The bill would stop advanced AI development until a new federal Department of Artificial Intelligence writes guidelines. Both sponsors are progressives, and Congress has so far done little to rein in the industry.
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Donald Trump said Saturday the US 'is not going to be putting on brakes' for AI after a three-day Xi summit produced no broad AI deal. For companies spending on AI, a federal slowdown now depends on lawmakers moving without the president.
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UNEP now accepts the overshoot and describes a way back to 1.5C by 2100 that needs global emissions halved by 2035 and then removal running at a scale one outside researcher puts at 100,000 times today's.
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Dario Amodei and Sam Altman told the UN Security Council that AI could threaten humanity and asked governments to set safeguards. The White House science adviser in the room said no new global governance structure is needed.
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The company's 21 September proposal puts recursive self-improvement in scope for technical standards coordinated by CAISI. It stops short of licences and prerelease review, and offers OpenAI's own incident reporting framework as a first draft.
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Their first face-to-face meeting produced warm words and three live splits. The one with a written requirement behind it is a Finnish and Norwegian plan, backed by more than 20 countries, to gate model launches on safety testing.
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Twenty-two countries adopted a UN declaration on human oversight of AI systems this week. The United States and China spent Sunday discussing a bilateral risk-notification channel of their own.
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Antonio Guterres leaves at the end of the year after spending his final two years on cost cuts, and the three named candidates to replace him would take over a system whose revenue grew 85 percent between 2010 and 2022.
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Melanie Sisson of Brookings and Tianjiao Jiang of Fudan propose red lines on military AI, a working definition of meaningful human control, and a hotline for AI incidents. Trump and Xi meet in Washington next week.
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For the first time, a WMO update on El Nino carries almost no hedge about the tropical Pacific over the next two seasons. The harder question, what any given basin actually gets, sits in a second document.
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The forecast peak of 3.6C sits well past the line where the WMO's own scale stops resolving anything, and because ocean heat vents slowly, the year that inherits the temperature is 2027 rather than 2026.
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The UN's first overshoot report puts warming at 1.4C now, 1.8C at the optimistic peak and 2.6C on current policy, which turns the climate trade from preventing a breach into paying for the return trip.
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A record-strength El Nino has moved from forecast to administrative emergency in the Central American Dry Corridor. The government says the crisis runs to March or April.
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