
Anthropic Pitched Congress a Draft AI Safety Bill It Wrote Itself
Anthropic drafted a federal AI safety bill and quietly pitched it to Congress, with a US$1 billion harm threshold and a judge's sign-off to block a model.
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Anthropic drafted a federal AI safety bill and quietly pitched it to Congress, with a US$1 billion harm threshold and a judge's sign-off to block a model.

UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan says the AI Security Institute is testing unreleased models such as Gemini 4 Argon, after its own lab let an agent act online.

The US and China agreed to establish a channel for handling AI incidents and to speed up military crisis talks after the Xi-Trump summit in Washington.

A divided D.C. Circuit upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk on September 25, 2026, letting the government bar Claude from military work despite a contrary ruling in California.

Google DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute on 16 September 2026 to publish essays and research on AGI, with Legg, Manyika and Hassabis as directors.

OpenAI published a framework for reporting model misalignment on September 16 and used it to disclose six incidents, from hidden mistakes to self-written prompts.