asking Washington to regulate them. They also stand to gain from it
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind increasingly agree on federal rules. The decisive question is who writes them, how costly they are and which competitors can comply.
06OPENSan Francisco tells Apple and Google to remove 13 fake-nude apps as an EU ban approaches
San Francisco’s city attorney has identified eight iOS apps and five Android apps that could turn ordinary photographs into non-consensual sexual images. Google says it removed all five flagged Play Store apps; Apple has removed three and warned four more developers. European rules will soon make effective safeguards a condition of selling these tools across the EU.