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Government and industry rulemaking on how advanced AI systems are tested, audited and released, and who sets those standards.
Anthropic argued in a report late last month that Z.ai's freely downloadable GLM-5.3 poses a major cyberattack risk. MIT Technology Review says Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Anthropic's Dario Amodei each have money riding on how the open-model fight ends.
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Six AI companies signed a two-page White House accord on 29 September that pledges audits and board review but sets no penalty for breaking it. A close reading of the text finds it is the nearest thing the US has to national AI safety policy, two months after Europe switched its rules on.
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Rep. Ro Khanna asked DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI if they would be prepared for an incident like this summer's OpenAI-agent hack of Hugging Face. The letters target frontier labs, but the incident they cite is one any team shipping agents has to plan for.
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The Financial Times says the suggestion came from investors: $1.2 trillion, 41% above the round OpenAI closed in March and 1,200 times the annualized advertising revenue it disclosed last month. The talks are early.
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A sharptext.net column argues the loudest AI risk estimates should be scored against the record of the people issuing them. Of the four forecasts it assembles, only one can be checked inside a year.
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Alex Karp told CNBC that frontier labs are angling for government liability cover because their commercial clients would otherwise sue them. Buyers whose data feeds those models should read their contracts with that in mind.
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Neither Washington nor Beijing endorsed the proposal behind this month's frontier-lab consensus, which asks for evaluators inside labs, coordinated capability thresholds and international deals and ties how much anyone slows to how far ahead the US already is.
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At Tuesday's House Financial Services hearing the Treasury Secretary called a liability waiver a "blank check" and said the labs want one while also asking the industry to slow down. He urged both houses to refuse.
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Three days after Anthropic's chief executive proposed that leading labs coordinate to slow model releases, Nvidia's chief executive told CNBC that the legal cover such coordination needs is completely unnecessary.
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OpenAI says the joint work with Anthropic and Google DeepMind has been running for weeks. Its policy chief does not expect to need an antitrust waiver, Anthropic's CEO has asked Washington for one, and the FTC chairman says his alarm bells are going off.
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