House Republicans are developing legislation to impose sanctions on Chinese entities that copy US AI models through distillation, Bloomberg reported. The measure targets the practice of training smaller models to replicate frontier US systems' outputs, moving beyond traditional intellectual property theft into AI-specific enforcement. The initiative is part of a broader congressional campaign to counter China in the global AI race alongside existing semiconductor export controls. Bill text and sponsors have not yet been publicly released.
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Pip White, Anthropic's head of UK, Ireland, and northern Europe, confirmed that UK banks will receive access to the Mythos cybersecurity model "next week" in a Bloomberg interview. UK access would be the first international Mythos deployment beyond its initial US rollout to Silicon Valley partners and Wall Street banks. US banks began internal Mythos testing at government urging, as reported by Bloomberg in AIPD's Apr 11 edition. White did not disclose which UK banks will participate or the terms of access.
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Anthropic's own researchers determined that Mythos could hack the systems underlying most modern computing infrastructure, according to a Bloomberg investigative feature published today. The report provides previously unreported detail on the internal red-teaming process and decision-making that led Anthropic to restrict Mythos's release. Banks and government agencies are assessing the threat posed by the model's demonstrated capabilities. Anthropic briefed the Trump administration on Mythos, as reported by TechCrunch in AIPD's Apr 15 edition.
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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz poured $25 million into a pro-AI super political action committee, boosting the industry's political war chest to more than $50 million ahead of November's midterm elections, Bloomberg reported. The PAC backs candidates and positions favorable to AI industry priorities on regulation. AI policy is expected to be contested across multiple midterm races as public sentiment toward AI has turned negative.
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Apple and Google continue offering mobile apps that generate nonconsensual sexualized images despite their own content policies, according to a Tech Transparency Project report published Wednesday, as reported by Bloomberg. The two largest app gatekeepers have failed to enforce their own rules against these apps. Apple separately threatened to remove Grok from its App Store over AI-generated nonconsensual images, as reported by NBC News in AIPD's Apr 15 edition.
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A group of doctors and education researchers who studied AI's impact on young people are calling for a five-year moratorium on AI use in schools, Fortune reported in an exclusive. The researchers concluded that AI tools are being deployed in classrooms without adequate evidence of safety or efficacy. "If a local children's hospital told parents, 'We've got this new drug, it has potential, just trust us,' people would be horrified," one researcher told Fortune. Separately, a Wired and Indicator analysis this week underscored the urgency, identifying nearly 90 schools and 600 students worldwide affected by AI-generated deepfake nude images.
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