Utah launched a one-year pilot program on Monday allowing Nolla Health's Nolla Derm app to issue initial acne prescriptions without a doctor for patients with mild-to-moderate acne, with severe or com…
Yoshua Bengio leads a monthly citation ranking of AI researchers with 1,149,112 citations as of September 1, a gain of 15,295 (+1.3%), according to the list compiled from Google Scholar. Geoffrey Hint…
Two GovAI research fellows, Alan Chan and Sam Manning, warned at a Washington briefing on Sept. 29 that AI labs run their most powerful models with safeguards switched off and that published safety ev…
A group led by Geoffrey Hinton, Stuart Russell and Arvind Narayanan published a public letter setting five minimum standards for credible embedded evaluators at frontier AI companies, including indepe…
OpenAI published its "Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments" on September 22, 2026, a framework setting four priority areas and seven operating principles for how the company…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from the company, citing the industry's disregard for the risk that artificial intelligence could annihilate humanity, and days later Anthropic CEO Dario Amod…
A tort law and products liability argument is gaining traction in the debate over rogue AI, with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang citing product liability as the existing legal mechanism for addressing AI risk…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said his meeting with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng was "successful" and that the two sides discussed a "Dialogue" on AI development, with Washington proposing a mech…
David Sacks, the billionaire venture capitalist and onetime AI and crypto czar, dismissed a public letter signed by more than 100 AI researchers, professors and technologists — including Geoffrey Hint…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on the AI industry to "slow down" and let safety measures "catch up" as of September 2026, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreeing the field needed to "pace the frontier"…
President Donald Trump announced Saturday on Truth Social that he is forming a federal "AI Force" modeled on the Space Force and will soon name an AI czar, saying "We will not in any way hinder or sti…
A viral analysis published by researcher Kevin Bass on September 14-15, 2026, drawing nearly 5 million views, called for a Congressional investigation into structural conflicts of interest between AI …
The House left Washington this week without acting on broader AI regulation, even as Speaker Mike Johnson told NBC News' Kristen Welker that AI regulation is "a very important issue" but "not one that…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Sept. 18 directing an expert-led panel to reinforce the state's AI safety laws and explore an "emergency shut off" for frontier models, descri…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday to accelerate independent oversight of AI companies and advance creation of an "AI kill switch," directing a group of experts to draft …
Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio told AFP on September 15 that humanity is "losing control" of AI and called for nuclear-arms-control-style institutions, treaties, and democratic safeguards, citing a…
The AI Evaluator Forum released a letter on Friday outlining "minimum conditions" for labs including OpenAI and Anthropic to work with embedded third-party AI-risk evaluators, signed by dozens of peop…
Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "Godfather of AI," told U.S. lawmakers behind closed doors that Congress has "maybe a year, but not much more than a year" to regulate artificial intelligence before it b…
Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate known as the "Godfather of AI," told lawmakers in a private Capitol Hill briefing this week that Congress has "maybe a year, but not much more than a year" to imple…
Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the "Godfather of AI," said Wednesday that US lawmakers have "maybe a year, but not much more than a year" to regulate advanced AI …