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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…
Former Google DeepMind research engineer Bilal Chughtai said he resigned from the lab over fears that AI "has the potential to kill us all," writing on X on September 14, 2026, that "frontier AI capabilities are improvin…
First Secretary Louise Haigh warned at the TUC congress in Brighton that artificial intelligence poses "huge risks" to national security and society unless proper guardrails are put in place, saying the Government has a …
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is expected to lead reported US-China talks on AI this month, warning that "there is no day after tomorrow if China wins at this" and that the United States "can't pause," though the Whit…
Ofcom told the Lords' communications and digital committee that AI is "supercharging" online harms against children, with group director for online safety Oliver Griffiths saying it has become "much easier to create and …
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa warned in Oslo on September 15, 2026, that artificial intelligence will strip humanity of its agency unless lawmakers act now to limit it, saying "It is not a freedom of speech issu…
A group of frontier AI labs including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft jointly proposed a regulatory framework called "pacing the frontier" that would slow capability improvements, embed independent evaluators inside lab…
US President Donald Trump called Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang live during Huang's appearance at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles and dismissed predictions of catastrophic artificial intelligence risks as a 'hoax,'…
President Donald Trump dismissed warnings about artificial intelligence as a "HOAX" in social media posts, claiming AI taking over the world and destroying humanity is fabricated and that the only guardrails the technolo…
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson warned on Tuesday that AI companies seeking both new regulations and antitrust exemptions should trigger immediate suspicion, saying at Georgetown University that "if com…
JumpCloud released a September 10 update to its Agentic IAM platform that auto-discovers hidden Model Context Protocol server configurations and routes them through a governed AI Gateway, giving each AI agent a tracked i…
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have reportedly been discussing the formation of a standards body dedicated to testing and auditing AI models since July 2026, though no formal organization, public charter, or governance st…
Frontier AI labs have a financial incentive to advocate for regulatory pacing that protects their commercial position, according to an essay published at pacingthefrontier.com. The essay cites Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei'…
WorkOS is offering early access to Airlock, an authorization layer that evaluates an MCP agent's declared intent and policy before a tools/call request executes, addressing cases where a valid OAuth scope like "mail:send…
Elon Musk called for leading AI labs and Chinese companies to peer review each other's models before public release as a way to evaluate their safety, CNBC Technology reported. Musk's proposal comes amid broader calls to…
DigiCert unveiled a framework to govern AI agents and models, according to Brian Trzupek, the company's senior vice president of product, who warned that increasingly autonomous and adaptable AI agents can spiral out of …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the AI industry to "pace the frontier," slowing the rate of capabilities advancement so risk prevention can keep up, a proposal quickly embraced by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis H…
DigiCert has introduced AI Trust, a governance framework that assigns every AI agent a credential with an expiry date and a named human owner, built on the company's public key infrastructure, DNS, and attestation tools.…
China's Minister of State Security Chen Yixin identified six categories of AI risk — including deepfake-driven "cognitive warfare," automated cyber operations, data extraction by foreign intelligence, and US technology c…