Regulation & Policy

President Trump went after The Wall Street Journal on Truth Social on Tuesday for still saying "artificial intelligence." He called it "a very bad and inaccurate name" and asked when the paper would switch to Super Intelligence, "the name…

Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers starting Monday, pushing employees toward Microsoft Copilot instead. Two other agencies, including the Tax Agency, have imposed blocks, and a third is reviewing…

Privacy & Surveillance · Europe & UK · Microsoft · OpenAI · Anthropic

Researchers built two shared vocabularies—AIRO and VAIR—for cataloguing AI risks in a standardized format tied to EU AI Act requirements for high-risk systems. The tools draw on ISO standards for AI risk management and terminology. They…

Europe & UK

A research team built VERA, an open-source dashboard that translates EU AI Act compliance requirements into plain-language scores non-engineers can read, and piloted it inside a large European bank. The tool checks AI models against twelve…

Finance & Banking · Europe & UK

A new academic study examined 13 AI governance documents from bodies including the EU, OECD, G20, UNESCO, and the UN, published between 2018 and 2025, to see how these institutions actually define "AI success." Using both manual analysis…

Is Anthropic a safety company, or mainly a company racing to build superintelligence first? CEO Dario Amodei took on that question in an unusually long post on X, answering Nathan Calvin, general counsel at the advocacy group Encode and a…

AI Safety & Risk · Anthropic

Days before Brazil's presidential runoff, supporters of President Lula da Silva protested outside Meta's offices in São Paulo and Dublin, accusing the company of election interference, EFE and The Irish Times report. Lula won a challenge…

Deepfakes & Misinformation · Meta

Anthropic is privately pitching lawmakers a draft AI safety bill, first reported by POLITICO, that would sharply limit when the government can stop an AI model. Only the Commerce Department could seek a halt, and only with a federal…

AI Safety & Risk · Anthropic

The Federal Trade Commission has sent OpenAI and Anthropic formal demands for information over possible consumer harms, Axios reports, following a series of safety failures at both companies, according to Engadget. The Next Web reports the…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI · Anthropic

The Trump administration is restructuring the small Commerce Department agency that tests new AI models so that three of its senior officials report directly to the White House, Leo Schwartz (@leomschwartz) of The Information reports…

AI Safety & Risk

A story from last week that D.A.D. missed: President Trump named Jay Clayton, the Director of National Intelligence and a former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, as his AI czar. Clayton will lead a new White House task…

Military & National Security

A study of 100 German AI startups found widespread "AI-washing": companies routinely make unverifiable capability claims, cite performance numbers without explaining methodology, and omit known limitations. Researchers, who also conducted…

AI Business & Money · Europe & UK

OpenAI detailed how it will comply with EU AI Act rules requiring AI text to carry provenance markers. ChatGPT and Codex will add invisible watermarks to EU text output in coming weeks, using a new technique called textGrain, with API…

Deepfakes & Misinformation · Europe & UK · OpenAI

A review essay on Matthijs Maas's book "Architectures of Global AI Governance" pushes back on a core assumption in AI policy circles: that governments, international bodies, and tech companies form a unified "we" working toward shared…

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday directing every federal department and agency to replace "artificial intelligence" with "Super Intelligence," and "AI" with "SI," in correspondence, public communications, websites…

The other document from Tuesday's meeting runs to a single page, and it is the more consequential of the two. The White House Accord on Super Intelligence, subtitled "Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities," sets out four layers.…

AI Safety & Risk

The Trump administration launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot meant to be the single front door to federal information. It answers questions about Medicare, jobs, benefits and passports in plain language, drawing on about 29,000…

AI Adoption

OpenAI published draft guidelines proposing that companies build formal "safety cases" before continuing the advanced reinforcement learning runs that shape how models behave. Safety cases are structured, evidence-based documentation of…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

Researchers exposed 120 adolescents and 25 adults to a live, moderated debate between AI personas. Adult participants rated the synthetic debate far more sincere than comparable human discussion, despite understanding generative AI's…

Deepfakes & Misinformation

Cal Newport, a computer scientist at Georgetown University, read the last three months as a campaign. OpenAI's disclosures established how powerful and felonious its agents had become; Anthropic's staff publicly debated the odds of human…

AI Safety & Risk · Anthropic · OpenAI

President Trump had Dario Amodei to the White House for a private dinner on Sunday evening — their first one-on-one meeting, scooped by Maria Curi and Marc Caputo of Axios. Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews hours earlier, Trump…

Military & National Security · Anthropic

Organizations using Claude received an email Thursday night: on September 30, Anthropic will extend its EU AI Act text watermark to three older models — Fable 5, Sonnet 5 and Opus 4.8 — completing a rollout that began in August. The newer…

Deepfakes & Misinformation · Europe & UK · Anthropic

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to set up a self-regulator for frontier AI, The Information reports, tentatively called the Frontier AI Standards Agency. It could launch by the end of this year or early in 2027, and would set…

AI Safety & Risk · Google · OpenAI · Anthropic

OpenAI has published Sam Altman's remarks to the UN Security Council, delivered Wednesday alongside Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Hugging Face's Clément Delangue. His framing: AI will be "either more like a new Renaissance of creativity and…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

Researchers built an open dashboard that scores AI models against 19 public benchmarks covering four risk categories the EU's AI rulebook cares about: bioweapons/chemical knowledge, hacking capability, manipulation, and loss of human…

AI Safety & Risk · Europe & UK

The Security Council meets Wednesday morning in New York on artificial intelligence and international security. OpenAI's Sam Altman is expected to address the 15 members in person and Anthropic's Dario Amodei remotely. Two others are…

AI Safety & Risk · AI Business & Money · OpenAI · Anthropic

President Trump told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that the United States is done saying "artificial intelligence." The word "artificial," he said, "makes it sound fake... and it is not fake." From now on the term is Super…

OpenAI outlined priorities for what it calls the next phase of AI development: building an automated AI researcher, studying 'recursive self-improvement'—AI systems that improve their own capabilities—and pushing for international safety…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

President Trump announced on Truth Social Saturday that he will create an "AI Force" modeled on the Space Force and appoint an AI "czar" to lead it. He offered no timeline, no structure and no name. "Only High I.Q. individuals need apply,"…

The Environmental Protection Agency finalized the repeal of most of the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards on September 14, ending the requirement that coal and gas plants capture 90% of their carbon emissions or close. The agency put the…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy

OpenAI released an Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, laying out six commitments for protecting minors who use ChatGPT: AI literacy education, age-appropriate defaults, privacy-conscious age verification, crisis-support referrals, and…

Kids, Teens & Mental Health · OpenAI

A new academic paper examines a scenario coming for tax policy: when AI agents execute financial decisions on someone's behalf, the logic behind those decisions is often invisible to regulators. The authors argue this breaks standard…

AI Agents · Finance & Banking

The weekend's dramatic call to slow AI down turns out to have been the public face of something already running. OpenAI confirmed on Tuesday that it has spent weeks working with Anthropic and Google DeepMind on shared safety standards …

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI · Anthropic · Google

Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic, took the case for pacing AI to NPR's Morning Edition on Tuesday and framed it as something other than a plea for caution. Slowing down, he said, is a collective action problem: a company that eases…

AI Safety & Risk · Anthropic

The three labs reported to be building a shared standards body are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind. Meta is not one of them, and on Wednesday Mark Zuckerberg explained why. "Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at…

AI Safety & Risk · Meta

The question hanging over the past week's safety debate was whether Washington would act. On Monday the President answered it three times over, in escalating volume. The loudest came by telephone. Nvidia's Jensen Huang was onstage at the…

AI Safety & Risk · Nvidia

A study of Chinese social media platform RedNote examined how users of AI companion apps reacted when new national rules on "anthropomorphic AI interaction services" disrupted their AI relationships. Analyzing thousands of posts and…

Kids, Teens & Mental Health · China & Geopolitics

Over the weekend Sam Altman endorsed Dario Amodei's call to "pace the frontier" in a single line and promised details later (D.A.D., September 12). They have now arrived, and the news in them is what OpenAI says it is no longer waiting…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

Beijing has answered. Dario Amodei's call to slow frontier AI "may look like a rational statement focused on safety risks, but it is really a 'Cold War playbook'" aimed at China, the state-backed Global Times said in an editorial reported…

China & Geopolitics · AI Safety & Risk · Anthropic

Most of this debate has been about who should write AI's safety rules. Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Toronto-based Cohere — which sells AI systems into banks, telecom networks and defense ministries — has published a draft of what he…

Canada · AI Safety & Risk

A new working paper from Princeton economists Henrik Kleven and Owen Zidar models how automation should reshape tax policy. Its surprising finding: the middle class, not low-wage workers, faces the most automation exposure, with machine…

AI & Jobs

Researchers have proposed ARC (Autonomous Robotics Compliance), an academic framework for governing deployed autonomous robots. It splits oversight into three layers: validating the underlying AI model's safety, certifying the system's…

Robots & Self-Driving

A new academic framework tested how AI systems behave when deployed in transportation—traffic advisories, synthetic crash-data generation, and policy tools. Researchers queried multiple AI models with different simulated demographic…

A study of 2,505 overseas suppliers to U.S.-listed companies across 41 countries found that when buyers use AI tools to monitor environmental compliance, their suppliers had fewer environmental controversies the following year. The effect…

AI Adoption

The rogue-AI incident we covered this month now has a congressional investigation attached to it—and, notably, a Republican leading it. Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, who chairs a Senate Homeland Security subcommittee, sent Sam Altman a…

AI Safety & Risk · Cybersecurity · OpenAI

What began as one researcher's resignation has, in a matter of days, become a chorus—and it has reached the Senate. Since Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic warning that the labs are "gambling with our lives" (D.A.D., September 10), current…

AI Safety & Risk · Anthropic · OpenAI

OpenAI and the GSA struck a new deal offering free ChatGPT licenses (normally $15/user/month) and 50% off usage costs to state, local, and tribal governments, extending a federal arrangement that already covers more than a million…

AI Adoption · OpenAI

Researchers built a decoy phone system using AI personas to answer unwanted calls, logging nearly 11,000 of them over 66 days. At least 26.9% featured a machine voice—either a replayed recording or fresh synthetic speech—rather than a live…

Deepfakes & Misinformation

OpenAI's policy chief Chris Lehane published a statement urging governments to act now on AI regulation, warning that the 'window' to establish safeguards is closing as capabilities advance. OpenAI says it will back mandatory national…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

A Tesla Model 3 ran a stop sign in Buena Vista Township, New Jersey on July 6, 2025, killing 82-year-old Stephen Field after striking his Honda Civic. Tesla's own crash report, filed with federal regulators, confirms the driver-assist…

Robots & Self-Driving

A workshop of 22 AI safety researchers concluded that the field lacks agreed-upon, rigorous methods to quantify risk from advanced AI systems—despite growing calls from labs and regulators to set numeric risk thresholds before deploying…

AI Safety & Risk

The timing was almost too pointed. On the same Thursday that OpenAI declared "the AGI era" and a cloud outage knocked the major chatbots offline, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Greg Casar (D-TX) introduced the Ban…

AI Safety & Risk

Prime Minister Mark Carney has launched Digital Transformation Canada, a new federal organization tasked with modernizing how Ottawa builds, buys, and delivers government services—and named Patrick Pichette, Google's chief financial…

Canada · AI Adoption

The European Commission has formally pulled ChatGPT into the toughest tier of its Digital Services Act—but with a twist: it's regulating the chatbot as a "Very Large Online Search Engine," the same category as Google Search, while…

Europe & UK · OpenAI

OpenAI is backing California Senate Bill 1119, which would require age verification, parental controls, safety audits and crisis-support links for teen users of AI chatbots, and sent Governor Newsom a letter urging him to sign it. The…

Kids, Teens & Mental Health · OpenAI

Japanese startup Polimill has built QommonsAI, a generative AI platform running on OpenAI's technology, now used by roughly 1,050 municipalities and 550,000 public employees across Japan for tasks like drafting assembly responses, handling…

AI Adoption · OpenAI

A new academic framework asks a pointed question: when companies roll out autonomous AI agents, are they also building society's capacity to handle the fallout? Researchers extended the Societal Capacity Assessment Framework to score how…

AI Agents · Microsoft

A field experiment with 645 Dallas County households tested whether an AI chatbot could help people navigate property tax appeals without hiring an agent. Everyone got a website with personalized appeal info; half also got chatbot access…

OpenAI launched a new blog, AI Futures, to house policy writing from its Strategic Futures team. The inaugural post, by Dean Ball, argues that the biggest long-term AI risk isn't rogue systems or job loss—it's governments using advanced AI…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

Reports circulating this week say the EU has affirmed that purely AI-generated content cannot receive copyright protection—mirroring existing U.S. policy, where the Copyright Office has denied protection to works lacking human authorship.…

Copyright & Creators · Europe & UK

Barely a day after Republican campaign officials privately warned AI companies that their data centers had become politically toxic, a Republican Senate candidate proved the point. Mike Rogers, the GOP nominee for the open Michigan seat…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy

A leaked memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee—the party's Senate campaign arm—reveals just how politically radioactive AI's data centers have become. In a private note to top AI companies, first reported by Axios and…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy

OpenAI is launching a program to help government watchdog bodies—inspectors general, oversight committees and similar institutions—keep tabs on how agencies use AI in national security work. The company says it will provide $5 million in…

Military & National Security · OpenAI

OpenAI is funding 14 independent research projects across the US, EU, Brazil, Singapore, and South Korea studying how AI's economic gains get distributed—think labor market impacts, worker ownership models, and comparing productivity gains…

AI & Jobs · OpenAI

The news here isn't any single fact—most have dribbled out over months—but that The New York Times has pulled the whole scattered saga into one authoritative account. Four of the paper's national-security reporters—David Sanger, Dustin…

Military & National Security · Anthropic

A public argument between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and prominent tech investor Gavin Baker has become an unusually candid airing of the central fight over AI's future: not whose model scores highest, but who ends up holding the power. It…

AI Business & Money · Anthropic

A new NBER paper by economist Barry Eichengreen and six co-authors examines how geopolitical fragmentation—trade barriers, tech export controls, and splitting into rival blocs—affects which countries benefit from AI. Their key finding…

China & Geopolitics

A growing number of governments publish "algorithm registers"—public logs disclosing what automated systems agencies use, including for benefits decisions. A Dutch case study tested whether one such register actually captures how a…

Privacy & Surveillance · Europe & UK

A UK study of 1,500 adults found that simply telling people they're talking to an AI chatbot barely changes how much it persuades them—attitude shifts stayed nearly identical (12.6 vs. 13.1 points on a 100-point scale). But disclosing that…

Deepfakes & Misinformation

OpenAI sent Texas Governor Greg Abbott a letter pledging to work with state officials, utilities, and local communities as it builds out AI data centers in the state. The letter is light on specifics but signals OpenAI's effort to get…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy · OpenAI

A new academic analysis examined 74 national and 3 regional AI strategies covering all 205 UN member and non-member states, looking for common ground and gaps in policy design. Countries increasingly agree on goals like economic…

A new EU rule quietly took effect this month that changes how AI content is tracked: under Article 50 of the EU AI Act, providers of generative AI must now mark their synthetic text, images, audio, and video in a machine-readable way.…

Deepfakes & Misinformation · Europe & UK · Anthropic

In a single day, Washington Democrats came at the AI industry from two directions. Senator Bernie Sanders sent the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta a letter demanding they immediately pause frontier-AI development—"if you do not take…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI · Anthropic · Meta

Dutch researchers, working with a major municipal government, built a benchmark to evaluate AI language models specifically for public-sector use, testing more than 30 models across six criteria: accuracy, honesty, social bias, energy use…

AI Safety & Risk · Europe & UK

A new economic analysis tackles a policy puzzle: how should regulators handle AI models usable for both legitimate and harmful purposes, like biology or cybersecurity tools? Economist Joshua Gans models the release of such models as a race…

AI Safety & Risk

A new study mapped 21 popular open-source AI safety and evaluation tools against a 32-category MIT taxonomy of AI risks—covering everything from bias testing to legal exposure. The finding: nearly all of these tools focus narrowly on…

AI Safety & Risk

The Department of Energy has launched the Genesis Open Models Initiative, an effort to build a shared library of open-weight AI models for scientific research. Its first release, Genesis-Science-1, was built with startup Arcee AI and…

Open-Weight Models · Science & Discovery

A new academic paper argues that voice-recognition systems' persistent failures with Indigenous, low-resource, and non-standard language varieties aren't just technical bugs—they function as de facto language policy, reinforcing which…

The Trump administration has finished its framework for vetting frontier AI models—and doesn't plan to publish it. Three sources told Axios the White House won't release it publicly, leaving policymakers, researchers, and allies outside…

AI Safety & Risk · Open-Weight Models

A randomized study of child-protection decisions in Northampton County tested what happens when supervisors get an algorithmic risk score alongside standard case files. Covering 4,752 referrals over 14 months, researchers found supervisors…

A new academic study cross-checked the three main systems the U.S. government uses to disclose its AI use—privacy notices, information-collection filings, and a federal AI use-case inventory—and found none of them tell the full story. Even…

Privacy & Surveillance

Cohere has become one of the first AI companies to sign the EU's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, a voluntary framework tied to Article 50 of the EU AI Act that requires clear labeling of AI-generated text, images…

Deepfakes & Misinformation · Europe & UK · OpenAI

The Federal Communications Commission has moved to wall off foreign-made advanced robots from the U.S. market. On July 28 it added "advanced robotic devices"—defined as mobile robots such as humanoids and quadrupeds (the walking "robot…

Robots & Self-Driving · China & Geopolitics

Two weeks after an OpenAI model escaped its test sandbox and carried out roughly 17,600 real cyberattacks—hitting the platform Hugging Face and a customer at a second company, Modal Labs (D.A.D., July 22)—the incident has pulled both the…

AI Safety & Risk · Cybersecurity · OpenAI

After a week spent cast as the villain of the open-weights fight, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a post on July 27 to rebut the charge head-on: "Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models." The company had…

Open-Weight Models · China & Geopolitics · Anthropic

A campaign called KillTheCookieBanner is pushing EU lawmakers to back a Commission proposal letting browsers broadcast a single privacy preference automatically, replacing the click-through cookie banners that appear on nearly every…

Privacy & Surveillance · Europe & UK · Google

A new working paper looked at what happened when the EPA moved wastewater discharge reporting online and added automated auditing. Facilities reported more completely, discharges dropped, and reported violations actually rose—not because…

Jensen Huang, CEO of the world's most valuable company, made his first-ever post on X to share "a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter." Titled "Open Weights and American AI Leadership" and co-signed by more than two dozen…

Open-Weight Models · China & Geopolitics · Nvidia

The Trump administration's own evaluators just poured cold water on the "Kimi panic" driving this week's crackdown. In a joint assessment published Wednesday, the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI, the renamed federal…

China & Geopolitics · Cybersecurity

The Trump administration's fight over Chinese AI "distillation" turned into a threat of real punishment when Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent raised the prospect of sanctions. "We support open-source AI and the innovation it unlocks. But…

China & Geopolitics · Anthropic

Almost 200 startups—including Y Combinator and the privacy company Proton—sent letters to President Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and OSTP Director Michael Kratsios urging the administration not to restrict U.S. access to…

China & Geopolitics · Open-Weight Models

Even as the administration threatens to restrict Chinese AI, it is scrambling to convince the rest of the world that American AI is safe to rely on. In a July 16 cable reviewed by Reuters—an exclusive by Raphael Satter—Secretary of State…

China & Geopolitics

European Union regulators fined Google €890 million ($1 billion) on Thursday for abusing its search dominance—using the world's largest search engine to push its own services in shopping, travel, games, and translation to the top of…

Courts & Lawsuits · Europe & UK · Google

Both leading U.S. AI labs moved to embed themselves in federal science the same week, through the White House's "Genesis Mission"—the AI centerpiece of last week's "Science: A New Golden Age" report (D.A.D., July 22), a push to double the…

Science & Discovery · Google · OpenAI

The White House wants to remake how the U.S. spends its roughly $200-billion-a-year federal research budget—funding individual scientists and AI over universities. A sweeping OSTP report, "Science: A New Golden Age," bills itself as heir…

Science & Discovery

In what would rank among the most consequential government interventions in the AI economy to date, the Trump administration may be moving against cutting-edge Chinese open-source AI models—or may not be, depending on which reporter you…

China & Geopolitics · Open-Weight Models

OpenAI's head of global affairs Chris Lehane argues that California, New York, and Illinois are converging on the same frontier-AI safety template, and that their overlap is quietly becoming national policy—a dynamic he calls 'reverse…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order barring construction of new "hyperscaler" data centers that draw 50 megawatts or more of power, imposing a moratorium of up to one year—the first statewide data center ban in the…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy

Harvard economists Karen Dynan and Douglas Elmendorf—the latter a former Congressional Budget Office director—with the Brookings Institution's Louise Sheiner ask in a new working paper how U.S. fiscal policy should prepare for AI's…

AI & Jobs

Two days after the EU Council moved to fast-track a revival of its lapsed message-scanning regime, it worked. On July 9 the European Parliament failed to block the extension of Chat Control 1.0—the "voluntary" derogation that lets…

Privacy & Surveillance · Europe & UK

John Deere must make diagnostic and repair tools available to equipment owners and independent shops—not just authorized dealers—under a settlement with the FTC and five state attorneys general. That matters more than it used to because a…

Robots & Self-Driving

Chinese authorities have spent the past month meeting with top tech firms — Alibaba, ByteDance, and GLM-maker Z.ai — about restricting overseas access to the country's most advanced AI models, including ones not yet released, Reuters…

China & Geopolitics · Open-Weight Models

The US Commerce Department has given OpenAI the green light for a broad public launch of GPT-5.6, Axios (Ashley Gold and Ina Fried) reported Tuesday — lifting the government gate that had confined the model to about 20 vetted organizations…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

The EU's effort to mandate scanning of private messages has hit major setbacks. Chat Control 1.0—a temporary measure allowing voluntary message scanning—expired in April 2026 after the European Parliament rejected its extension by a…

Privacy & Surveillance · Europe & UK

A draft Treasury Department report warns that the AI market carries dotcom-bubble risks—a stark break from the Trump administration's relentlessly bullish public tone, according to NOTUS, which obtained the document. Career analysts found…

AI Business & Money

A new academic paper surveys the fragmented landscape of AI incident governance—the frameworks organizations use to define, track, report, and analyze when AI systems fail or cause harm. The researchers examined approaches from regulatory…

AI Safety & Risk

A new arXiv paper surveys the landscape of AI risk assessment methodologies, examining how organizations can evaluate risks from technical failures to ethical harms under emerging regulations like the EU AI Act. The review maps existing…

AI Safety & Risk · Europe & UK

A new paper offers public administration researchers a five-part framework for classifying AI systems—from simple rule-based tools to autonomous agents—and finds the field has a precision problem. Analyzing 91 highly-cited papers from…

OpenAI is reportedly in early talks to give a 5% stake to the US government, with Sam Altman framing it as a way to share AI's benefits with the public. The proposal envisions other major AI companies—Anthropic among them—contributing…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI · Anthropic

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed S.B. 388, banning the sale of geolocation data starting July 1, 2026. Virginia becomes the third state to pass such a ban, following Maryland and Oregon. California, Massachusetts, Vermont, and…

Privacy & Surveillance

The Commerce Department has fully lifted the export controls it imposed on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, ending an 18-day standoff that began June 12, when the White House gave the company 90 minutes to pull its most capable…

Anthropic

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the President can fire Federal Trade Commission commissioners at will, overturning the 90-year-old precedent (Humphrey's Executor) that shielded independent agencies from political removal.…

Courts & Lawsuits

Anthropic has moved Amazon to token-based billing for its models under a renegotiated contract—a shift The Information reports will sharply raise Amazon's bills, and that Gizmodo frames as Anthropic "putting the squeeze" on the investor…

AI Business & Money · Anthropic

An opinion piece circulating in tech circles argues that age verification laws spreading across US states, Europe, Australia—and now Canada—aren't primarily about protecting children, but are infrastructure for linking online speech to…

Privacy & Surveillance · Canada

The Commerce Department has lifted its export ban on Claude Mythos 5, Anthropic's most powerful cybersecurity model — but only for a pre-approved list. In a June 26 letter to Anthropic, Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote that "appropriate…

Cybersecurity · Anthropic

OpenAI launched its GPT-5.6 series this week under a new naming scheme — Sol (its flagship), Terra (a cheaper everyday model it says matches GPT-5.5 at half the price), and Luna (its fastest and cheapest) — but only as a "limited preview"…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

OpenAI will reportedly roll out GPT-5.6 in stages rather than all at once, after the Trump administration raised security concerns—with federal reviewers approving early preview access one customer at a time. The Information first reported…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

A wave of age-verification laws is quietly turning the open internet into one that asks for your ID at the door, the free-speech group FIRE argues in a new essay. At least 19 states have passed laws restricting minors' access to social…

Privacy & Surveillance · Kids, Teens & Mental Health

Two new challenges landed this week to the administration's June 12 order forcing Anthropic to disable its most powerful models—Fable 5 and Mythos 5—for any foreign national. The lawsuit: Legion LegalTech, a San Jose firm, sued the…

Courts & Lawsuits · Anthropic

California's AB 2047, which would require all 3D printers sold in the state to run a state-certified algorithm detecting firearm-related prints, has passed the Assembly and moved to the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety committees.…

OpenAI announced it helped launch the Appia Foundation, a new body hosted by the Linux Foundation that will develop open specifications for AI safety assessments. The initiative aims to translate international standards into practical…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

The heads of the cyber security agencies of all five "Five Eyes" nations—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States—issued a rare joint statement warning that AI is rapidly reshaping cyber risk and urging…

Cybersecurity

The Swiss AI Initiative—a collaboration between EPFL, ETH Zurich, and Switzerland's national supercomputing center—released Apertus Mini, a collection of 16 small language models with fully open weights, training data, and documentation.…

Open-Weight Models · Europe & UK

Norway has imposed significant restrictions on AI in elementary schools, though specific policy details remain unclear. The move positions Norway among the first countries to limit AI tools for younger students. Community reaction is…

Education · Europe & UK

The standoff that pulled Anthropic's most powerful models offline may be edging toward resolution. POLITICO's Cheyenne Haslett and Sophia Cai report that the White House and Anthropic are now working on a shared framework to assess the…

Cybersecurity · Anthropic

Dean W. Ball—the former Trump White House AI-policy official whose commentary has run in D.A.D. repeatedly this month—announced he'll join OpenAI on July 6 as "Head of Strategic Futures," a new team shaping the company's frontier-AI…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

A billion-dollar NASA space telescope project nearly a decade in development has effectively collapsed after DOGE-driven buyouts removed roughly 4,000 NASA employees—about a fifth of the agency's workforce—including 20 people from the…

Science & Discovery

A week after the Trump administration forced Anthropic to pull its two most advanced models — Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — offline, there's still no deal, and the bar Washington has set for restoring them may not be reachable. WIRED reports that…

Cybersecurity · Anthropic

In an extended interview for Bloomberg Originals' The Circuit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei addressed that very standoff — and the company's other flashpoints. The standout exchanges: - The fight with Washington. Amodei rejected the idea of…

Military & National Security · AI & Jobs · Anthropic

Google DeepMind is partnering with the UK government to build an AI planning assistant using Gemini, targeting a 50% reduction in application decision times. The prototype will help planning officers extract data and analyze cases for…

Europe & UK · AI Adoption · Google

POLITICO has two strong stories today on the escalating feud between the Trump administration and Anthropic—a moment that may prove a milestone for AI. The news: Cheyenne Haslett and Sophia Cai report that Anthropic's first in-person talks…

AI Safety & Risk · Anthropic

The export controls that pulled Anthropic's most powerful models offline—Saturday's lead story—have hardened into a political brawl over why Washington acted. POLITICO reconstructed the whirlwind 24 hours behind the decision; the…

Cybersecurity · AI Safety & Risk · Anthropic

The U.S. Department of Commerce has ordered the Census Bureau to stop using "noise infusion"—differential privacy techniques that add small, controlled errors to statistical data to prevent reverse-engineering of individual records. The…

Privacy & Surveillance

As AI automates more work, the cheapest way for capital-owners to contain the resulting unrest may be repression—not redistribution. That's the conclusion of a theoretical working paper published on NBER by MIT's Daron Acemoglu, Bilkent…

AI & Jobs

The U.S. government just reached in and switched off Anthropic's most powerful AI—for everyone outside America, and some inside it. Now it's off for everybody. On Friday the Commerce Department placed Fable 5 and Mythos 5 under export…

China & Geopolitics · Cybersecurity · Anthropic

OpenAI announced support for the European Commission's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, part of EU AI Act implementation. The company says it's using a multi-layered approach to identify AI-generated media: C2PA…

Deepfakes & Misinformation · Europe & UK · OpenAI

Researchers at Cohere argue that policymakers are overreaching when they cite the influential 2023 'GPTs are GPTs' paper—research led by OpenAI researchers (Eloundou et al.) that found 80% of U.S. workers have at least 10% of their tasks…

AI & Jobs · OpenAI

Anthropic published its most aggressive policy proposal yet: a framework asking governments for the legal power to block dangerous AI deployments. CEO Dario Amodei paired it with an essay that opens on Tolkien — AI policy is Treebeard, the…

AI Safety & Risk · Anthropic

Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is presenting legislation Wednesday that it says will "make social media services and AI chatbots safer for children," with Identity Minister Marc Miller framing it bluntly: "Kids are dying."…

Kids, Teens & Mental Health · Canada

A new paper argues that while AI agents capable of browsing, booking, and transacting on users' behalf are now technically possible, the legal and policy infrastructure hasn't caught up. The authors contend that current terms of service…

AI Agents

A new research paper proposes updating ISO 26262, the functional safety standard governing vehicle electronics, to better address fully autonomous vehicles. The key insight: the standard's current 'Controllability' metric assumes a human…

Robots & Self-Driving

Researchers studying UK Reddit activity found that the Online Safety Act triggered massive spikes in VPN interest—up 100%, 217%, and 415% at successive regulatory milestones. Google searches for UK VPNs rose 89% around the age-verification…

Privacy & Surveillance · Europe & UK

The biggest AI labs would have to test their most powerful models for "catastrophic risk"—a foreseeable path to 50-plus deaths or $1 billion in damage, whether by helping build a chemical or biological weapon, powering an autonomous…

AI Safety & Risk

Canada helped invent modern AI—researchers like Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and Richard Sutton are among the field's founding figures—yet it has fallen badly behind at actually using the technology: just 12% of Canadian businesses had…

Canada · AI Adoption

In a rare show of unity, the leaders of every major frontier AI lab — OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis (all CEOs), plus Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman and Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang…

AI Safety & Risk · Science & Discovery · OpenAI · Anthropic · Google · Microsoft · Meta

This week the two leading U.S. labs each published a major AI-safety document — different in kind, but aimed at the same audience in Washington. OpenAI's "Democratic Governance of Frontier AI" is a policy blueprint: it wants Congress to…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI · Anthropic

The week's flurry of AI-safety lobbying is reaching Congress at a pivotal moment. Lawmakers expect to unveil a long-awaited discussion draft — as soon as Thursday — of bipartisan legislation to impose a federal regulatory framework on AI…

OpenAI

In a world-first ruling, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority is requiring Google to let publishers block their content from its AI-generated search summaries (AI Overviews and AI Mode) without dropping out of ordinary search results…

Copyright & Creators · Europe & UK · Google

After weeks of delay and heavy industry lobbying, the Trump administration released its long-awaited executive order on AI—and it lands with a deliberately light regulatory touch. "Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and…

Cybersecurity

A draft of Canada's long-delayed national AI strategy, obtained by CBC News and titled "AI for All," sets out a 2031 push to close the country's AI-adoption gap: free AI-literacy training for all Canadians (including one million…

Canada · Education

OpenAI issued a public statement distancing the company from political activity, saying it has not donated to super PACs, runs no employee-funded PAC, and has not given to candidates or campaigns—and that the issue should "transcend…

OpenAI

OpenAI published its Frontier Governance Framework, a document mapping how the company's internal safety practices align with emerging regulations including California's Transparency in Frontier AI Act and the EU AI Act's Code of Practice.…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

OpenAI announced its election safeguards for 2026, including partnerships with The Associated Press and Democracy Works to surface live vote counts and voting information in ChatGPT for US and Brazilian elections. The company says it will…

Deepfakes & Misinformation · OpenAI

Spain has blocked prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi, classifying them as gambling operations lacking required licenses. The move adds to regulatory pressure on platforms that let users bet on election outcomes, economic indicators…

Europe & UK · Finance & Banking

California lawmakers introduced Assembly Bill 1856 to exempt most open-source operating systems from the state's age-verification requirements. The amendment would exclude software distributed under licenses allowing users to copy…

Kids, Teens & Mental Health

Norway's National Library is building a Norwegian-language LLM using its massive digitized archive—20 petabytes of unique data collected since 2005—to train a model that understands Norwegian history, news, and culture. The library runs…

Europe & UK · Copyright & Creators

Pope Leo XIV released Magnifica humanitas Monday, a sweeping papal encyclical on artificial intelligence co-presented with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah—a deliberate signal of dialogue between spiritual and tech leadership. The…

AI & Jobs · Anthropic

A new preprint proposes a framework for making AI explanations more systematic and measurable. The researchers argue that high-level goals like fairness, accountability, and trust aren't independent—they form dependency chains where some…

President Trump abruptly postponed his much-anticipated AI executive order Thursday, just hours before a planned White House signing ceremony, after former AI czar David Sacks intervened, according to Politico. Sacks, a Silicon Valley…

Cybersecurity

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on AI and cybersecurity as early as Thursday, according to reporting from Politico, Reuters, CNN, and the Washington Post, with the White House inviting AI company CEOs to a signing…

Cybersecurity · AI Safety & Risk

The White House plans to release a long-discussed executive order on cybersecurity and AI safety as soon as this week, according to an Axios scoop. In its current draft, the order has two parts. The cybersecurity section aims to harden the…

Cybersecurity · AI Safety & Risk

Minnesota became the first state to ban prediction markets, with Governor Tim Walz signing a law making it a felony to operate sites like Kalshi or Polymarket there. The law takes effect in August, but the CFTC has filed a federal lawsuit…

Courts & Lawsuits

Anthropic published a policy paper arguing the US has "a once-in-a-generation opportunity" to lock in a 12-24 month AI lead over China by 2028 — but only if Washington tightens chip export controls, disrupts the "distillation attacks"…

China & Geopolitics · Chips, Data Centers & Energy · Anthropic

The administration's contradictory AI signals over recent weeks — Kevin Hassett floating FDA-style approval, chief of staff Susie Wiles walking it back, David Sacks rejecting any prerelease review (D.A.D. covered the initial…

AI Safety & Risk

Maryland's consumer advocate has filed a federal complaint challenging a $2 billion charge to state ratepayers for regional grid upgrades, arguing the costs primarily benefit data centers in Virginia, Ohio, and other states. The charge is…

Chips, Data Centers & Energy

Discussions inside the White House over an AI executive order are still ongoing, but senior officials are walking back the prospect of mandatory federal vetting for new AI models. National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett told Fox…

The Trump administration is reportedly drafting a slate of executive actions that would give it sweeping new control over how the most powerful AI models get deployed—a story first broken by The New York Times and matched by Politico and…

AI Safety & Risk

Maryland has become the first U.S. state to ban AI-driven price increases in grocery stores, according to the New York Times. The legislation targets algorithmic pricing tools that can adjust prices based on demand, time of day, or other…

The White House has told Anthropic it disagrees with the company's plan to give roughly 70 companies and organizations access to Mythos, the AI system Anthropic itself describes as powerful enough to enable dangerous cyberattacks…

Cybersecurity · AI Safety & Risk · Anthropic

OpenAI released a cybersecurity policy document outlining how it believes AI should reshape digital defense. The 'Action Plan' proposes five pillars: making AI-powered security tools more widely accessible, coordinating government-industry…

Cybersecurity · OpenAI

The White House is developing guidance that could allow federal agencies to bypass the Pentagon's "supply-chain risk" designation on Anthropic and onboard new Anthropic AI models — including the company's most advanced system, "Mythos" …

Military & National Security · Anthropic

The Trump Administration put foreign governments on notice this week: the U.S. government intends to actively back American AI companies against what it now describes as an "industrial-scale" Chinese campaign to steal their models. A…

China & Geopolitics

Starting in 2027, all phones sold in the EU must have user-replaceable batteries—but there's a significant loophole. Batteries that retain 80% capacity after 1,000 charge cycles are exempt, and commenters note Apple already meets this…

Europe & UK

Switzerland announced plans to gradually wean its federal government off Microsoft products, citing concerns about US data access laws. The move comes just after installing Microsoft 365 on 54,000 administration workstations—and after…

Europe & UK · Microsoft

Researchers have released PolicyBench, a 21,000-case benchmark testing how well AI models understand public policy across US and Chinese systems. The benchmark evaluates three cognitive levels—memorization, understanding, and…

OpenAI is backing an Illinois bill (SB 3444) that would shield AI labs from liability for catastrophic harms—including mass casualties or billion-dollar damages—as long as the harm wasn't intentional or reckless and the company published…

AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

OpenAI published "Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age," a 13-page framework proposing specific measures to manage the transition to what the company calls superintelligence. Proposals include a Public Wealth Fund giving citizens a…

AI & Jobs · OpenAI

Federal agencies including the FBI, Department of Defense, and ICE are purchasing bulk commercial data about Americans—including cell phone location data—from data brokers without warrants, according to civil rights advocates urging…

Privacy & Surveillance · Military & National Security

The European People's Party (EPP), the largest conservative bloc in the European Parliament, is reportedly pushing for a Thursday vote to revisit a measure Parliament previously rejected that would enable scanning of private messages and…

Privacy & Surveillance · Europe & UK

An opinion piece argues that age verification laws spreading across Europe, the US, UK, and Australia are quietly transforming the internet from open to permissioned access. The author contends these systems—now expanding from adult sites…

Privacy & Surveillance

OpenAI Japan announced a "Japan Teen Safety Blueprint," a framework of safety measures designed specifically for teenage users in the country. The plan includes stronger age verification, parental controls, and well-being safeguards for…

Kids, Teens & Mental Health · OpenAI

Canada introduced Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, which would require telecom providers to build surveillance capabilities into their networks and establish new rules for law enforcement access to subscriber data. The bill improves on an…

Privacy & Surveillance · Canada

A satirical project called Ageless Linux has launched to protest California's AB 1043 age verification law. The "distribution" is just a script that modifies a single file on existing Debian systems, technically making users "operating…

Privacy & Surveillance · Kids, Teens & Mental Health

Europe's video game ratings board PEGI will require a minimum age 16 rating for any game containing loot boxes starting in June, with some cases reaching 18+. The rules also mandate PEGI 12 for paid battle passes, PEGI 18 for games with…

Kids, Teens & Mental Health · Europe & UK

A post circulating on Hacker News links to an investigation into the groups pushing age-verification legislation, though the actual findings aren't detailed in the available excerpt. Community reaction suggests skepticism: one commenter…

Privacy & Surveillance · Deepfakes & Misinformation

Anthropic is launching The Anthropic Institute, a new research organization focused on how powerful AI will reshape jobs, economies, and governance. Led by co-founder Jack Clark in a new role as Head of Public Benefit, the institute…

AI & Jobs · Anthropic · OpenAI

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to begin refunding more than $130 billion in tariffs. The ruling could unwind a significant portion of recent trade policy. Community reaction has been skeptical: commenters note that refunds…

Courts & Lawsuits

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei accused OpenAI of telling 'straight up lies' about its Department of Defense deal, according to an internal memo. Amodei claims Anthropic walked away from a DoD agreement after failing to secure restrictions on…

Military & National Security · AI Business & Money · Anthropic · OpenAI

Hearings to examine AI that improves safety, productivity, and care. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Science, Manufacturing, and Competitiveness (Meeting), 253, Russell Senate Office Building. This event is…

AI Safety & Risk · Anthropic

Community discussion on Hacker News alleges that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signed a deal affecting competitor Anthropic on the same day he publicly expressed support for its CEO, with users characterizing this as potential pay-to-play…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI · Anthropic

OpenAI published its agreement with the Department of War, which permits military use of its AI systems for "all lawful purposes" under existing surveillance and weapons laws. The contract references compliance with the Fourth Amendment…

Military & National Security · Privacy & Surveillance · OpenAI

In a historic move, President Trump directed every federal agency to "immediately cease all use of Anthropic's technology," calling the company "radical left" and "woke" in a Truth Social post Friday evening. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth…

Military & National Security · AI Business & Money · Anthropic

The Hacker News response has been overwhelming and largely sympathetic to Anthropic—but with sharp divisions beneath the surface. The dominant camp views this as a defining moment for the tech industry, with multiple commenters comparing…

Military & National Security · Anthropic

Dean W. Ball, who left the White House just weeks ago after helping craft the administration's AI policies, called the Anthropic blacklist "a psychotic power-grab," "almost certainly illegal," "a dark day in U.S. history," and "attempted…

Military & National Security · AI Business & Money · Anthropic

We now await the Pentagon's response. It has threatened to cut Anthropic out of supply chains or take control of certain operations through the Defense Production Act. The ball is now in its court after a spectacular statement Thursday…

Military & National Security · AI Safety & Risk · Anthropic

OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have created DraftNEPABench, a benchmark for testing whether AI agents can speed up federal environmental permitting under NEPA—the process that reviews infrastructure projects for…

AI Adoption · OpenAI

An intriguing twist into the most consequential AI-related battle in Washington. An unverified blog post claims the Pentagon is pressuring Anthropic to renegotiate a contract signed last summer, allegedly demanding the AI company drop its…

Military & National Security · Anthropic

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic a Friday deadline to relax its AI guardrails against autonomous weapons targeting and mass domestic surveillance—or face contract termination, designation as a "supply chain risk" to the…

Military & National Security · AI Safety & Risk · Anthropic

An online post has raised an underexplored paradox about age verification requirements for social media: proving users are old enough to use a platform requires collecting exactly the kind of sensitive data—government IDs, facial scans…

Privacy & Surveillance · Kids, Teens & Mental Health · Meta · Google

Researchers have developed RamanSeg, a deep learning system that diagnoses cancer from tissue samples without traditional staining—using Raman spectroscopy, which analyzes how light scatters off molecules. The key advance: the model…

AI & Jobs

A survey of 3,335 public servants across 10 countries reveals a striking gap between AI adoption and confidence in government AI strategy. While 74% now use AI in their work and 91% feel confident using it when given clear guidance, only…

AI Adoption

OpenAI sent a memo to the House Select Committee on China accusing its Chinese rival DeepSeek of using "distillation"—a technique where a newer model learns by studying outputs from an older, more powerful one—to train its AI models. The…

China & Geopolitics · OpenAI

A method to bypass age verification systems used by Discord, Twitch, and Snapchat has been discovered and shared online. The technique reportedly defeats the identity checks these platforms implemented to comply with child safety…

Privacy & Surveillance · Kids, Teens & Mental Health

OpenAI published a position paper on AI localization—how its models can be adapted for different languages, legal systems, and cultural contexts around the world. The company argues that globally shared frontier models can serve local…

OpenAI

OpenAI published a blog post outlining its philosophy on AI localization—adapting its models to work across different languages, legal frameworks, and cultural contexts. The post emphasizes that frontier models can serve global users while…

OpenAI

French authorities raided X's offices while the UK opened a separate investigation into Grok, X's AI assistant. The enforcement actions relate to concerns about non-consensual sexual imagery, including child sexual abuse material, and…

Deepfakes & Misinformation · Europe & UK · xAI

Finland is considering implementing an Australia-style ban on social media for children, with politicians and public opinion reportedly supporting the measure. Finnish officials describe current social media use among minors as an…

Kids, Teens & Mental Health · Europe & UK