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The AI world is looking to D.C. for clarity.On Tuesday, staffers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other tech companies convened in Washington to review the administration’s new framework for reviewing advanced AI models. Now, the rest of the industry eagerly awaits answers on what will be included in the framework — a structured way for President Donald Trump’s administration to evaluate AI models’ cyber capabilities.The framework represents a turning point for AI oversight. While Trump’s administration has adopted a light-touch regulatory approach, rapid advances in AI models for cybersecurity and hacking are beginning to upend it. It’s an open question…

SpaceX has ramped up purchases of Tesla Megapack, spending $295 million on the battery storage devices in the second quarter and $329 million so far this year, according to the company’s earnings report released on Tuesday. The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk’s universe of companies are. Musk, who is the CEO and largest shareholder of SpaceX, also runs Tesla. Musk’s artificial intelligence business xAI acquired his social media platform, X, in 2025. Earlier this year, SpaceX gobbled up xAI. The industrial-scale batteries are likely being deployed at the company’s xAI data centers. Before xAI merged with SpaceX, the…

The Justice Department said OpenAI and one of its subsidiaries discriminated against US workers by unfairly favoring workers with temporary visa status during the hiring process.On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced that OpenAI and Statsig, a subsidiary software development company based in Bellevue, Washington, would pay $3.2 million to settle the allegations.”It is illegal to discriminate against U.S. workers by preferring temporary visa holders for jobs,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said in a statement. “This substantial settlement ensures that OpenAI redresses harm and changes its recruitment practices so that U.S. workers receive a fair opportunity for highly sought-after…

Expect to see even more Lime scooters and bikes zooming around major US cities.Wayne Ting, Lime’s CEO, told Business Insider on Tuesday that the company is focused on getting more of its vehicles on the roads where it already operates rather than making a big push to expand to more cities.Ting made the comments on the same day that Lime reported quarterly earnings results for the first time. Revenue grew 24% to $304 million for the second quarter, and the company posted net income of $295 million, including the benefits of its IPO in July.Shares of Lime rose about 2%…

As policymakers debate how to govern increasingly powerful AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic’s Mythos, a Chinese open-weight model has narrowed the gap with the industry’s leaders.   GLM-5.2, the open-weight AI model from China’s Z.ai, is only a few months behind OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 on cyber and bio capabilities, according to a new report from AI safety nonprofit SaferAI. But the divide between frontier capabilities and safety practices is growing.  According to SaferAI’s evaluation, which the nonprofit ran via Z.ai’s public API, GLM-5.2 refused none of the offensive cyber or dual-use biology tasks it…

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta. Bloomberg originally reported that Volta, founded earlier this year, will provide cloud compute to the Claude maker over a six-year period. Volta has a partner in this deal, Bitdeer, a crypto-mining company that will help develop the data center to provide the compute capacity. That facility will be located in Norway and will deliver a 133 megawatt capacity. It will be fueled by Nvidia’s Vera Rubin systems, the chipmaker’s state-of-the-art AI chip architecture. Volta…

A new app called Wrinkles uses your location to automatically surface stories about the places around you. Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories. The idea behind the app is to allow you to move through the world while hearing the places around you come to life without having to stare at your phone. As you explore, Wrinkles can tell you the secrets behind a building, the history of a street, and other local lore. Wrinkles was founded by David Stemler, a longtime advertising executive,…

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), an industry group spearheaded by Nvidia that has already grown to over 120 companies, has developed a cutely named working group, the Shared AI Findings Exchange, or SAFE. The group is already presenting proposals for open comment, and the Linux Foundation, a member of the group, is managing the proposals. The group developed them while members gathered at the nexus of the cybersecurity world, the Black Hat conference, taking place this week in Las Vegas. The guidelines are nothing terribly earth-shattering for now. The proposals cover areas like how to confidentially report AI…

Microsoft is retiring a peer-feedback tool as it overhauls employee reviews, according to an internal message viewed by Business Insider.The tool, called Perspectives, allowed employees to request input on their performance from peers that would be visible to the employee and their managers. Microsoft has been using this tool since 2018.”The Perspectives tool is being retired,” the message says. “Feedback remains an important part of our growth mindset, and we heard from employees and managers that feedback is most valuable when shared through ongoing, in-the-moment conversations rather than formal requests.”The tool is no longer available for new feedback requests, though…

OpenAI is clapping back against Apple’s lawsuit.On Monday, the AI company published a blog post titled “Apple is getting this wrong,” accusing the iPhone maker of presenting a misleading account of the events behind its trade-secret lawsuit. OpenAI highlighted what it said were errors in Apple’s legal correspondence and released messages that it said provided important context about the dispute.”Apple is one of the greatest companies of all time, and built a reputation for obsessing over the smallest details,” the post says. “This careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit sadly doesn’t live up to that reputation.”Apple sued OpenAI in July,…