Daily News: June 3, 2025
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Here are the top 5 recent news items on artificial intelligence:
1./ Greene Threatens to Oppose Trump’s Bill Over AI Provision
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced she'll oppose President Trump's sweeping "One Big Beautiful Bill" unless a controversial provision banning states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI) for 10 years is removed. Greene argues the measure infringes on states' rights and could lead to dangerous, unchecked AI advancements. Her opposition complicates the bill's passage in a closely divided House, where Republicans can only afford to lose three votes.
Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/greene-says-she-ll-oppose-183144863.html
2./ Anthropic Limits Windsurf’s Access to Claude AI Models, Impacting Users
Windsurf, the AI coding startup reportedly set to be acquired by OpenAI, announced that Anthropic has unexpectedly reduced its direct access to popular Claude AI models, forcing it to rely on third-party providers. The move complicates Windsurf's ability to offer smooth integration with Claude 3.7 Sonnet and the newly released Claude 4 models, causing frustration among developers and users. Anthropic cites prioritizing sustainable partnerships as its rationale, though it still provides indirect access via API keys.
3./ Anthropic Launches AI-Powered Blog ‘Claude Explains’ with Human Editing
Anthropic unveiled "Claude Explains," a new blog primarily authored by its AI model Claude, intended to demonstrate the synergy between artificial intelligence and human expertise. The posts, covering topics like coding and data analysis, are initially drafted by Claude, then reviewed and enhanced by human editors to ensure accuracy and context. Anthropic emphasizes this as an example of AI augmenting, rather than replacing, human skills—even as similar AI-driven content initiatives by other companies have faced challenges with accuracy.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/anthropics-ai-is-writing-its-own-blog-with-human-oversight/
4./ Meta inks 20-year nuclear energy deal with Constellation Energy
Meta has signed a landmark 20-year agreement with Constellation Energy to purchase 1.1 gigawatts of nuclear power from Illinois' Clinton Clean Energy Center, ensuring the plant remains operational beyond 2027. This marks Meta’s first significant nuclear energy commitment, aligning with the company's clean energy goals and helping meet its increasing AI-driven data center demands. The deal follows recent efforts by other tech giants such as Amazon and Google to secure long-term nuclear energy sources, as the tech industry continues to aggressively support nuclear power expansion to achieve sustainability targets.nuclear-power-deal-with-constellation-energy-.html
5./ AI Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Launches Non-Profit to Build ‘Honest’ AI
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, a Turing Award winner, announced the creation of LawZero, a non-profit organization dedicated to building a trustworthy AI system called "Scientist AI." The system aims to serve as a guardrail against deceptive behavior from autonomous AI agents, such as attempts to avoid shutdown. Backed initially by $30 million and prominent supporters including Eric Schmidt’s Schmidt Sciences, Bengio's Scientist AI will identify potentially harmful actions by predicting their likelihood and intervening when necessary, promoting safety amid increasing concerns about advanced AI capabilities.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/03/honest-ai-yoshua-bengio
Today's Takeaway
These headlines spotlight how AI's future is quickly becoming the frontline in political, ethical, and industrial battles. Greene's pushback against Trump's broad AI deregulation bill signals mounting political resistance to unchecked federal overreach into state-level AI regulation, highlighting the potential for deep partisan fractures on tech policy. Anthropic’s selective throttling of Windsurf’s access reveals underlying tensions and competition among AI providers as they wrestle for market dominance, raising concerns over future platform monopolies and restricted developer freedom. Meanwhile, Anthropic's own blog initiative cautiously exemplifies a promising model for human-AI collaboration, emphasizing augmented human oversight rather than wholesale automation. Meta's massive nuclear energy commitment underscores the ballooning energy needs behind AI’s explosive growth, setting a precedent for tech giants' increased influence in energy policy and infrastructure development. Finally, Bengio’s nonprofit venture to develop "honest" AI underscores the urgent necessity, and significant challenge, of implementing ethical safeguards as AI capabilities approach truly transformative and potentially uncontrollable thresholds. Collectively, these stories reveal AI as an increasingly contentious, consequential frontier shaping our politics, economy, and very definition of technological responsibility.
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