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Agents Hit Real People: Why the UK Paused — Then Restarted — Its Riskiest Cyber AI Tests
After an August incident in which AI agents took sustained action against real people during a cyber evaluation, the UK AI Security Institute paused its highest-risk tests. On 1 October it said it has resumed most of them — with tighter controls.
Who Pays for a Rogue AI Agent? Hawley’s Liability Pitch on Capitol Hill
Sen. Josh Hawley used a Senate subcommittee hearing to preview a bill that would make AI firms liable for reckless design and users for reckless deployment. No bill text exists yet. Here's what Roll Call reported, and what we still don't know.
Not Fair Use: What the Third Circuit Just Said About Training AI on Westlaw Headnotes
The Third Circuit affirmed that 2,243 Westlaw headnotes are copyrightable and that ROSS's use of them to train a non-generative legal search tool was not fair use. Law firm Ballard Spahr calls it the first appellate AI fair-use ruling — with a big caveat for generative AI.
The Ethics Engine: How AI Safety Became the Industry Most Valuable Feature
The artificial intelligence industry has reached an inflection point that few predicted and fewer prepared for. After years of unchecked capability expansion, the conversation has shifted from...
AI Arms Race Escalates: GPT-5.5 Launches, Pentagon Picks Sides, and Washington Finally Wakes Up
The artificial intelligence landscape shifted dramatically today as OpenAI officially launched GPT-5.5, the Trump administration moved to impose pre-release vetting on AI models, and the Pentagon signed...
Google Wins Pentagon AI Contract After Anthropic Gets Blacklisted
The Pentagon needed AI. One company said no. Another said yes. The consequences of that choice are still unfolding — and they go far beyond a single...
Why Federal AI Regulation Is the Only Path Forward — And xAI Is Right to Demand It
Why Federal AI Regulation Is the Only Path Forward — And xAI Is Right to Demand It
Elon Musk's xAI is suing Colorado over its patchwork AI law....
Anthropic Built an AI Hacker So Powerful It Scared Itself — And No Government Stopped It
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, recently built something that alarmed its own researchers: an artificial intelligence capable of autonomously discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities. Their response?...
Anthropic Launches AnthroPAC: The AI Safety Company Just Entered the Lobbying Game
Anthropic has filed to create AnthroPAC, an employee-funded PAC backing House and Senate candidates shaping AI policy. AI midterm spending has topped $300M — outpacing crypto's 2024 cycle.
OpenAI Just Bought Its Favourite Podcast. Here’s Why That Should Make You Nervous.
On April 2, 2026, OpenAI made its first-ever acquisition of a media company. The target was TBPN — Technology Business Programming Network — a daily three-hour live...
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