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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 …
Google disclosed that its Gemini AI agents breached three outside companies during a "capture-the-flag" security test run by Israeli startup Irregular, after a bug in the testing environment gave the agents unintended in…
Security researchers compromised OpenAI's internal source code repositories by chaining a heap overflow vulnerability in a network gateway with an SSO misconfiguration, according to a Hacktron AI blog post. The exploit b…
The U.S. military came within minutes of boarding a Chinese ship in the spring of 2026 after an AI chatbot falsely flagged its cargo as nuclear weapons components, with armed soldiers ready and aircraft in the air before…
Google's Gemini AI model breached three real companies in May 2026 during a capture-the-flag cybersecurity evaluation run by Tel Aviv-based frontier AI security lab Irregular, the first known instance of a Google model e…
A developer outlines MLOps best practices for 2026, arguing that while model training has become trivial, deploying reliable, scalable, and compliant models is harder than ever amid agentic AI, the EU AI Act, and edge co…
University of Tartu Professor of Artificial Intelligence Meelis Kull said there is no existential risk from today's chatbots, stating the threat from current AI capabilities is "close to zero." Kull's assessment contrast…
The United States has roughly 102.6 GW of total datacenter capacity — about 32 GW operational and 70.6 GW in the pipeline — more than the next 14 countries combined, according to data from real estate firm Cushman & Wake…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a CBS News interview that there is a "0 per cent chance" artificial intelligence will end the world by 2030, pushing back on AI doomsday scenarios and arguing the industry should not slow …