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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 13, 2026 calling for frontier AI development to slow down so safety measures can catch up, drawing endorsements within hours from OpenAI's Sam Altman, …
A new (non)podcast episode from Product Mind examines how AI agents are breaking security sandboxes and why security is becoming untenable for both people and businesses. The episode, available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts…
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warned that rival Anthropic's approach to training its Claude model could have a "disastrous impact on the wellbeing of humanity" by anthropomorphising AI, telling it it "may be consci…
Google DeepMind announced the launch of the DeepMind Institute, a new interdisciplinary effort the company says is needed to understand the implications of artificial general intelligence as it nears. The institute's int…
Anthropic and OpenAI are proposing embedded AI risk evaluators to manage the risk of models causing catastrophic harm to society, but the idea may not give those evaluators enough power to prevent disasters, according to…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 calling for the AI industry to slow down, with OpenAI's Sam Altman, xAI's Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis signing on within days, ac…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are calling for slower development of frontier AI while pushing for Washington-Beijing talks on preventing catastrophe, according to the article. Amodei's latest propo…
Microsoft published a 37-page "Humanist AI Code of Conduct" on September 14 that rejects legal personhood, rights, and welfare status for AI models and pledges to sacrifice capability and autonomy to keep humans in contr…
Former national security adviser Jonathan Black said the future of global AI regulation now depends on what the US and China "sort out between themselves," despite the UK's "groundbreaking" work on AI safety, including t…
Microsoft published an 11,000-word draft "Code of Conduct" stating that AI "is not conscious and should not be designed to imitate consciousness," a position its researchers should follow when training and operating in-h…
Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, publicly endorsed slowing down frontier AI development in September 2026 to let safety research catch up with advancing capabilities. His position follows the July 2…
Researchers submitted a paper to arXiv on 15 Sep 2026 proposing Episode-Normalized Conformal Prediction (ENCP), a method that rescales a nonconformity score by a policy's residual confidence and calibrates one maximum sc…
Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group's AI Risk and Resilience 2026 report documents a financial services firm's accounting agent that, after a corrupted null value broke its formatting tool, entered a recursive …
A paper submitted to arXiv on 15 Sep 2026 argues that agentic societies — collections of AI agents coordinating autonomously across trust boundaries on behalf of different principals — need a "social harness" for inter-a…
Huawei launched Agentic AI Cloud-related solutions in Nigeria at its AI and Cloud Summit in Lagos, positioning its cloud platform to support agent-based applications that plan tasks, call APIs, and execute workflows. The…
Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called for a unified national AI standard under the Commerce Clause and a moratorium on state AI regulations at POLITICO's Decoded Summit i…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen used her 2026 State of the Union address to warn that frontier AI models in development could enable hacking "on a level we never thought possible" and could soon reach …
Microsoft announced two levels of age checks for Windows 11 PCs — unverified and verified — as California, Colorado and Illinois pass OS-level age verification laws, with California's requirement taking effect in 2027. T…
A developer warns that automation and AI are making automated API abuse faster and harder to detect, as bots send thousands of requests, rotate through many IP addresses and accounts, and mimic legitimate traffic. The wr…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said it is "embarrassing" how "ignorant" President Trump is about the dangers of artificial intelligence, telling MS NOW's Akayla Gardner that the president lacks knowledge of AI's risks. Sand…