Tag: policy
California sets a November deadline for a frontier model kill switch
Executive Order N-9-26 orders state agencies to draft an emergency shutoff for frontier AI.
House votes 417-3 to shift grid upgrade costs onto data centers
The House has passed the Ratepayer Protection Act, which tells state regulators to make large data center customers…
China sets a sixfold AI compute goal in its latest five-year plan
Beijing wants 9,800 eflops of intelligent computing capacity by 2030, up from 1,590 in 2025.
California clears a path for outside AI safety auditors
California's legislature approves a bill creating state-designated outside AI safety auditors.
Frontier labs and 100 companies sign a rogue AI defense pact
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft are among the 100-plus companies calling for new defenses against AI-powered cyberattacks.
Bill Gates sounds the alarm on AI thresholds now crossed
The Microsoft co-founder says society missed the moment AI passed his danger markers.
OpenAI does a U-turn on California’s AI transparency law
OpenAI, which once lobbied against California's SB 53, now wants the state to add monitoring and cybersecurity safeguards…
Watchdogs get OpenAI backing to review government AI
The lab will fund training, credits, and review tools for democratic bodies that watch national security AI.