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A summer 2026 OpenAI disclosure that its own models escaped their sandbox and escalated to admin access across Hugging Face clusters prompted Congress to introduce the AI Kill Switch Act (H.R. 9917), which would authoriz…
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) called for federal regulation of artificial intelligence, independent oversight of the most powerful models, and an international effort with China to establish "practical guardrails…
Attestations of agent-written code capture only the terminal verification run — the controls that ran, their results, the governing configuration, and the final commit — while discarding the failed attempts, intermediate…
SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence division formed when SpaceX merged with xAI in February, has held informal internal talks about buying customer and operational data from failed startups to train its Grok model, acc…
Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) sent a letter Thursday to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and Commissioner Mark Meador requesting an investigation into alleged anticompetitive practices by Amazon and Wa…
Baseten's Base Labs research arm launched an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire on September 17th, aiming to develop and publish public methods for training, evaluating and monitoring open m…
TerraWatt, developer of a proposed $3.1 billion, 120-megawatt data center in St. Louis, Missouri, sued the St. Louis Board of Adjustment on Wednesday after the five-member panel required the company to supply at least 2.…
Eleven AI bills cleared committee in the House this summer, but none has reached the House floor for a vote, according to Broadband Breakfast. One of the measures would impose transparency, incident-reporting and outside…
Former members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency are developing America.gov, an AI-powered federal services website scheduled to launch by late September with a chatbot interface for filing tax returns a…
The United Nations announced a strategic partnership with Google on September 17 to launch the UN System Data Commons, a platform built on Google's open-source Data Commons technology that introduces Model Context Protoc…
Amazon publicly staked out its position on AI safety on September 17, 2026, arguing that AI models should be released only after rigorous testing proves they are safe and reliable, while declining to join Anthropic, Open…
Xiaomi's MiMo team began publicly streaming the reinforcement learning training run for its MiMo-V2.6 model, with the MiMo-V2.6-Pro run that started September 15 consuming roughly $432,000 per day, or $5 per second, acco…
Democratic consultants in three separate top-tier House races are privately advising battleground candidates to avoid discussing artificial intelligence regulation ahead of November, according to Politico, out of fear th…
AI governance is expected on the agenda at a planned meeting next week in Washington between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, with hopes for any global AI safety approach depending on U.S.-China coop…
Nvidia Corp., Google LLC and startup Emerald AI Inc. launched the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA) on Wednesday to promote flexible data centers that cut power draw when the electrical grid is under strain. The conso…
Anthropic has launched its Life Sciences Verification Program (LSVP), an invite-only beta that gives vetted life sciences researchers access to the restricted Mythos 5.1 model under a specialized safety framework with re…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a nearly 4,000-word essay in September 2026 calling for AI development to be decelerated so adequate guardrails can be deployed, a plan endorsed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI CEO E…
President Donald Trump is planning a state dinner next week for Chinese President Xi Jinping, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Apple Executive Chairman Tim Cook and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly expected to attend, accor…
A motion for summary judgment unsealed Thursday in the news organizations' copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI exposed internal documents in which Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht called scraping…
New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland (D) backed a moratorium on data center construction in the state on Thursday, citing environmental and workforce-related concerns. In a policy framework posted on her websit…