OpenAI's chief futurist Joshua Achiam announced he is leaving the company after nearly nine years, citing a desire to work on the mission from outside the lab. Achiam, who led the mission alignment te…
The US government ordered OpenAI to restrict the release of its new GPT-5.6 model, allowing access only to government-approved partners. The directive, issued by the Office of the National Cyber Direc…
A new Politico report reveals that major AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are urging the Trump administration to provide clearer guidelines on what is unacceptable in AI development, even…
AI executives who funded Donald Trump's deregulation campaign are now pleading for formal regulation after the administration imposed chaotic export controls on Anthropic and forced a government-manag…
OpenAI is limiting the release of its GPT-5.6 models to a small group of trusted partners at the request of the U.S. government, but says such restrictions should not become the norm. The company warn…
The U.S. government is tightening control over AI model releases, with OpenAI's GPT 5.6 facing limited preview approval similar to Anthropic's banned models. This regulatory uncertainty threatens the …
Anthropic faced backlash after pulling its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12, following a US export control directive citing national security concerns. The company disabled access for …
Alex Bores lost narrowly in NY-12 and will not head to Congress. GLM-5.2 is the new best open model but expensive. Dean Ball joins OpenAI for policy work. A new GPT-5.5-Instant version was released wi…
OpenAI policy lead Dean Ball warned that classifying frontier AI testing procedures could concentrate dangerous power in intelligence agencies, creating an unaccountable government monopoly. Ball, a f…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models globally on June 12, 2026, citing a narrow potential jailbreak, marking the first time export control autho…
OpenAI hired Dean Ball, a former White House AI adviser who helped write the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, to lead a new policy team called Strategic Futures, and also recruited Noam Shazeer,…
Sen. Marsha Blackburn is negotiating with the White House on a bill package that would trade child safety and deepfake protections for preemption over state AI laws. The Fable incident has spurred Con…
OpenAI hired Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the seminal 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and former Google DeepMind executive, and Dean Ball, a former Trump White House AI policy official, ahead of its…
OpenAI hired former White House AI adviser Dean Ball to lead a new Strategic Futures unit starting July 6, 2026, reporting to Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon. Ball, a primary author of the White Hou…
Dean Ball will join OpenAI on July 6 as Head of Strategic Futures, a new team focused on frontier AI policy including catastrophic risk, recursive self-improvement, labor market impact, and government…
The U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to take its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline on June 9, citing a claimed jailbreak that allows foreign nationals to exploit code vulnerabili…
Anthropic reversed its plan to silently degrade Claude Fable 5's performance for users training competing AI models, admitting the company "made the wrong tradeoff" after backlash from the research co…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday requiring safety testing for frontier AI models before their public release, reversing his earlier decision to cancel the measure over conce…
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research examines how the United States managed to bend the health care cost curve. The analysis explores factors behind recent moderation in h…
AI safety research receives systematically less funding than societal risk levels demand, according to a new analysis of incentive structures in the artificial intelligence industry. The gap between w…