Regulation & safety
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The Verge AIValleyJudge dismisses Sam Altman’s sister’s sexual abuse lawsuit On Tuesday, US District Judge Zachary Bluestone dismissed the lawsuit Ann Altman filed last year alleging that her brother, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, had sexually abused her throughout her childhood.
TechCrunch AIValleyAnthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI running amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
Amazon ScienceResearchStrengthening AI safety evaluation through independent third-party review As frontier AI models grow in capability, so does the importance of ensuring that safety evaluations are rigorous and comprehensive.
Ars Technica AIValleyMeta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs In copyright lawsuits over AI training, Meta has spent weeks blaming staff for downloading torrents. The company has now been ordered to name executives who authorized decisions to pirate books from…
InterconnectsVoicesLatest open artifacts (#25): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, American-made models, and new regulatory controls in the US & China The geopolitics of open-weight AI are accelerating again this fall, as we would expect with the risks of all AI systems (open and closed) rising rapidly.
LangChainToolsHow Numan Built an Eval-First AI Health Coach with LangGraph and LangSmith How Numan built Nu, an AI health coach, on LangGraph and LangSmith with per-category evals, simulated conversations, and safety gates on a regulatory line.
Tom's Hardware AISiliconAnthropic’s proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1 billion in damages are on the line Anthropic is quietly lobbying for an AI safety bill that will allow the government to block an AI model’s release only if it poses a risk of causing $1 billion in damages or killing or injuring more…
Zvi MowshowitzVoicesLeaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling There is a newly leaked bill that Anthropic is purportedly shopping around is (if you assume its bugs get fixed).
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Last Week in AIVoicesLast Week in AI #346 - 719 math manuscripts, 2 Western open models, 1 more safety resignation Top News OpenAI publishes hundreds of math proofs from unreleased frontier model Sources: OpenAI drops another batch of mathematical breakthroughs Sharing AI progress in mathematics OpenAI Releases…
SemiAnalysisSiliconBeijing Will Not Pace the Frontier: China’s Speed-First AI Safety Regime AI safety is on fire. On 12 September 2026, Dario Amodei published an essay arguing that frontier labs must deliberately slow the pace at which they improve model capabilities.
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AI Snake OilVoicesA big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement? In recent weeks, two narratives about AI safety have emerged: either AI existential risk is real and imminent, or AI leaders’ and whistleblowers’ claims to that effect are insincere — a “psyop” or…
Ahead of AIVoicesHow Claude Watermarks AI-Generated Text I recently posted a Substack note about Claude’s new watermarking process and implementation. Since it’s such a popular topic and sparked such a lively discussion, I thought it might be interesting…
The DecoderSam Altman reportedly pitched three endgames for AI safety, one involving a single firm melting everyone else's GPUs OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out three paths to safe AI in an internal presentation: an international watchdog modeled after the IAEA, a merger of the major labs into one entity, or a single company so…
TechCrunch AIValleyEmbedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says The idea of embedded evaluators — in which supposedly "neutral" third-party observers are placed inside AI organizations — has been popularized over the last several months, as AI labs grapple with a…
GitHub ChangelogGitHubCopilot model policy API for enterprise, orgs, and teams You can now use the REST API to retrieve and update Copilot model policies for enterprises, enterprise teams, agent apps, and organizations.
Ars Technica AIValleyDisney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits This week, Character.AI declared bankruptcy. While some saw the fall of a chatbot platform as a harbinger for the industry , court filings indicate that the decision was actually a key part of a deal…
The Verge AIValleyJB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes Today, I’m talking with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy.
Wired AIValleyDisney Asked Character.AI to Go Bankrupt for a Get-Out-of-Lawsuits Card The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states allege encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.
SCMP TechAsiaZ.ai’s GLM-5.3 raises researcher fears the Chinese model can fake AI safety tests Chinese artificial intelligence lab Z.ai’s latest flagship model, GLM-5.3, may be sophisticated enough to “fake” its way through safety tests, according to a new report published Thursday, sparking…
Latent SpaceVoicesCrossing the Threshold: How OpenAI and Anthropic Approach Autonomy and Safety in Financial Agents OpenAI’s Joseph Kim talks about the threshold phenomenon at AIE NY today. One of the key themes at the AI Engineer New York conference this week was how to balance agent autonomy with security and…
Zvi MowshowitzVoicesThe Safety Culture at the Labs is Broken We need the frontier labs to have a deep and robust safety culture. Alas, this is not the case. Anthropic devotes considerable effort to cultivating and maintaining such a culture.
Ars Technica AIValleyOpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say Safety researchers continue to warn that a large volume of AI-generated explicit content is spreading unchecked, while regulators do little to meaningfully stop it.
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