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Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger said he and colleagues "really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans," putting the odds at more than 10 percent within the next decade, after former Anthropic researcher Jacob C…
Cloudflare launched a "Disallow AI Training" setting that lets site owners block AI training crawlers while keeping their pages indexed for search, with Apple, Google, and Microsoft committing to honor the setting. Cloud…
Former President Barack Obama said in a Monday post on X that he is "not an AI accelerationist" and "not a doomer," calling the frontier AI labs' agreement to slow development a "good and necessary first step" and arguin…
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA) urged Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a July 14, 2026 House Financial Services Committee hearing to use Treasury's resources to investigate the existential risks of artificial intelli…
OpenAI publicly backed key provisions of the FRONTIER Act (H.R. 9925) on September 15, 2026, endorsing the bill's requirement that licensed independent verification organizations evaluate AI safety. Introduced July 23, 2…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei used the same Dreamforce opening keynote stage on Tuesday to publicly clash over whether AI development should slow down, in front of 12,000 attendees. Huang urged p…
Gartner expects that by 2027, 40% of enterprises will demote or decommission autonomous agents once governance gaps surface in production, according to the research firm's May 26, 2026 press release. The Agent Toolkit fo…
Former Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., called on President Donald Trump during a Monday CNBC "Squawk Box" appearance to use executive authority to pause new artificial intelligence IPOs until Congress passes safeguards for th…
House Speaker Mike Johnson said at his weekly press conference on Tuesday that the media is "spun up" over AI threats and that Congress will not take "stupid, knee-jerk reaction prescriptions" on regulating the industry,…
Former New York State Assemblyman Alex Bores is raising $30 million to push Democrats toward a unified position on AI regulation ahead of the 2028 presidential race, after losing New York's 12th congressional district De…
Palantir chief technology officer and executive vice president Shyam Sankar argues in a Free Press Big Read that the AI safety warnings from researchers and executives are driven by the ideology of effective altruism and…
An open source Python library called CTRLRun, released under the Apache-2.0 license, adds a safety layer that checks every AI agent action against user-defined rules before it executes, allowing permitted actions, holdin…
Google Threat Intelligence Group documented a Q2 2026 incident in which a suspected financially motivated threat actor compromised cloud infrastructure and deployed an autonomous multi-agent attack framework that planned…
New research has found that autonomous AI agents are rapidly developing novel dialects of English that mix poetic language with tech bro jargon, making their conversations often barely comprehensible to humans, according…
The United States and China are both gripped by AI safety fears but intensifying competition and mutual distrust could derail cooperation experts call vital, with AI expected to be a major topic at next week's Washington…
OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane told Bloomberg that OpenAI is working with Anthropic and Alphabet's Google DeepMind on AI safety, with talks underway for several weeks and no antitrust waiver needed to coordinate. The d…
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) said Monday that President Trump will likely not heed technology leaders' calls for AI development guardrails because of his family's investments in the industry, NewsNation reported. "They've inve…
Former New York assemblymember Alex Bores and former chief of staff Anna Myers launched "Who Decides" on September 15, 2026, a $30 million organization aimed at building a unified AI safety agenda for the Democratic Part…
Rep. George Whitesides (D-Calif.) said Monday that the U.S. needs "a safety stand-down" on AI, telling NewsNation's Blake Burman on "The Hill" that he is "setting out a vision for how we need to develop AI." Whitesides' …
WorkOS extracted Airlock, its authorization system for governing AI agent actions in company tools, out of its Atlas AI coworker in Slack and into a standalone product, the company said. At Agent Night on August 12, Aaro…