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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for autonomous weaponry, or "killer robots," to be banned by international law.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has signed an AI safety bill requiring companies to publish safety protocols for catastrophic risks.
The Illinois AI safety law will require annual independent audits of AI safety protocols, with the provision taking effect at the beginning of 2028.
The Pentagon expanded its blacklist of companies accused of aiding the Chinese military from 20 companies to 188 in its June revision.
Alibaba and ByteDance have removed customization and pre-built agent features from their AI products to comply with new regulations from the Cyberspace Administration of China.
AI data company Mercore reached $2 billion in annualized revenue in June, doubling its revenue pace in less than four months.
Mercore is now profitable on a free cash flow basis.
SemiAnalysis reported that Nvidia will delay the release of its Kyber NVL144 servers by more than 12 months, until deep into 2028.
SemiAnalysis reported that 4-die versions of Nvidia's Rubin Ultra chip have been canceled, leaving only the 2-die versions.
SK Hynix is planning to list $28 billion in depository receipts on a U.S. stock exchange.
New research from Anthropic claims to have found a division inside its Claude model between a small layer of reportable thoughts and a larger volume of automatic processing, which it calls a "global workspace."
Anthropic developed a new interpretability tool called the JLens, which can read the internal concepts a model is disposed to verbalize even when they do not appear in the output.