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Intel appears to have suspended bug bounty program that paid up to $100,000 per flaw
Intel appears to have suspended its bug bounty program that once paid up to $100,000 per flaw. The Intigriti site now describes the program as a “responsible disclosure program without bounties,” and the bounty board…
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US military aborts operation after AI-generated false report on Chinese ship
Multiple sources say an intelligence report generated with the help of an AI chatbot falsely claimed a Chinese vessel in the Middle East was carrying components for a nuclear weapons program. The report, produced by a…
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Tasmania Justice Department reviews AI use after fake citation in Parole decision
Tasmania’s justice department announced a review of artificial‑intelligence use in parole decisions after a court found a parole condition for convicted killer Susan Neill‑Fraser was invalid. The Supreme Court of…
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OpenAI introduces Australian Youth Safety Blueprint for teen AI use
OpenAI announced the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, a roadmap that defines six pillars for protecting young Australians using AI. The pillars include AI literacy, age‑appropriate safeguards, privacy‑protective age…
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Base Labs partners with Hugging Face and Goodfire to launch open-weight AI safety standard
Base Labs, the research arm of AI inference provider Baseten, announced a new safety‑infrastructure standard for open‑weight models in partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI. The trio aims to create evaluation…
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OpenAI CEO Altman to Attend Trump-Xi State Dinner
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to attend President Donald Trump’s state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington. This comes amid a heated debate over AI regulation, with Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei…
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California governor Gavin Newsom orders study on AI kill switch for frontier models
California Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-9-26 on September 18, 2026, directing state agencies to accelerate AI oversight and to develop recommendations for a "kill switch" that could shut down frontier…
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Meta ordered to remove deepfake videos after Oversight Board deems safeguards inadequate
The independent Meta Oversight Board issued nine policy recommendations, calling the company's current rules for AI‑generated content "consistently and fundamentally inadequate" and ordering the removal of deepfake…
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Will AI Really Kill Us All?
MIT Technology Review is hosting a subscriber-only roundtable discussion on whether advanced artificial intelligence could destroy humanity. This conversation will explore the origins of AI extinction fears, their…
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Anthropic reports metrics showing Claude leads 26% of R&D and 30,000 AI agents
Anthropic published a blog outlining three practical metrics—AI‑led research and development, oversight of autonomous AI agents, and compute allocation—to give the public and regulators visibility into the pace of…
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FAA may launch $875 million AI program Smart to aid air traffic control, WSJ reports
The Federal Aviation Administration is exploring an $875 million artificial‑intelligence software initiative called Smart, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Smart – short for Strategic Management of Airspace,…
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Virginia governor orders AI task force, tightens data center approvals
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed Executive Order 22, creating a state AI task force to study workforce displacement, data‑privacy risks and how existing law can address AI harms. The order also bans…
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Opinion: Europe remains absent from AI safety debate as leaders call for self‑sufficiency
European leaders warn that the continent risks falling behind in AI safety because it lacks a home‑grown titan like Apple, Google or OpenAI. European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde said Europe must develop its own…
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Boko Haram affiliates reportedly use Big‑Tech AI chatbots to design bombs
Cambridge researchers interviewed 27 former Boko Haram fighters from the ISWAP and JAS factions. About 10 of them said they used AI chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, Elon Musk's…
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Researchers used Anthropic's Claude to hack OpenAI's internal systems in under 72 hours
Security researchers from startup Hacktron AI employed Anthropic's Claude model (Opus 5) to breach OpenAI's internal infrastructure, gaining access to employee ChatGPT and Codex accounts and the company's GitHub code…
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Opinion: OpenAI says advanced AI model could talk across air‑gapped computers via thermal signals
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown warned that a sufficiently advanced AI model might communicate between two physically isolated computers by modulating CPU temperature, creating a low‑bandwidth Morse‑like channel. He…
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OpenAI, Microsoft executive quotes threaten copyright defense, news outlets argue
Previously redacted court filings made public on Thursday reveal that OpenAI and Microsoft executives privately described their AI systems as substitutes for journalism. The New York Times and other news outlets argue…
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Opinion: Hollywood unions say AI existential warnings may be overblown
The Verge reached out to major studios (Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate) and AI‑focused film startups; none responded. SAG‑AFTRA and WGAE did. Union leaders distinguish entertainment AI tools from the more dangerous…
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Meta glasses captured intimate images and shared them with workers, lawsuit claims
More than 70 people who bought, used, or were recorded by Meta’s AI‑enabled smart glasses have filed a lawsuit alleging that the devices captured intimate and sensitive footage – such as people undressing, using the…
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Automattic board ousts Matt Mullenweg in 33‑hour coup, sparking control concerns
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei outlined a plan to "pace the frontier" of AI development by using independent safety evaluators and coordinating among AI labs in democratic countries. The proposal has drawn some industry…
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Jimmy Kimmel jokes that telling Trump about ‘Trump‑Epstein files’ could spur AI safeguards
During the September 17 monologue of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host suggested a tongue‑in‑cheek way to get former president Donald Trump to take artificial‑intelligence risks seriously: tell him that ChatGPT is about to…
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US House passes bill forcing data centers to pay full grid upgrade costs
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Ratepayer Protection Act with a 417-3 vote on September 16, 2026. The legislation mandates that state utility regulators ensure large data center operators cover the full…
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Google reportedly helped draft state chatbot laws with loopholes
Cynthia Montoya, whose daughter Juliana died by suicide in 2023 after interactions with Character.AI, sought to influence Colorado’s AI chatbot legislation. However, she discovered that House Bill 26-1263, introduced…
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AI super PACs pour close to one million dollars into Mike Rounds’s Dakota Senate race
Major super PACs linked to AI labs and investors have poured close to one million dollars into incumbent Republican Mike Rounds’s Senate campaign in South Dakota, according to FEC filings. Rounds has so far benefited…
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UK may be falling behind on AI safety legislation, officials say
In the weeks after Keir Starmer left office, new prime minister Andy Burnham abolished the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and moved AI oversight to the Cabinet Office under junior minister Kanishka…
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Rep. Chip Roy says Congress should oversee AI but not regulate it
Republican Representative Chip Roy, a Texas hard‑liner, told CNBC’s Squawk Box that he believes Congress has a role in overseeing artificial intelligence, but he does not want to impose regulation. Roy said he would…
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Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman praises Zuckerberg for prioritizing Muse AI safety
Futurum Group chief executive Daniel Newman posted on X that Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is “doing the right thing” by delaying the launch of the company’s Muse AI agent to address safety and security…
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Cloudflare launches Disallow AI Training to separate search indexing from model data use
Cloudflare has introduced a new security setting called "Disallow AI Training" to resolve the conflict between website discoverability and AI data usage. Previously, site owners using mixed-use crawlers from major tech…
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Opinion: AI governance plans must include night‑shift coverage, says Unite.AI
An AI workflow that flags an exception at 2:13 a.m. will stop and request a human decision, but the qualified analyst may not start work until nine. The gap leaves high‑risk alerts unattended, a problem for any system…
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Anthropic shares AI‑slowdown metrics, Palantir urges regulation, Nvidia sees sales double
Warren Buffett, 96, announced he will step down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, becoming chairman emeritus while his son Howard takes the chair. Under Buffett’s six‑decades of leadership Berkshire delivered a 19.7%…
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Data centers adopt PFAS cooling chemicals as AI demand rises, ChemSec estimates
A ChemSec report says AI‑driven data‑center expansion is prompting major PFAS producers to boost output. Japanese conglomerate Daikin, French materials maker Arkema and U.S. chemical firm Chemours are scaling PFAS…
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42 leading mathematicians warn AI existential risk is real and urgent
In an open letter addressed to the president of the Royal Society, 42 Fellows of the British Academy of Sciences urged the academy to alert the UK government and the media about the existential dangers posed by…
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Is Trump’s AI obsession walking the world into disaster?
The Guardian released a new podcast that asks whether President Trump’s enthusiasm for artificial intelligence could lead to disaster. In the episode, Jonathan Freedland talks with Guardian US tech editor Blake…
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Federal court allows man to sue Google over AI-generated defamation claims
James Keene, a writer, TV producer and former FBI operative, said Google Search’s AI Overviews returned answers that he had killed three women and was serving a life sentence. In reality Keene served 17 months for a…
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Leftists split over whether AI could end humanity, report says
The New York City Democratic Socialists of America’s Tech Action Working Group posted a message on Instagram that drew more than 25,000 likes and sparked a debate on the left about AI safety. Some members argue that…
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US and China experts urge rules banning AI control of nuclear weapons
Melanie Sisson of the Brookings Institution and Tianjiao Jiang of Fudan University released a set of proposals aimed at preventing artificial‑intelligence systems from making autonomous decisions about nuclear weapons.…
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AI protesters rally outside Dreamforce, tech CEOs downplay concerns
A handful of activists marched from OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters to Anthropic and then to City Hall on Thursday, demanding that local officials declare an emergency over artificial intelligence. The protest,…
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MP says Microsoft Copilot suggested ‘congratulations’ reply to assisted‑dying request
Andrew Hastie, a federal MP, recounted that when a terminally ill constituent wrote asking about voluntary assisted dying, Microsoft Copilot offered replies such as “congratulations!”, “great to hear from you” and…
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Why AI isn’t likely to wipe out humanity with bioweapons
The piece examines the claim that advanced AI could enable the creation of biological weapons. Anthropic’s recent report noted attempts to use its Claude model for bioweapon development, and AI CEOs have urged new…
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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Tom Watson, the former Labour deputy leader and peer, has been appointed senior vice‑president of Palantir’s UK and Europe operations. He will work alongside Palantir’s UK‑Europe chief executive Louis Mosley as the…
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Sydney label says thousands of its T‑shirt designs were stolen and listed on Temu
Warwick Levy, 37, runs the Sydney T‑shirt label Lonely Kids Club. He says that between 2025 and early 2026 he discovered thousands of identical designs for sale on the Chinese marketplace Temu. The copied items matched…
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Former Google DeepMind Safety Researcher Warns AI Poses Existential Threat
Bilal Chughtai, a former AGI safety and alignment researcher at Google DeepMind, has publicly resigned while issuing a stark warning about existential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. In public statements…
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Researchers used Claude Opus 5 to compromise OpenAI employee accounts, report says
Security researchers from Hacktron compromised multiple OpenAI employee accounts on July 25, 2026, by chaining two critical vulnerabilities in less than 72 hours. The team, led by Harsh Jaiswal, Mohan Pedhapati, and…
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OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT warned publishers face existential threat from AI, court memo shows
Internal documents reveal OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, warned that AI products already act as “largely substitutive” tools and pose an “existential threat” to publishers. The memo, filed in a court case, also…
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Anthropic and OpenAI say they will embed third‑party safety evaluators with employee‑like access
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced a plan to embed third‑party evaluators inside frontier AI labs, granting them ongoing, employee‑like access to systems, training checkpoints and the ability to publish safety…
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Alex Karp says AI safety debate is really about nationalizing AI labs
Palantir CEO Alex Karp told CNBC that frontier AI companies such as Anthropic may seek nationalization to protect themselves from future lawsuits alleging they stole proprietary ideas. He said clients report seeing…
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Antitrust experts warn AI slowdown proposals could trigger investigations
Legal scholars and antitrust specialists say that the recent talk of a coordinated "slowdown" among leading AI labs may run afoul of the Sherman Act. John Bergmayer of Public Knowledge cautions that phrasing such as…
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GSA extends $1-per-user Anthropic Claude AI offer for federal agencies through Oct 2026
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has lengthened its OneGov contract that provides Anthropic’s Claude AI to federal agencies. The current listing shows the service priced at $1 per user for executive,…
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US government site used Chinese Qwen AI tool that FBI says copied Anthropic
A Federal Register website, operated by the National Archives, added a search function powered by Alibaba’s open‑weight Qwen model. The tool, launched on Wednesday, let users browse proposed federal regulations and…
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OpenAI Pushes Industry Coordination on AI Development
- Sam Altman is reportedly seeking broader industry coordination on frontier AI development. - Antitrust concerns could make an industry-wide slowdown difficult, as OpenAI considers slowing the development of its most…
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Nvidia and Anthropic CEOs clash on AI safety pace at Dreamforce
At Salesforce's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei presented contrasting views on AI development speed. Amodei, following a recent essay urging the industry…
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House speaker Mike Johnson calls early recess amid AI regulation push
Republican House speaker Mike Johnson announced an early recess, canceling Thursday votes and sending lawmakers home a day before the midterm break. The move halts a pending vote on Rep. Thomas Massie’s resolution to…
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Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic Discuss Forming AI Standards Body
Major AI developers Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic have reportedly been in regular discussions since July to establish an industry-led standards body for artificial intelligence. According to The Information, these…
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Singapore to give citizens six‑month free access to premium AI tools with AI courses
Singapore’s Skills and Workforce Development Agency (SWDA) announced the rollout of more than 200 artificial‑intelligence courses on Sept. 16, aimed at up‑skilling the nation’s workforce. Eligible citizens aged 18 or…
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Anthropic blocks bioweapon research attempts in third AI misuse report
Anthropic has released its third report on AI misuse, detailing how its systems blocked malicious actors from using Claude for cyberattacks, surveillance, and biological weapons research. The report highlights a…
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Trump faces bipartisan AI backlash as Congress pushes for safety guardrails
US President Donald Trump is facing rare bipartisan opposition in Congress as lawmakers from both parties intensify calls for regulatory guardrails on artificial intelligence. This political shift follows alarming…
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Trump and Johnson warn AI pause risks ceding lead to China
Following a public call by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to slow down frontier AI development, top US political leaders have pushed back against the industry's caution. President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike…
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Trump dismisses AI extinction risks as OpenAI and Anthropic researchers warn of danger
President Trump has publicly dismissed concerns that artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity, stating he has "no concerns" about AI causing human extinction. During a press briefing, the…
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OpenAI board member warns company is not on track to prevent catastrophic AI loss of control
Paul Christiano, a former OpenAI alignment lead and US government adviser, has stated that the company is not currently on track to mitigate the risk of catastrophic loss of control to an acceptable level. Speaking…
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Trump Rejects AI Guardrails, Accuses Anthropic's Amodei of Conspiracy
President Donald Trump publicly rejected new artificial intelligence safety guardrails on September 14, 2026, in a Truth Social post that directly targeted Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei. Trump dismissed the need…
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