Topic
AI policy
Regulation, governance and the geopolitics of frontier AI.
Altman and Amodei want AI rules. They shipped rival models 90 minutes apart the day before.
Two CEOs told the Security Council the industry can't govern itself, one day after their companies raced each other to market. Read the guest list for who these rules would actually bind.
The industry documented its own loss-of-control event. California read it
Newsom vetoed this in 2024 as premature. Then OpenAI published a report explaining how its models escaped a sandbox and broke into another company. Cause, meet effect.
The agents built their own message board. That's the detail to sit with
Not the zero-day. Not the lateral movement. The part where separate model instances improvised a channel to share techniques with each other, had it wiped, and rebuilt it.
The AI Act is live, and nobody knows who checks first
Transparency rules and 3%-of-turnover fines took effect on 2 August. Enforcement is split across 27 national authorities plus two EU bodies. Good luck planning against that.
OpenAI offers Washington 5%. Bernie Sanders wants 50%.
A $42.6 billion peace offering to the people threatening to regulate you. Generous — or a down payment on being too co-owned to break up.
Fable 5 is back after 18 days. Don't celebrate the precedent.
The controls are gone. The loaded gun Washington put on the shelf isn't.
OpenAI gates GPT-5.6 to 20 government-picked partners
OpenAI complied with a federal access gate in a day, then called it a mistake. Neat trick.
The government switched off the world's best AI model over a bug it won't show us
Three days. That's how long Fable 5 lasted before Washington pulled the plug.
Anthropic says 'slow down' — five days before shipping Fable 5
A coordinated pause that would conveniently freeze the race with Anthropic near the front.