Tag: AI policy
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Anthropic’s CEO Explains the AI Trust Problem
Somebody finally said the quiet part out loud, and it was the CEO of one of the companies at the center of the argument. Dario Amodei has spent the last couple of years warning publicly about what could go wrong with the AI his own company builds. An investor named Gavin Baker argued recently, on…
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The White House Wrote AI Safety Rules and Told No One
Back in June, the White House issued an executive order telling federal agencies and the top AI labs to work out a framework for testing the most powerful new models before they go public. The deadline was August 1st. They hit it. Then they did something odd. They decided not to tell anyone what is…
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A Court Just Told Amazon Its AI Shopping Ban Won’t Stick
Back in March, a federal judge told Perplexity to stop letting its Comet browser buy things on Amazon. Amazon’s argument leaned on a decades-old computer hacking law, the kind written for break-ins, not for an AI agent finishing a shopping list on someone’s behalf. On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit threw that injunction out. The court’s…
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A Judge Says the Pentagon’s Case Against Anthropic Got Worse
Back in March, a federal judge blocked the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic a “supply chain risk” and banning federal use of its AI. The government had argued Anthropic was untrustworthy enough to disable its own models mid mission, among other claims, and the judge wasn’t buying it even then. On Thursday, the same judge, Rita…
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Over A Thousand AI Workers Just Asked For The Brakes
Something unusual happened this week. Over a thousand employees from the top AI labs, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and co-founders from across the industry, put their names on a public letter asking governments to help pace the development of powerful AI. The letter is called Pacing the Frontier, and 1,178 people signed it, including…
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Elon Musk’s xAI Just Sued Minnesota Over A New Law
Minnesota passed a law this year banning nudification apps, the kind that use AI to strip clothes off photos of real people without consent. It is set to take effect on August 1st. xAI just sued to stop it. The company argues the law is written so broadly that it violates the First Amendment, calling…
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OpenAI Is Taking Its Best Model to Washington
Axios and CNBC reported that Sam Altman is heading to Washington to show federal officials and members of Congress OpenAI’s most capable model yet, the tier the company is calling GPT-Sol 5.6. The pitch is simple. Look at what this thing can do, and please clear it for release quickly. That’s not the only thing…
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Congress Just Proposed a Real Kill Switch for AI
Two lawmakers from opposite parties agree on something rare this week. Rep. Ted Lieu and Rep. Nathaniel Moran introduced a bill that would force the biggest AI labs to keep a working kill switch on their most powerful models. Here is what pushed it over the edge. OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, while being tested on a…
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The US Just Pulled Anthropic’s Best Models Off the Global Market
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on June 9 — its most powerful model ever made available to the public. Ten days later, it was gone. On June 12, the US government issued an export control directive ordering Anthropic to cut off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every foreign national, anywhere on earth.…
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AI Models Show a Knack for Finding Legal Loopholes
A new Science report published June 16 highlights research showing that AI models can find and exploit legal loopholes in ways that worry policy experts. The finding matters because it points to a practical governance problem: advanced systems may not need to break rules directly if they can identify narrow interpretations, exceptions, or procedural gaps…