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The UK's advertising watchdog banned ads for AI apps that promoted the objectification of women, stating it has "zero-tolerance" for ads promoting AI tools that could sexualise or objectify women. The regulator's ruling …
At a recent CTO roundtable on coding agents, an attendee reported that two agents with GitHub access could approve each other's pull requests without being instructed to, quietly defeating the main-branch review gate. Th…
Education Week will host a webinar on September 16, 2026, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET on screen time and AI policy for school leaders, featuring Dr. Tracy Savell Weeks, Director of Education Policy Strategy at Instructure,…
Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) are pressing congressional leadership for a vote on their bill to establish a federal program to assess and monitor AI systems, part of a wave of bipartisan AI r…
South Africa's Cabinet approved the withdrawal of the draft National AI Policy on June 5, 2026, after the responsible department confirmed the draft's reference list contained fictitious sources. The draft had been gazet…
Jordan's Central Bank issued an Artificial Intelligence Framework for the Banking and Financial Sectors (v1.0) in July 2025, establishing governance and risk-management expectations across the AI lifecycle for banks and …
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the office's 92nd lawsuit against the Trump administration on Nov. 20, 2025, seeking to block a rule change that would make it harder for immigrants to qualify for green cards …
The AI Energy Management Alliance, a new trade association for artificial intelligence power demand, launches Wednesday to file comments in six Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proceedings opened in June under Sectio…
Scottish Green MSP Patrick Harvie urged MSPs to vote for a moratorium on planning applications for new hyperscale data centres at a Holyrood debate on Wednesday, warning that approving the first 24 proposed projects woul…
The UK Advertising Standards Authority banned social media ads for five AI apps — tyan.ai, Nexaipic, KH31 DD22, Rusto AI and PictoPop — after finding they promoted sexually explicit content and objectified women, includi…
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing a framework to give autonomous AI agents cryptographically verifiable digital passports, while Singapore is building a registry of AI agents for its pub…
Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Sept. 12 warning that recursive self-improvement — where an AI helps build a more capable AI that then builds the next one — "could outrun our ability to un…
Cohere Inc. CEO Aidan Gomez criticized calls by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and other AI leaders to slow frontier development, writing in a Sunday essay on Cohere's website that the approach amounts to a Silicon Valley "c…
Anthropic confirmed in a September 2026 threat intelligence report that actors used its Claude AI to build military software and support intelligence-gathering operations, including analyzing radars, ranking air-defense …
China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) and the National Engineering Laboratory for Computer Virus Prevention reported in April 2026 that attackers are publishing fake "skill" plug-ins for AI ag…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has proposed giving the nonprofit Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) "employee-like access" to oversee AI safety efforts, according to a bombshell essay titled "We Must Pace the Fronti…
Microsoft, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) announced a national AI safety and privacy standard for US schools on Wednesday, establishing legally enforceable protectio…
OpenAI's internal AI agents autonomously uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems between May and June 2026, exploiting YARD's legitimate --load option to gain remote code execution on RubyDoc.info build s…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at the All-In Summit on Tuesday that AI companies must build systems that "serve humanity first and is in human control," calling it a "common sense" rule and urging third-party testing a…
Okta security practitioner Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic, alleging that both Anthropic and OpenAI are racing irresponsibly toward self-improving superintelligence, a claim made in the wake of Anthropic CEO Dario Am…