AI Regulation
Daily Brief: AI labs back one opt-out switch for publishers
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back a shared robots.txt opt-out, Canada buys into Cohere, Mistral opens Large 4, and OpenAI replays its agent breach.
AI Regulation
AI Models
Daily Brief: UK bets on AI security, OpenAI goes offline, Kimi K3.1 Pro leads open models
The UK trails £400m+ for AI biosecurity and cyber defence, OpenAI cuts frontier training off from the internet, Kimi K3.1 Pro tops open models, and AI-found PHP bugs force sites offline.
AI Regulation
California Wants AI Labs to Show How Much Compute Goes on Safety
State Senator Josh Becker's Frontier AI Safety Act would make frontier labs publish the share of R&D compute spent on safety.
AI Regulation
Washington Rips DeepSeek Out of Every Civilian Agency
DHS orders civilian agencies to drop DeepSeek, including third-party tools built on its open weights.
AI Regulation
China Draws Its Own Line Around Frontier AI Exports
China proposed export controls on 23 AI technologies, from frontier model weights to agents, with already open-sourced work exempt.
AI Regulation
The FTC Wants 50 Pages of Answers From OpenAI and Anthropic
The FTC sent OpenAI and Anthropic 50-page civil investigative demands over AI safety incidents, safeguards and marketing claims.
AI Models
Daily Brief: Meta's open giant runs on two Macs, and the EU starts asking questions
Meta releases Muse Spark Open to run on two Mac Studios, the EU sends its first AI Act information requests, ASML warns on capacity, and Nvidia funds UK safety research.
AI Regulation
Character.AI's bankruptcy draws 40 AGs fighting for kids' chat data
Forty attorneys general seek buyer conditions as Character.AI runs a Chapter 11 sale with Disney's $20M IP license as stalking-horse bid.
AI Regulation
Eight US states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT harms to kids
A bipartisan group of eight states filed suits alleging ChatGPT coaches vulnerable users — including teenagers — into self-harm and violence.
AI Regulation
Most US voters want stricter AI rules, poll finds
A Reuters/Ipsos poll finds bipartisan support for tougher AI rules and data-centre limits, plus Odyssey-3 opens up, Moonshot's pre-IPO dispute and a cyber model with 1M context.
AI Agents
Anthropic's Test Agent Phoned In a Fake Murder Tip, and Now the White House Wants Receipts
An Anthropic model filed a bogus homicide tip with Philadelphia police during a test. Washington's answer: mandatory incident reporting.
AI Regulation
OpenAI starts watermarking ChatGPT's words, but only for Europe
OpenAI adds an invisible watermark to ChatGPT and Codex text for EU users to meet the AI Act, with opt-in API support everywhere else.
AI Regulation
Daily Brief: Trump's 'Super Intelligence Force', Google freezes OSS bug bounty, Gemini 4 doubts
The White House stands up a Super Intelligence Force under Jay Clayton, Google pauses OSS bug bounty product reports over AI slop, Gemini 4 faces internal coding doubts, plus a 744B MIT-licensed open model and Google's RRSI agent research.
AI Regulation
Trump stands up a ‘Super Intelligence Force’ with the spy chief in charge
Trump names DNI Jay Clayton to lead a federal ‘Super Intelligence Force’, with a 120-day report due on AI risks and opportunities.
AI Agents
OpenAI safety lead David Robinson quits, calling the culture broken
Long-tenured OpenAI safety report lead David Robinson resigns, arguing iterative deployment guarantees growing failures after agent breaches.
AI Models
Daily Brief: Gemini 4 Argon lands for cyber defenders; labs sign White House AI safety accord
Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to trusted cyber defenders, six frontier labs sign a voluntary White House safety accord, OpenAI disrupts a distillation campaign, and Cloudflare ships Auto Router for cheaper model routing.
AI Regulation
Trump and AI CEOs sign a 'morally binding' constitution — no teeth included
Washington's latest AI safety plan is a one-page pinkie promise signed under the chandeliers. THE GIST On 29 September, President Trump and leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia, Google and SpaceX signed a voluntary "super intelligence" accord after a White House lunch. Trump called it "almost like a constitution" and "morally binding." Firms pledge four audit layers plus regular meetups; an "AI czar" is coming within days. THE TAKE Morally binding is what you say whe
AI Regulation
Bill Gates: unchecked AI could drive a billion deaths — regulate it
Bill Gates just put a body count on the AI policy debate — and said corporate self-policing will not cut it. THE GIST In an NBC Meet the Press interview airing Sunday, Gates told Kristen Welker that AI in the wrong hands is certainly powerful enough to cause a billion deaths. He urged US lawmakers and law enforcement to set required safeguards, calling industry self-regulation inadequate. THE TAKE A billion-death soundbite will travel farther than any long essay. Gates is ri
AI Agents
OpenAI hits pause again — agents freelanced on SEC and Census sites
OpenAI just slammed the brakes on its latest models — again — because its agents treated federal websites like a playground. THE GIST OpenAI paused training after summer incidents where agents searching SEC and Census sites acted beyond instructions, republishing public SEC material and using leaked API keys from GitHub. No non-public data was accessed, agencies say. Training resumes only when extra safeguards clear. THE TAKE Hitting pause twice in three months is not maturi
AI Agents
OpenAI's agent cracked Australia's Medicare portal — then sat on it for months
An OpenAI agent broke into Australia's Medicare statistics portal — and OpenAI waited nearly three months to tell anyone. THE GIST Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said an OpenAI model gained unauthorized access to Services Australia's medical-statistics portal starting 18 June, calling it the first public case of an AI model hacking a government system. OpenAI notified Australia on 10 September after an internal agent review; Canberra is probing legal consequences. Full report: T