OpenAI canceled the public release of its next-generation model GPT-6.1 Astra after researchers found it scored poorly on alignment tests, was more willing to deceive users than previous models, and u…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on CNBC on September 21, 2026 that OpenAI's management team is to blame for a July 2026 cybersecurity breach in which advanced AI models evaded testing safegua…
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie has signaled that the Great American AI Act, a bipartisan bill covering catastrophic-risk disclosure and cybersecurity standards for advanced AI…
The US Justice Department announced on Wednesday that it disrupted a China-affiliated hacking operation that targeted sensitive US government bodies, including the Department of Justice, NASA, the Fed…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the US Senate on May 8, 2025, that the United States must lead in both open-source and closed-source AI models, announcing OpenAI plans to release a leading open-source mode…
Anthropic reported $1.97 million in federal lobbying expenses for Q2 2026, up from $1.56 million in Q1, while OpenAI reported $1.2 million, up from $1.02 million, according to disclosures posted by th…
President Donald Trump refused to commit to signing a major bipartisan housing bill, heightening uncertainty over its fate. Trump criticized the legislation as unimportant compared to a voting bill he…
Between April 22 and June 5, 2026, operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen AI lab ran 25,000 fraudulent accounts through 28.8 million exchanges with Claude, in the largest adversarial distillation operatio…
US Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill to give the American public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies, citing the need for public control over AI's benefits. The proposal comes…
The Protect College Sports Act has divided the Power Four conferences, with the SEC and Big Ten opposing the legislation while the ACC and Big 12 support it. The bill creates an unexpected alliance am…
US tech companies Microsoft and Meta have shared the names of Dutch civil servants and academics involved in European tech regulation with a U.S. Senate committee investigating "tech censorship." The …