Mariam Baksh

Sen. Mark Warner's (D-VA) draft legislation to govern the proliferation of artificial intelligence agents has the support of the American Fintech Council, a standards group citing a need for regulation to account for fairness and security.

Frontier artificial intelligence developer Anthropic is again evaluating its AI models in third-party environments and training them using reinforcement learning techniques that have come under fire from proponents of a pause on the technology.

The Software & Information Industry Association filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for an en banc review of Amazon v. Perplexity , noting the importance of adherence to protocols that authorize agentic AI activity.

A Trump administration statement of interest cites national security and economic competitiveness in urging the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to rule that training artificial intelligence models on written works counts as “fair use” under the Copyright Act.

Lawmakers are responding to the recent breach of Hugging Face infrastructure by unauthorized artificial intelligence agents from OpenAI by boosting their efforts to propose more comprehensive legislation for gaining insight into such incidents, according to an AI law and policy professional tracking the issue.

The emergence of a new service -- from Abliteration.ai -- is reinvigorating advocacy by the Center for a New American Security for export controls on advanced artificial intelligence chips, as part of a fresh debate over the policy implications of open-weight models from China.

Forthcoming legislation from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) would establish a regulatory body to enforce a ban on artificial superintelligence and guard the public from dangers of the technology, while imposing export controls to prevent such developments across the globe.

Opposition from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation to legislation Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is planning on introducing with Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) aimed at banning artificial “superintelligence” highlights the subjective nature of the term and its potential implications for competition.

Parties in a copyright lawsuit crucial to the artificial intelligence industry disagreed on the extent to which outputs from large language models resembled the material they were trained on, taking what appeared to be extremely different positions on a pivotal factor for determining “fair use.”

The Stop Rogue AI Act would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop standards for deploying artificial intelligence agents -- to be implemented by federal agencies and contractors -- that don't exclusively depend on covered organizations self-attesting to their origin, according to text of the legislation.