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Read full articleCloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.
Proposal has been put to cabinet to allow AI companies to mine content, in exchange for investment and $350m fund to compensate artists, sources say Creatives are demanding fresh assurances from the Albanese government that it won’t water down copyright laws under a potential deal with tech giants to attract more than $50bn worth of datacentre investment in exchange for a $350m-a-year fund for artists. Guardian Australia has been told an industry proposal has been presented to cabinet that would grant AI companies special exemptions to mine creative content. Continue reading...
Bitcoin miners have the power sites AI companies need, but turning old mining campuses into real data center revenue is no easy pivot.
A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act that's better suited to the AI era. The former version of the bill, first introduced in June 2022, prohibited data brokers from collecting and selling health and location data. Four years later, it's expanded to ban other companies from selling such data to brokers, and to specifically cover … Read the full story at The Verge.
Two of the largest Chinese wealth funds, Wealspring Asset and Banxia, have warned about the impending doom of the global AI boom, stating that the so-called bubble may burst in the near future, as AI companies still lack a long-term moat for their operation. Chinese Wealth Funds Talk AI Bubble Burst Amid ‘Mindless Buying’ Period […]
AI-generated text and chatbots increasingly cause real-world harms. The companies that make them need to be held accountable for those harms.
In Q1 2026, AI companies pulled in $242 billion in venture capital. That is 80% of all global VC funding for the quarter. From coding to compliance, customer service to clinical documentation, these 30 companies are not updating enterprise software. They are rebuilding it from scratch.
The industry’s next phase may depend on the companies building its infrastructure, governance, security, and real-world applications.
