OpenAI is in discussions with the FDA to explore leveraging AI, potentially through a project called cderGPT, to accelerate the drug approval process, with the FDA commissioner confirming the agency's first AI-assisted scientific review of a product.
Yale's Digital Ethics Center is collaborating with state lawmakers, scholars, tech leaders, and nonprofits to develop balanced AI regulations that foster innovation while safeguarding public interests, aiming to coordinate state-level policies in the absence of federal AI legislation.
The AI boom, fueled by breakthroughs like DeepSeek's R1 and ChatGPT, is driving surging energy demands, heightening cybersecurity risks through AI-generated malware, and necessitating responsible governance frameworks to address the ethical and regulatory challenges of pervasive AI adoption.
OpenAI abandons its controversial for-profit conversion plan and keeps its nonprofit division in control after facing intense legal pressure from Elon Musk, state attorneys general, and Nobel laureates who opposed the restructuring.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is advocating for revisions to AI chip export rules, aiming to accelerate global diffusion of US AI technology while maintaining dominance, as China rapidly closes the gap in AI capabilities despite Nvidia's planned $500B US investment.
In a controversial move, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (DOGE) has enlisted an inexperienced college student, Christopher Sweet, to lead an AI-driven effort to review and deregulate federal housing rules, raising concerns about the potential impact on housing policies.
Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang asserts China matches the U.S. in AI capabilities, praising Huawei as formidable, and urges the U.S. government to prioritize AI policies to accelerate technological development and maintain competitiveness.
Universal basic income (UBI) has emerged as a potential solution to mitigate the economic disruptions caused by AI and automation, with proponents proposing various funding mechanisms like taxing income, consumption, land value, and automation itself, while emphasizing the need for sustainable policies, education/training investments, and addressing social-psychological factors beyond economic outcomes.
The UK government's secretive use of an AI chatbot called Redbox to draft official documents and briefings, without disclosing details on its implementation or safeguards, has raised transparency concerns among experts who warn of potential bias and inaccuracies in AI-generated content informing policy decisions.
As Google's AI-powered search tools like AI Overviews and Circle to Search gain massive popularity with over 1.5 billion monthly users, the tech giant faces intensifying antitrust scrutiny from regulators alleging monopolistic practices in its core search and advertising businesses.