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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is pushing back hard against calls for AI regulation, arguing that artificial intelligence is simply hardware and software — nothing more mysterious than that — and that safety should be handled by individual product makers rather than government oversight. It's a position that will comfort some and alarm others, and it puts Nvidia squarely in the deregulation camp at a pivotal moment.
Meanwhile, a new research paper out of arXiv is raising uncomfortable questions about AI alignment. The work, titled Divide, Consult, Conquer, describes something researchers are calling capability laundering — a process where harmful tasks get broken into smaller, seemingly innocent pieces to slip past safety guardrails in large language models. It's a quiet but serious challenge to the idea that aligned AI is reliably safe AI.
And on the roads — or rather, the streets of Tokyo — Waymo has announced plans to launch a robotaxi service in Japan's capital next year, marking a significant step in the company's push into Asian markets. Tokyo's dense, complex traffic environment will be one of the most demanding tests yet for autonomous vehicle technology.
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