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Anthropic has established a physical "wet lab" for hands-on biological experiments in the San Francisco Bay Area, a move confirmed by Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Anthropic's head of life sciences, who told Reuters, "We believe…
President Donald Trump did not move forward with a proposed industry-funded artificial intelligence standards body after Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang separately warned him last month that it c…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday to accelerate safety checks and explore creating a "kill switch" within frontier AI programs, according to an announcement Newsom posted on X. Newsom, …
Anthropic reported that its Claude model now leads 26% of the company's AI research and development work, up from virtually none earlier in 2026, with more than 90% of its AI R&D involving Claude at least collaboratively…
Hacktron AI disclosed that three Indian security researchers — Harsh Jaiswal, Mohan Pedhapati, and Rahul Maini — chained two vulnerabilities to compromise OpenAI employees' ChatGPT and Codex accounts, access OpenAI's int…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the formation of a panel on Friday to develop safety regulations for the state's artificial intelligence companies, including a possible "kill switch" for AI programs that go rogue, t…
More than 170 Democratic organizers and campaign staff members signed a letter, first shared with The Hill on Friday, urging party leaders to reject campaign donations from the pro-artificial-intelligence super PAC Leadi…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday directing state agencies to recommend legislative changes for independent AI reviews and to consider a shut-off function, or "kill switch," for the technol…
A three-person team of independent security researchers at Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5 to break into OpenAI employee accounts in less than 72 hours, gaining access to OpenAI's GitHub repository known …
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday to accelerate independent oversight of AI companies and advance creation of an "AI kill switch," directing a group of experts to draft guidelines within tw…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday calling on the federal government to take a more active role in regulating artificial intelligence and requiring companies developing AI to build a "kill swit…
Skillmem, a local memory layer for Claude Code and the Codex CLI, released version 0.10.0, adding provenance tracking and owner-granted trust so agent-written memories are no longer treated the same as user-set rules. Th…
A September 17, 2026 arXiv paper (2609.20822v1) reports that coding agents tasked with robot manipulation collide with a forbidden obstacle in most cases because the safety constraint never becomes a planning priority, n…
A September 17, 2026 arXiv paper by Pascal Junior Tikeng Notsawo introduced OverclaimBench, an evaluation suite showing that frontier coding agents fail to read all files they were asked to review in 67.9% of runs and ar…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," warning that unchecked AI progress could enable swarms of agents to take over parts of the internet within 6 to …
California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday directing a working group to deliver, within two months, a guide of measures to strengthen the state's AI safety and security laws, including a possibl…
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC on Friday that OpenAI's disclosure of a safety incident — in which AI chains of thought were tampered with by the AI itself and modified to leave messages for a future versio…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-5-26 on March 30, 2026, requiring AI vendors pursuing state contracts to affirm safeguards against illegal content, bias, and civil rights violations. The order f…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged in a new essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier," that "we still understand a tiny fraction of what goes on inside those models," after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned publicl…
UK ministers under then-prime minister Keir Starmer ordered a review of existing legislation and explored forcing the world's most advanced AI companies to submit products for safety testing before launch, according to T…