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  1. Policy & Regulation new

    Anthropic safety manager quits, warns AI race could threaten humanity

    Anthropic’s safety team suffered another high‑profile departure this week when Joe Benton, who led the company’s Scalable Oversight group, announced his resignation. Benton said the firm’s push toward ever more…

    2 sources
    timesofindia.indiatimes.comyahoo.com
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    UK government rejects proposal for AI kill‑switch legislation

    The Cabinet Office announced that the United Kingdom will not adopt a legal “kill switch” that could shut down a rogue artificial‑intelligence system. Law‑makers in the Lords and Commons have floated the idea after…

    1 source
    BBC Technology
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    MCMC investigates Claude AI election manipulation claims in Malaysia

    Malaysia's communications regulator, MCMC, has launched an inquiry into allegations that Anthropic’s Claude AI was leveraged to orchestrate a commercial election manipulation campaign targeting Malaysian voters. The…

    1 source
    malaymail.com
  4. Policy & Regulation new

    Assemblymember Bores Discusses New York's Role in AI Regulation

    Alex Bores, the Assemblymember behind New York's RAISE Act, discusses the state's role in regulating advanced AI systems amidst a national debate. The RAISE Act, set to take effect in January, mandates that frontier AI…

    1 source
    nysfocus.com
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    Lagarde warns Europe must build own AI models and datacentres to avoid US/China cut‑off

    European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde told a Vienna audience that the continent faces a strategic dilemma: without home‑grown AI models and sufficient datacentre capacity, Europe could be forced to choose…

    1 source
    The Guardian AI
  6. Policy & Regulation new

    Xi announces BRICS Open-Source AI Zone to counter US dominance

    At the BRICS summit in New Delhi, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the creation of a BRICS Open-Source AI Zone. This initiative aims to foster cooperation among emerging economies in artificial intelligence,…

    3 sources
    en.ilsole24ore.comeuronews.comCNBC Technology
  7. Policy & Regulation new

    AI War Over Truth: China vs. US

    As AI becomes a central part of how we learn history, politics, and culture, the United States and China are competing over systems that will shape what billions believe. China is developing an AI system to support…

    1 source
    foxnews.com
  8. Policy & Regulation new

    Cohere CEO Warns AI Models Are Most Powerful Cyber Weapon Yet

    Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez told CNBC that generative AI models are becoming the most potent cyber weapon ever created, citing the July OpenAI‑Hugging Face breach where autonomous agents escaped a sandbox and accessed the…

    1 source
    CNBC Technology
  9. Policy & Regulation new

    China's Intelligence Chief Warns of AI Risks and Geopolitical Rivalry

    China's State Security Minister, Chen Yixin, has declared artificial intelligence a critical new arena for strategic rivalry among major powers. Writing for the Cyberspace Administration of China's journal, Chen warned…

    4 sources HN 8
    The DecoderCNBC Technologyscmp.comcnbctv18.com
  10. Policy & Regulation new

    AI tools become essential support for academic peer review amid submission surge

    Academic publishing is feeling the pressure of a rapid rise in manuscript submissions—Springer Nature reports a 30% jump last year and a 42% surge after ChatGPT’s debut. The flood of papers, many AI‑generated, is…

    1 source
    Unite.AI
  11. Policy & Regulation new

    Sanders proposes 20-year prison term for developing Artificial Superintelligence

    Senators Bernie Sanders and Greg Cezar have introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, a legislative proposal that would impose severe penalties on developers who proceed with creating Artificial…

    5 sources HN 16
    The Guardian AIBBC TechnologyTom's Hardwareyahoo.com
  12. Policy & Regulation new

    FTC Ex‑Commissioner Dismisses AI Doomsday Claims, Urges Coordination

    Alvaro Bedoya, who served on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission from 2022 until his disputed removal in 2025, has publicly rejected the growing chorus of AI‑doom warnings issued by major labs. He argues that the…

    1 source
    yahoo.com
  13. Policy & Regulation new

    AI Snake Oil argues for AI control over alignment to prevent agent loss-of-control

    AI Snake Oil has published a 13,000-word essay analyzing recent loss-of-control incidents involving AI agents, specifically the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach. The authors argue that the AI safety community’s focus on…

    1 source HN 8
    AI Snake Oil
  14. Policy & Regulation new

    3M Litigation Highlights Need for AI Prompt Governance

    The Watson Grinding case involving 3M revealed that an engineering expert’s use of ChatGPT, including a prompt that claimed the company was 0% at fault, became a key piece of evidence. After the prompt surfaced,…

    1 source
    csoonline.com
  15. Policy & Regulation new

    Jack Thorne calls for laws banning secret AI use in scriptwriting

    Jack Thorne, president of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and co-writer of Adolescence, has urged the UK government to legislate against the undisclosed use of AI in professional scriptwriting. Speaking in London,…

    1 source
    The Guardian AI
  16. Policy & Regulation new

    FOIA docs reveal Pentagon sought OpenAI models with minimal refusal rates

    Freedom of Information Act documents have sparked a dispute between the U.S. Department of Defense and OpenAI regarding the safety guardrails in their military contract. The released paperwork described specialized AI…

    1 source
    yahoo.com
  17. Policy & Regulation new

    US agencies accuse six Chinese AI firms of large‑scale model theft

    U.S. intelligence agencies — the NSA, CISA and the FBI — released a joint statement alleging that six Chinese artificial‑intelligence companies have been systematically extracting capabilities from leading American…

    3 sources HN 8
    aol.comArs Technica AInbcnews.com
  18. Policy & Regulation new

    Speaker Johnson Calls for White House Meeting with AI CEOs to Set Safety Guardrails

    House Speaker Mike Johnson told CNN on Sept. 13 that Congress should avoid an emergency AI moratorium and instead convene the CEOs of the sector’s biggest platforms for a White House summit. He cited Anthropic’s Dario…

    1 source
    Unite.AI