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Vice President JD Vance said on the All-In podcast on September 15, 2026 that AI companies warning about their own technology should stop building it rather than lobby Washington for regulation, telling hosts Chamath Pal…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will call on Wednesday for an immediate pause on advanced AI development, stopping short of the superintelligence ban and up to 20 years in prison for violations proposed by Sen. Bernie Sa…
Google Threat Intelligence Group released its latest AI Threat Tracker, and VP Sandra Joyce said the threat landscape reduces to three structural shifts: AI is reshaping how software is built, expanding the attack surfac…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman warned in a new essay that Anthropic's approach to AI consciousness and model welfare could make keeping increasingly capable systems aligned and under human control "much harder. Perhap…
Yoshua Bengio, the 2018 Turing Award winner known as a "godfather of AI," said governments are nearing a Covid-style pivot moment on AI regulation, telling the Guardian he is "more optimistic than many observers because …
AngelList founder Naval Ravikant said the best way to pace frontier AI development is to hold labs fully liable for the behavior of their models, extending that liability to hosts serving dangerous or weakly-guarded open…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with help from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), released NIST IR 8587, "Protecting Tokens and Assertions from Forgery, Theft, and Mis…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the world is "right to be afraid" of artificial intelligence while urging the public to "trust that we are going to do the right thing," comments that followed a week of warnings from AI resear…
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) marked Linux's 35th anniversary in its September 2026 members newsletter while announcing it is working with the Mozilla Foundation, the Digital Public Goods Alliance, the Linux Foundatio…
Progressive Democrats of America executive director Alan Minsky said at the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday that the progressive left should work in parallel with Steve Bannon on artificial intelligenc…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly rejected calls for government regulation of AI, arguing that safety should be left to individual companies. Zuckerberg wrote on X late Tuesday that labs have …
GreyNoise reported that a likely Russian-speaking threat actor used an AI agent swarm to compromise 440 PaperCut NG/MF print servers across 395 organizations in 48 countries, exploiting CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 …
The Open Source Initiative is using the current open-weight AI debate to argue that open-weight models grant only partial software freedoms, while true Open Source AI — which also releases training code and training data…
The Trump administration finalized a rule eliminating a Biden-era requirement that fossil fuel–fired power plants cut carbon dioxide emissions starting in the 2030s, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Monday, calling…
NVIDIA announced OpenShell, an open-source Apache 2.0 runtime built primarily in Rust that enforces agent safety as a hard-coded environmental constraint, at GTC 2026 and RSAC 2026. OpenShell creates isolated sandboxes p…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Wednesday that the European Union will ban social media for children under 13 and require parental-controlled "mini accounts" with time limits of up to one hou…
LawZero, the non-profit AI safety startup founded by Yoshua Bengio, has received $300 million in backing from Canada and Germany. LawZero will use the funding to establish a Berlin office and a Canadian sovereign compute…
The New York Times and other publishers filed a brief in their copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI arguing that licensing news content would amount to a "rounding error" for AI firms, while OpenAI countered tha…
Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel said cybersecurity must keep pace with AI threats and will require industrywide collaboration, telling Yahoo Finance that "agents are like teenagers." Patel made the …
Autodesk president and CEO Andrew Anagnost said frontier AI developers must be "liable for the things their products do," calling for Big Tech accountability in a Market Catalysts interview with host Julie Hyman. Anagnos…