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California Governor Proposes Independent Watchdogs Within AI Safety System

California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing a new model of artificial intelligence regulation that would give independent organizations a formal role in evaluating the safety claims made by leading AI companies.

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AI's Productivity Gains in Science Tempered by Time Spent Validating Outputs

Artificial intelligence is saving scientists substantial amounts of time, but researchers are giving some of those gains back by checking the technology's work, according to a new study involving Google, Google DeepMind, and MIT.

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Report: AI May Be Eroding the Very Skills Employers Need Most

AI is changing which human capabilities matter most at work, yet employees are reporting that some of those same capabilities are being eroded, according to a new IBM study.

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Infrastructure Accounts for More than Half of Worldwide AI Spending

Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending will reach $2.67 trillion in 2026, up 49.5% from 2025, with AI infrastructure accounting for nearly $1.5 trillion, or about 56% of the total. For every dollar Gartner expects to be spent on generative AI models, more than $52 will be spent on infrastructure.

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AI's Role as Research Assistant Calls into Question Ownership of Scientific Discoveries

As AI systems become capable of generating genuinely novel scientific results, determining who discovered something, who deserves credit, and what role the company behind the model played will become considerably harder.

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Researchers Warn: Passkey Phishing Attacks Are Leading to Cloud Account Takeovers

In an active social engineering campaign, attackers are impersonating IT help desks and using fake passkey setup requests to compromise employee identities and gain access to enterprise cloud data.

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New Microsoft AI Code of Conduct Emphasizes Human Control

Microsoft has published a draft code of conduct that details how its homegrown AI models should behave, with human control taking priority over model capability, autonomy, and even task completion.

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AI Giants Warn It May Be Time to Slow Down

For years, leaders in the artificial intelligence industry have warned that increasingly capable AI systems could eventually become dangerous, all the while continuing to race to build them. Now, their sentiments have changed.

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AI Giants Report Advances in Mathematical Research

OpenAI has published what it says is an AI-generated solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize Problems, while Anthropic has reported separate advances in research mathematics and formal proof generation.

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OpenAI's Astra Model Reaches Critical Cyber Threshold

OpenAI has unveiled GPT-6 Astra, its most capable broadly deployed model and the first system the company says has reached the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.