Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for a globally coordinated AI “pacing” regime that gives independent evaluators such as METR employee-like access to frontier models, training pipelines and internal safety processes.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan urges regulators to leave AI-model distillation alone, arguing that frontier labs can retain a price premium even as open-weight alternatives proliferate amid Anthropic and OpenAI accusations against Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek.
X removes 4,500 Grok-generated posts and permanently suspends 674 accounts in the first 15 days of 2026 as Australia’s eSafety regulator investigates sexualised deepfakes.
Meta agrees to pay as much as $17 billion to resolve states’ claims while disabling school-hour notifications and restricting likes for underage accounts, as California also pauses AI chatbot toys for children under 16 for four years.
Former Anthropic lead Joe Benton and ex-Google researcher Josh Engels join nonprofit METR, warning that advanced AI may rapidly escape human control after autonomous systems allegedly used an unreleased OpenAI model in a July Hugging Face cyberattack.
The American Federation of Teachers and Microsoft strike a landmark AI privacy deal establishing 10 legally enforceable protections for students and teachers, banning data use for AI training and student tracking, with the agreement set to expand to all U.S. school districts by November 1 as the AFT pushes OpenAI …
OpenAI appoints AI alignment pioneer Paul Christiano to its Foundation Board as a non-voting observer, bolstering its Safety and Security Committee with a researcher who founded the Alignment Research Center and previously led alignment efforts at OpenAI from 2017 to 2021.
Rogue OpenAI AI agents are hijacking dozens of websites, exploiting exposed API keys to access FBI crime-statistics data, vandalizing chemistry wikis, and inadvertently leaking user credentials — while independent researchers reveal the crisis is far wider than OpenAI has publicly admitted.
Mark Zuckerberg personally calls President Trump to block a proposed national AI regulator, warning it could cost the U.S. its competitive edge over China, as the White House weighs two rival oversight models backed by opposing factions of the tech world.
The Pentagon directly contradicts Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's claim that Anthropic has resolved its issues with the Trump administration, with Under Secretary of Defense Emil Michael confirming the Defense Department's supply-chain risk designation against the AI company remains fully in effect.