What Is California's AI Transparency Act — and Who Must Comply?
California now requires large AI image, video, and audio tools to watermark their output and offer a free way to check it. Here's what the law requires, and who it covers.
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EU Begins Enforcing AI Act Transparency Rules
The European Commission started enforcing the EU AI Act's transparency rules on August 2, requiring chatbots and deepfakes to disclose AI involvement or risk fines up to 3% of global revenue.
Read more →Valar Atomics Raises $1B to Mass-Produce Nuclear Reactors for AI
Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics, days after its Ward 250 reactor became the first outside a US national lab to reach criticality and power an Nvidia system.
Read more →Anthropic Names Tino Cuéllar as First Chief Global Affairs Officer
Anthropic has hired former California Supreme Court justice Tino Cuéllar as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer to lead global policy and government relations.
Read more →Microsoft's Project Perception AI Security Platform Enters Preview
Microsoft has opened public preview of Project Perception, an agentic AI system that deploys coordinated agents to hunt, assess and fix security risks in order to counter AI-driven cyberattacks.
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What Is an AI Safety Classifier — and How Does It Work?
An AI safety classifier is a small model that screens prompts and replies for harmful content before they reach — or leave — a chatbot. Here's how it works.
Read more →Mistral AI Releases Shieldstral, an Open-Weight Safety Classifier
Mistral AI has open-sourced Shieldstral, a 3-billion-parameter model that moderates text and images against custom, plain-language policies without retraining.
Read more →Judge Denies xAI's Bid to Block Minnesota's AI 'Nudify' Ban
A federal judge refused to pause Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI 'nudification' apps before it took effect August 1, rejecting xAI's emergency request.
Read more →Benioff-Backed June AI Raises $20M to Fix Enterprise AI Rollouts
June AI emerged from stealth with $20 million in pre-seed funding to help companies deploy AI agents into legacy systems without hiring costly outside consultants.
Read more →Armenia's Eleveight AI Factory Sells Out Capacity in a Month
Armenia's first Nvidia Blackwell-powered AI data center sold out its live capacity within a month of launch, and PM Nikol Pashinyan toured the site as expansion toward 40 megawatts moves forward.
Read more →Thinking Machines Releases Inkling-Small, Outperforms Larger Model
Thinking Machines Lab's second open-weight model needs a quarter of its predecessor's active parameters yet edges past it on reasoning and coding benchmarks.
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How Does AI Identify Animal Species and Breeds From a Photo?
AI apps can now name an animal's species or breed from a single photo. Here's how the underlying computer vision works, and how it's helping protect Georgia's native cattle.
Read more →FAO Builds AI Tool to Identify Georgia's Native Cattle Breeds
The UN's FAO is developing a photo-based AI app to identify Georgia's native cattle breeds, part of a push to close gaps in the country's livestock conservation data.
Read more →Google DeepMind Launches Gemini Robotics 2 for Whole-Body Control
Google DeepMind's new Gemini Robotics 2 models let humanoid robots coordinate full-body movement, plan multi-step tasks and work together, shown on Apptronik's Apollo 2.
Read more →xAI Adds 1080p and Voice Cloning to Grok Imagine Video
xAI has upgraded its Grok Imagine Video model with native 1080p output, text-to-video generation, and new reference tools that keep a character's face and voice consistent across scenes.
Read more →Chinese Hacker Used DeepSeek AI for Autonomous Cyberattacks
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 says a Zhuhai-based hacker wired DeepSeek into an open-source agent framework, letting it scan, rank, and attack more than 460 exposed servers with minimal human input.
Read more →OpenAI Says Unreleased Astra Model Solved Ten Math Problems
OpenAI says an internal, unreleased model called Astra produced machine-checked solutions to ten long-standing problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science.
Read more →OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Luna Price 80%, Adds Faster Sol Tier
OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna's API price by 80% and Terra's by 20%, citing GPU efficiency gains, while adding a paid "Fast mode" for its top-tier Sol model.
Read more →AMD, Core Scientific Sign $14B Deal for Up to 2.5GW of AI Power
AMD and Core Scientific signed a 15-year infrastructure deal worth more than $14 billion, starting with 529 megawatts of U.S. data center capacity in 2027 and room to grow to 2.5 gigawatts.
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California's AI Transparency Act Takes Effect, Mandates Watermarks
California's AI Transparency Act took effect August 2, requiring major AI image, video, and audio generators to offer free detection tools and embed hidden origin watermarks.
Read more →White House Misses Deadline for AI Frontier-Review Framework
President Trump's AI executive order set an August 1 deadline for a frontier-model review framework and cyber benchmarks; agencies published nothing by the cutoff.
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