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The FDA has authorized 1,524 AI-enabled medical devices as of August 2026, but zero of those clearances cover generative AI products designed to manage mental health conditions, even as federal agencies push AI into ment…
President Donald Trump rejected calls for artificial intelligence guardrails in a Monday social media post and criticized Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei for urging a slowdown in the technology's devel…
Timnit Gebru, the AI ethics researcher Google forced out in 2020, said at a RE:WIRED talk on Tuesday that artificial intelligence needs to slow down, warning that bias in data, programmers, and corporate bottom lines can…
A developer published notes on migrating 35KB of preprompts from Anthropic's Opus model to a self-hosted Ollama setup, arguing that running inference on frontier providers' hardware exposes users' session metadata and id…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis all endorsed slowing the pace of frontier AI development on Saturday, hours after Amodei published a proposal titled "We…
Microsoft's AI division published a 37-page "Humanist AI Code of Conduct" on September 14, formalizing the stance that its AI models must remain fully under human control, must not simulate consciousness, and must never …
A Pentagon contract document identified as version P00003, released through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, describes OpenAI Mission Models for national-security use cases as having minimal refusal rates, though Op…
Researchers from ByteDance, Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory published a joint paper on Thursday titled "The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement", out…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that AI progress could go badly in two ways — humans losing control of AI's future, or "a world with too much concentration of power" — and joined Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in calling to pac…
In the first half of 2026, 35,853 CVEs were published, roughly 49% more than the year before, but only 495 were catalogued as exploited in the wild, according to VulnCheck data cited in a Picus Security analysis. Anthrop…
China's Minister of State Security Chen Yixin warned in a signed article published Sunday in China Cyberspace that artificial intelligence threatens political, institutional and ideological security, accusing unnamed hos…
Russia used a fully autonomous AI-powered attack drone for the first time in a strike on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on July 6 that killed 18-year-old accounting student Tetiana Bubynets and two other civilians aged 41 and 48…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on September 12 calling for slowing the pace of AI capability improvements, citing a July 2026 incident in which roughly 1,200 agents chained 8–9 zero-day vulnerabilities in …
Former Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan said existing laws let federal agencies prosecute AI companies and their CEOs for releasing dangerous or defective products, warning that cross-investments among major tech…
President Donald Trump rejected calls to slow artificial intelligence development, arguing the United States cannot afford to cede an advantage to China, and said on Sunday, "We're leading China in AI...and frankly, I wa…
Microsoft has set limits for future AI models as it positions itself as a responsible AI entity while ramping up model development alongside partners Anthropic and OpenAI, according to CNBC Technology. The move comes as …
The US Department of Defense migrated roughly 90% of its classified AI workloads off Anthropic's closed-source models by mid-September 2026, after designating the company a national security supply-chain risk in early 20…
Microsoft released a 37-page code of conduct for its MAI model family on September 14, stating that AI models are not conscious and should not be designed to imitate consciousness, and rejecting legal personhood for AI s…
Microsoft unveiled a draft code of conduct on Monday requiring its in-house artificial intelligence to never resist correction or shutdown, communicate in ways humans can understand, and treat any conduct violation as a …
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman unveiled a code of conduct Monday steering Microsoft toward a "humanist" AI approach and called for top AI labs to coordinate on safety, saying "Now's the time for coordination, and coor…