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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

2026-10-131 items

10-13
roon: no fundamental alignment progress since RLHF, racing into recursive self-improvement is unprecedented folly and frontier research must slow very soon; also teases the strongest interpretability progress in years
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Statementroonagipulse

2026-10-122 items

10-12
Bill Gates and Microsoft president Brad Smith say AI self-regulation is no longer enough; Smith: 'your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI'
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StatementMicrosoftagipulse
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

2026-10-1112 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
Karpathy: the gap in understanding AI is now a funnel, with only ~5,000 people using internal frontier systems
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StatementAndrej Karpathyagipulse
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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Policy
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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Policy
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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Policy
10-11
Fields medalist Duminil-Copin on OpenAI's 700-plus math papers: "I cried"; just 30 of them hold about 4,000 pages tied to his work, as much as he has written in his whole career
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Statement
10-11
Qualcomm CEO says frontier AI labs want phones running a 100B-parameter model all the time by 2028, and some are starting to build phones
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Statement
10-11
Sacks says Anthropic's alignment is unsafe; the Claude Constitution he quotes ranks human oversight first
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Statement
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
Terence Tao's "Math 2.0" lecture: AI has ended proof scarcity, and optimizing for solved problems is now harming mathematics
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StatementTerence Taoagipulse
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
10-11
Altman: open models will bring a 'tidal wave' of cyber problems, and society should accept severe incidents as the price of liberty
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StatementOpenAIagipulse

2026-10-104 items

10-10
Nadella: treat frontier models as insider risks and keep the controls outside the model
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Statement
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
10-10
After CrowdStrike tied it to South Korean bank breaches, open-source pentest agent ARTEX goes closed source and its GitHub repo comes down
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PolicyARTEX (Autumn-27)agipulse
10-10
26 researchers led by UC Berkeley publish a plan for a 'hardwired pause': stop making training chips, swap in inference-only chips, and pause frontier AI training for at least a decade
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PolicyWorking Group on AI Pause Feasibility (UC Berkeley et al.)agipulse

2026-10-093 items

10-09
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team tests Zhipu's GLM-5.3: exploit-building close to Mythos Preview, safeguards bypassed 64–100% of the time with simple techniques
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PolicyAnthropicagipulse
10-09
SemiAnalysis counts 857 models from nine leading Chinese AI developers: only 9 shipped with a published safety evaluation, and 94.9% have no safety disclosure at all
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PolicySemiAnalysisagipulse
10-09
Microsoft AI opens public consultation on a draft Code of Conduct for MAI models: never resist shutdown, never widen its own scope
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