#ai-policy

#ai-policy

SoftBank Group quietly donated $50 million to President Donald Trump’s future presidential library and foundation — one of the largest publicly known contributions to the project so far. Politico’s Daniel Lippman reported, per two people familiar with the matter, that the donation is for a section of the library planned on the U.S.-Japan alliance, specifically the economic and strategic cooperation between the two countries.

"This unacceptable lapse proves why vigilant human oversight over the use of artificial intelligence is critical. It's a lesson we take with humility," Malatsi said.

OMB is not giving access to anything to agencies, according to a spokesperson, despite the administration's interest in the powerful Mythos AI model that identifies digital vulnerabilities.

The Oversight Board has taken steps to formalize its long-contemplated desire to work with other companies, but Meta has thus far declined to move forward with that process.

The discussion focused largely on issues like model distillation - shrinking powerful AI systems into smaller versions - and export controls. The Pentagon dispute was not a central focus of the conversation, per two sources. The tone of the meeting was "friendly," according to multiple sources.

Calling Anthropic "Leftwing nut jobs," President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that he was directing "EVERY Federal Agency" to stop using Anthropic's technology immediately. At the same time, the Pentagon prepared to designate the company a "supply chain risk," a label more commonly associated with foreign adversaries' tech products, such as telecom gear made by China's Huawei.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly gave Amodei an ultimatum this week, to either give him total access to its AI model or face harsh penalties. Amodei, however, said he could not in good conscience comply with the Pentagon's demands for fear the technology could be used for mass surveillance or to create fully autonomous weapons.

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Gentoo's official migration from Microsoft-owned GitHub to Codeberg is underway, as the Linux distribution fulfills a pledge to ditch the code shack due to "continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories." The decision was made public last month, when Gentoo confirmed it intended to migrate repository mirrors and pull request contributions to the new home. On February 16, the organization revealed it now had a presence on Codeberg, where contributions could be submitted.

In "AI 2027" - a document outlining the impending impacts of AI, published in April 2025 - the former OpenAI employee and several peers announced that by April 2027, unchecked AI development would lead to superintelligence and consequently destroy humanity.

If there is anyone in the House who can run point and cobble together the pieces on what meaningful federal AI standards and an AI package could look like, it's Jay Obernolte,

"It's interesting they've gone for that so early," he said. "Maybe they feel they need to make more revenue."

One year ago this week, Silicon Valley and Wall Street were shocked by the release of China's DeepSeek mobile app, which rivaled US-based large language models like ChatGPT by showing comparable performance on key benchmarks at a fraction of the cost while using less-advanced chips. DeepSeek opened a new chapter in the US-China rivalry, with the world recognizing the competitiveness of Chinese AI models, and Beijing pouring more resources into developing its own AI ecosystem.

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We all agree here that, you know, technology and innovation is critical, and government plays a role in that,

At the start of 2024, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI were united against military use of their AI tools. But over the next 12 months, something changed. In January, OpenAI quietly rescinded its ban on using AI for "military and warfare" purposes, and soon after it was reported to be working on "a number of projects" with the Pentagon.

Meanwhile, students are quietly bearing a cost that few are tracking: between $1,200 and $1,800 over four years in AI tool subscriptions that fragmented and unenforceable institutional policies have made necessary. Here's what a typical student experience looks like. Freshman fall semester: The composition professor bans ChatGPT even though the university has a site license. The biology lab recommends NotebookLM for research synthesis.

We do have a few senior managers that are [experts on AI]: none are that excited about it yet. We have agreed an internal policy to guide us all, which is currently very cautious, e.g., we do not allow AI-generated content or AI to be used in our design processes or its unauthorized use outside of GW, including in any of our competitions,

"What is AI? How are we going to provide training to both the developers and the trainers - train the trainers, if you will - and employees? What areas can we leverage AI? What risks [are there] with AI?"

"These are sham ethics waivers," Clark said. "They lack the kind of rigorous objective ethics analysis that would ensure that public policy is made for public benefit. Instead, they were aimed at enabling Sacks to profit from his government position," she said, describing the waivers as "like a presidential pardon in advance."

One of the (many, many) downsides of having a President who is very easily swayed by (A) money and (B) rich men willing to say nice things and prostrate themselves before him, is the fact that Donald Trump was always destined to end up in bed with Big Tech leaders in the field of AI, given that it's the most naturally friendly segment of the tech world for hucksterism (or second, just after crypto).