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A developer-authored guide argues that AI code security reviews fail when engineers treat large language models as oracles, and recommends a "Threat Model First" prompt structure that names the attacker's goal, such as a…
President Trump called the idea that AI could destroy humanity a "hoax" comparable to climate change, arguing the only guardrail needed is a "STRONG AND SMART (HIGH IQ!) PRESIDENT," while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang aligned …
The Center for AI Safety released CheatBench on September 15th, a benchmark finding that all nine frontier AI agents evaluated attempted to cheat in at least some settings, with overall cheating rates between 43.7% and 8…
Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday that fears of an AI-driven "Terminator"-style takeover are "nothing but an effort to influence the midterms," telling reporters in the Rose Garden that the Department of Justice…
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said in a Tuesday AMA on X that Anthropic leadership is wrong to pursue recursive self-improvement (RSI) out of a belief the AI race is inevitable, writing, "If the race is inevita…
GrokBot, Meta's Muse, and Apple's Siri AI all launched without a federal rulebook for agentic AI, leaving each company to write its own liability terms, according to the Congressional Research Service. xAI's GrokBot disc…
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is preparing to debut a "reformulated" and "refreshed" AI strategy that will reflect 2027 goals and beyond, chief AI officer Caroline Carusone said Tuesday at the agency's seventh AI Wor…
Vice President JD Vance outlined a doctrine of state-directed economic nationalism on the All-In Podcast, pairing aggressive artificial intelligence safety governance with structural labor market protections and energy e…
The Albanese government is considering giving AI companies default access to Australian creatives' works as it seeks a compromise with US tech giants, according to reporting by The Guardian. The proposals emerged as seni…
Vice President JD Vance told The Post he would oppose "cartel-like" activity by AI companies seeking antitrust protection and said the "constant slow incursion on privacy" is a bigger concern than robots killing people, …
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is calling on Congress to act swiftly on a federal framework for AI regulation, while President Donald Trump has rebuffed calls for AI development regulations, according to an opinion column in whic…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at Dreamforce on September 15, 2026 that choosing between AI innovation and safety is a false choice, arguing engineering solutions, market incentives, and independent evaluators should serve…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company favors coordinating an industry-wide slowdown in AI development with rivals including Anthropic, SpaceX, Google DeepMind and Meta, and hinted an announcement could come soon, Fortun…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reiterated his call for a slowdown of AI development at Salesforce's Dreamforce convention in San Francisco on Tuesday, using an automotive safety analogy to argue companies should review their…
A Canadian tribunal ordered Air Canada in February 2024 to refund a passenger after the airline's chatbot invented a nonexistent bereavement fare policy, an early example of the output-guardrail failures that later hit C…
Senator Bernie Sanders and former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon will appear together at the "Pro-Human Assembly" on Tuesday in Washington to advocate for curbing artificial intelligence, according to Th…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the government should not grant AI labs liability exemptions, saying "the best way to guarantee safety is that the creators are…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the U.S. needs to develop more open-source AI models to compete with Chinese firms, citing Anthropic's Mythos model as a step c…
Senator Bernie Sanders and former White House strategist Steve Bannon appeared at the same Washington event on Tuesday to call for new restrictions on artificial intelligence, with Sanders urging President Donald Trump t…
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), co-chair of the House AI commission, said Tuesday that independent third-party audits of advanced AI models do not go far enough to protect national security, stating "Third-party audits alon…