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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has explained why his company was the only major AI firm to skip a 75-company letter backing open-weight AI models, arguing they carry greater cyberattack and bioweapons risk, and pressing for a crackdown on Chinese distillation of US frontier models including Claude.
As the AI chip race intensifies, the collaboration spans AI factory construction, AI memory supply and AI cloud infrastructure, combining SK Telecom’s AI infrastructure with SK hynix’s advanced HBM technology to support sovereign, enterprise and physical AI expansion.
Canadian government claimed increased transparency can help Canadians understand when they are interacting with AI systems, help businesses make informed decisions about the AI products they adopt, and give governments and organizations the information they need to develop policies and research that shape the citizens’ experience with AI.
NVIDIA, IBM, Adobe, Microsoft, SpaceX and nearly 40 other technology companies have launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, a global coalition to develop and share open-source tools, techniques and models to defend against AI-powered cyberattacks.
The changes adopted through Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 are aimed at reducing compliance burdens, clarifying legal obligations and strengthening safeguards against AI-enabled harms without weakening the bloc’s core protections for health, safety and fundamental rights.
Samsung and SK Hynix emerged as key players at the San Francisco AI Summit, with NVIDIA, Anthropic, and Broadcom deepening America’s reliance on South Korea’s HBM and semiconductor supply to fuel its AI buildout.
Anthropic is the only major U.S. AI developer absent from a joint letter signed by more than 75 technology companies urging Congress to support open-weight AI models. While OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta and others backed the initiative, Anthropic’s decision has drawn attention, particularly as the letter defends AI distillation, a practice the company has repeatedly criticized in disputes involving Chinese AI firms
Days after abolishing DSIT, created by former PM Rishi Sunak, and giving AI its first-ever seat at the Cabinet table, the UK has launched a new AI Taskforce, with Patrick Vallance as Chair reporting directly to current PM Andy Burnham, and AI Minister Kanishka Narayan leading it from Cabinet.
The Indian government currently supports 20 indigenous AI models, 12 LLMs and 8 SLMs and has approved 58 AI Centres of Excellence across states and union territories, MoS for Electronics and IT Jitin Prasada informed the Rajya Sabha on July 24.
The preliminary US-UK joint assessment found Kimi K3 performed below the most recent frontier cyber-capable models on several offensive cybersecurity tasks and failed to achieve arbitrary code execution in ExploitBench tests. The evaluation comes amid growing U.S. scrutiny of China’s latest open-weight AI model.