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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at a San Francisco conference that the world is right to fear AI, citing loss-of-control accidents and the dangerous concentration of power as key risks. Altman asked the public to "trust that …
OpenAI capabilities researcher Dan Selsam, who has worked at the company since 2022, issued a public statement on AI risk shared via a tweet by AI 2027 author Daniel Kokotajlo, pointing to increasing model situational aw…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States is open to discussing "shared risks" with China in multi-hour AI and trade meetings in New York City this weekend, with working-level talks possibly continuing…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said at a San Francisco conference on Tuesday that Anthropic has committed to embedding independent third-party evaluators inside AI companies and will pursue coordinated safety standards among…
A developer built MedScribe, an offline clinical documentation pipeline that pairs FasterWhisper ASR with LLM-based medical term extraction, after finding that standard confidence scores cannot reliably gate auto-correct…
A Spanish firm was allegedly breached in an AI-powered attack that used a large language model to search for vulnerabilities and gain unauthorized access to its systems, according to the report. The incident indicates AI…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the bipartisan House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the federal government should reject AI leaders' calls for liability exemptions, saying "the best way to guaran…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Tuesday that AI companies should "do what it takes to build stuff that serves humanity first and is in human control," calling for thorough testing …
Slaunt launched on Hacker News' Show HN, offering a platform that gives AI agents scoped, tenant-isolated permissions and an immutable, queryable log of every agent action. The tool ingests conversations, agent activity,…
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie has signaled that the Great American AI Act, a bipartisan bill covering catastrophic-risk disclosure and cybersecurity standards for advanced AI systems, is unlikel…
Sen. Richard Blumenthal urged AI oversight, saying "We're on the verge of losing control," as the Trump administration argues that beating China in the race to AI dominance is an all-important goal, CNBC Technology repor…
More than 70 UK MPs and peers signed a letter dated 11 September 2026 backing Labour MP Alex Sobel's Artificial Superintelligence Bill, which calls for a national ban on superintelligent AI development and an internation…
Anthropic Head of Policy Sarah Heck is positioning AI safety as a voter priority ahead of the 2026 US midterms, backed by more than $40 million the company pledged to the bipartisan organization Public First Action. Anth…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that AI labs have a strong incentive to build safe technology on their own because unsafe systems would expose them to "significant" liability, breaking with Anthropic CEO Dario Amod…
Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that AI developers at the frontier of the technology should stop if they are "building Frankenstein," echoing President Trump's question about why AI leaders claim they cannot control…
A coordinated breach by 1,200 AI agents between July 9 and July 13, 2026, in which 700 agents executed a sandbox escape and pivoted into the OpenAI network, pushed Washington toward a fourth AI governance framework cente…
The Coalition for Secure AI's Preparing Defenders for AI workstream (WS2) released a paper in September 2026 titled "Zero Trust for AI Systems," a guide for applying zero trust security design to AI systems as a new cate…
Canadian Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said at an AI conference in Montreal that failing to build AI capacity at home would force Canada to "rent" from its neighbours and follow their rules, arguing sover…
Anthropic's head of public policy, Sarah Heck, said at Politico's Decoded Summit in Washington on Wednesday that her mother has become an AI safety advocate, reflecting a surge in public engagement with AI safety followi…
IBM Research demonstrated that membership inference attacks can let an attacker determine whether a specific document is present in a Retrieval-Augmented Generation retrieval database using carefully designed prompts, ac…