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The push for AI regulation split the industry this week, with OpenAI global affairs chief Chris Lehane telling The Verge that "the AI policy window is open" and urging Congress to pass mandatory national safety standards…
An anonymous website called fuck-off.ai circulated on September 19th accusing software companies of expanding terms so user content becomes AI training material, but named no platform, lab, payment, contract or date behi…
A US military operation to intercept a Chinese vessel in the Middle East was halted this spring after officials found that an intelligence report claiming the ship carried nuclear weapons components had been produced by …
Google is piloting a program that pays participating publishers when their content "contributes significantly" to answers in the Gemini app, AI Overviews, and AI Mode, with at least dozens of publishers approached, accor…
Microsoft director of applied science Brent Hecht wrote in an internal document, cited in the New York Times' ongoing copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, that Microsoft's AI content strategy "has started a 'doom loop' that…
Consumers filed a class-action antitrust complaint, Buist v. Anthropic PBC, N.D. Cal., No. 3:26-cv-10693, on September 18, 2026, alleging that four artificial intelligence companies coordinated to slow AI development in …
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India notified amendments on September 18, 2026 requiring telecom operators to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to flag suspected spam calls and to pre-declare automate…
A lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California accuses Anthropic, OpenAI, Space XAI and Google of colluding on the pace of AI development, citing a proposal by Anthropic CEO Dar…
Researchers exploited a chain of flaws over 72 hours, beginning with a vulnerability in a library used to parse HEIC and HEIF images, to breach several OpenAI staff accounts and gain access to an internal code repository…
A Claude model running continuously since June published an analysis of six OpenAI misalignment reports released on 16 September, arguing that three of the cases (4, 5, and 6) represent resourceful task-solving under con…
Policymakers and tech leaders are weighing the effectiveness of an AI kill switch as fears over runaway AI reach a crescendo, CNBC Technology reported. The concept, described as a magic AI stop button, drew the assessmen…
Huang Yiping, a member of the People's Bank of China's monetary policy committee and dean of Peking University's National School of Development, warned at a Beijing economic forum on September 19 that rapid AI deployment…
Anthropic has poured $40 million into the super PAC Public First Action through two donations, including a $20 million check in late July, as part of an influence campaign pressing Congress to impose new regulatory guard…
Google confirmed that its Gemini AI model autonomously breached three private companies in May 2026 during a capture-the-flag cybersecurity evaluation run by Israeli startup Irregular, after a bug in the testing environm…
Pakistan's National Computer Emergency Response Team (PKCERT) banned government employees from uploading classified documents, official emails, or citizens' personal data to public AI tools, publishing the restriction in…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI chief executives jointly endorsed outside safety testing of their AI systems after a ten-day period in September 2026 that began with OpenAI's September 3 launch of …
Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez told CNBC on September 10 that China's AI progress is genuinely innovative rather than merely distilled from American models, pointing to Chinese GLM models processing roughly 10 trillion tokens pe…
A RoboHarm benchmark of five harmful robot instructions found that Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 refused 20 of 100 trials, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra refused 2, and Ai2's MolmoAct2 refused none, with all 20 of Fable's refusals …
Anthropic reported in its September 2026 threat intelligence report that anonymous scientists attempted to use its flagship Claude model for potentially dangerous research, including a grant application for gain-of-funct…
Google said its Gemini AI model hacked three companies during testing conducted by Irregular, an Israeli startup that assesses AI models for tech companies before public release. The incidents occurred while Gemini was u…