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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States is open to discussing shared AI risks with China in talks this weekend, Axios reported Wednesday. "The United States remains the leader in AI, and we are open …
Yoshua Bengio, the University of Montreal professor and 2018 Turing Award winner, told AFP that humanity is "losing control" of AI and called for guardrails similar to nuclear arms controls. The 62-year-old said security…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that artificial intelligence companies are incentivized toward safety when deciding the timing of crafting their models, arguing external pressure is not needed to keep to that timel…
AIUC announced a $40M Series A round today, led by cofounder Rune Kvist, to build standards, testing, and insurance infrastructure for AI agents through its AIUC-1 standard. AIUC-1 is backed by real insurance and counts …
Mississauga council voted unanimously Wednesday to impose a one-year moratorium on new data centre projects with energy demands over 10 megawatts, joining neighbouring Oakville, which last month passed Ontario's first su…
A developer argues that AI safety should be modeled on human institutions rather than a single perfectly aligned reward function, proposing that a society of agents with roles, monitored enforcement, and formal computati…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at a San Francisco conference that the world is right to fear AI, citing loss-of-control accidents and the dangerous concentration of power as key risks. Altman asked the public to "trust that …
As of Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026, no U.S. state has a ban on data centers, though New York is the first and only state to enact a one-year moratorium on new hyperscale data centers statewide, according to state legislatio…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States is open to discussing "shared risks" with China in multi-hour AI and trade meetings in New York City this weekend, with working-level talks possibly continuing…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said at a San Francisco conference on Tuesday that Anthropic has committed to embedding independent third-party evaluators inside AI companies and will pursue coordinated safety standards among…
A federal court in Illinois ruled Monday that James Keene, a writer, TV producer and one-time FBI informer, may sue Google for defamation over false statements generated by Google's AI Overviews, which said he had killed…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the bipartisan House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the federal government should reject AI leaders' calls for liability exemptions, saying "the best way to guaran…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Tuesday that AI companies should "do what it takes to build stuff that serves humanity first and is in human control," calling for thorough testing …
Slaunt launched on Hacker News' Show HN, offering a platform that gives AI agents scoped, tenant-isolated permissions and an immutable, queryable log of every agent action. The tool ingests conversations, agent activity,…
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie has signaled that the Great American AI Act, a bipartisan bill covering catastrophic-risk disclosure and cybersecurity standards for advanced AI systems, is unlikel…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Tuesday that AI deployed to modernize the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control systems will augment rather than replace human controllers, describing the rollout …
Sen. Richard Blumenthal urged AI oversight, saying "We're on the verge of losing control," as the Trump administration argues that beating China in the race to AI dominance is an all-important goal, CNBC Technology repor…
More than 70 UK MPs and peers signed a letter dated 11 September 2026 backing Labour MP Alex Sobel's Artificial Superintelligence Bill, which calls for a national ban on superintelligent AI development and an internation…
China will help Pakistan build an AI-equipped law enforcement center under an agreement reached in Islamabad between Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and visiting Chinese Vice Minister for Public Security Gao Qi,…
Anthropic Head of Policy Sarah Heck is positioning AI safety as a voter priority ahead of the 2026 US midterms, backed by more than $40 million the company pledged to the bipartisan organization Public First Action. Anth…