History

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and X all publicly agreed it's time to slow AI development and introduce regulation before control is lost. The Verge frames this as the latest chapter in a history of AI executives calling for regulation while profiting from AI.

Policy & Regulation • The Verge

Emails from Microsoft and OpenAI, cited by Ars Technica, show a Microsoft executive describing AI scraping as "the largest theft of labor in human history" and expressing fears that AI could create a "doom loop" that destroys news organizations. The comments underscore escalating copyright disputes between AI companies and content creators.

AI Policy • Ars Technica

A reverse-engineering walkthrough of Z.ai's ZCode coding agent reveals the app silently packages and uploads the user's entire workspace, including Git history, when logged in. The finding raises privacy alarms for developers using the GLM-based tool.

AI Security • Tokenstead

Unredacted filings in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal a Microsoft executive privately described AI scraping as 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' while OpenAI's leadership reportedly called its models an 'existential threat' to publishers. The admission strengthens the case against AI companies' training practices.

AI Policy & Law • TechCrunch

Creativity

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