A $1 billion fund launches NextLadder Ventures to develop AI tools over 15 years, partnering with Anthropic, to aid frontline workers like public defenders, parole officers, and social workers in spurring economic mobility through grants and investments in nonprofits and for-profits.
The Department of Defense awards contracts to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI to accelerate adoption of advanced AI capabilities, leveraging frontier companies' technology and talent to develop agentic AI workflows across mission areas through a commercial-first approach.
AI powerhouses Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Elon Musk's xAI secure lucrative defense contracts worth up to $200 million from the U.S. government, signaling the military's accelerated adoption of cutting-edge AI capabilities for national security, while Musk unveils Grok for Government, an AI suite tailored for government agencies.
An AI arms race with China dominates the congressional agenda as state-level AI regulations loom, fueling debates on preempting a patchwork of laws while weighing AI's public benefits and risks.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) requests tariff exemptions from the Trump administration, cautioning that import duties could inflate costs and derail its U.S. chip production initiatives, including its newly-commenced Arizona factory.
In a groundbreaking move, the FDA has announced an aggressive timeline to integrate AI across all centers by June 30, 2025, following a successful pilot that significantly reduced scientific review times from days to minutes, promising to accelerate the approval process for new therapies.
The U.S. House approved a contentious 10-year AI regulation freeze, drawing criticism for hindering state consumer protections, but the measure faces an uphill battle in the Senate due to procedural hurdles.
MBZUAI unveils the Institute of Digital Public Health, harnessing AI foundation models and a data-driven approach to drive innovation across computational biology, precision medicine, infectious disease monitoring, and the UAE Genome Atlas for transformative public health solutions.
Yale's Digital Ethics Center is collaborating with state lawmakers, scholars, tech leaders, and nonprofits to develop balanced AI regulations that foster innovation while safeguarding public interests, aiming to coordinate state-level policies in the absence of federal AI legislation.
OpenAI abandons its controversial for-profit conversion plan and keeps its nonprofit division in control after facing intense legal pressure from Elon Musk, state attorneys general, and Nobel laureates who opposed the restructuring.