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A practical guide published for 2026 outlines how encryption in transit protects data moving between the components of an AI agent pipeline, from a browser through an API gateway, agent runtime, vector store, model API, …
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is locked in negotiations over a bipartisan AI safety bill, Politico reports, as concerns about rapidly advancing artificial intelligence escalate. Thune, a former Commerce Committee cha…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are proposing a slowdown of frontier AI development citing safety concerns, drawing pushback from critics including Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez, who called the initiative a "cartel by another nam…
Anthropic "science alignment lead" Evan Hubinger posted on X that he puts the odds at better than 10% that AI could kill all humans within the next decade, a claim that followed colleague Jacob Coxon quitting the company…
A swift pause in AI development is unlikely because critics distrust both frontier AI companies and the safety advocates tied to them, according to an Axios report. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed new AI regulatory m…
President Trump escalated his administration's opposition to AI regulation on Monday, dismissing AI safety warnings as a "sick conspiracy" in a series of pro-AI Truth Social posts and telling the All In Summit in Los Ang…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing the development of frontier AI and bringing outside evaluators into the process, an idea endorsed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and SpaceXAI C…
Former OpenAI and Anthropic pre-training researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic last week, warning on X that both companies are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." T…
Donald Trump attacked calls from AI scientists and executives for a slowdown in AI development, posting on Truth Social that the only oversight AI needs is a "STRONG AND SMART PRESIDENT" and calling warnings about unrest…
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceXAI, said on X that training for Grok 4.8 will complete this week, Grok 4.9 will be 'Astra/Fable class,' and Grok 5 will achieve AGI, while simultaneously endorsing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's cal…
UK Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds defended AI's "tremendous upsides" for public services, healthcare and the economy while rejecting calls from MPs in the Commons and Lords for an AI "kill switch," telling the BBC …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Saturday arguing AI is advancing too quickly for researchers to build it safely, and within a day OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind CEO Demi…
Bilal Chughtai left Google DeepMind's AGI safety team in July 2026 and publicly warned in a viral exit note that "AI has the potential to kill us all," joining the AI safety nonprofit BlueDot Impact, according to Bloombe…
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic congressman Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act on Thursday, 3 September in Washington, legislation that would impose up to 20 years in federal…
A developer outlines a three-pillar engineering approach to managing generative AI hallucinations in production, combining self-correction architectures, standardized metrics like faithfulness and answer correctness, and…
Senator Bernie Sanders and conservative podcaster Steve Bannon will address the same Washington gathering on Tuesday to demand stringent regulations on artificial intelligence, an unusual alliance over shared concerns ab…
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) reported that state-affiliated cyberespionage groups and cybercrime gangs are targeting enterprise AI assets — including proprietary models, model weights, source code, API credent…
As of August 2, 2026, the EU AI Act's enforcement regime for general-purpose AI obligations took effect, imposing penalties of up to 15 million euros or 3% of global annual turnover on non-compliant model providers. The …
Traefik Labs introduced the Sovereign Trust Plane (STP), a set of capabilities in Traefik Hub that brings verifiable evidence to AI agent governance, with general availability planned by September 30, 2026. STP connects …
A new arXiv paper, Generalized Agent Iteration (arXiv:2609.13406), unifies iterative policy improvement and recursive self-improvement by reducing both to two operational switches: whether the updater sits inside the age…