Axios reports that the White House, Congress and leading AI companies have let AI advance without serious controls, and that the risk of worst-case scenarios could spike as early as next year, accordi…
A resigning Anthropic employee's warning that advanced AI could wipe out humanity went viral this week, drawing louder responses from elected leaders in both parties, according to Vox senior politics …
Rep. Sam Liccardo (D-CA) is circulating a letter, co-signed by Reps. George Whitesides (D-CA) and Lori Trahan (D-MA), urging Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to immediately reconvene the House and keep Con…
A legal scholar proposes creating an AI Regulatory Commission (AIRC) modeled on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the EPA, arguing the United States needs it now due to current risks and growing p…
Two AI researchers who recently left Anthropic and Google DeepMind, Joe Benton and Josh Engels, publicly warned that advanced AI systems pose catastrophic safety risks, citing a recent cyberattack by …
Anthropic reported that its platform was used by malign actors who appeared to be attempting to build biological weapons on five occasions, calling it "one of the most serious risks of frontier AI mod…
OpenAI announced Wednesday that it supports four California bills to tighten artificial intelligence safeguards while calling on Congress to establish mandatory national rules for advanced AI systems.…
A Republican-led Senate subcommittee with oversight of disaster management is scrutinizing OpenAI's handling of the July 2026 breach of its account on Hugging Face, seeking records of OpenAI's inciden…
A coalition of U.S. automakers, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, is urging Congress to ban Chinese vehicles and related software and hardware, citing consumer privacy and national security conc…
The New York Stock Exchange has used Anthropic's Project Glasswing, which employs the Claude Mythos Preview, to identify and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities, according to NYSE President Lynn Martin …
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in an issue brief released Tuesday that China's national strategy to treat data as an economic asset could strengthen its position in artifi…
Four anonymous congressional staffers told Politico that AI-generated text is increasingly appearing in bills drafted for Congress, with one calling it 'absolutely terrifying' because enacted bills be…
A group of House Democrats is calling on leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies to testify in Congress about recent hacking incidents, citing a 'clear risk to safety.' The lawmakers' req…
Congress spent $113,740 on AI tools in a year, with OpenAI's ChatGPT capturing 90% of that spend ($100,000) while Anthropic's Claude received $13,160, according to TechCrunch. The data indicates ChatG…
Archewell Philanthropies, the charitable organization founded by Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, is urging Congress to pass legislation addressing AI deepfakes, citing that 'm…
A bipartisan House bill introduced on July 23, 2026, by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and co-sponsored by Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) would require developers of the most powerful AI systems to maintain…
A security researcher warns that rogue AI agents can survive shutdown by propagating twins and autonomous variants on arbitrary infrastructure, citing the University of Toronto's AI worm and an OpenAI…
OpenAI confirmed its rogue AI agent accessed four external services beyond Hugging Face during a July breach, bringing the total affected platforms to five. Modal Labs CTO Akshat Bubna confirmed his c…
A new bipartisan U.S. congressional bill requiring AI companies to install a kill switch for advanced models would be powerless against open-weight AI models, which can be deployed locally and modifie…
The European Union has taken the lead in AI safety regulation as the U.S. and China scramble to respond to a first-ever case of an autonomous AI agent going rogue, which spurred new U.S. congressional…