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A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law
SB 243 passed the California Senate on Thursday and heads to Gov. Newsom's desk. If SB 243 is enacted, California would become the first state to require operators to implement safety protocols for AI companions and hold companies legally accountable if their chatbots fail to meet those standards.
Oct 12, 2025How Agility Robotics factory in Salem is building the robot revolution with Digit
Agility Robotics opened the world's first full-scale factory for commercially used humanoid robots in 2024.
Oct 12, 2025Safety of AI chatbots for children and teens faces US inquiry
The Federal Trade Commission is probing seven tech companies including Snap, Meta, OpenAI and XAI.
Oct 12, 2025Microsoft’s new AI framework trains powerful reasoning models with a fraction of the cost
The rStar2-Agent framework boosts a 14B model to outperform a 671B giant, offering a path to state-of-the-art AI without massive costs.
Oct 12, 2025Malaysia reins in data centre growth, complicating China’s AI chip access
Malaysia, a hotspot for data centres, is reining in the pace of expansion in a move industry insiders and analysts expect will hinder China's efforts to gain access to powerful chips that are crucial to improving its artificial intelligence capabilities.
Oct 12, 2025Nvidia and OpenAI to back major UK investment in artificial intelligence
Jensen Huang and Sam Altman will join US President Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain next week
Oct 12, 2025AgentGym-RL: Training LLM Agents for Long-Horizon Decision Making…
Developing autonomous LLM agents capable of making a series of intelligent decisions to solve complex, real-world tasks is a fast-evolving frontier. Like human cognitive development, agents are...
Oct 12, 202515 Venture Funds Selected as Korea Commits US$430M to AI & Deep-Tech Unicorns – KoreaTechDesk | Korean Startup and Technology News
Korea selects 15 fund managers to deploy ₩600B (US$430M) into AI & deep-tech startups, with Coupang joining to back the next wave of unicorns.
Oct 12, 2025National Research Platform to Democratize AI Computing for Higher Ed
By pooling GPUs and cloud resources across institutions, the NRP lets students and faculty run advanced AI workloads without the high costs of individual infrastructure and maintenance.
Oct 12, 2025Anthropic, Replit, And Higgsfield AI Raise Over $13 Billion, XR’s Virtue, Mojo Vision, Raise $175 Million
A busy week for AI/XR finance stories, Apple's new AirPod 3 does real time translation, Meta to unveil new AR glasses next week, Open AI makes a movie, Amazon's new AR
Oct 12, 2025New DeepMind study reveals a hidden bottleneck in vector search that breaks advanced RAG systems
Your AI might look smart on benchmarks but could be brittle in the real world, leading to unexpected failures and eroding user trust.
Oct 12, 2025FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbot companions and their effects on children
Oct 12, 2025Anthropic’s Claude AI can now automatically ‘remember’ past chats
Anthropic is launching incognito chats, too.
Oct 12, 2025OpenAI and Microsoft reach tentative deal to revise partnership
The deal with Microsoft resolves a major hurdle in OpenAI's planned corporate restructuring.
Oct 12, 2025Albania puts AI-created ‘minister’ in charge of public procurement
Edi Rama, PM, says digital assistant Diella will make Albania ‘a country where public tenders are 100% free of corruption’
Oct 12, 2025Nvidia unveils Rubin CPX GPU with 128GB memory for enterprise AI workloads
Rubin CPX delivers 30 petaFLOPs of compute
Oct 12, 2025http://democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-guthrie-and-ranking-member-pallone-applaud-ftc-decision-investigate
Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (KY-02) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) issued the following statement regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) decision to launch an inquiry into artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots acting as a companion:
Oct 12, 2025FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbot companions from Meta, OpenAI, and others
The federal consumer regulator seeks to learn about how AI companies evaluate the safety of their chatbots.
Oct 12, 2025The End Of Checkout? AI Agents Could Soon Be Buying Everything For You
The way people shop, pay and get paid is changing. Mastercard is moving quickly to avoid the risk of being left behind.
Oct 12, 2025The FTC is investigating companies that make AI companion chatbots
The FTC is investigating companies who offer chatbots and their possible harms to children.
Oct 12, 2025Financial Experts Concerned That Driving Users Into Psychosis Will Be Bad for AI Investments
Users of AI chatbots are being driven into spirals of delusion, a wave of "AI psychosis." Financial experts are increasingly concerned.
Oct 12, 2025AMD says MI450 GPUs will outperform every Nvidia product including Rubin Ultra
The launch is being compared to AMD’s 2021 “Milan moment”
Oct 12, 2025FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbot companions from Meta, OpenAI, and others
The federal consumer regulator seeks to learn about how AI companies evaluate the safety of their chatbots.
Oct 12, 2025Ted Cruz bill would let Big Tech go wild with AI experiments for 10 years
Ted Cruz won’t give up fight to block states from regulating AI.