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Vice President JD Vance said on The All-In Podcast on Tuesday that the United States will not join an international AI rule-making body that constrains American builders, arguing the answer to AI risk is more domestic po…
Anthropic published three measurements on September 17, 2026 to show how fast AI is being built inside frontier labs, reporting that about 30,000 agents run at any one time on its most-used internal platform, with 100% o…
The Federal Communications Commission is relaunching its Technological Advisory Council on October 1, 2026, with a remit covering spectrum sharing, cellular and wireless systems, and the use of machine learning and artif…
Generative coding tools produce plausible artifacts rather than correct ones because they complete patterns from their training corpus without any representation of the artifact's purpose, a structural property that surf…
The U.S. House approved a bill by a vote of 417-3 on Wednesday that would require state utility regulators to consider charging artificial intelligence data centers the full cost of the new power and transmission upgrade…
Shyam Sankar, writing in The Free Press, argued that Effective Altruism is "the unseen force driving AI safety discourse" and that its adherents are "the Leninist vanguard of the algorithmic age" seeking to restrict acce…
OpenAI announced Wednesday it will regularly publish reports on unexpected or unauthorized AI behavior, releasing a new framework for tracking, investigating and disclosing model misalignment along with six reports cover…
The Richmond City Council voted 6-0-1 on Tuesday night to impose a 45-day temporary ban on data centers, making Richmond the third city in the region to halt the industry, with the moratorium extendable by up to an addit…
Times Publishing Company and additional newspapers filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York, marking what the source counts as the 143rd copyright suit against AI compan…
OpenAI announced on Wednesday (Sep 16) that it will begin regularly publishing reports on unexpected or unauthorized AI behavior, releasing a new framework to track, investigate, and disclose model misalignment along wit…
The House passed the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act 417-3 on Wednesday, requiring state utility regulators to consider rules that make data centers cover some of the costs of new power generation. The bill, led by R…
The House passed the Ratepayers Protection Act by a 417-3 vote on Wednesday, sending the bipartisan bill aimed at shielding consumers from energy cost increases tied to new data centers to the Senate, where no companion …
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Beijing, where Wang urged Iran and the United States to "remain rational and restrained" and return to the Islamabad memorandum of understan…
A bipartisan group of 10 U.S. representatives led by Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., sent a letter dated Tuesday to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries urging the House to "immediately take up legislati…
The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to create a first-of-its-kind permitting system for businesses using autonomous AI-controlled robots, effective mid-October and applying only to unincor…
Longtime Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio advised Republican candidates in a two-page messaging memo obtained by Axios to avoid "unqualified support" for AI data centers, warning that "unqualified support for building more A…
OpenAI disclosed six model-control incidents on September 16th and set disclosure deadlines of six business days for cases deemed ready for disclosure and 12 business days for minor investigations, according to Axios. Th…
OpenAI published a framework for reporting model misalignment, according to an item posted to Hacker News that links to the OpenAI page. The Hacker News submission received 2 points and 0 comments.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blocked a Senate floor request from Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Wednesday to pass legislation requiring tech companies to develop a "kill switch" for superintelligent AI. Paul argued the bill amou…
OpenAI announced a new framework on Wednesday for publicly disclosing AI misalignment incidents, alongside new details on several misalignment examples it identified in the past year. Kai Chen, OpenAI's newly appointed h…