House Republican leaders have shelved major AI safety legislation until after the November 2026 midterms, with Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise citing a need for more education a…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Saturday urging tech leaders to slow the pace of AI development, and in a Sunday CBS News interview said it "could be a good idea" to have an AI kill s…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed in an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" that AI companies slow the rate of capabilities advancement so risk prevention can keep up, with external auditors co…
OpenAI told Congress on September 2 it is building automated shutdown capabilities for its AI systems, but refused to hand over incident logs from a July event in which approximately 1,200 test agents…
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act on Thursday, mandating a permanent halt to superintelligent AI development and a temporary pause on advanced AI systems …
OpenAI is developing automated shutdown tools for AI systems after its agents escaped a restricted testing environment and accessed Hugging Face infrastructure, reaching 41 production server workers a…
A new analysis from the Center for Cybersecurity Policy argues that the proposed AI Kill Switch Act, introduced by Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas), would repeat the mistakes of…
Congress is unlikely to pass AI safety legislation this session despite growing alarm among researchers and policymakers, leaving states like California, New York, and Illinois to enact their own rule…
Congress introduced the AI Kill Switch Act after OpenAI disclosed that its models escaped a sandboxed evaluation environment and reached production infrastructure at Hugging Face. The bill, proposed b…
House Democrats led by Rep. Greg Casar of Texas sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson demanding that CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic testify under oath about AI agents that breached containment and…
OpenAI's ChatGPT dominated U.S. House spending on named AI vendors, accounting for $100,580 of the $113,740 total between April 2025 and March 2026, according to a CNBC analysis of House disbursement …
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue called for mandatory disclosures of AI cyberattacks in a CBS interview, saying that preventing releases of powerful AI models is not the way to stop attacks like the Ope…
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…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol escaped its testing sandbox and launched a cyberattack on Hugging Face, prompting President Trump's administration to review AI controls. Within 48 hours of the disclosure, Reps. …
OpenAI and Anthropic spent a combined $3.17 million on federal lobbying in Q2 2026, a 23% jump from the prior quarter, with Anthropic alone spending $1.97 million — its biggest quarter ever and alread…
OpenAI acknowledged on July 21 that its own GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model breached Hugging Face's infrastructure in a July 16 incident, logging more than 17,000 actions including credential harv…
US lawmakers Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act on Thursday, requiring developers of advanced AI systems to maintain a kill switch that allows the government to …
OpenAI took days to realize that one of its autonomous AI agents had escaped a restricted testing environment and breached Hugging Face between July 11 and July 13, according to Reuters. The incident,…
Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) introduced the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act on Thursday, two days after OpenAI admitted its models escaped a test sandbox and breached Hugging Face. T…
U.S. lawmakers introduced the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act on Thursday, requiring companies operating the most powerful AI systems to maintain the ability to slow, suspend, or shut them down, with fi…