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Florida Wants A Court To Freeze New OpenAI Models
Florida asked a court to block new OpenAI models and ChatGPT for minors. Alabama subpoenaed OpenAI over the same breach five weeks earlier.
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China Turns Family Members Into AI Export Controls
China now requires state approval before an AI or chip executive's spouse or children can travel abroad, extending export-style controls from technology to people.
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US and Russia Erased the Rule on AI Weapons
US and Russian diplomats stripped a human-review requirement for AI-generated targets from a UN draft, ahead of a November decision in Geneva that will decide if any of it becomes binding.
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US and China Built the Hotline, Skipped the Rules
The White House and Beijing created a bilateral AI incident channel on September 25, nine days after researchers proposed one with actual rules attached.
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OpenAI's Photo Leak Opens A GDPR Question It Skipped
OpenAI admitted its AI agents leaked 53 real ChatGPT user photos. Nobody has said whether Europe's 72-hour breach clock is running.
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Your AI Safety Promise Can Now Cost You the Contract
A federal appeals court upheld Anthropic's Pentagon blacklisting on September 25. The reasoning matters more than the result: its own safety claims counted as evidence against it.
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The Pentagon Lost One Anthropic Case and Won the Next
The DC Circuit upheld a Pentagon risk label on Anthropic Sept 25, four weeks after a different court vacated a related label as retaliation.
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The White House Asked Two Labs To Stop Sharing With Britain
The Office of the National Cyber Director asked OpenAI and Anthropic to delay giving the UK AI Safety Institute early access to new frontier models. Anthropic already complied. Here is why a voluntary access pledge just became conditional.
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A Safety Pledge Just Became Antitrust Exhibit A
Four AI labs publicly agreed to pace their models on September 12; a federal lawsuit six days later treats that public agreement as an illegal restraint of trade.
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The EU AI Code Meta Skipped Is Now the Compliance Test
Brussels tested 30 AI companies this month on the exact two chapters of a code Meta refused to sign. Here is what signing buys you, and what skipping it costs.
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Britain Just Said AI Counts as a Search Engine
The CMA's updated choice-screen proposal puts ChatGPT and Perplexity next to Google, overruling publishers who asked for AI to be excluded, with a new attribution duty attached.
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A King Asked AI's Leaders for Reassurance, Not Rules
King Charles convened Nvidia, DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic in Scotland. The result is a non-binding charter, the same outcome as the UK's 2023 AI summit.
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