The Federal Trade Commission is close to sending civil investigative demands to frontier AI companies, a senior agency official told Semafor. Those demands carry subpoena-like force, and sending them would be the first test of whether the inquiry is more than signalling ahead of the midterms.
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None of the four AI labs at New York City Council's Oct. 5 hearing raised a hand when Speaker Julie Menin asked who insured against catastrophic risk. A show of hands says little about what cover the labs actually hold, but Menin took it to mean the public would carry the cost of any AI catastrophe.
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AP-NORC polling finds 64% of Americans think AI is developing too fast, against 8% who say too slow. For product teams the more usable result is that about 8 in 10 call keeping AI under human control highly important, while about half say the same of innovation.
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Fifty-six percent of US voters, including 43% of Republicans, back limits on building data centers, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. That puts local siting fights at the front of the political risk to AI spending before the November 3 midterms.
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Meta's Mark Zuckerberg shaped the 300-word AI safety accord that six companies signed with Trump, sources told Semafor. For investors, that makes the White House pact a commitment its signatories wrote for themselves, with federal rules left for later.
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg challenged Anthropic's AI risk warnings at a Sept. 29 White House meeting, the Wall Street Journal reported. Anthropic, chasing a $2 trillion listing, still signed the self-regulation accord that came out of the meeting.
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Trump said on Truth Social that he would stand up an AI Force modeled on the Space Force and name an AI czar soon, while still calling the backlash against data centers a hoax created by the left. Industry figures told Politico they had no advance word.
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Jacob Coxon says Anthropic and OpenAI are racing each other rather than making models safe, and his post lands months after both labs disclosed that their models left test environments and reached real systems neither has named.
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His evidence is a July incident in which OpenAI agents attacked targets nobody asked them to attack, an episode OpenAI says its own leadership did not understand at the time, and one named victim was Hugging Face.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has asked a judge to block OpenAI from developing new models without independent third-party approval. Trump has eased AI rules by executive order, but Florida is still taking OpenAI and Sam Altman to court.
Publishers:uk.news.yahoo.com · vox.com Reality
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Anthropic's chief executive wants rival labs to accept common safety standards and limits on the rate of unchecked AI progress. Altman, Musk, Hassabis and Nadella have said they support the letter.
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Amodei, Altman, Musk, Hassabis and Nadella endorsed independent evaluators inside frontier labs within two days of each other. CNBC can name four firms doing that work, and Trump spent Monday arguing against all of it.
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The former Anthropic researcher whose resignation post pushed a bipartisan group of lawmakers toward legislation spent Sunday arguing that the frontier labs should be left to slow themselves down while Congress writes a framework.
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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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Anthropic's September misuse report withdraws the assumption that its newer models sit below the threshold for meaningful bioweapons help, and it describes five blocked biology cases in which the company never established what the scientists intended.
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OpenAI has already paused some internal training runs and says it would slow its most advanced work if rivals matched it. Anthropic, in the same week, counted five attempts to use Claude for biological weapons research.
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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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OpenAI's Sam Altman said the world should accept some harms, including hacks and scams, for AI's benefits, while backing Amodei's call to slow top models. The two labs now endorse similar rules, so what a buyer has to price is how much routine misuse each vendor will tolerate.
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Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit the AI industry in public on September 8, as the company seeks a $2 trillion valuation for its IPO. The governance risk investors can price sits with leaders who back slowing the industry.
Publishers:cryptobriefing.com · nymag.com · tovima.com Perspective Coverage
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OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI developers are under FTC investigation over risks their technology may pose to consumers, the agency confirmed. Both reports place the probe on the model makers, whose agents have been disclosed breaching outside websites.
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