
China's WAICO and America's Pax Silica Split AI World
Beijing's new World AI Cooperation Organization signed up 29 nations in Shanghai, weeks after Washington's rival Pax Silica bloc grew to roughly two dozen. Kazakhstan joined both.
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Beijing's new World AI Cooperation Organization signed up 29 nations in Shanghai, weeks after Washington's rival Pax Silica bloc grew to roughly two dozen. Kazakhstan joined both.

China's internet regulator approved Apple Intelligence for the local market, but only after Apple agreed to run Alibaba's Qwen and Baidu's models instead of its own.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis wants a FINRA-style body testing frontier AI models before release, with power to slow the industry down if needed.

Governor Hochul signed an executive order pausing permits for data centers over 50 megawatts for up to a year, making New York the first US state to enact a statewide moratorium.

OpenAI backed an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from mass-harm lawsuits, reversed course under public pressure, and watched the state sign a tougher audit law instead.

OpenAI and Google provided AI services to Singapore affiliates of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent - all three on the Pentagon's 1260H list of companies with alleged military ties.

Google now requires advertisers to disclose AI-generated ad content across Search, YouTube, and Discover - three weeks before EU AI Act Article 50 enforcement begins.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol goes public today after the first voluntary government hold on a frontier AI model - here's what the 12 days actually looked like.

The UN's first all-nations AI governance dialogue opened in Geneva with Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio warning that science cannot guarantee AI won't cause catastrophic harm.

The UN and ITU launched a new AI for Good Global Commission with 40+ founding members, but Google, Meta, and OpenAI are not among them.

The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 30, restoring global access today while industry partners draft a four-dimension jailbreak severity framework.

Colorado's landmark AI consumer protection law takes effect June 30, but a federal lawsuit by xAI, DOJ intervention, and a replacement bill signed in May have already stripped its core protections.