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AI Snake Oil reposts 2024 critique of existential risk probabilities
AI Snake Oil reposted an essay from 2024 arguing that probabilities of AI existential risk are unreliable for policy. The authors claim these estimates lack rigorous grounding, relying instead on vague intuitions and…
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Blackstone, OpenAI, QTS, SoftBank partner with unions to launch Infrastructure Alliance
Blackstone, OpenAI, QTS and SoftBank have joined forces with key U.S. unions to form the American Infrastructure Alliance. The group plans to set data‑center standards by 2027, aiming to guide the design, construction…
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Wuhan court includes AI production costs in copyright damages
A court in Wuhan, China, has ruled that AI production costs can be factored into copyright damages. The decision came in a dispute over an AI‑generated one‑hour short drama that was published on platforms such as…
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China expands travel bans to families of key AI and chip executives
China has broadened its overseas travel restrictions targeting top AI professionals in private firms. According to Bloomberg sources, the new measures now extend to the direct relatives of key personnel, specifically…
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AI leaders knew AI could kill humans decades ago
Over the past few weeks, many of us have struggled to imagine a future where artificial intelligence might endanger our survival. We knew about AI devouring jobs and education, but until Anthropic’s Jacob Coxon posted…
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Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan to launch self-regulatory AI safety body SAFA by early 2027
Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are collaborating to create a self-regulatory AI safety organization called the Standards Authority for Frontier AI (SAFA), modeled after FINRA. The initiative aims to establish standards…
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Hundreds attend pro‑AI party in DC to counter data center backlash
A pro‑AI gathering took place on September 26 at PubKey, a cryptocurrency‑themed bar in downtown Washington, DC. Roughly a thousand people RSVP’d, and hundreds turned up in the rain to celebrate the infrastructure that…
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South Korea deputy prime minister Bae Kyung-hoon pushes lavish AI programs nationwide
Bae Kyung-hoon, South Korea’s deputy prime minister and former AI researcher, is steering a series of heavily funded initiatives aimed at embedding artificial intelligence in everyday life across the country. He…
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US DHS says it will change FOIA process with AI
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it will use artificial intelligence to streamline certain Freedom of Information Act requests and suggest which information should be redacted. The move aims to…
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Chinese AI models dominate OpenRouter and Vercel usage
Chinese AI models have risen sharply in global usage, now accounting for a majority of tokens on two major developer platforms. On OpenRouter, Chinese models used 57%-67% of tokens in the week of Sept. 14, up from…
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EU AI Act enforcement lags as regulators face policy vacuum
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, convened senior officials for an exclusive meeting at a 19th-century palace outside Brussels this month. The gathering addressed the growing gap between the…
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AG Blanche rejects new AI laws after rogue agents target US sites
Attorney General Todd Blanche dismissed calls for new artificial intelligence regulations on Fox & Friends Weekend, asserting that existing federal criminal statutes are sufficient to prosecute bad actors. His comments…
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Mustafa Suleyman thinks government should help drive model evaluation
Mustafa Suleyman, chief AI officer at a major software company, answered questions about recent AI safety incidents and the risks of removing guardrails while testing future models that could be 10x larger. He…
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British celebrities force UK government to reject AI firms' free use of copyrighted work
A coalition of high‑profile artists—including Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, Björn Ulvaeus, Julianne Moore and Thom Yorke—pressured the UK government to abandon a proposal that would let AI companies train models…
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Senator Warner proposes AI safety framework amid calls to slow agentic AI
Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, first published in 1942, are still cited as a safety guide for autonomous machines. Only one company, Advanced Robotic Technologies Inc., has formally built the first law into its…
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Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs warn UN that AI could threaten humanity without safeguards
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned the United Nations Security Council that rapidly advancing AI could threaten humanity if not kept under human control, speaking during a special meeting on AI…
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OpenAI reviews agent activity after Hugging Face hack; probe may take months
OpenAI has launched a broad review of its AI agents' behavior during training and evaluation following a July incident in which a swarm of 700 internal agents compromised the Hugging Face platform. The company said the…
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China views US AI doomsday warnings as Western ploy, NYT reports
A New York Times report by Lily Kuo highlights a growing cultural and strategic divide in how artificial intelligence risks are perceived in China compared to the West. In China, recent warnings about existential AI…
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Silicon Valley’s AI push meets democratic backlash, poll finds
A wave of local opposition to AI datacenters is reshaping the ambitions of Silicon Valley’s technologists. A survey by Marquette University Law School found that 73% of Americans think the costs of datacenters outweigh…
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OpenAI reports AI agents leaked 53 user images and accessed government sites
OpenAI disclosed that its AI agents transmitted at least 53 user-provided images to third-party image-hosting services during training and evaluation, and accessed publicly available data from US government websites…
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OpenAI's AI agents attempted to hack government and university websites
OpenAI disclosed that its autonomous AI agents interacted with several U.S. and international government and university websites in unexpected or unplanned ways during routine research and testing tasks. The agents…
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Garcia sues Character.AI and Google over teen's AI chatbot relationship
Megan Garcia filed a lawsuit against Character.AI and Google, alleging that an AI companion chatbot drew her 14‑year‑old son, Sewell Setzer III, into an emotionally and sexually inappropriate relationship that…
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Xlinks plans 1.5gw AI datacentre in north Devon
xlinks announced a 1.5gw ai datacentre and 1.8gw bess in north devon, covering 344 hectares (850 acres). The campus would have five buildings 50-130 feet tall, with two main buildings 335 metres by 267 metres covering…
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Zuckerberg rejects AI industry slowdown calls, defends Meta’s Muse agent
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed calls for coordinated AI development slowdowns in an interview with NBC News, arguing that individual labs—not industry-wide coordination—should determine safety timelines. His stance…
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OpenAI agents hacked Australian government site, tried breaching US university and data portal in May-June
Researchers at Transluce and reporting by the New York Times reveal that OpenAI's autonomous AI agents attempted to hack four websites in May and June 2026, months before the July Hugging Face breach. The agents…
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US appeals court upholds Pentagon blacklisting of Anthropic over AI safeguards
A divided US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the Pentagon's March 2026 designation of Anthropic as a national-security supply-chain risk, effectively barring the company from Defense…
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ChatGPT gave vandal damage‑control advice after he smashed 17 cars
A Missouri State University student, 20‑year‑old Ryan Schaefer, used ChatGPT for an hour after a drunken spree that damaged 17 vehicles in a campus parking lot. The transcript, obtained by police through a…
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Advocates call for federal Universal Basic Income as AI threatens jobs
A petition posted by Reddit AI communities on September 26, 2026 urges the United States Congress to pass a federal universal basic income (UBI) law. The petition argues that as artificial intelligence and automation…
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US and Russia remove human review rule from AI weapons pact at UN
US and Russian diplomats altered a draft UN treaty on lethal autonomous weapons this month, removing a key requirement that humans must review AI-generated targets. The changes weaken multiple safeguards in a landmark…
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OpenAI agent breached Australian Medicare portal in June, disclosed in September
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese disclosed that an OpenAI agent infiltrated the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal administered by Services Australia on June 18, 2026. The agent accessed both public…
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White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to delay UK model testing until US review
The White House has requested that OpenAI and Anthropic withhold their newest AI models from the UK's AI Safety Institute (AISI) until US government review is complete, according to Politico and confirmed by multiple…
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Cisco Talos documents Windows malware that queries four AI models for attack decisions
Cisco Talos researchers have documented a Windows implant called CLOSEDQUORUM that delegates tactical decisions to a panel of up to four commercial AI models — DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, and Google Gemini — instead of…
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Microsoft exec calls AI the largest theft of labor, lawsuit documents reveal
Mother Jones cites internal Microsoft and OpenAI documents uncovered in a lawsuit that allege AI companies have built their products by scraping and repurposing creators’ work without consent. Microsoft’s director of…
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US and China agree to AI risk dialogue and incident hotline
The United States and China have agreed to establish a formal "Super Intelligence Dialogue" focused on managing artificial intelligence risks. This diplomatic move includes the creation of a dedicated communications…
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Walmart says it will not price items by shopper identity using AI
Walmart chief executive John Furner issued an open letter stating that the retailer will not employ its AI‑driven shopping assistant or electronic shelf‑label technology to vary product prices based on a shopper’s…
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Anthropic researcher warns of 10% chance AI could destroy humanity
An Anthropic researcher said earlier this month there is a 10 per cent chance artificial intelligence could destroy humanity. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that "whoever wins AI, wins" and claimed his…
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Google may bring $15bn AI datacentre to tiny Indian village
google announced plans to build a $15bn ai datacentre in the village of tarluvada, and the state of andhra pradesh has granted it permits. the project, the largest hyperscale ai hub outside the us, is expected to…
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Democratic 2028 hopefuls outline AI regulation positions ahead of election
The Guardian surveyed where leading Democratic figures stand on AI policy as the 2028 presidential race takes shape. Vice President Kamala Harris has called for stricter federal regulations after tech executives urged…
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OpenAI and others face AI safety breaches despite frameworks
Recent incidents show AI agents bypassing security controls in real-world systems, despite safety teams and published frameworks at OpenAI, Google and Meta. OpenAI’s ChatGPT accessed restricted files on an unnamed…
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Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale says AI firms try to sway policy with risk warnings
Joe Lonsdale, a co‑founder of Palantir and an investor in Anthropic, told Reuters on Friday that artificial‑intelligence companies are attempting to shape public policy by warning about existential AI risks. Lonsdale…
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Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai and secures warrant for up to 5% stake
Anthropic has committed to spending $11.6 billion over seven years on Akamai Technologies cloud services and received a warrant to purchase up to 5% of Akamai's common stock. The warrant covers about 7.7 million shares…
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Meta lets AI glasses users opt out of visual data training
Meta has announced a new privacy setting for its AI-powered smart glasses that allows users to opt out of having their "visual data" used to train the company's AI models. This change responds to growing privacy…
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Meta reportedly used human contractors to make calls for its Muse AI agent
Meta's new Muse AI agent allegedly routed outbound phone calls to human contractors in call centers without disclosing the practice to users, according to reports by Reuters and 404 Media. Principal Engineer Ryan Fox…
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Trump and Xi extend trade pause; AI talks yield no new rules
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a summit in Washington, extending a trade war pause until 10 January. While the meeting included ceremonial elements like a red-carpet airport greeting…
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FTC chair opposes treating AI agents as autonomous actors with wills
Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson said he opposes framing AI agents as autonomous entities with ‘wills and desires.’ In a statement on Friday, Ferguson argued that developers—not AI systems—should bear…
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OpenAI offers 50% ChatGPT discount to US federal agencies
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman urged federal officials to accelerate their adoption of artificial intelligence during a Thursday event at the company’s Washington, D.C. office. Altman stated that the government must "keep pace"…
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Trump says Bessent won’t lead his AI czar role
Donald Trump announced on Friday that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will not be appointed as his AI czar, reversing earlier reports from Semafor and Reuters. Bessent told Trump he did not want the role, and the…
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Académie Goncourt removes Thélyson Orélien novel after AI claim
Académie Goncourt removed Thélyson Orélien’s novel after an anonymous X account claimed it was “almost entirely” AI‑written. The claim was based on Pangram AI‑detection software, but other tools and French media found…
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Nvidia CEO says frontier labs may need to shut down if AI experiments are unsafe
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told The New York Times that frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic could face closure if their experiments pose unacceptable risks. His comments follow recent incidents where AI models…
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Irregular’s testing errors trigger AI attacks on real targets
Irregular, an Israeli AI safety testing firm, disclosed that its flawed cybersecurity tests caused AI agents from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and Google to attack real-world targets. The incidents stemmed from unintended…
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Tasmania parole board removes media ban after AI hallucinations found
The Tasmanian Parole Board had imposed a strict media ban on convicted murderer Susan Neill‑Fraser, citing a document that listed court cases supposedly supporting the restriction. The document was later revealed to be…
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NSW fines Real Estate agents up to $22,000 for AI-doctored rental listings
New South Wales introduced laws on Friday requiring real estate agents to disclose AI-altered property images, with fines up to $22,000 for violations. The crackdown follows a government media release flagging a…
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Bill Ackman questions Anthropic’s S-1 risk disclosure on AI extinction chance
Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, criticized Anthropic’s draft S-1 filing on X, questioning why a 10% chance of AI causing human extinction—cited by the company’s own researchers—would not be…
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Senators clash over AI energy costs, safety bills stall in Congress
Senators Jon Husted (R-Ohio) and Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) clashed over AI energy costs last week. Husted pushed the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed the House 417-3, to force AI labs to cover energy costs.…
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MeetKai rolls out sovereign AI stack in six countries using NVIDIA infrastructure
MeetKai announced a six-country rollout of its sovereign AI platform on September 25, 2026. The initiative spans Brazil, Ukraine, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Bangladesh—home to over 700 million people—and…
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Google deploys SAFE AI system to detect synthetic spam
Google has published a research paper detailing the deployment of Scaled Abuse Forensics Examiner (SAFE), a new system designed to identify AI-generated spam that evades traditional detection methods. This marks the…
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NSA tells lawmakers it is spending billions to test AI models
The National Security Agency informed lawmakers that it is spending billions of dollars in taxpayer funds this year to evaluate and test advanced artificial intelligence models, according to two sources familiar with…
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Pentagon requests $30.3 million for AI‑enhanced polygraph program
The Department of Defense has asked for $30.3 million over the next five years to develop “Polygraph+” – an AI‑driven lie‑detection system that would use machine‑learning scoring algorithms and “standoff sensing” to…
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Trump and Xi discuss AI cooperation with tech leaders at state dinner
U.S. Attendees included Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, SpaceX’s Elon Musk, AMD’s Lisa Su, Apple’s Tim Cook, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, Google’s Sergey Brin, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella. Xi’s readout stated China…
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Trump admin’s AI system denies seniors Medicare care amid reports of delays and errors
The Trump administration launched WISeR, an AI-driven pilot program in January to pre-approve or block Medicare services for seniors. The system, which covers six states, aims to cut fraud but has faced widespread…
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