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Amodei Denies Anthropic Supports Open-Weight AI Ban, Warns of China Risks
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- July 28, 2026
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pushed back Monday on suggestions that his company supports banning open-weight AI models, stating clearly that Anthropic has never advocated for such bans. His comments followed an open letter from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and other companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, and Mistral, urging policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on […]
Underneath the political squabbling, what would a change to consent laws actually mean?
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- July 26, 2026
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Changing New Zealand’s consent laws would shift the focus to the presence of a ‘yes’ rather than the absence of a ‘no’. There’s nothing like listening to politicians squabbling at a playground level – “It was mine, no, it was MINE” – to obscure the importance of a complex shift New Zealand’s laws around rape. […]
How the Māori seats could hold the key to this election
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- July 23, 2026
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Always intriguing, the electorates may prove decisive in 2026 in more ways than one. Since 1867, the Māori electorates have been the scene of enthralling drama. Since MMP was introduced there have been clean sweeps across the seats for New Zealand First, Labour and (almost) Te Pāti Māori. It’s not yet 12 years since John […]
OpenAI Launches Free ChatGPT Program for 100,000 Academic Researchers
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- July 31, 2026
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July 30, 2026 — OpenAI believes the benefits of frontier AI should not be concentrated in a few companies and well-resourced labs. Scientific progress depends on researchers asking the right questions, testing new ideas, and building on what others have discovered. OpenAI’s role is to put powerful tools in their hands—and work alongside them to design […]