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President Donald Trump on Monday publicly rejected AI safety guardrails, calling existential fears about artificial intelligence "a hoax" in social media posts and telling Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by phone that "the robot…
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun rejected calls by leading U.S. technology executives to slow artificial intelligence development and tighten curbs on Chinese model makers, saying "Fearmongering, confrontati…
Microsoft published a 38-page draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct on Monday and opened a public consultation to refine the guidelines, which it expects to apply to Microsoft AI (MAI) model development next year. The docume…
Chinese policymakers have been preparing for the risk that advanced AI models could escape human control, a concern echoed by researchers at U.S. AI developer Anthropic who warned the technology could even lead to human …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees in an internal memo posted late Monday that AI must remain under human control and endorsed broader third-party testing, writing that "as the stakes get higher, one should take …
President Donald Trump dismissed calls from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and xAI leaders to slow frontier AI development as a "sick conspiracy," while China's Foreign Ministry rejected the same appeals as "fear-mo…
A website owner implemented x402 payments that charge AI agents one cent in testnet USDC per page, with five payments settling on 15 September, including one made through a Claude Code hook. The experiment contrasts with…
A blog post from Certiv argues that organizations are focused only on "Shadow AI" — unsanctioned models — while missing two deeper layers of risk: "Shadow Agents," models holding uninventoried capabilities, and "Shadow E…
JFrog Security Research identified 3,022 RubyGems packages covering 3,315 distinct name/version pairs tied to the GemStuffer campaign, which a RubyHack investigation published September 11 linked to OpenAI agents. The ma…
A September 16, 2026 census of vendor policy pages found that consumer tiers of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot all permit human review of chats for model improvement by default, while business, enterprise and API ti…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on September 12, 2026 titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," arguing that frontier AI labs must slow the rate at which they improve model capabilities, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altma…
An OpenAI researcher with over fifteen years of AI experience, including nearly five years at OpenAI, warns that increasingly situationally aware language models are eroding the ability to evaluate them in contexts where…
Elon Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI moved on September 14, 2026 to dismiss with prejudice their antitrust claims against Apple Inc. over its ChatGPT-Siri integration, while explicitly keeping their claims against OpenAI Foun…
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Congress has a role in regulating AI and that "guardrails there make sense to me" for frontier models, putting him at odds with President Trump, who posted on Truth Social …
Ron Conway's SV Angel launched Project Blueprint on Monday, an AI policy initiative led by former Obama press secretary Jay Carney to rebuild ties between AI executives and Democratic lawmakers ahead of the November midt…
Anthropic published its September 2026 threat intelligence report on September 10, covering AI misuse it disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026, which a third-party condensation reduced to 117 findings across ei…
China's state security minister Chen Yixin publicly warned that hostile forces are abusing generative AI technologies such as deepfake audio and video, AI-generated text and images, and "intelligent troll armies" to cond…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in AI development over the weekend, and an unlikely alliance of Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon has emerged to advocate for the same, according to CNN chief political corr…
An audit of Anthropic's finances alleges the AI safety nonprofit ecosystem around the company operates as a self-amplifying regulatory capture machine funded through Moskovitz's $7 billion in Anthropic stock, and the aud…
China's Cyberspace Administration of China released the AI Safety Governance Framework 3.0 on 24 September 2026, prepared by the National Technical Committee 260 on Cybersecurity (TC260), adding detail on AI agents, embo…