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The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over

September 19

At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation.

Regulation & safety AI Anthropic Elon Musk Google

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SiliconElon Musk's Terafab hits a roadblock before making a single chip, receives cease-and-desist order — firm files trademark lawsuit, has sold Tera-Fab-branded lithography tools for over a decade Tom's Hardware

Valley2028 Democrats like Newsom and Pritzker lean in on AI safety as Washington stalls Axios Technology

EuropeGavin Newsom advances AI ‘kill switch’ in response to safety fears Financial Times Tech

SiliconMicrosoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed in NYT lawsuit Tom's Hardware AI

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