In June, AI's Hardest Questions Moved Into Government and Global Forums
- Jul 7
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Trump Signs an Executive Order on Advanced AI Innovation and Security
On June 2, President Trump signed an executive order creating a framework for AI companies to voluntarily give the federal government early access to their most powerful models before public release.
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UN University Report: AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030
A United Nations University report projects that AI data centers could consume 945 terawatt-hours of electricity annually by 2030 (nearly triple the combined use of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria) up from 448 terawatt-hours in 2025, while their cooling systems could use enough water to match the basic annual needs of all 1.3 billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa, plus up to 2.5 million tons of e-waste a year.
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Anthropic Makes Blatant Distillation Accusations Against Chinese Company Alibaba
Anthropic sent a letter to U.S. officials accusing Alibaba of "brazenly" and "illicitly" attempting to extract its AI capabilities through distillation (a method where a weaker model is trained on a stronger model's outputs) in what it called the largest known distillation attack against it to date, alleging operators tied to Alibaba ran 28.8 million exchanges using thousands of fraudulent accounts.
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G7 Summit Includes Tech Executives and Discussions on Global AI Efforts
At this year's G7 Summit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis reportedly proposed international cooperation on AI, with the U.S. taking the lead, to guard against the technology's risks.
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