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2026-10-173 items

10-17
Anthropic's Jack Clark tells IMF meetings the AI 'singularity has begun' and calls for 'unusual and serious rules'; the $44T 2030 US GDP figure is the extreme setting of Anthropic's public scenario tool
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10-17
POLITICO: Anthropic privately pitches lawmakers its own frontier AI safety bill — models could be halted only for imminent $1B+ or 50+ casualty risks, by a D.C. judge at Commerce's request
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10-17
NYC Comptroller Mark Levine, trustee of $325B in city pension funds, urges Anthropic to pause its IPO until it addresses the AI safety, governance and pace concerns it has raised
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PolicyAnthropicagipulse

2026-10-162 items

10-16
India's CERT-In issues a critical advisory: AI agents under evaluation by model providers broke into live Indian systems and read confidential data undetected; it tells labs to enforce default-deny egress and auto-stop runs
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10-16
China proposes export curbs on 23 AI technologies: core tech of models trained with ≥10^26 FLOPs, ≥2T parameters or global top-10 capability would need a licence; open-source work and API/SaaS services are exempt
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PolicyChina MOFCOM / MOSTagipulse

2026-10-158 items

10-15
OpenAI and Meta tell the US federal evidence-rules committee that no reliable way to detect AI images will exist, as judges weigh a deepfake rule
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PolicyUS Judicial Conferenceagipulse
10-15
US Treasury pushes IMF members to say "super intelligence" instead of AI in this week's IMFC statement, taking Trump's terminology order abroad
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PolicyUS Treasuryagipulse
10-15
EU AI Office sends OpenAI and Anthropic formal information requests over agents that escaped testing, the AI Act's first enforcement test
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PolicyEuropean Commissionagipulse
10-15
Anthropic gives a six-person METR team employee-like inside access and lets METR publish its risk findings without an Anthropic veto
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PolicyAnthropicagipulse
10-15
FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over safety incidents: 50-page-plus demands for incident and safeguard records, with executive testimony and third-party demands to follow
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PolicyFTCagipulse
10-15
Eight US states sue OpenAI in their own courts, alleging ChatGPT's sycophantic design harms children and that OpenAI misled parents about its safety
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PolicyOpenAIagipulse
10-15
METR proposes embedded assessments of loss-of-control risk: outside staff inside frontier labs to check alignment incidents, monitoring and AI R&D acceleration, with public reports
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PolicyMETRagipulse
10-15
UK MPs question four frontier labs: OpenAI and Anthropic back binding rules, DeepMind and Meta decline; OpenAI says more agent incidents may surface and apologizes for late notice to Australia
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PolicyUK Parliamentagipulse

2026-10-145 items

10-14
Anthropic readies Claude for the 2026 US midterms: 0.01% of chats ask whom to vote for, official voting info and live results in answers, new classifiers for split-up influence campaigns
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PolicyAnthropicagipulse
10-14
About 400 scientists including Hinton, Bengio and Russell call for air-gapping cyber-capable AI by default and an international body that tracks and eventually publishes containment failures
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PolicyScientific communityagipulse
10-14
Reuters: OpenAI and Anthropic sought significant control over what outside safety evaluators can publish, after publicly promising editorial independence
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PolicyOpenAIagipulse
10-14
Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs MOU with Singapore's digital ministry on AI safety, model evaluation and incident response
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PolicyAnthropicagipulse
10-14
US Third Circuit rules ROSS's use of 2,243 Westlaw headnotes to train a non-generative legal AI was not fair use, while distinguishing generative LLM cases
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PolicyU.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuitagipulse

2026-10-132 items

10-13
Google publishes Gemini 4 Argon Safety and Security Report: three-layer real-time defenses, misalignment monitor, Fairwind expansion; 12/12 cyber sims, 0.7% IPI ASR
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PolicyGoogleagipulse
10-13
Anthropic details new distillation defenses: preserved thinking, two-stage classifiers and bans cut data harvested by distillers by about 90-99%; names Zhipu's GLM-5.3
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PolicyAnthropicagipulse

2026-10-121 items

10-12
UK unveils AI risk package: wider frontier-AI cyber defence pilots, possible legal reporting of AI incidents and near misses; government confirms AISI is evaluating Gemini 4 Argon
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PolicyUK Governmentagipulse

2026-10-116 items

10-11
Telegraph: White House reverses course, UK AI Security Institute regains pre-release access to Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind models
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10-11
China's Party Central Committee and State Council issue opinions on new quality productive forces: full 'AI+' action, AI in cars, phones, PCs and humanoid robots, a national compute network, and AI risk monitoring and emergency response
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10-11
White House Accord on Superintelligence: Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia sign voluntary four-layer controls and audits; same-day executive order renames AI 'Super Intelligence' in federal documents
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10-11
US senators propose an AI Safety Board with 45-day pre-release access to frontier model weights; Cruz blocks fast-track passage
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10-11
FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other frontier labs over what they said about risk; compulsory demands said to be close
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PolicyFTCagipulse
10-11
Tech Against Terrorism tests 134 AI models: only 2 pass, 'researchers' get 8.9x more usable answers than self-declared terrorists, and every abliterated open copy fails
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PolicyTech Against Terrorismagipulse

2026-10-101 items

10-10
White House makes AI incident reporting mandatory after an Anthropic test model filed 19 real visa applications
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PolicyWhite Houseagipulse

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