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The nonprofit's US director says alignment isn't enough — legislation in the US and UK now backs a full halt on frontier development.
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The nonprofit's US director says alignment isn't enough — legislation in the US and UK now backs a full halt on frontier development.

Hochul signed a one-year data center moratorium in July and wants AI regulation aimed at kids under 18 — while claiming the tech-jobs crown from California.

The five-plank pledge asks candidates to back mandatory model safety reviews and end tax breaks for data center construction.

Amodei pushes back on investor Gavin Baker's claim that his AI warnings have fueled US opposition to data centers and new regulation.

The Trump administration's voluntary prerelease testing regime will pull in open models once they hit frontier capabilities, officials say.

As of August 2nd, companies operating in the EU must tell users when they are talking to an AI or looking at synthetic media.

Opus 5 lands weeks after government cybersecurity concerns forced Fable 5 offline, with stronger safeguards and $5/$25 per million tokens.

The $1T-valued lab says 2025's self-reporting laws are already outdated and is backing third-party audits in Illinois and Massachusetts.

Seven current employees and one alum funded Guardrails Alliance, a counterweight to the $100M pro-industry PAC Leading the Future.

The DeepMind CEO wants labs to submit models for review 30 days before release, starting voluntary and moving to mandatory.

The Google DeepMind CEO wants an industry-funded regulator running before the end of 2026, with authority to pause risky releases.

The central bank flags AI concentration, model correlation and opaque agentic trading as risks worth watching across the UK financial system.

The Secretary-General says AI governance is failing to keep pace with deployment and wants binding international rules focused on child safety.

After pulling Anthropic's Fable and Mythos, regulators are now approving GPT-5.6 customer by customer — a release model the whole industry has to navigate together.

Anthropic-linked groups and a $100M rival PAC turned an obscure Manhattan race into the first AI-regulation referendum.

With midterms five months away and a five-week recess looming, the administration is binding AI rules to child-safety law.

The probe spans advertising, model sycophancy, consumer data, and treatment of minors — and lands days after OpenAI filed confidentially to IPO.

Self-represented filings jumped from 11% to 16.8% of federal civil cases, with AI-written share rising from 1% to 18% in three years.

The OpenAI chief plans to tell Congress that a federal pre-clearance regime for frontier models would slow US AI development.

Susie Wiles and Scott Bessent want it resurrected; David Sacks killed it hours before the May 21 signing.

The document maps OpenAI's safety, security, and risk practices to emerging regulations in the EU and California.

Brussels is engaging directly with the two US labs as it works out how its AI rules apply to the most capable systems.
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