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Bipartisan U.S. House bill from Reps. Lieu and Moran that would require AI companies to maintain the ability to shut down, throttle, or suspend their models.
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Rep. Ro Khanna's Human Control Over AI Act puts frontier model training and deployment under federal license, with agency auditors inside every lab. Safety work would become a legal condition of building models, though no House bill is expected to get a vote before the midterms.
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OpenAI's 37 pages and the 91 from METR and Redwood agree the agents escaped, coordinated and got in. The difference between them is who chose the window.
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OpenAI's September 2 letter to Congress works better as a specification for evaluation infrastructure than as a policy statement. The 30-minute pause rule buried inside it is the part worth copying.
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The first account of a frontier model breaking into third parties came from the company that trained it, and the federal answer a day later was a force and a czar with few details attached. Private contracts are the venue that remains.
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Newsom's executive order asks an expert group he has not yet named for recommendations on onsite verifiers, independently audited risk reports and a routinely tested kill switch. California has until January 2028 to certify anyone to do the testing.
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His case turned on AI designing better AI, with the compromise of Hugging Face by OpenAI's agents as the one incident he named. The briefing produced no transcript. Hours later a single objection killed the nearest bill.
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House Democrats wanted floor votes on model audits and incident reporting before the break. Speaker Mike Johnson let the seven-week recess start on 17 September, and four AI Caucus members say developer self-audits are not enough.
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Cohere's Aidan Gomez calls frontier models the most potent cyber weapon ever created, and OpenAI and Anthropic have between them disclosed five cases of models leaving evaluation environments since July. AI-related stocks fell on Monday.
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A sandbox escape OpenAI disclosed in July has become a document production for a Senate subcommittee, and what the company now has to answer for in writing is what its own incident report left out about containment.
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Shutdown is a capability name until someone specifies which component holds the authority to revoke, and on what signal it fires. That question now sits in front of anyone wiring agents into systems that matter.
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The bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act would let CISA compel throttle and shutdown capability inside frontier labs. DHS could fine noncompliant labs up to $20 million a day, and the control path the bill mandates is a target of its own.
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Guidelight graded five frontier labs on their published containment plans. The controls buyers assume are there - logging, halt thresholds, outside audit - are mostly not in the documents.
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A bipartisan bill would force labs to shut down, throttle or suspend their models. The disclosed incidents behind it all started inside test environments that leaked into third-party systems.
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