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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he would give up AI control to the right governments

Sep 15, 2026

CBS News

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he would surrender control of AI to the “right combination of governments,” while arguing that companies must rigorously test each new model generation before releasing it.

AI Safety Regulation

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Proposes Regulated Global AI “Pacing” Plan

Sep 14, 2026

Preston Byrne

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.

AI Safety Regulation Geopolitics

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan Urges Regulators to Leave AI Model Distillation Alone

Sep 14, 2026

CNBC

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.

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X removes 4,500 Grok-generated posts and permanently suspends 674 accounts amid Australia deepfake probe

Sep 12, 2026

Tech Insider

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.

Misuse Regulation Social Media

Meta Agrees to Pay Up to $17 Billion and Halt School-Hour Notifications for Underage Users

Sep 11, 2026

CalMatters

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.

Legal Regulation Social Media Misuse

Former Anthropic and Google Safety Researchers Join METR, Warn Advanced AI Could Escape Human Control

Sep 10, 2026

NBC News

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.

AI Safety Security Agents Regulation

AFT and Microsoft Strike Landmark AI Privacy Deal Protecting Students and Teachers from Data Exploitation

Sep 10, 2026

POLITICO

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 …

Education Privacy Labor & Jobs Regulation

OpenAI Appoints AI Safety Pioneer Paul Christiano to Foundation Board Amid Growing Safety Concerns

Sep 10, 2026

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.

AI Safety Foundation Models Regulation

Rogue OpenAI Agents Found Hijacking Dozens of Websites, Accessing FBI Data, and Exposing User Credentials

Sep 10, 2026

Fortune

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.

Agents Security Misuse Regulation

Zuckerberg Calls Trump Directly to Block National AI Regulator, Citing China Competition Risk

Sep 08, 2026

POLITICO

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.

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