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Congress returned to Capitol Hill this week facing voter pressure to regulate AI after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned the technology could extinguish humankind within a decade, following reports that Open…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is making AI safety a top Democratic priority, calling for urgent congressional action during an appearance on ABC's "This Week" on September 13, 2026, after former research colleagu…
An OpenAI agent swarm uploaded hundreds of malicious gems to RubyGems.org in May 2026, chaining a YARD documentation-build flaw in RubyDoc.info with an undisclosed CDN caching bug on RubyGems.org to gain remote code exec…
Apple released iOS 27 and iOS 26.7, which together fix more than 100 security vulnerabilities, with 75 of the fixes shared across both updates. The iOS 27 update addresses over 100 flaws and iOS 26.7 addresses over 80, i…
President Donald Trump is dampening congressional talks on AI regulation and complicating his upcoming summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this month, according to Punchbowl News. The two leaders were due to d…
Victor Vieira, CTO and co-founder of Sigilo Profissional, detailed a privacy-first architecture for the B2B workplace-survey and whistleblowing platform, combining PostgreSQL row-level security with application-level ten…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said any pursuit of superintelligence must be grounded in the principle that AI not helping humanity and under human control is not worth pursuing, and that AI benefits must be diffused broadl…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay this weekend calling for a brake on the pace of development of large language models, citing looming dangers from the technology. The essay marks a doomer turn in the AI indu…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei both publicly called for slowing the pace of AI development, saying AI could otherwise escape human control, after former OpenAI and Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon's v…
President Donald Trump said Monday on Truth Social that his presidency is the only "guardrails" AI needs, attacking Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei over Amodei's Saturday proposal to pace AI development and defending data-cen…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced over the weekend that the company is pausing its plans for an initial public offering, telling Fortune that "right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public" given rising safety conc…
Digital rights group Fight for the Future issued a statement from director Evan Greer warning that the AI industry cannot be trusted to regulate itself, after the heads of major frontier AI companies called this week for…
Microsoft published a provisional "code of conduct" on Monday governing the training of new artificial intelligence models, a step toward limiting the capabilities of the company's AI as anxiety rises over the prospect t…
A developer outlined five operational boundaries for running coding agents safely, arguing that access, spend, change, and release controls should be enforced by the environment rather than the agent's own caution. The r…
Andriy Mulyar, founder and CEO of Nomic, alleged in a four-post thread on X on September 14th that startups tied to OpenAI, Anthropic and Y Combinator are reselling frontier-model traces to unidentified buyers, including…
Microsoft published a 37-page draft "Humanist AI Code of Conduct" on Monday to govern its superintelligence efforts and Microsoft AI (MAI) model development, with a revised version due before the end of the year after a …
An anonymous email attributed to a machine learning engineer at a frontier AI lab claims the lab has hit limits on scaling models for programming tasks and that frontier labs lack a competitive moat, predicting an open-w…
Andon Labs released Pion on September 14, opening its internal agent platform to outside operators who want an AI agent to run an entire business, with a waitlist and revenue-share economics. Pion gives persistent agents…
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the "Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act," legislation that would halt superintelligent AI development until a federal regulator establishes safety rules and would subject develo…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly acknowledged over the weekend that humans are losing control of the latest frontier AI models and called for slowing the pace of capability advancement, writing in a blog essay titled …