Opinions
Congress Doesn’t Have to Choose Between AI and Copyright
In a Washington Times opinion piece, Matt Sandgren argues that Congress does not need to choose between fostering AI innovation…
Opinions
Exploring the Societal Impacts of AI
MIT hosted an AI and Society Forum on May 12, 2026, where researchers examined how artificial intelligence is affecting employment,…
Opinions
Arizona’s AI Education Bill Deserves a Second Chance
Conner Huey argues in the Arizona Capitol Times that state lawmakers should revise and repass House Bill 4005 after Governor…
Opinions
Congress Just Rushed Through a Disastrous Copyright Office Overhaul
The Electronic Frontier Foundation criticized H.R. 6028, which the House passed by voice vote, arguing that the bill would politicize…
Opinions
Democracy Needs Friction to Function
In an essay for Noema Magazine, HennyGe Wichers argues that AI systems designed to manufacture consensus, such as the Habermas…
Opinions
The Compute Coalition: How to Build the Future of AI in the Free World
A Carnegie Endowment for International Peace paper by Alasdair Phillips-Robins, Teddy Tawil, and Sam Winter-Levy argues that democracies must build…
Engineering
PyTorch 2.13 Released With FlexAttention on Apple Silicon and a New CuTeDSL Inductor Backend
PyTorch 2.13 was released on July 8, 2026, bringing FlexAttention support to Apple Silicon (MPS) with up to 12x speedups…
Engineering
Hugging Face and SkyPilot Enable Zero-Egress Multi-Cloud Storage for AI Training Jobs
Hugging Face and SkyPilot announced an integration allowing users to mount Hugging Face Buckets and Hub repositories as storage backends…
Engineering
Hugging Face Overhauls Its Kernels Project With Signed, Verifiable Custom Kernels
Hugging Face rolled out major updates to its Kernels project, which standardizes distribution of custom compute kernels, adding kernels as…
Engineering
LeRobot v0.6.0 Adds World Model Policies and New Vision-Language-Action Models
Hugging Face released LeRobot v0.6.0, introducing three world model policies — VLA-JEPA, LingBot-VA, and FastWAM — that learn to imagine…
News
Illinois Governor Signs Nation-Leading AI Safety Law
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act (SB 315) into law on July 6, 2026, establishing…
News
Zhipu AI Stock Surges After Open-Sourcing GLM-5.2 Model
Zhipu AI’s Hong Kong-listed stock surged as much as 48% and closed up 32.8% after the Beijing-based firm unveiled GLM-5.2,…