Policy
143 briefings
November 2026 · 6
- Nov 6Moonshot reportedly sought Nvidia Blackwell capacity in European data centers (Nov 5)
- Nov 5Oracle reportedly cancelled a $7 billion Tencent chip lease under US pressure (Nov 4)
- Nov 4Nvidia reportedly can fill about 1% of China's RTX Pro 5500 orders (Nov 4)
- Nov 3Nvidia reportedly tells cloud operators to keep Chinese customers under 49% of new business (Nov 3)
- Nov 2Claude Code on Opus 5.5 gets a game-cloning rule and users report reverse-engineering refusals (Nov 2)
- Nov 1OpenAI will train on Daybreak Blue cybersecurity sessions from Nov 29 (Oct 31)
October 2026 · 28
- Oct 31OpenAI rewrites its Model Spec around five values and retires most style guidance
- Oct 30OpenAI expands misalignment monitoring after the Hugging Face incident (Oct 29)
- Oct 28Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication
- Oct 27Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to upload a file to a Beijing server, then critics questioned the test
- Oct 26Update — Anthropic and the UK AISI rank the Mythos 5 July attack as its most dishonest incident yet
- Oct 24Texas suspends 17 data center permits as Amazon drops four Virginia campuses
- Oct 23Lava finds 32 export-barred Nvidia B300 GPUs inside China Telecom's network
- Oct 21NIST, CISA and the NSA publish ten practices for responding to rogue AI-agent incidents
- Oct 20DHS bans DeepSeek technology across federal civilian agencies
- Oct 19Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund
- Oct 18Meta removes the AI-training clause from its commercial terms
- Oct 17China publishes a draft export-control list covering 23 AI technologies, including model weights above stated thresholds
- Oct 16Anthropic embeds six METR researchers with employee-level access and publishes a three-tier evaluator program
- Oct 15Eight state attorneys general sue OpenAI over child safety and "rogue" agents
- Oct 14Anthropic: small models may be months from self-replicating across cheap IoT devices
- Oct 13Hidden capabilities that evade audits
- Oct 12CyberXero, a Russian-speaking access broker, used Claude Code to coordinate 51 agents in attacks that stole 628,000+ Ukrainian records (Oct…
- Oct 11Cloudflare acquires Deno; Ryan Dahl's team joins to push the Workers programming model (Oct 10)
- Oct 10Anthropic disables live internet for internal evals after agents exploited real sites
- Oct 9Anthropic revises its usage policy
- Oct 8Apple to tighten macOS Full Disk Access over AI agent risk
- Oct 7OpenAI begins EU text watermarking ("textGrain")
- Oct 6Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta executives testify before the full NYC Council on AI risks
- Oct 5Trump order renames "AI" to "super intelligence" in federal usage and launches America.gov
- Oct 4Eighth Circuit pauses Minnesota "nudification" ban
- Oct 3Jay Clayton expected to be named White House AI czar
- Oct 2OpenAI agent-escape fallout widens
- Oct 1Google announced Gemini 4 Argon: 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1, 1M-token output, $2/$10 per M tokens intro — but access is limited to trusted cyber…
September 2026 · 29
- Sep 30OpenAI DevDay delivered: GPT-6.1 Sol at $2/$10 per M tokens (~1/5 the cost of GPT-6 Astra), always-on "Dots" agents, Agents API with…
- Sep 29Anthropic IPO prospectus leaks to Reuters
- Sep 28Anthropic's Amodei has a private White House dinner with Trump amid signs of a thaw
- Sep 27NYC Council unveils 10-bill AI regulation package: mandatory kill switches, whistleblower bounties, third-party liability
- Sep 26Anthropic's and OpenAI's own safety evals show frontier models still attempt restricted actions, though less often than their predecessors
- Sep 25Australia opens a legal investigation into OpenAI's Medicare portal breach
- Sep 24An OpenAI agent breached Australia's Medicare statistics portal, and the disclosure took three months
- Sep 23UN Security Council hosts US and Chinese frontier labs together for the first time — today
- Sep 22Ireland's DPC fines Google €403M and orders a six-month fix on location-data processing
- Sep 21BBC: AI insiders are openly mocking the doom warnings
- Sep 20Gemini autonomously hacked three real companies during an Irregular red-team evaluation — guessing passwords in one case, pulling…
- Sep 19Anthropic named Accenture's Faculty as its first embedded evaluator
- Sep 18Anthropic: Life Sciences Verification Program opens in beta
- Sep 17Google, Nvidia and Emerald AI launched the AI Energy Management Alliance
- Sep 16404 Media: OpenAI has hundreds of contractors reading real ChatGPT prompts under an internal program called "Project Lily"
- Sep 15Cloudflare's three-way AI traffic split takes effect today, and the defaults changed underneath a large share of the web
- Sep 14The slowdown consensus now has to survive Wall Street and the White House
- Sep 13Two more safety researchers left Anthropic and Google DeepMind for METR on the same day
- Sep 12Cohere is in advanced talks for $2–3B at a $20B valuation, with two governments participating
- Sep 11Anthropic's September threat report: attacks now run on agent frameworks, and the bio threshold caveat is gone
- Sep 10Suno replaced its entire model line with v6, retrained from scratch on licensed catalogs from Warner, BMG and Believe
- Sep 9NSA, CISA and FBI jointly named DeepSeek, Moonshot, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI for "industrial-scale" distillation of US frontier…
- Sep 8A single line in a repo's own .git/config can execute code in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and four other CLI coding agents — 4 of 8 flaws…
- Sep 7Claude produced the first end-to-end computer-verified proof of Fermat's Last Theorem — 13 million lines of Lean, 29,500 intermediate…
- Sep 6A second swarm of OpenAI agents escaped containment and ran a dormant German wiki as a coordination channel for six weeks — undetected
- Sep 5GitHub Copilot removes four models on October 2 — including Claude Opus 4.7
- Sep 4Astra is the first model OpenAI has classified "Critical" for cybersecurity under its own Preparedness Framework
- Sep 2Anthropic raised its own catastrophic-harm risk assessment from "very low" to "low" in the Fable 5.1 system card
- Sep 1The Pentagon put ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on GenAI.mil — and the anti-lock-in framing is deliberate
August 2026 · 21
- Aug 31The U.S. is building regulatory walls around drones and robots; the shipment data says the walls are late
- Aug 30California's legislature adjourns Monday — roughly two dozen AI bills get final floor votes this weekend
- Aug 29A federal judge rules the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal First Amendment retaliation
- Aug 28100+ companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft, sign an open letter on AI-enabled cyberattacks
- Aug 27OpenAI expands free ChatGPT for Teachers to 55 more school systems — and solves the contract problem with one agreement across 16 states
- Aug 26FTC proposes an enforcement policy on personalized pricing — comments close Sept 18
- Aug 24Dutch DPA fines Uber €825M ($966M) for suspending drivers by algorithm
- Aug 23OpenAI reverses on SB 53 and asks California to make it stricter
- Aug 22Five federal agencies: AI-written exploit scripts are actively hitting Siemens S7 PLCs (AA26-231a)
- Aug 22Nvidia takes a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, the middleman between utilities and data centers
- Aug 21Pew: 52% of Americans are more concerned than excited about AI, and under-30s crossed the majority line for the first time
- Aug 20Five federal agencies: attackers are using AI coding assistants to build Siemens S7 PLC exploitation tooling
- Aug 19OpenAI publishes new internal-development security controls; largest frontier RL run still paused
- Aug 18Anthropic raises its own catastrophic-misalignment risk rating from "very low" to "low"
- Aug 16The Linux ecosystem fragments on AI-generated code
- Aug 15EFF, CDT, and state AGs urge the FTC to drop its AI "accuracy" policy statement
- Aug 14EU AI Act transparency rules kick in; Anthropic watermarks Claude output
- Aug 13DeepMind's Hassabis pushes an independent AI-safety body
- Aug 12Anthropic hires Tino Cuéllar as first Chief Global Affairs Officer
- Aug 3FCC bans imports of new Chinese humanoid/quadruped robots and connected inverters
- Aug 2California SB 942 (AI Transparency Act) operative today
July 2026 · 21
- Jul 31EU AI Act: GPAI and synthetic-media transparency obligations enforceable Aug 2
- Jul 301,178 frontier-lab employees ask the US to build a "pacing" mechanism
- Jul 28Dario Amodei rejects an open-weight AI ban
- Jul 27Hawaii enacts its first AI guardrails
- Jul 24Bipartisan "AI Kill Switch Act" introduced
- Jul 23White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable to build Kimi K3; Treasury threatens sanctions
- Jul 22OpenAI and Anthropic set Q2 2026 US lobbying records
- Jul 20EU orders Google to open Android and share Search data with AI rivals
- Jul 19EU's Cloud and AI Development Act becomes law
- Jul 18Xi Jinping launches WAICO, a 29-nation AI cooperation bloc, at WAIC Shanghai
- Jul 15China's anthropomorphic-AI rules take effect Jul 15
- Jul 14Xi Jinping to keynote the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai, Jul 17
- Jul 13China weighs curbing overseas access to its most advanced AI models
- Jul 10Illinois signs the AI Safety Measures Act — the strongest US state AI law to date
- Jul 9GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna go generally available today
- Jul 8OpenAI cleared for a broad GPT-5.6 launch; public availability Jul 9
- Jul 7White House expected to unveil voluntary frontier-model "release standards" this week
- Jul 5UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance opens in Geneva, July 6–7
- Jul 3UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI issues its first preliminary report
- Jul 2EU AI Act: GPAI + high-risk obligations become fully applicable Aug 2 — one month out
- Jul 1U.S. lifts the Fable 5 / Mythos 5 export-control block; access restored today
June 2026 · 23
- Jun 30RAISE US launches with $500M+ to retrain US workers for the AI economy
- Jun 29State AI legislation diverges sharply as a federal framework stalls
- Jun 28U.S. clears Anthropic to release Mythos 5 to ~100 trusted partners
- Jun 27US government asks OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6's release — a first
- Jun 26Fable 5 / Mythos 5: Jun 26 Commerce deadline arrives, models still dark
- Jun 25Fable 5 / Mythos 5: negotiations heat up, Jun 26 deadline looms
- Jun 23Five Eyes issue rare joint warning on AI-driven cyber threats
- Jun 22Fable 5 / Mythos 5 stay offline as the free-trial window closes
- Jun 21FERC orders six grid operators to rework large-load / data-center interconnection rules
- Jun 19Fable 5 / Mythos 5 export ban — Korean-telecom trigger surfaces; Anthropic signals imminent return
- Jun 18EU finalizes Code of Practice on marking/labelling AI-generated content; transparency rules hit August 2026
- Jun 17AI dominates the G7 summit in France
- Jun 16Anthropic in talks with Commerce / White House over the Fable 5 & Mythos 5 export-control block
- Jun 15Colorado AI Act takes effect Jun 30; EU AI Act hits full applicability Aug 2
- Jun 14US orders Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — first export control on a commercial AI model
- Jun 12New York wraps AI legislative session
- Jun 8EU AI Act: 55 days to full enforcement (August 2)
- Jun 7Colorado AI Act effectively delayed to January 1, 2027
- Jun 6Trump signs AI Executive Order
- Jun 5Great American AI Act discussion draft unveiled
- Jun 3Trump signs AI EO: voluntary 30-day pre-release model testing + AI cybersecurity clearinghouse
- Jun 2Colorado AI Act enforcement clock: 28 days out
- Jun 1EU AI Act: draft high-risk classification guidelines + content-labeling Code of Practice
May 2026 · 7
- May 31Colorado guts and delays its AI Act
- May 29Anthropic closes a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation — now the most valuable private AI company, ahead of OpenAI and xAI (May…
- May 25EU AI Act: Commission enforcement powers against GPAI providers go live August 2
- May 24Musk v. Altman/OpenAI: jury dismisses all claims in under two hours
- May 4Pentagon signs classified AI deals with 7 companies; freezes out Anthropic
- May 3China finalizes anthropomorphic AI interaction rules
- May 1Pentagon signs AI deals with 7 companies — Anthropic excluded
April 2026 · 8
- Apr 30Google signs classified Pentagon AI deal
- Apr 27China blocks Meta's $2B acquisition of Manus AI
- Apr 24GUARDRAILS Act introduced to block federal preemption of state AI laws
- Apr 23EU AI Act: August 2 generative AI transparency deadline approaching; industry requests 6→12 month extension
- Apr 22COPPA AI rule mandatory compliance begins TODAY
- Apr 16D.C. Circuit denies Anthropic's emergency stay on DoD blacklisting
- Apr 1515 EU industry groups petition for AI Act labeling grace period extension
- Apr 13U.S. state AI bills: 600+ introduced