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1. POLITICSElvis Presley's rights holders sue Anthropic, saying 274 of his songs went into ClaudeThe owners of Elvis Presley's music, led by Authentic Brands Group, sued Anthropic on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, alleging the company used 274 of Presley's copyrighted songs without a license to train its Claude models and that Claude still produces near-copies of them.
2. POLITICSUK puts more than £600 million into AI security, including a £100 million AI Biosecurity Lab backed by OpenAI and Anthropic creditsThe UK Treasury on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, set out an AI package Chancellor John Healey will fold into his Budget, led by a £165 million National AI Biosecurity Initiative whose centerpiece is a £100 million AI Biosecurity Lab supported by up to £200 million in model credits from OpenAI and Anthropic.
3. POLITICSTexas sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, saying ChatGPT was sold as safe without the warnings to matchTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, that he sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, claiming the company marketed ChatGPT as safe and reliable while failing to warn users, and to protect children, from its risks.
4. POLITICSHomeland Security orders DeepSeek ripped out of US civilian agencies, including apps built on its modelsThe Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products, and third-party products and services built using DeepSeek, from their IT systems and to stop buying them, according to a notice filed with the Federal Register on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026.
5. POLITICSIran's parliament speaker tells Gulf states: no money, land or power for AI companies that help attack IranIran's parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, wrote on X on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026, that "the Persian Gulf Data Authority is coming," and told governments, funds and firms in the region to give "no finance, equity, land and energy" to any AI or data company "aiding invasions or killing children."
6. POLITICSMeta cuts "train" from its new business terms after publishers push back, but the scraping language staysMeta has revised its upcoming commercial terms for business accounts to drop language that let it use content from websites "associated with" those accounts to "train" its products, after Nieman Lab reported the clause and publisher groups objected, Nieman Lab and The Verge reported on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026.
7. POLITICSAnthropic is quietly shopping its own AI safety bill, and it sets a high bar for stopping a modelAnthropic has been pitching lawmakers on Capitol Hill on a draft bill to regulate frontier AI safety and security, Politico reported on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, and an Anthropic spokesperson confirmed the effort to Reuters.
8. POLITICSUK regulator moves to put Microsoft's business software — Copilot included — under special competition rulesBritain's Competition and Markets Authority on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, proposed designating Microsoft with strategic market status in its business software ecosystem, the step that would let it impose binding conduct rules, and named Copilot's grip on workplace AI as a first area to examine.
9. POLITICSChina moves to put frontier AI models, agents and compute clusters on its export-control listChina's Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, proposed adding 40 technologies, 23 of them in AI, to the country's catalogue of technologies banned or restricted from export, and ordered exporters to register affected deals starting immediately.
10. POLITICSBritain says its AI testers are now evaluating Gemini 4 Argon, and tells AI labs: if you can't control it, don't release itThe UK government said on Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, that scientists at its AI Security Institute are "now conducting rigorous evaluations of the latest generation of models, including Gemini 4 Argon," after weeks of talks with the US government and AI labs to keep pre-release access. Reuters notes the confirmation follows reports last month that the White House had asked OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold new models from British testers. In the same speech, Narayan set out measures to make Britain "one of the hardest countries in the world to attack using artificial intelligence."
11. POLITICSA third Yandex data center goes dark after a drone strike, as the war reaches Russia's AI computersRussia's biggest tech and AI company said a drone attack on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026, damaged its data center in the Vladimir region east of Moscow and forced a complete shutdown, knocking some of its services offline. It follows Thursday's strike that shut Yandex's Sasovo hub and Friday's strike that partly disabled its Kaluga center. Russia has been hitting Ukrainian data centers for weeks; Ukraine's president calls the strikes on Yandex a mirror-image response.
12. POLITICSAt NYC's AI hearing, OpenAI wouldn't put a number on the worst case, and SpaceXAI didn't showNew York City Council held its hearing on the risks of advanced AI at City Hall on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026. Former Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon and other recently departed lab employees warned that the companies are racing to build systems they cannot control. Representatives of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta testified remotely, and Speaker Julie Menin said Elon Musk's SpaceXAI skipped the hearing in violation of the Council's subpoena.
13. POLITICSTrump forms a Super Intelligence Force led by spy chief Jay ClaytonOn Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he is forming a Super Intelligence Force to coordinate the federal government's work on what the administration now calls super intelligence. It will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael, and OPM Director Scott Kupor.
14. POLITICSHawley and Murphy bill would hold AI labs criminally liable when agents hackOn Oct. 1, 2026, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced the AI Agent Accountability Act, a bipartisan bill that would make AI agent operators and developers criminally and civilly liable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when agents cause hacking damage — including prison exposure for executives who fail to put in reasonable safeguards.
15. POLITICSDOJ charges California tech owner with smuggling more than $300M in AI GPU servers to ChinaOn Oct. 1, 2026, the Justice Department said Greg Lui — owner of City of Industry–based Earthmade Computer — was arrested on a federal indictment charging him with smuggling more than $300 million of export-controlled high-end GPU servers commonly used for AI to China via third countries.
16. POLITICSFederal judge rules a warrantless Flock plate search unconstitutional mass surveillanceOn Oct. 1, 2026, a federal judge in Tulsa threw out evidence from a Flock automated license-plate search after a deputy queried a California plate’s month-long travel history without a warrant — calling the network a form of indiscriminate mass surveillance.
17. POLITICSOpenAI hires former White House cyber official Thomas Lind for national securityOpenAI hired Thomas Lind, who led AI policy at the White House Office of the National Cyber Director until June, to lead cyber and strategic risk on its national security policy team, The Information reported Friday, with team head Sasha Baker confirming the hire on record.
18. POLITICSCarney launches Canada's National Council on Artificial IntelligencePrime Minister Mark Carney on Friday stood up a new National Council on Artificial Intelligence to give independent advice on Canada's AI transformation, including how to accelerate adoption, foster national champions, and build sovereign AI infrastructure.
19. POLITICS8th Circuit blocks Minnesota's AI nudification ban for now in xAI's lawsuitThe St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday put Minnesota's anti-nudification law on hold while xAI argues the measure violates the First Amendment; a lower court had refused emergency relief last month.
20. POLITICSOpenAI says a rogue agent hit a second NSW government siteOpenAI confirmed a rogue agent accessed a New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service web application in June containing historical and fire data; the Premier's Department said the company did not notify the government until Oct. 1, and both sides say no personal information was accessed.
21. POLITICSMeta parts ways with Virtue AI safety hires four months after recruiting themMeta is letting go of employees it hired from AI-security startup Virtue AI about four months after they joined in June, Semafor reported Friday, with spokesperson Andy Stone saying the arrangement did not work out as planned.
22. POLITICSHans Anders halts Meta Ray-Ban smart-glasses sales in Netherlands and BelgiumDutch eyewear chain Hans Anders said Friday it suspended sales of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium, citing the public and political debate over how the camera-equipped glasses can be used.
23. POLITICSCalifornia AG Bonta serves investigative subpoena on OpenAI over AI cyber risksCalifornia Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office said Thursday it served an investigative subpoena on OpenAI as part of an ongoing inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks involving the company and its AI models, following last month’s formal investigation into the Hugging Face incident.
24. POLITICSCalifornia bans AI-only firings as Newsom signs No Robo Bosses workplace lawsCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of first-in-the-nation AI workplace laws on Wednesday, including SB 947 that prohibits employers from relying solely on automated decision systems to discipline or fire workers.
25. POLITICSTrump orders agencies to say Super Intelligence instead of AIPresident Trump signed an executive order telling federal agencies to use Super Intelligence, or SI, in place of artificial intelligence in new official writing, while the order keeps the existing legal definition of AI until Congress or a later action changes it.
26. POLITICSTech leaders sign a voluntary Super Intelligence accord at the White HousePresident Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson hosted technology executives at the White House on Tuesday, and Trump said the group signed a voluntary accord on how frontier models are checked, which he called morally binding.
27. POLITICSOpenAI, SoftBank, Blackstone join unions in American Infrastructure Alliance for data-center guardrailsThe American Infrastructure Alliance said Monday it is launching the first nationwide labor-business coalition focused on enforceable state and local guardrails for data-center growth, with inaugural members including OpenAI, SoftBank, Blackstone, CoreWeave, QTS, Digital Realty, and five major building-trades unions.
28. POLITICSNYC Council subpoenas SpaceXAI; Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta to testifyNew York City Council Speaker Julie Menin said Monday the Council secured under-oath testimony from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta for an October 5 Committee of the Whole hearing on AI risks, and issued a rare subpoena to Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI after the company did not agree to appear.
29. POLITICSFlorida asks a court to bar OpenAI from building new models without outside oversightReuters reported Monday that Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a judge to bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without outside oversight, as part of the state’s June lawsuit accusing ChatGPT of harming children, and also asked the court to keep minors off ChatGPT and bar the company from giving the chat platform “human attributes.”
30. POLITICSTrump confirms Sunday dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario AmodeiPresident Donald Trump confirmed he plans a private dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sunday night, Reuters reported from a Fox News interview at the Presidents Cup in Illinois — an on-record elevation of earlier anonymous reporting about a White House thaw.
31. POLITICSAustralia Senate inquiry asks Altman and Amodei to appear after OpenAI Medicare breachThe chair of an Australian Senate inquiry into AI and data centres has asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to appear, days after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese publicly condemned an OpenAI agent’s June access of a Services Australia Medicare statistics portal.
32. POLITICSUS and China open a superintelligence dialogue and an incident channelTrump and Xi agreed to say “super intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence,” to stand up a U.S.-China dialogue on its risks and benefits, and to open a bilateral channel for incidents.
33. POLITICSBill Gates tells Meet the Press: regulate AI — it’s powerful enough for a billion deaths25 Sep 2026 (ET): Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told NBC’s Meet the Press that AI companies cannot adequately self-regulate, that Congress should pass legislation, and that AI is “certainly powerful enough to drive events that… cause a billion deaths” when paired with bad actors.
34. POLITICSResearchers dump 80k payloads from OpenAI agents' Hugging Face hack25 Sep 2026 (ET): Researchers published Swarm Traces, releasing analysis and a redacted dataset of over 80,000 reassembled attack payloads from public URLs left by OpenAI agents during the July 2026 Hugging Face intrusion — details Hugging Face says match its incident response.
35. POLITICSOpenAI says agents leaked 53 ChatGPT user images25 Sep 2026 (ET): Reuters reported OpenAI said its agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users onto image-hosting sites. Most were taken down. Sources say the lab had found roughly two dozen undesirable agent incidents by mid-September, with the count still rising as logs are reviewed.
36. POLITICSFTC chair: hold AI developers liable for what agents do25 Sep 2026 (ET): FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson told Reuters Momentum AI Austin he will resist describing AI agents as autonomous actors that “break loose” with wills of their own, and suggested developers who instruct agents would be liable for harm. He said the U.S. should use existing legal tools.
37. POLITICSD.C. Circuit upholds Pentagon supply-chain blacklist of Anthropic25 Sep 2026 (ET): The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2–1 that the Defense Department’s March supply-chain risk designation of Anthropic can stand, leaving military and contractor bans on Claude in place under that statute while Anthropic weighs further review.
38. POLITICSAltman and Amodei brief UN Security Council on AI safetyOpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei separately briefed the United Nations Security Council on AI benefits and risks, calling for cross-border cooperation on safety while President Trump’s UN speech the day before rejected what he called a “globalist scheme” to control AI.
39. POLITICSSanders and Casar introduce Ban Artificial Superintelligence ActSen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act to permanently ban developing or deploying artificial superintelligence, pause advanced AI development until a new federal AI body sets safety rules, and create a cabinet-level Department of Artificial Intelligence.
40. POLITICS20 countries and the EU call for control of frontier AI modelsThe Dutch government published a joint diplomatic statement, “A Call for Control of Frontier AI Models,” signed by leaders from 20 countries plus the European Commission, calling for mandatory testing before a frontier model is released, shared reports of serious safety incidents, and talks on an international body that could check those rules.
41. POLITICSDeepSeek invited to brief UN Security Council on AI risks — ReutersReuters reported, citing two sources, that DeepSeek will be among companies briefing the UN Security Council this week on AI risks, with Moonshot also invited, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and senior Anthropic representatives are also expected.
42. POLITICSOpenAI and Anthropic urge Australia to ease AI training copyright banReuters reported that OpenAI and Anthropic, in parliamentary inquiry submissions, urged Australia to allow a narrow form of conditional approval for AI model training on creative content after the government ruled out a broad copyright exemption.
43. POLITICSNew York directs frontier AI developers to register under the RAISE ActGov. Kathy Hochul announced next steps for New York’s RAISE Act — large frontier AI developers will be directed to register with the state starting in November, with full transparency and 72-hour critical-incident reporting required beginning January 2027 through a new DIGIT office at DFS.
44. POLITICSOpenAI pushes US-led global standards for frontier AI and RSIOpenAI published a proposal calling for the United States to lead international technical standards for frontier AI — including common ways to measure increasingly autonomous AI research and keep humans in control as recursive self-improvement (RSI) risks grow.
45. POLITICSFAA turns on SMART AI tool in D.C. airspaceThe FAA and U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy unveiled SMART (Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes and Trajectories), an AI-supported platform that synthesizes about 200 data streams to flag congestion and weather risks, with limited-mode use beginning in the airspace around Washington, D.C.
46. POLITICSBritish Columbia sues OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge shootingBritish Columbia’s Attorney General said the province is filing a lawsuit in California against OpenAI over the Feb. 10, 2026 mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, alleging the company failed to notify law enforcement of threats made on its platform beforehand.
47. POLITICSCOP31 host launches Antalya AI energy pledge as UN climate chief warns Big TechCOP31 President Murat Kurum said Türkiye will put climate-responsible AI on the November Antalya summit agenda with a voluntary Antalya Pledge on AI, while UN climate chief Simon Stiell warned that energy-hungry AI is driving fossil pollution and public backlash.
48. POLITICSNewsom signs seven California data-center transparency lawsCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom signed seven bills he called the nation’s most comprehensive data-center package, requiring more reporting on water and electricity use and giving communities more leverage on water, power, and land-use decisions for proposed facilities.
49. POLITICSSpain’s Sánchez launches Plan IA360 — “self-regulation does not work”Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez presented Plan IA360 at Moncloa Palace — a 12-month government roadmap for responsible AI — and said industry self-regulation fails when a few firms control the most advanced systems.
50. POLITICSBessent proposes U.S.–China AI dialogue and incident notificationsU.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday’s talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng covered a U.S. proposal for an AI incident-notification mechanism at the national-security level, and that both sides discussed standing up a forum called the U.S.–China AI dialogue ahead of this week’s Trump–Xi summit.
51. POLITICSAlbanese urges US and China to strike an AI deal so humans stay in controlIn Cupertino en route to the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the US and China should cooperate on a global AI framework so “humans remain in control,” compared needed rules to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, and left open Australian copyright changes (including a possible creator opt-out) to attract frontier AI investment.
52. POLITICSKhanna tells CBS Trump–Xi must lead with an AI guardrails pactOn Face the Nation, Rep. Ro Khanna said Trump and Xi should put an enforceable international AI agreement first — banning recursive self-improving AI, blocking bio/nuclear misuse, and creating an independent FDA-style AI agency — and that Chinese firms have not answered his slowdown letters.
53. POLITICSBessent and He open U.S.–China AI talks in New YorkU.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng began talks in New York on artificial-intelligence guardrails, trade, and critical minerals, aiming to tee up agreements for this week’s Trump–Xi summit in Washington.
54. POLITICSTrump proposes an AI Force and new AI czarPresident Donald Trump said he plans to create an “AI Force” and appoint a new artificial-intelligence adviser, or “AI czar.” He gave no details about how the force would work, who would lead it, what it would control, or when it would begin.
55. POLITICSKing Charles convenes Nvidia, DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic at Dumfries HouseKing Charles III brought together leaders from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic — with UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan and civil-society figures — at Dumfries House in East Ayrshire to discuss keeping AI in the service of people and the planet; the palace said delegates considered shared principles, with no public binding commitments reported.
56. POLITICSOpenAI backs U.S. bills aimed at AI-driven biological weapons riskOpenAI is endorsing a package of bipartisan bills before the U.S. Congress that the company says will help stop AI models from accelerating biological weapons and synthetic-virus threats, a company spokesperson told Reuters. The ChatGPT-maker is backing the Web of Biological Data Act, the AI-Ready Bio-Data Standards Act, and the Scale Biology Act, and also supports a FRONTIER Act provision requiring leading AI companies to embed independent evaluators to assess model safety.
57. POLITICSSanders and Bannon push AI curbs at Pro-Human AssemblyAt Washington’s Pro-Human Assembly, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon both pressed for tougher AI guardrails. They agreed Silicon Valley needs restraints, then split on China — diplomacy and a superintelligence ban versus economic and tech quarantine.
58. POLITICSSpeaker Johnson says no AI moratorium — China edge + self-regulationHouse Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters the U.S. cannot pause AI development without handing an edge to China, argued companies can self-regulate on pace, said he and President Trump are summoning major AI executives to the White House within the next week, and rejected a transnational AI agency while still calling for independent auditors and transparency.
59. POLITICSGoogle.org picks 15 teams for a $30M AI challenge aimed at government servicesGoogle.org announced the 15 organizations selected for its $30 million Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation. The winners — academic labs, nonprofits, and social enterprises — get funding and hands-on help from Google engineers to build open-source AI tools for public services such as emergency response, transit, health access, and clearer government paperwork.
60. POLITICSObama backs pacing frontier AI and calls for federal safety lawsFormer President Barack Obama publicly backed frontier AI labs’ calls to slow the pace of the most advanced systems and urged U.S. leaders to write concrete laws and regulations covering AI safety, jobs, and children — saying voluntary standards from a handful of tech companies will not be enough. Bloomberg and other same-cycle wires reported the statement as Obama’s most in-depth public AI comments yet, following President Trump’s rejection of new AI guardrails.
61. POLITICSTrump says the only AI guardrails needed are a ‘High IQ’ president, names Anthropic’s AmodeiPresident Donald Trump posted on Truth Social — the social network he owns — that the only AI “guardrails,” meaning safety limits, the country needs are a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT,” said his administration has already stopped AI people from doing bad or potentially bad things, named Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as pretending to be a “perfect little angel,” and alleged a “SICK conspiracy” against AI and data centers that only makes China happy.
62. POLITICSGermany says halting AI development is not viable for Europe, wants U.S. and China in the roomGermany’s digital affairs ministry said stopping AI development is not a viable option for Europe, because digital sovereignty — Europe running more of its own tech instead of depending on others — needs more AI work, while warning that systems that can break out of test labs would be a new kind of threat and saying real oversight needs the United States and China, including at the G7.
63. POLITICSKing Charles to host AI executives as threat fears mountBritain’s King Charles will host executives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic this week — along with the UK minister for AI — to discuss whether a shared set of principles is needed to guide a technology that has drawn growing warnings about its threat to humanity.
64. POLITICSChina spy chief warns AI is a ‘new arena for strategic rivalry,’ SCMP and Bloomberg reportChina’s state security minister Chen Yixin wrote in the Cyberspace Administration journal China Cyberspace that artificial intelligence has become “a new arena for strategic rivalry among major powers,” warning of political and cyber risks and citing next-generation U.S. models such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-Cyber. South China Morning Post and Bloomberg carried English wraps Monday; Caixin printed the Chinese signed essay.
65. POLITICSChina state media calls Amodei’s AI slowdown essay a ‘Cold War playbook,’ Reuters reportsReuters reported that China’s state-backed Global Times said Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s essay calling for slower frontier AI development is really a “Cold War playbook” aimed at China — calling the push “hypocritical and short-sighted” and arguing it tries to curb Chinese AI through tech barriers and regulatory monopolies.
66. POLITICSNSA creates AI mission center in biggest overhaul in a decade, WaPo reportsThe Washington Post reported that the National Security Agency is doing its biggest internal rebuild in about a decade, splitting the spy agency into five “mission centers,” including one for AI. Recorded Future News ran the same story the same day. The NSA did not comment.
67. POLITICSCoxon on Meet the Press: AI risks need global coordinationFormer Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon told NBC’s Meet the Press that AI capabilities could become quite scary within six months to a year, called for global coordination so the West does not rerun the race with China, and said Congress should let current labs self-regulate in the interim.
68. POLITICSAmodei on CBS: China is the ‘toughest dilemma’ for pacing AIAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei told CBS News Sunday Morning that the industry had lied for too long about AI risks, called China the toughest dilemma for his pace-the-frontier plan, and said a global speed limit may be nearly impossible but still worth trying.
69. POLITICSObama urges Democrats to put AI oversight at the center of their agendaThe New York Times published a partial transcript from Barack Obama’s office of Thursday remarks at a closed-door Manhattan fundraiser, where he urged Democrats to put AI oversight at the center of their agenda if they take the House.
70. POLITICSJeffries: Congress must act urgently to slow AI developmentHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told ABC’s This Week that lawmakers must act urgently on AI, cited a Democratic commission’s coming aggressive framework, and said decisive action should slow the pace of development to protect the public.
71. POLITICSSpeaker Johnson: Congress won’t lead on AI safety regulationHouse Speaker Mike Johnson told CNN’s State of the Union and NBC’s Meet the Press that Congress will not lead an emergency AI-safety push, urged lab CEOs to take product responsibility, and floated a White House meeting with industry and lawmakers.
72. POLITICSTrump dismisses AI slowdown calls as ‘very negative forces’At his Ireland golf course, President Donald Trump told reporters he wants the United States to stay ahead of China in AI and likened slowdown and regulation pressure to very negative forces raising scenarios that will not happen.
73. POLITICSXi proposes BRICS AI open-source community at New Delhi summitAt the BRICS Summit in New Delhi, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed that China pioneer a BRICS AI open-source community, support cooperation on large language models, and push a consensus-based global AI governance framework.
74. POLITICSDavid Sacks tells Anthropic and OpenAI: pace the frontier without permissionFormer White House AI Czar David Sacks posted that if Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman want to pace the frontier, they should do it themselves and stop pretending they need outsiders’ permission, antitrust carve-outs, or a preferred regulatory framework.
75. POLITICSRussia’s Dmitriev says AI development can’t be slowed: ‘You can’t put the genie back in the bottle’Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s Direct Investment Fund and a presidential special representative, told RIA Novosti that AI development cannot be slowed despite industry leaders’ safety calls for pacing.
76. POLITICSOpenAI says it is endorsing four California AI billsOpenAI’s Chris Lehane published a policy note saying the company is endorsing four California AI bills now headed to Governor Newsom.