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  • How Dangerous Is Anthropic’s Mythos AI?

    How Dangerous Is Anthropic’s Mythos AI? Last month, Anthropic made a remarkable announcement about its new model, Claude Mythos Preview: it was so good at finding security vulnerabilities in software that the company would not release it to the general public. Instead, it would only be available to a select group of companies to scan…

  • As the US Midterms Approach, AI Is Going to Emerge as a Key Issue Concerning Voters

    As the US Midterms Approach, AI Is Going to Emerge as a Key Issue Concerning Voters In December, the Trump administration signed an executive order that neutered states’ ability to regulate AI by ordering his administration to both sue and withhold funds from states that try to do so. This action pointedly supported industry lobbyists…

  • Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI

    Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI Cast your mind back to May of this year: Congress was in the throes of debate over the massive budget bill. Amidst the many seismic provisions, Senator Ted Cruz dropped a ticking time bomb of tech policy: a ten-year moratorium on the ability of states to…

  • The Semiconductor Industry and Regulatory Compliance

    The Semiconductor Industry and Regulatory Compliance Earlier this week, the Trump administration narrowed export controls on advanced semiconductors ahead of US-China trade negotiations. The administration is increasingly relying on export licenses to allow American semiconductor firms to sell their products to Chinese customers, while keeping the most powerful of them out of the hands of…

  • Biden Signs New Cybersecurity Order

    Biden Signs New Cybersecurity Order President Biden has signed a new cybersecurity order. It has a bunch of provisions, most notably using the US governments procurement power to improve cybersecurity practices industry-wide. Some details: The core of the executive order is an array of mandates for protecting government networks based on lessons learned from recent…