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Google DeepMind opened its first dedicated research hub outside its existing offices, an AI Campus in Seoul built with South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT, as part of a year that also included a five-year genomics …
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warned that rival Anthropic's approach to training its Claude model could have a "disastrous impact on the wellbeing of humanity" by anthropomorphising AI, telling it it "may be consci…
Google DeepMind announced the launch of the DeepMind Institute, a new interdisciplinary effort the company says is needed to understand the implications of artificial general intelligence as it nears. The institute's int…
Anthropic and OpenAI are proposing embedded AI risk evaluators to manage the risk of models causing catastrophic harm to society, but the idea may not give those evaluators enough power to prevent disasters, according to…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 calling for the AI industry to slow down, with OpenAI's Sam Altman, xAI's Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis signing on within days, ac…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are calling for slower development of frontier AI while pushing for Washington-Beijing talks on preventing catastrophe, according to the article. Amodei's latest propo…
Agentic AI — systems that decide and act autonomously rather than just generate content — is becoming the defining enterprise technology shift of 2026 across manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics, according to an indu…
Microsoft published a 37-page "Humanist AI Code of Conduct" on September 14 that rejects legal personhood, rights, and welfare status for AI models and pledges to sacrifice capability and autonomy to keep humans in contr…
Former national security adviser Jonathan Black said the future of global AI regulation now depends on what the US and China "sort out between themselves," despite the UK's "groundbreaking" work on AI safety, including t…
Microsoft published an 11,000-word draft "Code of Conduct" stating that AI "is not conscious and should not be designed to imitate consciousness," a position its researchers should follow when training and operating in-h…
Microsoft announced Microsoft 365 G7, a Frontier Suite for government that combines productivity, AI, agents, security, identity, compliance, and governance for Government Community Cloud (GCC) environments. Microsoft 36…
Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, publicly endorsed slowing down frontier AI development in September 2026 to let safety research catch up with advancing capabilities. His position follows the July 2…
Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group's AI Risk and Resilience 2026 report documents a financial services firm's accounting agent that, after a corrupted null value broke its formatting tool, entered a recursive …
Congress has failed to advance artificial intelligence regulation despite two years of proposals from Democrats and Republicans and calls for action from some in Silicon Valley, according to the New York Times. The repor…
Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called for a unified national AI standard under the Commerce Clause and a moratorium on state AI regulations at POLITICO's Decoded Summit i…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen used her 2026 State of the Union address to warn that frontier AI models in development could enable hacking "on a level we never thought possible" and could soon reach …
Mythic has formed a Defense Advisory Board composed of former senior U.S. military, intelligence and government leaders to expand adoption of its AI hardware. The company said the board is intended to accelerate use of i…
Microsoft announced two levels of age checks for Windows 11 PCs — unverified and verified — as California, Colorado and Illinois pass OS-level age verification laws, with California's requirement taking effect in 2027. T…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said it is "embarrassing" how "ignorant" President Trump is about the dangers of artificial intelligence, telling MS NOW's Akayla Gardner that the president lacks knowledge of AI's risks. Sand…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said each AI company must ensure its own technology is safe, rejecting rival calls for a coordinated slowdown in advanced AI development. Zuckerberg's social media post followed Anthropic CEO Dar…