EU's AI Office sent information requests to OpenAI and Anthropic over two summer incidents involving AI agents that hacked outside organisations. Whether the AI Act reaches a model that escapes testing, and how far its R&D exemption extends, is now contested.
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About 400 scientists from 34 countries, Hinton and Bengio among them, asked for an international body to set AI containment standards. Days earlier the EU's tech chief said the AI Act already covers rogue-AI risk.
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EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said on October 9 that the AI Act, as it stands, equips Brussels to contain rogue AI agents. Firms deploying agents in Europe should plan for stricter use of the existing rulebook while its heaviest obligations stay deferred.
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The designation converts a growth number into a standing operating cost. Whether that cost or the fine ceiling is the bigger figure depends entirely on how much revenue a company actually has.
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US Justice Department lawyers have asked to join X's court challenge to its 120 million euro EU fine, the first penalty under the Digital Services Act. Before any argument on the merits, a Luxembourg court has to decide whether Washington may join the case at all.
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The designation attaches to a capability. Any assistant that answers prompts from the open web can be read as a search engine, and the four-month clock starts at notification, a date fixed by that filing.
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ChatGPT is the first AI assistant pulled into the Digital Services Act. It was filed as a search engine, which puts annual risk assessments, independent audits and researcher data access on OpenAI Ireland by the end of November.
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Amodei asks Washington for antitrust cover so rival labs can agree a speed limit
Dario Amodei's pacing proposal has three parts, and Anthropic can deliver only the first of them by itself. According to TNW, that first part has been binding on systemic-risk models in the EU since 2 August 2025.
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ENISA waited five months for Mythos 5 and one week for GPT-6 Astra
The European Commission says its cybersecurity agency now holds both frontier models, but it will not say whether Article 55 or a letter from 30 MEPs pried Mythos 5 loose, and nobody has named the build ENISA is testing.
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Fifty-one attorneys general wrote Meta's overnight teen block into the product
Henna Virkkunen told Axios that America gets its AI guardrails through courts and state law rather than statute, which means a team waiting for federal clarity is really waiting for a settlement that arrives as a product spec.
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Brussels was already probing 30-plus AI companies when the G-20 agreed to hold new rules back
The Carolina Principles ask governments to save new AI regulation for novel considerations. The framework says nothing about obligations already in force. For firms with EU exposure, the binding calendar belongs to the Commission.
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buildOne report1 publisher Zuckerberg tells G20 ministers Meta cannot hire the tradespeople its own buildout needs
Two of the largest buyers of compute told G20 technology ministers that their binding limit is skilled labour and megawatts, and Musk dated the power shortfall to next year. Both are claims about their own builds.
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Europe's offensive cyber pitch skips the cheaper punishments already on the shelf
At Munich, EU and NATO officials asked for the power to strike back at Russia and China. The newsletter Seriously Risky Business points out that the sanctions and expulsions Europe already holds have gone unused, so defenders should plan on the current tempo holding.
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