Suddenly Everyone Wants to Regulate AI. They Just Can't Agree Why.
Bernie Sanders moved to ban superintelligence outright while California advanced a "kill switch" for rogue models. The push for guardrails is coming partly from the labs themselves, and critics smell regulatory capture. The people writing the rules, meanwhile, are barred from using the tools they are debating.
Read full story →The White House Has a New Name for AI Skeptics: Foreign Agents
President Trump called opposition to AI and data centers a "SICK conspiracy" benefiting China. Days later, the Justice Department warned that furthering a foreign power's "goals" through public activity, including demonstrations, could bring prosecution. Local zoning fights are being recast as treason.
Read full story →Musk Wants 100 Billion Robots. Researchers Are Still Teaching One to Fit Through a Door.
Elon Musk forecast 100 billion humanoid robots within 20 years, more than ten per person. At the same time, the leading edge of academic robotics is a new paper on how a machine squeezes past an obstacle without falling over. The gap between the hype and the hard problems is the real story.
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