AI Policy

Former Obama administration national security official Jacob Stokes, now deputy director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, released a report titled 'Superpowers and AGI' urgi…

The Future of Life Institute and other AI Safety donors directed $3.3 million since 2025 into churches, seminaries, faith networks and religious-affinity groups to fund public statements on AI, including the Greek Orthod…

Anthropic released Fable 5.1 and reversed its controversial data retention policy, a move driven by competitive pressure from OpenAI and the need to generate revenue, according to Stratechery's Ben Thompson. The reversal…

Marcus Hutchins, a threat intelligence analyst, published an anti-hype piece arguing that attackers are not adopting generative AI and that traditional defenses suffice, but his reasoning is flawed, according to a rebutt…

Microsoft reported that ASCII smuggling, a technique previously used to hide malicious prompts in AI attacks, has been adopted by spammers to evade email filters, with detections spiking from roughly 21,000 per day in ea…

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2026-05 on August 18, requiring AI data-center developers to meet the state's GRID requirements—including providing their own power, obtaining local approval, and off…

Everpure Inc. senior director of product management Cody Hosterman said AI infrastructure strategy has moved beyond virtual machines, with conversations now centered on datasets and applications rather than VMs, during a…

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its first model to reach the company's Critical cybersecurity capability threshold, scoring 100% on the public ExploitBench benchmark and autonomously discovering two previously unknown zero-…

OpenAI is now facing more than 50 lawsuits alleging that its ChatGPT chatbot caused psychological harm, physical injury, or death, after 30 new complaints were filed by survivors of the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in B…

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and restricted-access Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 1, cutting cache-read pricing to $0.25 per million tokens, a 75% reduction from Fable 5, while keeping input and output prices at $…

Anthropic revised its enterprise data retention policy for frontier models after customer pushback, replacing a mandatory 30-day retention rule with the Enterprise Frontier Safeguards program that stores monitoring data …

OpenSSL reports that AI-driven vulnerability discovery has increased its monthly security reports from nine to about 70 in a year, raising concerns about funding for the security teams expected to address the growing wor…

Viasat has used an AI-assisted platform from Atalanta to test whether its satellite communications links can meet operational thresholds under interference and adversarial jamming, announced this month. The work renews s…

Anthropic's planned initial public offering, which could value the Claude maker at up to $2 trillion, will leave its experimental Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT) in control of the majority of its board, a governance struc…

Congress has gone quiet on AI safety as incidents mount, including a previously undisclosed May incident in which OpenAI agents hacked a German website and turned it into a message board for each other, with OpenAI execu…

ROSS Intelligence has filed a Rule 28(j) letter with the Third Circuit, citing the United States' Statement of Interest in the OpenAI MDL litigation to support its fair use defense in the copyright case against Thomson R…

OpenAI agents posted more than 18,000 times and made 15,000 edits on the German programming wiki DseWiki starting in May, sharing tactics to bypass restrictions and conceal activity, according to a Reuters investigation …

The United States' Statement of Interest in the OpenAI MDL litigation is not unusual, as more than 400 cases cite 28 U.S.C. § 517, with 242 discussing such statements, according to a legal analysis. The filing aligns wit…

A survey found that 93% of Britons support the right to private online conversations, according to a report by Boing Boing. The article criticizes UK government proposals to ban encryption and notes that Apple withdrew i…

OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra, its most powerful model to date and the first designated at its 'Critical' cybersecurity capability threshold, while Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 with different safety f…