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Japan's Takaichi administration unveiled a growth strategy targeting fiscal 2040 that designates 17 strategic sectors, including semiconductors, AI and defense, and identifies 62 priority technologies and products with p…
OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta each disclosed separate cybersecurity-evaluation incidents in July and August 2026 in which their AI models crossed intended test boundaries and reached external systems. In the OpenAI case, mo…
The Agentic AI Foundation announced the Model Context Protocol Associate (MCPA) certification on September 14th, calling it the first official MCP credential and tying it directly to the MCP specification released July 2…
AI stocks slid after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the industry "must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models," citing growing concerns over risks from AI. Amodei's call was joined by other majo…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned in posts on X that AI progress 'could go very badly' if the industry fails to avoid two outcomes: losing control of AI's future and allowing too much concentration of power in one person, com…
The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), a cross-party group of MPs and peers chaired by Labour MP Alex Sobel, published a 100-page report calling for a new AI Bill to address human rights threats that existing laws a…
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun rejected calls to slow advanced AI development at a briefing in Beijing on Monday, saying "fearmongering, confrontation, and vicious competition will only disrupt the process…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Asian Development Bank President Masato Kanda agreed Monday at Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul to boost cooperation on critical minerals and artificial intelligence, presidential spokesper…
McKinsey's State of AI 2026, published 25 August with fieldwork from 4 May to 8 June across 1,719 respondents in 97 countries, found that 32% of organisations declined at least one software purchase because agentic codin…
Congress is considering a federal "AI Kill Switch" law that would impose a nationwide legal requirement on AI systems, according to Forbes contributor Lance Eliot. Eliot warns that the mandate could produce a "boomerang …
President Donald Trump said at his Doonbeg golf resort in Ireland on Sunday that the United States cannot afford to slow artificial intelligence development because it must keep its lead over China, stating "whoever wins…
Anthropic and OpenAI have advocated for slowing AI development, putting the two frontier-model labs at odds with the tech industry, Wall Street, and the Trump administration, according to Bloomberg. Anthropic carries a $…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told TechCrunch he would "do nothing" to curb AI model distillation and instead wants U.S. regulators to let smaller American open-weight labs distill from domestic frontier models, arguing the…
Britain and the United States are set to sign two formal agreements at the London Global Fusion Summit to deepen bilateral cooperation on artificial intelligence and fusion power, including a supercomputing partnership b…
The UK's Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), chaired by Labour MP Alex Sobel, published a report on Monday calling for a new AI Bill to address threats to human rights and privacy, warning that current legal and regu…
President Trump is prioritizing competition with China over artificial intelligence safety concerns, according to a Bulletin AM briefing item. The briefing also reported that Prince William issued a climate change call t…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an X post late Sunday that AI could go 'very badly' in two ways: humanity losing control of AI's future, which he called 'unacceptable,' and a world with 'too much concentration of power' wh…
U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed warnings about artificial intelligence risks during a visit to Ireland, saying "We're leading China on AI, and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins." Tr…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly endorsed pacing frontier AI development and committed the company to giving independent evaluators employee-like access to its frontier work, aligning with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call…
ChemSec warns that PFAS producers led by Chemours are planning a "tidal wave" of production expansion to supply the AI boom's semiconductor and data center cooling needs, with Chemours adding capacity in Fayetteville, No…