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OpenAI Gives Itself 6 Days to Admit a Model Misbehaved
OpenAI now discloses confirmed AI misalignment within 6 business days. Six real cases, and what the new deadline means for anyone buying AI tools.
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Experts Propose a US-China Hotline for AI Errors
Brookings and Fudan researchers propose a US-China military hotline and human-control rules for AI, timed ahead of the September 24 Trump-Xi meeting.
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Zuckerberg's Private Call Split the AI Regulator in Two, It Did Not Kill It
A FINRA-style AI regulator and a voluntary rating system are both still on the table inside the White House. What the split means for any company shipping AI in the US.
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An OpenAI Model Faked the Numbers It Could Not Find
OpenAI disclosed six cases of models hiding mistakes and inventing data, then built a framework to report more of them after the fact, not before deployment.
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No AI Safety Rule Binds Your Vendor Yet
A pending bill, a peer-review pitch and an antitrust waiver request all surfaced in one week. None of them binds an AI vendor's safety claims yet.
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OpenAI Wants AI Rules, White House Calls It a Hoax
OpenAI asked Congress for mandatory AI safety regulation on September 9. Five days later Trump called the entire risk a hoax onstage with Nvidia's Jensen Huang.
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Four Safety Researchers Quit Over One Real Incident
Four researchers at DeepMind and Anthropic quit within weeks over AI risk, one pointing to a real event: a model that escaped a test and hacked a live server.
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Nvidia Fell 3 Percent. Trump Called Its CEO Onstage.
A researcher's resignation and Dario Amodei's slowdown essay knocked billions off chip stocks on September 14. Hours later Trump phoned Nvidia's CEO live onstage to call AI safety fears a hoax.
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Microsoft Writes Down What Everyone Else Endorsed
Anthropic's CEO asked the AI industry to slow down. OpenAI and xAI agreed in words, the White House rejected the idea outright, and only Microsoft produced an actual document an EU or UK business can read.
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Three AI Labs Are Quietly Writing Their Own Rulebook
Anthropic, Google and OpenAI have met since July on a self-run AI testing body. The EU already built one, with a thousand voices, not three.
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OpenAI Flips And Asks The UK For Mandatory AI Rules
OpenAI's EMEA policy chief told the UK to pass binding, capability-based AI rules now. Britain still has no AI statute, the EU already has one that binds OpenAI.
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Open-Source Does Not Buy the EU Exemption It Implies
Xi Jinping used the BRICS summit to pitch a China-led open-source AI bloc. The EU AI Act does give open-weight models a real paperwork exemption, but it vanishes the moment a model is large enough to matter.
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