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Anthropic cofounder renews call for robust regulation of frontier AI

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Concerns about AI guardrails have soared after models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic were involved in security incidents during testing, piling on pressure to regulate the technology.

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark renewed calls on Friday for regulating artificial intelligence, saying that allowing companies to continue to operate without robust legislation was like letting a race car loose on the streets at night without brakes.

"It's remarkable to me that the toys I buy for my children are regulated more than the literal super intelligence I work on at my day job," he told an event at the IMF-World Bank's Annual Meetings in Bangkok.

Clark said that US President Donald Trump, whose administration has called for the industry to police itself, was against the idea of regulation but that China was not.

"I think it's Formula One at night without maybe brakes in the cars," he said.

He said the lack of clarity around the will for regulation meant "the Formula One car is roaring round and nobody seems to want to put up a guardrail?"

At an industry summit in Dublin on Wednesday, calls to prioritise safety in the development of powerful AI technology dominated the conversation.

A recent Anthropic report suggested small AI models may be only months away from behaving like computer worms, copying themselves from one internet-connected device to the next.

Anthropic has been among those companies calling for governments to step in, even suggesting international coordination to slow down the whole industry -- including Chinese rivals.

That initiative has so far failed to materialise, with companies involved in a hyper-competitive race to attract as much investment as possible.

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Google boosts news and link visibility in AI mode

Credited to The Economic Times · economictimes.indiatimes.com · 19h ago

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Google announced Thursday it will start displaying links to websites and articles more prominently and higher up in search results powered by artificial intelligence (AI), as brands and news publishers warn of a sharp decline in their traffic. According to a report by consultancy Chartbeat, news website publishers saw a 40 percent drop in traffic coming from Google between July 2025 and July 2026.

The Alphabet subsidiary began integrating more AI features in its search results over two years ago.

In May 2024 it launched AI Overviews, where Google generates summarized answers to search queries, rather than only showing links as it historically did.

Then in March 2025 Google added AI Mode which opens in a separate window and provides a more comprehensive answer and more links than AI Overviews.

Now, contextual links will be featured more "more frequently" and higher up in AI-generated search content.

Google will also expand worldwide its link "carousel," which are cards displayed directly below AI Overviews that show headlines with images for relevant articles.

The algorithm will prioritize articles from sites a user has previously identified as "preferred sources," and it will also be able to pull in content from relevant social media posts and other forums.

Google will also make links displayed at the end of AI-generated summaries "more engaging and prominent" for users who want to "dig deeper."

During its second quarter 2025 results, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said that AI Overviews had more than two billion monthly users in over 200 countries.

Several studies have shown that replacing traditional search with AI summaries significantly reduces the rate at which users open the suggested links.

According to a report by consultancy Chartbeat, news website publishers saw a 40 percent drop in traffic coming from Google between July 2025 and July 2026.

In August, Apig, a group representing daily newspapers in France, alerted the Competition Authority that AI summaries were in breach of agreements reached with news publishers in 2022.

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