AI Policy

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…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday directing state agencies to report by Nov. 16 on whether a mandatory "kill switch" for the most advanced AI models is feasible, saying "The federal governm…

Four consumers — Charles Buist, Nick Spetsas, Christine Bullock, and Cheyenne Hunt — filed a proposed class-action antitrust lawsuit, Buist v. Anthropic PBC, accusing Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Google of violating Secti…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for independent outside watchdogs to safeguard developing AI technologies, pointing to the AI safety testing laboratory METR, whose founder and CEO Beth Barnes and founding researche…

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned on September 8, 2025, warning that AI labs are "gambling with our lives," part of a 10-day stretch in which Anthropic researcher Joe Benton also quit and another Anthropic resear…

CISA added CVE-2026-59822, an authentication bypass in LiteLLM's Model Context Protocol handler, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 2, 2026, making it the first MCP-related flaw in the KEV. The v…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and other Silicon Valley China hawks fear China surpassing the US's AI lead as much as superintelligence destroying humanity, according to a Guardian report. President Donald Trump declined thi…

President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson have signaled a preference for private-sector responsibility over federal AI regulation, with Johnson stating Congress will not lead the charge on regulating AI safet…

Anthropic announced it thwarted several suspected attempts by state actors to use its Claude chatbot for bioweapons research, following a lead Anthropic researcher's declaration of a greater than 10 percent chance that A…

Base Labs launched an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire, according to a TechCrunch report dated September 17, 2026. The partnership was surfaced on Hacker News AI, where the item drew 1 poi…

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said Friday on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that "controlling these things are going to be a really, really big challenge for us," arguing AI must remain aligned with human intentions. Suleyman's…

Huawei introduced more than ten new chipsets for AI computing infrastructure, including next-generation AI accelerators, CPUs, and high-speed connectivity chips, in a direct bid to challenge Nvidia's dominance, according…

OpenAI has ruled out a 2026 initial public offering, CEO Sam Altman told Fortune on September 12, tying the deferral to the company's AI safety obligations and its non-profit/for-profit hybrid structure. The decision is …