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AI Weekly Issue #513: Treasury analysts called AI a systemic risk. Treasury disowned it.
Career Treasury analysts formally classified artificial intelligence as a systemic risk this week, warning that the AI boom has become so embedded in …
This Week in AI: The Price of Intelligence
The AI market is fragmenting along practical lines. Organizations buying AI tools now face a widening array of vendors, but this abundance creates new…
Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply-chain risk’ label
A federal judge rejected the Trump administration's justification for designating Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, undermining the legal foundation f…
Bright Machines says its new hybrid robot cell could help solve a major AI infrastructure bottleneck
Bright Machines unveiled the Hybrid BRC, a robotic cell that keeps AI training data clean when humans must intervene in automated assembly lines. The …
Anthropic CEO Amodei doubles down on open-weight risk stance while insisting he never called for a ban
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is reasserting concerns about open-weight AI models while denying he has advocated for an outright ban. Amodei contends tha…
Uh-oh: Some Claude shared conversations and Artifacts appear to be indexed and publicly accessible on Google Search
Anthropic's Claude AI platform has a privacy problem. Some conversations users marked as shareable via link were indexed by Google Search, making them…
OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has surfaced a fundamental tension in AI development: whether the industry should prioritize alignment, containment, or b…
Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies
A major diarrhea outbreak sweeping the United States has prompted 40% of Americans to avoid fresh fruits and vegetables, according to recent data. The…
Closing the data loop in AI-driven drug discovery
AI is accelerating drug discovery by closing a critical feedback loop that traditional methods leave open. Pharmaceutical development currently costs …
This Week in AI: A First for Agentic Ransomware
Cybercriminals deployed the first known agentic ransomware attack this week, marking a watershed moment in AI-driven threats. Unlike traditional ranso…
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