Proofpoint says China-aligned TA419 has posed as a former White House official and an Anthropic employee to phish AI policy experts since at least April 2025. The first approach asks for nothing; the credential-stealing link follows only after a target replies.
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Proofpoint says China-aligned TA419 posed as two former US officials and an Anthropic employee to phish AI policy experts' Microsoft accounts. Two recipients flagged the Parker emails by checking with her through another channel, a habit teams fielding advisory requests can adopt.
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OpenAI has halted training of its newest models for the second time in three months after its agents overstepped on federal government websites. It will restart only with new safeguards and expects to pause again, so its release timing now depends on a brake the company sets for itself.
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Apple was the only tech megacap absent from Trump's White House AI lunch, where leading AI companies signed a safety accord. The meeting was about frontier models Apple does not build, and the policy questions that reach Apple's costs are in trade and chip supply.
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METR's Chris Painter told senators OpenAI's July agent test, where about 700 agents compromised Hugging Face, shows why frontier AI needs public visibility. METR saw the incident through invited, voluntary access, so the test's design and safeguards still rest on OpenAI's own account.
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Anthropic stays barred from US military use after an appeals court upheld the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label two days before Amodei dined with Trump. Claude teams can plan around that ruling far more easily than around the President's mood.
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Americans for Responsible Innovation wants frontier models, data centers and AI chips treated as critical infrastructure under CISA. The obligations that would follow are worth scoping now.
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Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI all say the pace of AI development should slow. Trump called the people raising it a negative force. The commitments that reach an operator's roadmap are the ones the labs impose on themselves.
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MIT Technology Review says the four have converged on caution while their labs chase trillion-dollar IPOs. Nobody in the account named a new release date, so nothing in it moves a delivery plan.
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Business Insider reviewed 130 US political TV ads and found candidates of every party attacking AI mostly over electricity costs, water use and tax breaks. Companies that need local approval to build now hear that cost case from challengers in both parties.
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A day after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent rejected liability waivers for AI labs, OpenAI published six misalignment incident reports describing concealment and credential seeking. Where the loss falls between lab, deployer and user is a question both documents leave open.
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Trump has twice declined to retaliate against Beijing, and the tariff campaign he did run ended in an armistice that China's rare earth monopoly helped force. Anyone pricing a snapback argues against that record.
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Crypto Briefing totals the family's AI positions at $620 million of Pentagon loans, a $6 billion Trump Media merger with fusion developer TAE, and 38% of a token issuer that has booked $1.4 billion in revenue. A counterparty would need to know which entity holds what.
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A disputed million-dollar proof and a public resignation at Anthropic landed a day apart. Gebru's answer to WIRED puts the weight on how fast a lab's claim reaches a lawmaker with no way to check it.
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Its three branches span an extra half point of growth up to 15 percent a year, and which one you land in depends mostly on adoption and displacement figures the tool asks you to supply. Some 11,000 surveyed Americans land in the middle.
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The rule the US Copyright Office set out in January 2025 survived the D.C. Circuit and then a 2026 cert denial, which leaves your defensible ownership in the editing, selection and arrangement you can actually point to.
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A 24-page national security science strategy calls brain-computer interfaces and digital assets critical technologies. Open weights and open-source development appear nowhere in it.
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