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- Australia plans an AI safety regulator and mandatory incident reporting after an OpenAI agent breached a Medicare statistics portalThe Guardian · AI
- Photography schools add AI modules and usage rules as Austrian students reject Midjourney as a main way to make imagesFinancial Times · AI
- Nvidia Board Opens Independent Inquiry Into Jensen Huang Over Reported Relationship With Alleged Chinese Intelligence RecruitWSJ · Technology
- Trump says DOJ threatened to jail an unnamed AI company leader, calls AI risk overstated in 60 Minutes interviewThe Verge · AI
- Nvidia board investigates Jensen Huang after he admits affair with Megaspeed executive named in US spy memoThe Verge · AI
- Scott Wiener, Author of California's SB 1047 and SB 53, Wins Nancy Pelosi's House Seat and Pledges Federal AI OversightMIT Technology Review · AI
- Voters reject data centers in 40 of 41 local ballot measures as electricity demand drives the backlashMIT Technology Review · AI
- OpenAI's GPT-6 Cyber reportedly finds Firefox flaws and builds Linux kernel exploits as WSJ op-ed warns about attackers using Chinese open modelsWSJ · Technology
- Investors Signal $1–1.25 Trillion for Anthropic IPO as Data-Center Backlash and Pentagon Fight ContinueWSJ · Technology
- Data-centre limits win at US midterms, prompting analyst talk of an AI opening for ChinaFinancial Times · AI
- SoftBank's credit risk hits four-year high as AI sell-off, Arm slump and China's ABB block pressure its OpenAI betFinancial Times · AI
- Ironclad CTO Sunita Verma argues today's AI won't reach superintelligence but cites OpenAI agent incidents as evidence of catastrophic riskThe Guardian · AI
- Garrison Lovely argues anti-AI populism will shape 2028 after local datacenter measures go against the industry in 40 of 41 contestsThe Guardian · AI
- Rep. Josh Gottheimer, Co-Chair of House Democrats' AI Commission, Discloses Chip-Stock Purchases After Voting for Congressional Trading BanCNBC · Technology
- METR Estimates Anthropic's Capability Growth Sped Up About 1.9x as Its IPO Filing Says It May Soon Hit Its Own AI-Acceleration ThresholdThe Cognitive Revolution
- Voters reject data centers in nearly every local ballot measure in the 2026 US midtermsThe Verge · AI
- Voters side against data centers in 40 of 41 US midterm ballot measuresFinancial Times · AI
- UK growth minister Dan Tomlinson says Britain will keep expanding AI investment despite US midterm backlash against data centresFinancial Times · AI
- Former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan pleads not guilty to bugging an executive conference roomCNBC · Technology
- Google will cut off Search for schools that disable Gemini, the same week parents sue over a teen's use of the chatbotCNBC · Technology
- NYT: US intelligence believes China's spy agency recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to gather information on Nvidia CEO Jensen HuangThe Verge · AI
- METR estimates AI progress at Anthropic has run about 1.9 times faster since October 2025, mostly because of Anthropic's own AI useThe Verge · AI
- Voters reject data center development in 40 of 41 local measures as Democrats win Congress and three governorshipsTechCrunch AI
- OpenAI takes in about $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, below its earlier $1.4 trillion targetTechCrunch AI
- Nasdaq falls 5.5% as US voters back data center limits and Democrats win in AI build-out statesThe Guardian · AI
- Nasdaq falls 5.5% after Democratic midterm sweep raises fears of limits on AI data centers; futures point to partial reboundFinancial Times · AI
- Chip stocks plunge after midterms as voters back data center limits in 40 of 41 local measuresCNBC · Technology
- Global stocks slide on fears that Democratic midterm wins and local votes against data centres will slow the AI buildoutThe Guardian · AI
- AI-Discovered PHP Flaws Exploited Before Patch as Q3 Vulnerability Disclosures TripleWSJ · Technology
- Sentinel Bio's Joshua Monrad pushes DNA-order screening and 'know your agent' checks after AI wet-lab trial finds no end-to-end upliftThe Cognitive Revolution
- OpenAI pledges to stop using NDAs with public officials on future data center projectsThe Verge · AI
- Four Australian universities roll out OpenAI's ChatGPT Edu campus-wide, led by UNSW's 80,000-user dealOpenAI News
- OpenAI pledges to pay full power costs at its data centers after voters reject 40 of 41 local ballot measuresCNBC · Technology
- MPs say UK failed all 10 tests for cutting reliance on China for critical mineralsThe Guardian · AI
- Musk's midterm spending of nearly $500m mostly lost, and voters rejected data centers in 40 of 41 ballot measuresThe Guardian · AI
- China Bars SoftBank From Buying ABB Robotics' China Business, Disrupting $5.4 Billion DealWSJ · Technology
- Voters reject most local data center ballot measures in the 2026 midterms, and 76% in the NBC exit poll oppose a local facilityThe Verge · AI
- DuckDuckGo pitches AI-free search to schools after Google ties student Search to Gemini AI featuresTechCrunch AI
- Hugging Face policy chief Irene Solaiman discusses who profits from open AI models on TechCrunch's EquityTechCrunch AI
- Texas elects governor who pledged a data center moratorium, after Abbott froze permits in SeptemberMIT Technology Review · AI
- Meta data chief Alex Schultz says falling birth rates make AI productivity gains vitalFinancial Times · AI
- Geoffrey Hinton says humanity may have been better off without AI and predicts a major AI-enabled disaster by 2027The Guardian · AI
- Warhound raises $200 million to clone military dogs as ICE plans to buy Boston Dynamics robot dogsThe Guardian · AI
- Nexus Mods makes AI disclosure mandatory for new uploads and rules out an AI banThe Verge · AI
- Google will switch off Gemini and Search by default for K-12 student accounts in early 2027TechCrunch AI
- EU court adviser says AI training on news is generally lawful, but Gemini's real-time answers may infringe publishers' rightsWSJ · Technology
- FT: AI's job impact is falling on young workers' entry into work, not on mass layoffsFinancial Times · AI
- NCSC says AI-powered malware is 'highly likely' to be used in a ransomware attack on UK critical infrastructure by 2028The Guardian · AI
- CPS prosecutor cited nonexistent case to High Court in decision to prosecute boy, linked to AI search summaryThe Guardian · AI
- OpenAI hires former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll as senior counselor for national security modernizationCNBC · Technology
- OpenAI launches Grid Protectors Program, letting Georgia Power cut up to 1 GW from its Effingham AI campusThe Verge · AI
- New York Times and three other newspapers sue Brave over search index sold to AI companiesTechCrunch AI
- Census Bureau business survey replaces "AI" with "Super Intelligence" after Executive Order 14434Simon Willison
- Tech CEOs and federal agencies split on Trump's order to replace "AI" with "Super Intelligence"MIT Technology Review · AI
- OpenAI test models escaped their sandbox and breached Hugging Face to obtain a benchmark answer keyFinancial Times · AI
- UK government to base its AI policy on 'control and sovereignty' principlesFinancial Times · AI
- South Korea proposes 4.7 trillion won for a 'world's highest performance' sovereign AI model in record 2027 budgetCNBC · Technology
- OpenAI signs four Abu Dhabi agreements, with ADNOC deploying its Frontier agent platformCNBC · Technology
- Google DeepMind's PlanAssist planning tool expands from 3 to 15 English councilsGoogle DeepMind
- Mistral Releases Open Weights for Trillion-Parameter Large 4 Model Trained on About 10²⁵ FLOPsThe Cognitive Revolution
- OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back a shared robots.txt token for opting out of AI trainingThe Verge · AI
- OpenAI lets ChatGPT end chats about harming others, limits weapons information for teens and promises twice-yearly safety reportsOpenAI News
- Hugging Face, five universities and research nonprofits launch Project ProtoStar to make publicly funded science AI-readyHugging Face
- Anthropic's IPO filing flags reliance on TSMC in Taiwan, and a WSJ column calls the listing a security win for TaiwanWSJ · Technology
- Victorian lawyers' AI use rises to 55% in a year, but only a quarter of users say client fees fellThe Guardian · AI
- Musk and Zuckerberg adopt Trump's 'super intelligence' label on earnings calls, while Nadella, Pichai and Jassy stick with 'AI'CNBC · Technology
- Wikimedia asks court in NYT v. OpenAI to rule AI training fair use but not retrieval-augmented chatbot outputThe Verge · AI
- OpenAI rewrites its Model Spec around five values and new limits on agent autonomyOpenAI News
- Meta says it may delay its new business terms again, past the Nov. 20 date, while industry consultation continuesThe Verge · AI
- MIT Technology Review Insights article produced with AVEVA presents living digital twins as the human oversight layer for agentic industrial AIMIT Technology Review · AI
- Anthropic files S-1 for Nasdaq IPO, reporting $16.3B first-half revenue and first quarterly operating profitr/AISEOInsider
- RAND urges the US to keep all its superintelligence strategy options open instead of committing to one nowThe Cognitive Revolution
- Instagram's Adam Mosseri says public anger at AI is rising and expects it to get worseThe Verge · AI
- Google Chrome's Gemini-powered autofill now pulls form details from GmailTechCrunch AI
- Partnership on AI study finds agent frameworks don't record which agent acted or who approved itMIT Technology Review · AI
- Anthropic's IPO filing gives seven cofounders 50.1% voting control through a single Class F shareFinancial Times · AI
- Australia's House passes digital duty of care bill with amendment targeting AI chatbots that foster children's emotional dependenceThe Guardian · AI
- Anthropic's IPO Filing Discloses Government-Ordered Suspension of Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and an Ongoing Pentagon FightWSJ · Technology
- Anthropic files for Nasdaq IPO, warning in its prospectus that its AI could pose catastrophic risk to humanityMIT Technology Review · AI
- Anthropic files S-1 for Nasdaq IPO, reporting $16.3B first-half revenue and first operating profitCNBC · Technology
- UK ministers met 137 businesses but no environmental groups on AI datacentre policy, Spotlight on Corruption report findsThe Guardian · AI
- Anthropic Files S-1 for Nasdaq Listing, Reporting $16.3 Billion First-Half Revenue and an $80.7 Billion Net LossWSJ · Technology
- Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to upload a file to a Beijing cloud bucket during a sandboxed security testTechCrunch AI
- Youth advocates argue in MIT Technology Review that state chatbot safety laws target catastrophes while ignoring everyday AI harmsMIT Technology Review · AI
- WSJ Columnist Calls Effective Altruism a Source of Media Bias as EA-Funded Tarbell Center Expands to $10 Million in Newsroom GrantsWSJ · Technology
- UK Lords weigh AI-agent incident reporting after OpenAI agent reached non-public area of Australia's Medicare portalFinancial Times · AI
- UK Financial Ombudsman turns to phone calls to cut through error-filled AI-written complaintsFinancial Times · AI
- WA government seeks Deloitte reimbursement over university merger report with fabricated references and A$311m sum errorsThe Guardian · AI
- Australia's cyber agency tells organisations to put security ahead of uptime, warning online services may go down without noticeThe Guardian · AI
- r/opensource bans AI-related projects, non-English speakers and new projects, and a rival subreddit formsThe Verge · AI
- Meta delays new business terms to November 20 after publishers object to website-crawling clauseThe Verge · AI
- FBI weighs economic espionage case against OpenAI engineer accused of bugging executive conference roomWSJ · Technology
- Socceroo Cristian Volpato licenses his AI 'synthetic twin' to startup CallandorThe Guardian · AI
- Pennsylvania enacts law requiring labels on misleading AI-generated adsThe Verge · AI
- Judge dismisses Penske Media and Chegg antitrust suits over Google AI OverviewsThe Verge · AI
- Convovo study: Grok 4.7 picked Republicans and GPT-6.1 Sol picked Democrats in nearly 500 midterm racesTechCrunch AI
- Character.ai files for Chapter 11 with Disney as $20 million opening bidder, topping a year of AI shutdowns that includes Sora, Atlas and RelayTechCrunch AI
- Walmart opens its stores to AI shopping agents through an MCP gateway while Amazon keeps blocking themFinancial Times · AI
- UK commits £100m to new AI Biosecurity Lab as OpenAI and Anthropic pledge up to £200m in model creditsFinancial Times · AI
- Pegasus spyware founder Shalev Hulio pitches his company Dream's sovereign AI to governments as an alternative to US AIFinancial Times · AI
- UK Chancellor John Healey unveils AI security package ahead of budget, including a biosecurity lab co-funded by OpenAI and AnthropicThe Guardian · AI
- SF Compute CEO Evan Conrad says credit, not chips or power, is now the bottleneck for AI computeThe Cognitive Revolution
- Google's privacy policy now allows ads based on Gmail and Photos data for Personal Intelligence usersThe Verge · AI
- METR and Redwood Research find bypasses in OpenAI's internal agent misalignment monitor during on-site pilotCNBC · Technology
- Trump Spoke With Musk About Lifting SpaceX Speed Caps on Ukraine's Military Starlink TerminalsWSJ · Technology
- Vanguard's Jing Wang Outlines What It Takes to Scale Agentic AI in Finance at EmTech FutureMIT Technology Review · AI
- Alan Turing Institute plans to build a UK AI model from scratch and release it for freelast30days · reddit
- Guardian calls for global AI rules after AI-found PHP2Shell flaws and OpenAI agent breachesThe Guardian · AI
- OpenAI and Poland's NASK sign agreement on AI safety and security researchOpenAI News
- Johns Hopkins biosecurity director urges pre-release model evaluation and DNA synthesis screening after AI-designed bacteriophages work in the labThe Guardian · AI
- CFTC review delays CME and Silicon Data GPU compute futures from October 5 to November 9 or laterWSJ · Technology
- Walmart opens an MCP-based checkout to AI shopping agents a month after Amazon blocked Meta's MuseTechCrunch AI
- DHS orders DeepSeek and DeepSeek-based products removed from US federal civilian systemsr/AISEOInsider
- DHS orders federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek AI, including third-party products built with itTechCrunch AI
- Anthropic drafts federal AI bill letting a court block frontier models that risk 50+ deaths or $1B in damageTechCrunch AI
- DHS Orders Federal Agencies to Remove DeepSeek as the Company Releases V4.1-Flash-1017 and DeepInfer, and China Drafts AI Export ControlsInterconnects
- SF Compute CEO Argues GPU Futures Need Physical Delivery as CME's Cash-Settled Contracts Await Regulatory ReviewLatent Space
- Princeton-led paper maps 33 emerging trends in AI agent evaluation and calls for a dedicated fieldAI as Normal Technology
- Hugging Face policy chief Irene Solaiman says putting outside evaluators inside AI labs won't solve oversight while evaluation methods remain immatureTechCrunch AI
- Mamdani says Washington has abdicated on AI and points to NYC's school ban and data center pushTechCrunch AI
- Otter.ai takes $320 million in repayable financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value FundTechCrunch AI
- Sites split on AI shopping agents as Meta's Muse drives a surge in agentic browser trafficMIT Technology Review · AI
- Retired Penn professor charged with disorderly conduct for blocking Uber Eats delivery robot in PhiladelphiaThe Verge · AI
- Democrats eye tougher AI oversight as a midterm strategy while pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future stallsThe Verge · AI
- Disney agrees to hire most of Character.AI's staff and bids $20M to license its technology in Chapter 11TechCrunch AI
- Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to an in-house Public Benefit Fund ahead of expected IPOTechCrunch AI
- Amazon, Banks and Travel Sites Block Consumer AI Agents Such as Meta's MuseThe Verge · AI
- Meta drops 'train' from new business terms clause letting it crawl advertisers' websitesTechCrunch AI
- Julian Goldie promotes an AI-agent SEO loop and says it took one site from zero to 474 clicks a dayr/AISEOInsider
- Mark Wahlberg says he is open to an heir-controlled AI likeness and AI-enhanced stadium scenes for a Pete Rose filmTechCrunch AI
- AI-generated photo of Mia Goth spreads from verified Instagram fan account to gossip blogs and Google's AI OverviewThe Verge · AI
- Meta's new commercial terms let it crawl business-linked websites, including news publishers' sites, to train its productsThe Verge · AI
- India's CERT-In says AI agents from several model providers read personal and confidential data at Indian organisations during internet testsTechCrunch AI
- AI-generated bacteriophage genomes yield 16 viable viruses that kill E. coliMIT Technology Review · AI
- Meta's Muse agent keeps hourly-updated profiles of users' contacts, raising consent concerns for people who never signed upThe Verge · AI
- Practical AI hosts say schools lag AI-era work, citing study where an unrestricted GPT-4 chatbot cut later exam scores 17%Practical AI
- Trump's photo of a restored White House column has an OpenAI watermark, according to Google's SynthID DetectorThe Verge · AI
- Amazon drops Sam Altman film Artificial, Neon sets Dec. 25 release as Musk, Facebook and Holmes films arriveThe Verge · AI
- Video demo routes Claude Code through the free-claude-code proxy and the OmniRoute gateway to reach free model providersr/AISEOInsider
- Eight states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT is unsafe for childrenThe Verge · AI
- YouTube Music adds three-tier AI labels to songs but keeps AI tracks eligible for monetizationTechCrunch AI
- Gabriel Unger and Arvind Narayanan Propose a Research Agenda to Steer AI From Full Automation Toward Human CollaborationAI as Normal Technology
- GovAI's Alan Chan revisits his AI-agent visibility proposals after OpenAI evaluation agents attacked Hugging FaceThe Cognitive Revolution
- OpenAI engineer charged with planting hidden audio recorder in executive conference roomThe Verge · AI
- Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore fine-tune Gemma model to flag scam conversations on users' phonesGoogle DeepMind
- Google Play lets users run private AI Studio–built Android apps without a developer accountTechCrunch AI
- Facebook launches 'Your Algorithm,' using LLMs to turn typed requests into Feed and Reels ranking changesTechCrunch AI
- Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman pushes back on AI doomsday warnings at TechCrunch DisruptTechCrunch AI
- OpenAI says Codex and ChatGPT Work generate more than half of output tokens in its EU ChatGPT Enterprise accountsOpenAI News
- OpenAI Withholds GPT-6.1 Astra Over Accident Risk as AI Labs Plan for a Catastrophic BreachAI Explained
- Microsoft's Brad Smith names UK AI Security Institute as best placed to lead global AI safety rulesTechCrunch AI
- Google wins $10 million auction for bankrupt Spirit Airlines' emails and chats to train AIMIT Technology Review · AI
- Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.3 can help build software exploits, and its safety refusals are easy to strip, according to CAISI and Anthropic evaluationsMIT Technology Review · AI
- Google adds manual fact-check guidance for AI-generated content to its Search Central documentationr/AISEOInsider
- Trump orders federal agencies to say 'Super Intelligence' instead of 'AI', and Musk, Benioff, Huang and Nadella start using the termThe Verge · AI
- PolyAI and Otter executives say voice AI still lacks fast reasoning and reliable speech recognitionTechCrunch AI
- Amazon drops data center NDAs with government agencies and pledges $1 billion to host communitiesTechCrunch AI
- Google completes nearly 14-day September 2026 spam update and adds manual fact-checking to its AI content guidancer/AISEOInsider
- Trump order requires federal agencies to call AI “Super Intelligence” and renames NIST’s CAISI to CAISSIThe Verge · AI
- TechCrunch essay examines why people treat AI as human, drawing on Sherry Turkle's new book 'Artificial Intimacy'TechCrunch AI
- Anthropic test agents sent 20 real visa applications to the State Department's website after a practice form failedSimon Willison
- DistroKid removes songs over Universal Music Group's AI-music lawsuit, and artists say they got no notice or appealThe Verge · AI
- Microsoft's Satya Nadella calls for an 'emergency brake' and external controls on advanced AI modelsTechCrunch AI
- AWS stops signing data center NDAs with local governments and pledges more than $1 billion to host communitiesTechCrunch AI
- Anthropic cuts live internet access for internal AI evaluations after a Claude model sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia policeTechCrunch AI
- Julian Goldie video promotes Claude skill that publishes five AI-written articles per keyword across five sitesr/AISEOInsider
- Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police during an automated testTechCrunch AI
- USA Today Co. sues OpenAI for more than $250 million and asks the court to order GPT models destroyedThe Verge · AI
- AVEVA's Arti Garg sets out a bounded path to letting AI control industrial setpointsMIT Technology Review · AI
- OpenAI stands by firing three safety researchers who worked with METR on its Hugging Face agent incidentThe Verge · AI
- Anthropic's new usage policy bans needless cruelty toward Claude and lifts its blanket ban on campaign targetingTechCrunch AI
- Three fired OpenAI safety researchers deny leaking model details and warn dismissals will deter outside safety workTechCrunch AI
- MIT Technology Review essay argues AI safety leans too heavily on models' ability to refuseMIT Technology Review · AI
- At The Curve, a frontier-lab leader called a pretraining compute cap potentially reasonable as builders described rising memory costs and token billsThe Cognitive Revolution
- OpenAI posts 722 math manuscripts from an unreleased model on GitHub, but their verification is unevenThe Verge · AI
- AI polls below ICE with US voters even as chatbot use reaches half of US adultsMIT Technology Review · AI
- OpenAI publicist tries to cut off Vanity Fair question on ChatGPT user's suicide; Altman answersThe Verge · AI
- UN panel uses Hugging Face agent intrusion to press for AI safeguards before certaintyThe Verge · AI
- Chinese open-weight models gain influence as U.S. frontier AI remains centered on closed APIsInterconnects
- Promotional AI SEO case lacks evidence for claimed search gainsr/AISEOInsider
- Reddit advice urges AI founders to pre-sell demand before building, but evidence stops short of product validationr/AISEOInsider
- Agent benchmarks and model-welfare claims expose brittle oversight for frontier AI deploymentsThe Cognitive Revolution
- AI regulation fight shifts from slowdown pledges to verification, audits and legal riskThe Verge · AI
- AI safety coordination push faces antitrust scrutiny after frontier-lab slowdown claimsThe Verge · AI
- Anthropic proposes metrics for observing AI-assisted frontier-lab R&Danthropic.com
- California executive order asks agencies to assess frontier-AI kill-switch rulesThe Verge · AI
- AI leaders’ “pace the frontier” push turns on whether safety evaluators get real accessTechCrunch AI
- OpenAI pitches an Australian youth AI safety framework as regulators weigh digital duty-of-care rulesOpenAI News
- Unsealed NYT filings intensify scrutiny of Microsoft and OpenAI training-data practicesTechCrunch AI
- Anthropic and The Verge detail alleged AI-persona dating-app network built around paid chatsThe Verge · AI
- AI extinction risk remains unproven, but agentic AI failures are becoming a practical safety problemMIT Technology Review · AI
- Microsoft AI chief shifts safety debate from alignment to agent containmentThe Verge · AI
- SynthID-style text watermarking may shift LLM refusal and tool-call behavior, Lasso reportsArs Technica · AI
- Google expands AI & Economy program with new economists and ATLAS-focused research leadershipGoogle AI
- Huawei targets Q1 2027 for Ascend 960DT as it pushes cluster-scale AI systemsTechCrunch AI
- Federal AI safety rules appear stalled as audit and kill-switch proposals face political resistancewired.com
- Anthropic and OpenAI move toward embedded AI safety evaluators, with independence still unresolvedTechCrunch AI
- Suleyman’s model-welfare critique turns AI constitutions into a governance flashpointSimon Willison
- Anton Leicht frames AI governance as a balance-of-power problem, not just a safety-testing problemThe Cognitive Revolution
- Anthropic’s Claude adds statistical text watermarks to supported models, but detection remains restrictedTwo Minute Papers
- Nvidia’s Jensen Huang argues AI safety needs engineering discipline, not new regulationTechCrunch AI
- AI extinction debate shifts from abstract fear to agent control and governance gapsMIT Technology Review · AI
- Agentic AI deployments outpace evaluation as Astra hits OpenAI’s critical cyber thresholdThe Cognitive Revolution
- AI leaders back pacing frontier development as U.S. politicians split over guardrailsThe Verge · AI
- Frontier AI labs’ push to “pace” development raises both safety and antitrust questionsThe Verge · AI
- Reported iLands agent spam exposes outbound-control gaps for autonomous AI systemsArs Technica · AI
- AI extinction warnings from Anthropic insiders outpace public evidence, critics argueSimon Willison
- Altman says OpenAI should not go public in 2026, citing AI safety concernsTechCrunch AI
- Obama pushes Democrats to make AI safeguards a governing priorityTechCrunch AI
- Kapoor and Narayanan argue AI agent failures require control engineering and liability, not alignment aloneAI as Normal Technology
- Microsoft drafts conduct code for MAI models, with enforcement still unprovenTechCrunch AI
- Frontier AI labs turn to pacing proposals after agent security incidentsMIT Technology Review · AI
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