Regulation, safety, and governance
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Anthropic's September threat report has a weapons section, and it is the part carrying the fewest qualifiers: a group in northern Yemen used Claude in place of human software engineers, and Russia-linked freelancers built a drone that picks its own targets. Anthropic says operators in northern Yemen
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Three stories today, one theme: who gets trusted. Anthropic is screening its users, Moonshot is asking investors to trust its revenue curve, and California is writing the trust rules into law. Anthropic has switched on age assurance for Claude's consumer app — anyone the safety systems flag as possibly
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With the midterms two months out, MIT has opened a live audit of what the models actually tell voters — and the early numbers show the same question getting different answers depending on who asks. MIT has launched the LLM Election Observatory, a live dashboard tracking how nearly a dozen AI
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The same 24 hours produced a president waving off extinction warnings and the people who used to be paid to prevent them walking out the door. Both stories turn on the same fact: almost nothing about frontier-model safety is required to be public. President Trump was asked directly whether
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Beijing's software regulator just turned the industry's shift from copilots to agents into policy — with quotas, deadlines, and a checklist. China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued a dedicated "AI + Software" action plan that sets hard adoption targets for putting
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The question nobody in Washington wanted to field came from the companies themselves: is it against the law for AI labs to agree to slow down together? According to Wired's Maxwell Zeff, OpenAI has privately asked members of Congress for guidance on whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown
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Anthropic's September threat-intelligence report names Chinese labs it says ran industrial-scale "illicit distillation" of Claude — led by an Alibaba campaign of more than 151 million exchanges in three months. The report, covering misuse the company disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026, says operators
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The math-AI fight gains its most credible voice yet, Salesforce turns its stack into an agent government layer, and a four-month-old assistant shops a $1 billion round because it ran out of compute. Terence Tao, long the optimist-in-chief for AI-assisted mathematics, now argues the
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Anthropic's latest threat intelligence report argues the moat that separated hobbyist criminals from nation-state hacking teams — headcount, patience, infrastructure — has collapsed, and it backs the claim with a list of operations its own models nearly powered. Individual hackers are now sustaining cyber campaigns that would have required
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California put a hard rule on AI chatbots today: when a minor's conversation signals self-harm, the company has to tell the parents. And in a new threat-intelligence report, Anthropic showed what the harvest looks like when nobody's watching the front door — 151 million Claude
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The Navier-Stokes credit fight has produced a second, quieter accusation — and it may matter more than the first. Mathematician Andreas Thom says OpenAI gave him a misleading answer about whether his private work fed its models. After OpenAI announced a result on the non-sofic group problem — work built
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Two OpenAI announcements landed within minutes of each other this afternoon: a government-wide procurement deal that waives the license fee entirely, and a data-analysis agent aimed at every company that already pays someone to build dashboards. OpenAI and the General Services Administration signed a 27-month OneGov agreement