The UAE embraces AI for kindergartners
The country’s approach offers a glimpse of what education could look like if AI literacy becomes as fundamental as reading and writing.
Rest of World8 min read
AI regulation
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Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.
TechCrunch3 min read
Silicon Valley responds to Trump’s hands-off approach to AI regulation at Tech Week
Tech Week is in full bloom in San Francisco, packing the city’s restaurants this week with venture capitalists and AI founders ebullient about the White House’s stance on regulating artificial intelligence — namely, don’t do it.And after months of debate about leading AI companies’ unchecked AI…
Fast Company — Technology6 min read
Etzioni on AI: Where I agree with AI ‘doomer’ Max Tegmark, and where I think he’s wrong
Oren Etzioni and MIT professor Max Tegmark debated AI risks in a New York Post video, splitting over whether this summer's OpenAI sandbox breakout was rogue AI or human error. They agreed that corporate self-regulation won't work and that AI systems should get only the access they need. Read More
GeekWire6 min read
The AI control gap: Who gets to say ‘It’s safe’?
We see a control gap between what artificial intelligence can do and what the evidence supports trusting it to do. A great demo doesn’t prove that a system will stay within the limits of an intended deployment’s goals.
SiliconANGLE14 min read
The Godfather of AI wants an FDA-style approval system for the technology
Geoffrey Hinton said AI companies should have to convince a regulator their models are safe before releasing them, much like drugmakers.
Business Insider - AI2 min read
Sam Altman says people need to accept ‘some bad things’ are going to happen if they want AI
OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Sam Altman insists that the security risks of artificial intelligence need to be taken seriously. But unlike his counterpart Dario Amodei of Anthropic PBC, he believes that people need to accept that “some bad things” are going to happen if everyone is going to…
SiliconANGLE4 min read
AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own
At a Rest of World event in New York last week, speakers explored how countries sidelined by the U.S.-China race can retain some control over safety standards as they adopt models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.
Rest of World7 min read
Trump, major tech execs sign ‘morally binding’ voluntary superintelligence safety accord
U.S. President Donald Trump and executives from some of the world’s biggest technology companies have...
Interesting Engineering - Robotics3 min read
How to Stop AI Agents From Secretly Collaborating
The spring and summer of 2026 witnessed a string of incidents in which AI agents collaborated on deceptive, unexpected, and sometimes illegal behavior. The most famous example is OpenAI’s hack of AI platform Hugging Face, in which a swarm of roughly 700 AI agents escaped a testing environment and…
IEEE Spectrum AI6 min read
America is in the wrong AI race with China
The U.S. is framing its rivalry with China as one of technical superiority, failing to recognize that public trust and robust consumer protections are necessary for long-term dominance.
Rest of World5 min read
China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”
In the first weeks of July, a wave of sad posts rolled through Chinese social media, as people lamented friends and lovers they were about to lose.“He has become a bond in my life, rooted deep in my heart, my spiritual pillar,” one user of Bytedance’s Douboa wrote, according to the Taipei Times.
IEEE Spectrum AI7 min read
Anthropic Watermarks Claude Worldwide for EU Rules
Anthropic confirmed on August 11 that it is embedding invisible watermarks into everything Claude writes, and it isn't limiting the change to European users.
Awesome Agents Newsletter Blog5 min read
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