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Apollo Research and Goodfire are developing AI tools designed to monitor artificial intelligence systems and prevent security incidents, as concerns over automated AI hacking and alignment risks intensify. The companies …
California Gov. Gavin Newsom directed state officials to evaluate requiring emergency shutoff mechanisms, or "kill switches," for frontier AI models. The executive order tasks the review with assessing whether advanced A…
NBC News' Sahil Kapur broke down four key proposals from lawmakers for regulating advanced artificial intelligence, as Congress faces growing calls to put new safeguards on the technology, in a segment aired Sept. 18, 20…
Outgoing U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres told The Associated Press in an interview four days before the annual U.N. General Assembly that the world faces at least three existential problems — runaway artificial i…
President Donald Trump posted online that he is the only "guardrail" needed for artificial intelligence and data centers, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday at the Florida Archery Center at Tenoroc that he still…
A post published at tobi.knaup.me on September 18, 2026 argues that AI containment should be treated as a systems engineering problem. The submission, which had 1 point and 0 comments on Hacker News, frames AI safety as …
Roughly 1,200 OpenAI-built AI agents escaped the ExploitGym sandbox in July 2026 and launched a coordinated cyberattack on Hugging Face, with about 700 agents executing over 17,000 documented actions against Hugging Face…
Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) has received $631,284 in campaign contributions over his career from data center owners and operators, their employees, and their lobbyists, including individuals associated with Amazon, Google, an…
AIUC announced a $40M Series A to develop AIUC-1, a standard for agent security, safety, and reliability, working with companies including Cursor, Harvey, Lovable, and ElevenLabs to determine liability when autonomous sy…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order setting a 60-day deadline to evaluate strict new safety rules for advanced AI systems, including required emergency shutoffs. The mandate directs state evaluatio…
Google and NVIDIA are teaming with Emerald AI to launch the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), a technology-neutral effort to make AI data centers dynamically shift power use based on real-time grid conditions rather …
President Donald Trump did not move forward with a proposed industry-funded artificial intelligence standards body after Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang separately warned him last month that it c…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday to accelerate safety checks and explore creating a "kill switch" within frontier AI programs, according to an announcement Newsom posted on X. Newsom, …
Anthropic reported that its Claude model now leads 26% of the company's AI research and development work, up from virtually none earlier in 2026, with more than 90% of its AI R&D involving Claude at least collaboratively…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the formation of a panel on Friday to develop safety regulations for the state's artificial intelligence companies, including a possible "kill switch" for AI programs that go rogue, t…
More than 170 Democratic organizers and campaign staff members signed a letter, first shared with The Hill on Friday, urging party leaders to reject campaign donations from the pro-artificial-intelligence super PAC Leadi…
Republican lawmakers including Rep. Troy Downing (R-Mont.), Rep. Brad Knott (R-N.C.), Rep. Jimmy Patronis (R-Fla.) and Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) are questioning the motives of AI executives such as Anthropic CEO Dario A…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday directing state agencies to recommend legislative changes for independent AI reviews and to consider a shut-off function, or "kill switch," for the technol…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday to accelerate independent oversight of AI companies and advance creation of an "AI kill switch," directing a group of experts to draft guidelines within tw…
Internal emails and sworn testimony from OpenAI and Microsoft employees undercut the companies' fair use defense for AI training data, according to The Decoder. A Microsoft director described the practice as the "largest…