Tag: United States

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...

US removes curbs on Anthropic’s top AI models

Posted on   |  by Chris Thomas, Karen Freifeld and Deepa Seetharaman
Export controls on Anthropic’s most advanced Fable and Mythos AI models have been lifted by the US Commerce Department, less than three weeks after the company was ordered to...

US House passes youth online safety legislation

Posted on   |  by Jody Godoy
The US House of Representatives passed legislation on Monday that would require online platforms to provide some safeguards for children, setting up a potential clash with the Senate where...

Australia presses Washington to lift AUKUS tech transfer

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia is pressing US lawmakers to include new AUKUS technology transfer provisions in defence legislation that could pass this year, in a move that would extend the reach of...

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...

Elon Musk loses lawsuit against OpenAI

Posted on   |  by Deepa Seetharaman, Jonathan Stempel and Greg Bensinger
A US jury has ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding the artificial intelligence company not liable to the world’s richest person for having allegedly strayed...

Meta, Google lose US case over social media harm to kids

Posted on   |  by Dawn Chmielewski, Courtney Rozen and Jody Godoy
A Los Angeles jury has found Meta and Alphabet’s Google negligent for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people, in a US$6 million verdict that will...