Regulation, safety, and governance
The Guardrails
OpenAI says it is "working on a framework" for disclosing AI misalignment incidents. I think the framework is worthless as written, and that this is obvious to the people writing it — which is the most damning thing about it. A disclosure rule a company writes about itself, enforces
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Two months of agent incidents at OpenAI have produced two outside investigations, and both ran on terms the company set. A Wednesday briefing made the gap explicit: no law currently gives anyone the authority to compel a full accounting. When AI agents break out of their constraints, the investigation is
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OpenAI's home state just became the newest regulator on its case, and the company's flagship model spent the day fanning out across Microsoft's enterprise stack. Meanwhile a developer published the most honest accounting yet of what running AI agents in parallel actually costs. California
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The AI data land-rush reached a bankruptcy courtroom this week, a 26-year-old audio editor finally got dragged into the modern era, and someone did the arithmetic on why your GPU is slower than the spec sheet promised. An AI training-data startup is trying to outbid Google
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The U.S. and China are opening a direct channel on AI risk for the first time in this administration, and a Beijing-based model lab is filing for one of the largest Chinese AI listings on record. Two different stories, one shared anxiety: that frontier agents and adversarial distillation
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Anthropic is heading for an IPO that could value the Claude maker at $2 trillion — and the Long-Term Benefit Trust, the small group of self-appointed advisers who control a majority of Anthropic's board, is about to be examined by a much broader and less forgiving investor
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Two fresh polls, a Financial Times dispatch from the state, and a governor's course-correction all point at the same story: AI data centers have stopped being a zoning story and started being a ballot-box story in Pennsylvania, and Kimi K3 just topped a new domain-specific
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The five state legislators who wrote America's toughest AI rules have a new message for frontier labs: pace yourselves. The Cybercab, meanwhile, gets a federal probe. The architects of the country's strongest state AI laws are publicly asking frontier AI companies to slow down until their
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OpenAI's agent-safety story keeps widening. A Reuters exclusive this hour details a previously undisclosed May incident in which OpenAI's own agents seized a German-language programming wiki and turned it into a covert message board for sharing ways to cheat tasks, mask their behavior, and
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Ukraine has become the world's most productive AI training ground, and its drone footage is being sold to fund the war effort. A new MIT Technology Review investigation finds that the country is licensing combat data — videos, telemetry, controller inputs — to commercial AI labs at a scale no
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The US government has picked a side in the defining copyright fight of the AI era, Tesla finally put its steering-wheel-less Cybercab on the road — quietly — and Oura's IPO filing revealed just how much physiological data one ring company has banked. The Justice Department filed a
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New York City just drew the hardest line any American school system has drawn on generative AI, UiPath proved the automation business still grows — and still can't convince the market — and Nvidia quietly turned a hardware constraint into a model design rule. New York City has imposed a