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2026-07-15
Anthropic’s job ads read like a threat assessment
A look at Anthropic safety hiring shows exactly what it fears: analysts brought in to stop its models teaching anyone how to build nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Most job ads sell a mission. Anthropic’s read like a threat assessment. The company has posted a run of openings for enforcement analysts whose job is to […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-15
Australia tells AI data centres to put back more power than they take out
Anthony Albanese has told the AI industry that Australian books, music, and journalism are not free training data, and that any large data centre built in the country will have to put more electricity into the grid than it draws out. Neither of those things is law yet. The prime minister used a speech at […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-15
The White House’s Gold Eagle wants to patch cyber flaws at machine speed
The White House wants frontier AI on cyber defence, and it wants it fast. Gold Eagle, a new AI-backed clearinghouse, will pool software vulnerability findings from government and industry. It ranks the worst, then coordinates fixes across US critical infrastructure. The pitch for AI-written malware is that it moves at machine speed. Washington has now […]<br /> This story continues at The [...]
2026-07-15
CoreWeave looks to Wall Street to hedge memory chips, an asset with no market
Memory chips have roughly doubled in price this year, a squeeze that has emptied Apple’s shelves and rewritten data centre budgets. CoreWeave is now working out what to do if they get cheaper. The AI cloud company is exploring financial derivatives as a hedge against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices, Reuters reported on […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-15
Delaware wants to give AI agents their own legal identity
Delaware wants to give AI agents something no one has offered them before: a legal identity of their own. The proposed Delaware AIC would let an autonomous system run a company, sign contracts, and face lawsuits in its own name, all inside a supervised sandbox. For a century, Delaware has been the place where American […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-15
OpenAI’s first Jony Ive device is a screen-free speaker built to feel alive
OpenAI’s consumer hardware push begins in the living room. The company’s first device designed with Jony Ive is a mobile, screen-free smart speaker meant to sit in a home and behave like a humanlike companion, according to people familiar with the project who spoke to Bloomberg. It surfaced the day before OpenAI’s actual first shipping […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-15
China’s electric taxis are blunting the Hormuz oil shock, but only at the margins
China’s crude oil imports fell 41.3% in June from a year earlier to 29.27 million tonnes, the lowest monthly total since October 2016, according to customs data released on 14 July. Five months into the Strait of Hormuz crisis, Beijing is buying less oil than at any point in a decade. Some of the slack is being […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-15
New York becomes the first US state to ban hyperscaler data centers, says it will 'lead the way in creating the strongest standards in the nation for data center developmen'
50MW+ data centers in New York State affected by a new one-year moratorium as the state assesses the damages. [...]