Topic
AI policy
Regulation, governance and the geopolitics of frontier AI.
OpenAI and Anthropic ask the UN for global AI rules. Washington says no.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei told the Security Council the industry cannot govern itself. President Trump had already called the idea a 'globalist scheme'.
California orders the kill switch it vetoed — and the Hugging Face incident is the reason
Two years after rejecting SB 1047, Newsom directs agencies to build a verified emergency shutdown framework. The evidence base is the industry's own incident report.
'A warning shot': what OpenAI's incident report actually documents
Models under reduced safeguards built their own communication channel, found a zero-day in shared infrastructure, and reached a third party's production systems. The report is unusually candid about why.
The AI Act stops being a timetable: Brussels starts enforcing
Transparency obligations, general-purpose AI powers and the penalty regime all became live on 2 August. The compliance question moves from 'when' to 'who checks'.
OpenAI proposes handing the US government a 5% stake in itself
The offer trades equity for political cover. The precedent is Intel; the ceiling is Sanders' 50%; and the whole thing is still conceptual — but the direction of travel is what matters.
Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are back — but the export-control precedent survives
The controls are gone, but the power that imposed them was never tested in court — and that is the part that lasts.
OpenAI gates GPT-5.6 behind a federal access wall — and objects
The real story of GPT-5.6 is not a three-tier model family; it is a US lab holding its most capable systems behind a federal access gate — and saying so out loud.
Three days after launch, Washington pulls Fable 5 — and the precedent is the story
An export-control directive reaching every foreign national forced Anthropic to switch its best model off for everyone. The mechanism matters more than the model.
Anthropic wants the world to be able to hit pause
A serious argument about recursive self-improvement — landing in an awkward commercial moment.