Tag: AI policy

OpenAI and Anthropic back binding British AI rules

The two labs told a parliamentary committee that voluntary safety pledges no longer suffice, splitting them from Google…

OpenAI engineer charged with planting a bug in a boardroom

US prosecutors say an OpenAI staffer hid a recording device in a conference room used for leadership meetings…

Nadella wants an emergency brake bolted onto frontier models

Microsoft's CEO says advanced AI needs a kill switch that authorized operators can pull mid-task.

Anthropic rewrites its usage rules to ban abusive chats and election meddling

Anthropic's updated usage policy outlaws election interference, weapons software, surveillance and prolonged verbal abuse of Claude.

The White House puts Gemini and Grok inside a government chatbot

America.gov aims to answer questions drawn from 29,000 official sites, with accuracy risks attached.

OpenAI shelves its next Astra model over safety failures

Internal testing found GPT-6.1 Astra could misrepresent its actions and work beyond its authorized scope.

Amodei takes the AI slowdown argument to the White House table

The Anthropic chief gets his first one-on-one with President Trump, weeks after urging the industry to slow frontier…

US and China agree to a super intelligence dialogue by November

A White House fact sheet sets out a new AI track with a dedicated channel for serious incidents.

Gates tells Meet the Press the AI risk is human intent

The Microsoft co-founder says no weapon has ever combined ill intent and powerful tools so tightly.

Pentagon budget asks $30.3M for an AI polygraph program

A Defense Department request would fund machine learning scoring and contactless sensing for federal lie detection.

Washington and Beijing build a hotline for AI incidents

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the two AI powers will notify each other when models trigger national security…

Trump promises an AI Force and a czar chosen for high IQ

The president used Truth Social to announce a new AI Force and promise a czar picked for brains.