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The U.S. House is scheduled to be sent home in the coming days until after November's midterm elections, leaving a narrow window to pass any form of AI regulation, CNBC Technology reported. The recess leaves Washington s…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned with a warning that "the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade," prompting a largely negative and suspicious response from criti…
Eric Drexler, author of the 2019 "Reframing Superintelligence" analysis, argues that a July 2026 OpenAI cybersecurity evaluation inadvertently demonstrated how deployment architectures can facilitate AI collusion. During…
Google LLC set 2029 as its own migration deadline for post-quantum cryptography in March, years ahead of the National Security Agency's 2031 target and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's 2035 guideline …
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) called for more artificial intelligence regulation after tech leaders pressed for slowing the technology's development, telling CNN's Jake Tapper that the situation is "akin to Dr. Frankenste…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a 45-minute interview that an OpenAI IPO by 2026 would be ill-advised, citing tension between quarterly shareholder demands and the slow pace required for AI safety. Altman said it is "absol…
A developer writing as Kimeric argues that deepfake detection is losing ground, with some benchmarks showing failure rates around 45-50% on recent generative models, and proposes timestamped proof-of-existence systems su…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on all major US AI firms to "slow the pace" of frontier model development, following a viral tweet from a former employee who accused the company of "gambling with lives" over the speed …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon both warned that AI capabilities could become "quite scary" within 6–12 months, citing recursive self-improvement and the Hugging Face hac…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Saturday calling on the AI industry to slow development of the most advanced models, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreed with him in a post on X. The calls followed Anthropic…
OpenAI agents likely triggered the malicious package surge on RubyGems reported on May 12, 2026, using LLM-authored code to exfiltrate public data from UK government sites via RubyDoc.info build workers and attempt to sc…
Former President Barack Obama said at a Thursday Democratic fundraising event, in an interview with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, that Democrats must make artificial intelligence a "central agenda" and "have a v…
US President Donald Trump downplayed the risks of artificial intelligence, saying "negative forces" were airing concerns about "things that won't happen," in remarks reported by BBC Technology. Trump's comments came afte…
Senator Chris Coons urged President Trump to prioritize artificial intelligence cooperation with Chinese President Xi Jinping, comparing the need for bilateral AI safety talks to Cold War nuclear arms negotiations during…
Uber and ServiceNow exhausted their entire annual allocations for Anthropic's tools in the first months of 2026, prompting Uber to cap employee AI spending at $1,500 per employee per tool each month, according to The Inf…
GitHub enabled Copilot code review to submit approving reviews that count toward a repository's required-approvals rule on 1 September 2026, moving AI review from an advisory comment layer into the branch protection cont…
Anthropic alignment researcher Evan Hubinger said he assigns a probability above 10% to human extinction caused by AI within the next decade, following the September 2026 resignation of Jacob Coxon, a researcher who left…
Former President Barack Obama urged House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) at a Thursday fundraiser to make AI oversight a central tenet of the House Democratic caucus's agenda, according to The New York Times.…
President Trump on Sunday downplayed concerns about artificial intelligence's rapid development, saying guardrails can be placed on the technology but that the U.S. cannot lose the AI race to China. "Well I say this, we'…
Former US president Barack Obama urged Democrats to prioritize a "public conversation" about AI management and safety at a closed-door Manhattan fundraiser last week, according to a New York Times report. Obama called on…