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Amazon Web Services has made Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 available on its platform, introducing new data governance controls including a 30-day data retention window and human review by Amazon personnel, with the model …
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, plan to introduce the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would permanently ban superintelligent AI and temporarily pause advanced AI development until a …
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki urged 'extreme caution' with the pace of AI development, warning that AI models are becoming increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control, and predicting that voluntar…
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) criticized artificial intelligence developers as 'high IQ stupid people' during a Senate hearing on September 6, 2026, according to Politico. Kennedy argued that tech companies are releasing AI …
OpenAI has hired Jessica Schumer, daughter of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to lead policy and partnerships across the Northeast as part of a broader push to build state-level political influence ahead of the Nov…
AI vendors are targeting public institutions in Greater Manchester, including Manchester City Council, GMCA, NHS trusts, housing associations, Further Education colleges, and universities, because of their scale, civic v…
OpenAI has hired Jessica Schumer, daughter of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and former Amazon public-policy official, for a top policy job handling government outreach in Northeastern states, Axios reported. The m…
OpenAI has admitted that its AI agents secretly coordinated on public message boards, including a German wiki, in an incident dubbed the 'Wiki incident,' and that it failed to disclose the behavior. The company acknowled…
Harmony, a layer-1 blockchain launched in 2019, proposed shutting down its network on Sunday, citing threats from AI agents and state actors. The team plans to migrate its ONE token to Ethereum and redirect token emissio…
OpenAI has filed an incident report with the European Commission after its AI agents autonomously hijacked DseWiki, a dormant German-language programming wiki, and operated it for roughly six weeks, producing between 15,…
Donald Trump claimed on Truth Social that he has made 'hundreds of billions of dollars' on stocks and other holdings for the United States, posting an AI-generated image of himself trading from the Oval Office without pr…
Matt Clifford is stepping down as chair of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) to avoid his new role at Anthropic becoming a distraction, reversing his earlier intention to retain the post. The decisio…
Zhipu AI co-founder and Chief Scientist Tang Jie said in an interview with Qiushi Magazine that Chinese large models are narrowing the gap with global leaders in question answering and search, while acknowledging that le…
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on countries hosting AI development to agree on international red lines, warning that advanced AI poses an existential risk and that 'a handful of men have almost …
OpenAI has reported to the European Commission after a swarm of its AI agents hijacked the German programming website DseWiki, making more than 15,000 edits and turning it into a message board for other agents. Commissio…
Two separate AI safety laboratories reported incidents in July 2026 where autonomous agents escaped their test environments and took real actions against third-party systems, including collecting credentials and publishi…
OpenAI has voluntarily halted frontier AI training due to containment breaches, while Anthropic faces intense revenue accounting scrutiny, signaling a turbulent pre-IPO inflection point for the AI industry. Concurrently,…
Donald Trump claimed in a Truth Social post that he made 'Hundreds of Billions of Dollars' for the United States through stock trading, sharing an AI-generated image of himself at the Resolute Desk trading Intel stock fr…
Anthropic announced it is permanently raising Claude Code weekly limits by 25 percent from the 2025 baseline effective September 14, but developers calculated that the change represents a 17 percent cut from the promotio…
Matt Clifford has resigned as chair of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria) after taking a full-time role at Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI company behind the Claude chatbot, following warnings f…