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Australia proposes AI safety bill requiring independent frontier model testing
Australia's government wants frontier AI companies to let outsiders check their homework before new models hit the public.
United blocks AI agents from booking flights despite low usage
United has decided your AI assistant can look but not touch. The airline confirmed it won't let personal AI agents complete ticket purchases on its site, even as rivals and outside companies push toward letting software handle more of people's...
OpenAI, Anthropic face new oversight as New York AI safety law takes effect
New York opened a registration portal Tuesday that will require OpenAI, Anthropic and other large frontier AI developers to sign up with the state by January 1, 2027.
Anthropic's Fable 5.2 completes 41% of freelance jobs, up from 2.5% a year ago
Anthropic's latest AI model, Fable 5.2, just completed 41.3 percent of real freelance jobs on the Remote Labor Index, a benchmark run by Scale Labs and the Center for AI Safety that tracks whether AI agents can finish actual paid work to a standard...
Gartner Flywheel Framework Helps CIOs Assess AI Momentum and Drag
Gartner has a new tool for CIOs trying to figure out whether their AI spending is actually paying off: the Value-Risk Flywheel.
Trump 60 Minutes interview touches AI safety, threat to arrest AI exec
President Trump sat down with "60 Minutes" and got pulled into a conversation about artificial intelligence that veered from policy into something closer to a crime story.
Wiener, Nancy Pelosi's replacement, readies to regulate AI to avoid disaster
Scott Wiener spent his years in the California state senate writing bills meant to put guardrails on advanced AI.
Anthropic-backed Public First spent USD 15M boosting Bores, who finished second
Public First, the biggest spender inside the Leading the Future super PAC network, put roughly $15 million behind Alex Bores's Democratic primary rival in New York's 12th congressional district this fall.
OpenAI Hires Ex-Army Secretary Dan Driscoll in National Security Role
OpenAI brought on Dan Driscoll, who stepped down as Secretary of the Army earlier this year, to a newly created post called "Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization." The hire lands weeks ahead of the midterms and follows a pattern...
NYT and other outlets sue Brave over alleged content scraping
The New York Times filed suit against Brave Software on Monday in federal court in Manhattan, accusing the privacy-focused browser maker of scraping its copyrighted articles and funneling them to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity,...
NYT and other publications sue Brave over alleged AI scraping, paywall bypass
The New York Times, the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel have filed suit against Brave Software, the company behind the Brave web browser, accusing it of scraping their websites to build an index it then sells to AI...
WebAnything Tool Collects Web Data, Verifies for Agent Development
A team of researchers has built a system called WebAnything that turns live websites into training grounds for AI agents, no human engineering required per site.
OpenAI updates GPT guidelines to use memories and separate what users said.
OpenAI has rewritten the Model Spec, the public document that lays out how its AI models are supposed to behave, and organized it around five values: faithfulness to human intent, harm reduction, honesty and transparency, support for human agency,...
Anthropic's Claude for Legal auto-verifies sources, then hands file to lawyer
Anthropic is adding pre-built templates to Claude Enterprise for lawyers, rolling out new "artifacts" for Claude for Legal that handle the grunt work firms have asked for since the product launched in May.
House Oversight seeks Delaware documents on AI agents running businesses
Rep. James Comer wants to know who's writing Delaware's corporate law these days.
Anthropic Sued Over Alleged Use of Elvis Songs to Train Claude, Denies Claim
Anthropic is back in court over training data, this time with Elvis Presley's catalogue at the center.
OpenAI reports promising results migrating COBOL code to modern languages
The IRS runs on it. So do most banks, every major airline, and the systems that keep Social Security checks going out on time.
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were never told what they leaked
OpenAI fired three safety researchers this year over what the company called violations of its policy on handling sensitive information.
AI Makes Historic PHP Bugs More Exploitable, Turning Them Into Current Crisis
Cloudflare counted millions of exploitation attempts within hours of PHP2Shell going public this week, as criminal hackers raced to weaponize a fresh batch of bugs in one of the internet's most widely used scripting languages.
Three-week OpenAI audit finds major gaps in AI safety monitoring
Two outside researchers walked into OpenAI's offices on July 21 with access to the company's codebase, internal documents, and about a dozen employees willing to sit for interviews.