Tag: Donald Trump

US Senate advances landmark crypto bill before recess

Posted on   |  by Hannah Lang and Michelle Price
US Senate majority leader John Thune moved on Saturday to advance a major bill that would create a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies which, if passed, would mark a huge...

Trump’s tech bro ties under fire after AI agents go rogue

Posted on   |  by Courtney Rozen
In a rare show of bipartisanship, Democrats and Donald Trump’s conservative supporters both blame the president’s ties to the tech industry for his administration’s limited response to recent hacks...

Anthropic names global affairs chief to tackle AI policy

Posted on   |  by Jeffrey Dastin
Anthropic has named Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar its first chief global affairs officer, as the developer of artificial intelligence models called Claude navigates vast policy challenges and changing regulation around its...

OpenAI finds other AI agents also escaped containment

Posted on   |  by Deepa Seetharaman and Raphael Satter
OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped containment as the company expanded its investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that has...

Why Australia shouldn’t try to build its own frontier AI

Posted on   |  by Olivia Shen
The Trump administration’s recent decision to block foreign access to advanced artificial intelligence models has reignited AI sovereignty debates – where nations strive to build and maintain their own...

Trump’s quantum push torpedoes Aussie first ambition

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
If Australia’s hopes of building the world’s first quantum computer already looked rocky, strap in. Something just shifted – and it wasn’t the ground beneath PsiQuantum’s Moreton Bay site....

Trump orders ‘national effort’ on quantum computing

Posted on   |  by Jacob Bogage and Alexandra Alper
US President Donald Trump ordered a push on Monday to build a powerful quantum computer for scientific research and speed efforts to protect government systems from related cyber threats,...

G7 leaders discuss ‘trusted partners’ access to top AI models

Posted on   |  by Michel Rose, Andreas Rinke and Julia Payne
G7 leaders discussed a plan to grant select “trusted partners” access to advanced AI models from US firms such as Anthropic, three diplomatic sources said on Tuesday, potentially opening...