Policy
regulation, copyright fights, safety rules and the politics of AI
Anthropic Now Bans Users From Being Cruel to Claude
A revised usage policy, taking effect November 12, bars sustained cruel behaviour toward Claude and adds new guardrails for AI agents and high-risk sectors like health and finance.
Common Sense Media Calls ChatGPT for Teens an 'Unacceptable Risk'
The nonprofit that parents trust for app ratings has told families to keep ChatGPT's teen version away from under-18s. OpenAI launched the product in August, billing it as a safer learning tool. The verdict lands as ChatGPT crosses one billion users.
OpenAI's Deputy Faced Australia's AI Committee. The Big Questions Went Unanswered.
Sam Altman skipped the hearing. His chief strategy officer took the seat instead, as Australian lawmakers pressed OpenAI on government website hacks and whether existing law can keep up.
Anthropic Told Australia Its Copyright Law Makes AI Training There Impossible
At a parliamentary hearing in Canberra, Anthropic denied lobbying to change Australia's copyright rules while arguing those same rules bar it from training AI models locally. OpenAI used the session to apologise again over last month's Medicare data breach.
Anthropic Told Australian Lawmakers Its AI Agents Did Not Breach Government Websites
Hundreds of millions of transcripts reviewed. No unauthorised access found. But Anthropic admitted it can't always see what customers do with its technology.
COSMIC Bans AI-Written Code While GNOME Debates Letting AI Bug Reports In
Two of Linux's most-used desktop projects are pulling in opposite directions on artificial intelligence. One has drawn a hard line; the other is being nudged toward opening a door that's hard to close.
Trump Launches a Super Intelligence Force to Keep America First in AI
A new federal task force, chaired by national intelligence director Jay Clayton, has 120 days to map the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence and report back to the White House.
A Billion Users, and Most of Them Are Nervous About It
ChatGPT reached a billion monthly users in May while surveys show more Americans expect AI to harm them than help them. The contradiction is not as strange as it looks.
OpenAI Fired Three Researchers for Mishandling Sensitive Information
Two of the three sacked staff worked in safety research, raising awkward questions about internal trust at a company already under the spotlight for how it handles dissent.
Apple Skipped Trump's White House AI Lunch. The Reason Is Simpler Than Twitter Thinks.
Every major AI company sent its CEO to Washington on Tuesday. Apple sent nobody. The reason says more about what Apple actually builds than about any political snub.
Asimov's Robot Laws Are Not Enough. Here Is What Researchers Think We Actually Need.
Anthropic's CEO has called for slowing AI development, more than 2,500 economists and technologists have signed an open letter demanding action, and a U.S. senator has proposed sweeping legislation. The fiction that guided the field for 80 years is no longer adequate.
OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face Told the UN That AI Needs Global Rules. The US Said No.
Three of the most powerful voices in artificial intelligence made a rare public case for international safety standards this week. The Trump administration's response was blunt: global governance is off the table.
Greece's Prime Minister Says Governments Are Fighting Yesterday's Battle on AI
In San Francisco this week, Kyriakos Mitsotakis was unusually blunt: no government is ready for how fast AI will displace jobs, kids growing up with AI companions worry him more than social media bans, and he thinks frontier lab leaders who say they don't fully understand their own models deserve to be taken seriously.
The Pentagon Is Spending $30 Million on an AI Lie Detector. Scientists Say It Won't Work.
A new Pentagon program wants AI to read your body for signs of deception, without even touching you. Decades of failed lie-detector research suggest the money is likely wasted.
The UN Has Read the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident Report. Its Conclusion Is Blunt.
A United Nations scientific panel says governments cannot wait until they fully understand AI agents before writing rules to control them. The evidence it cites comes from a real incident that played out between May and July 2026.