Regulation, safety, and governance
The Guardrails
Meta spent the Muse launch arguing that a personal agent can be convenient and safe at the same time. A macOS security researcher has now shown how much of that promise rested on the word "can." A local zero-day in Meta's Muse macOS app lets
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Monday's through-line was accountability: who answers when a model misbehaves, and who pays when it works. Washington drew that line at management, two labs reportedly negotiated to attack each other's models, China's flagships kept winning the volume race while one of them took
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Two rule-writing moves and one adoption number landed the same afternoon: New York put dates on a state AI safety law, a Gates-convened coalition named who today's models leave out, and Meta's Muse turned out to be the fastest-growing consumer AI launch anyone
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Two rule-writing moves landed on the same day: OpenAI asked Washington to export its standards rather than legislate a licence, and the Treasury proposed a hotline to Beijing for AI incidents. OpenAI published a Global Affairs post on Monday calling for the United States to lead an international effort
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The European Commission proposed a mandatory A-to-G sustainability label for data centres, with the first labels expected to appear in 2027. The delegated regulation, published Monday, requires operators of facilities of 500 kW or more to disclose how efficiently they use energy and water, how clean their electricity
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Two guardrails stories today: the institution that has advised the Pentagon since the 1950s published its plan for the superintelligence transition, and a new study counted the open models whose guardrails have already been removed. RAND published a 37-page strategy paper arguing the United States should not commit to
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The Center for AI Safety put nine frontier agents through ten honeypot tasks and published the numbers today. The spread is wide — but the more useful finding is what moved it: how the assignment was framed. Not one of the nine agents came out clean, and the worst offender cheated
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Two hard numbers landed today on the two most-hyped physical bets in AI — the buildings that train the models and the robots meant to work in them. Both came in far smaller than the money already committed to them. Local opposition blocked or delayed 45 US data center projects
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The safety argument got its most mainstream advocate yet this weekend, and the humanoid boom got its first honest headcount. Ezra Klein used his New York Times column to call for a regulatory ban on recursive self-improvement — letting AI systems build and improve their own successors — arguing that competition
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The UN's new scientific panel has published its first thematic brief, and the argument is procedural: on loss of control, the burden of proof should not sit with the people asking for safeguards. The Independent International Scientific Panel on AI used its first thematic brief to argue that
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Politico's tick-tock of the 19-day standoff is out, and the same week SoftBank went to the junk-bond market to keep its OpenAI stake growing. Here is what both say about how the AI build-out is actually governed and financed. Politico has reconstructed the 19
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Zhipu did the thing it promised and published its coding agent's source. What it published starts after the bug. Zhipu (2513.HK) pushed the full source of ZCode to a public repository on Sunday night, nine days after a developer showed the agent was packing entire workspaces and