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Cohere Opens an Ottawa Office as Its AI Agents Head to Navy Ships Beijing Warns Officials Off 'Blind Investment' in AI and High Tech TSMC Q3 Revenue Beat Its Forecast: What to Watch in ASML and TSMC Earnings China Gave AI Influencer Yuri an Official ID. What It Unlocks for Creators Double Counter Discord Breach: What to Do If Your IP Address Leaked Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Deny Leaking, Warn of a 'Chilling' Culture Arena, the Leaderboard That Ranks AI Models, Is Now Worth US$3.1 Billion Cohere Opens an Ottawa Office as Its AI Agents Head to Navy Ships Beijing Warns Officials Off 'Blind Investment' in AI and High Tech TSMC Q3 Revenue Beat Its Forecast: What to Watch in ASML and TSMC Earnings China Gave AI Influencer Yuri an Official ID. What It Unlocks for Creators Double Counter Discord Breach: What to Do If Your IP Address Leaked Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Deny Leaking, Warn of a 'Chilling' Culture Arena, the Leaderboard That Ranks AI Models, Is Now Worth US$3.1 Billion

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Policy

NYC’s AI Hearing: Ex-Insiders Warned of Extinction, the Labs Hedged

Under oath on Oct. 5, OpenAI said it couldn't put odds on catastrophe, Meta didn't have its framework to hand, and the…

Felix Strauss Oct 6, 2026 · 5 min

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Policy

The State AI Law Map: What Takes Effect in California, New York, Colorado

Newsom's last AI laws, New York's RAISE Act and Colorado's rewrite all converge on Jan. 1, 2027. Here is every date, checked…

Felix Strauss · 6 min

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Policy

Meloni’s Voice Trademark, Explained: What It Can’t Stop, and the UK Gap

Italy's prime minister filed a four-second clip of herself saying her own name with the EU trade mark office. Trade mark law…

Felix Strauss · 7 min

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Policy

Trump’s Super Intelligence Force: Who Runs It and What It Can Actually Do

DNI Jay Clayton chairs a four-person AI task force with no published charter, no budget and a report due around Feb. 1.…

Jeff Cameron Oct 5, 2026 · 6 min

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Policy

Carney’s New AI Council: Who’s on It, and Who Isn’t

The 13-member National Council on Artificial Intelligence leans on investors, researchers and ex-officials. Unlike the task force behind Canada's AI strategy, it…

Jeff Cameron · 4 min

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Deep Dives

When an AI Agent Breaks In, Who Answers for It?

OpenAI's models got into an Australian Medicare portal and Hugging Face's servers. A lawsuit, an FTC probe and a parliamentary hearing are…

Felix Strauss · 11 min

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Policy

Quebec’s First AI Election: ChatGPT Leaned on an AI-Built Voter Guide

A McGill audit found an anonymous, AI-assisted site in 39% of ChatGPT's party-comparison answers because Quebec's big newsrooms block OpenAI's crawler. The…

Felix Strauss · 6 min