AI Regulation
As AI accelerates, governments race to regulate it: the EU passed the AI Act, the US and China are shaping their own approaches, and copyright and data lawsuits are mounting. These decisions determine what AI businesses and people can actually use. Here is all our coverage of AI regulation: laws, lawsuits, standards and policy across the major jurisdictions.
RGR Protects LLMs from Skill Loss in Self-Distillation by Preserving Representation Geometry
RGR monitors the geometry of hidden representations and reduces skill degradation in on-policy LLM self-distillation. The code is on GitHub, and the method works…
HACE Co-Trains a Domain Specialist and an LLM Agent Across Three Domains
The HACE framework co-evolves a domain model and an LLM agent as a pair. On the main metrics, it beat self-improvement methods in recommendations, biology and…
BBC: AI Is Devaluing Images and Raising the Price of Human-Made Work
The cheaper image generation gets, the more authorship is worth. BBC describes a "human premium" on art, and Hacker News collected 78 comments under the piece.
Super Micro Contractor Pleads Guilty in AI Server Smuggling Case Involving China
A Habr Essay Reopens the Debate Over Who Owns Open Source Code in the Age of AI
Anthropic and OpenAI Are Rehearsing Their Response to the First Major AI Catastrophe
White House makes AI incident reporting mandatory after Anthropic episode
CodeQL 2.27.2 adds regex parsing for C++ and improves Go, Rust, and JavaScript analysis
CodeQL 2.27.2 adds a regular expression parser for C++ and improves analysis for Go, Rust, and JavaScript. GitHub's code scanning static analyzer now ships 498…
Sierra Publishes Draft of Poppy Protocol, Adds 35 More Partners
Sierra AI has published a draft of the Personal Agent Protocol, or Poppy, and added 35 design partners. The protocol aims to connect personal agents with businesses.
Kleiner Perkins Bets on Physical AI as the Source of the Next Trillion-Dollar Companies
OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers Over Contacts With Outside Organizations
Vesta Raises $30M for AI Agents That Make Mortgage Decisions
AI Candidate Scoring Looks Impartial, but That Doesn't Make It Fair
Insta360 Capitalizes on DJI's U.S. Ban and Goes After American Creators
DJI controls more than 70% of the global consumer drone market but is being squeezed out of the U.S. Insta360 is moving into the gap with its Antigravity brand.
UK to Curb Non-Compete Clauses After AI Startups Complain
The UK government is preparing limits on non-competes in employment contracts after tech and AI startups complained that the clauses block hiring and new company…