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Speaker Mike Johnson tells CNBC he hopes AI guardrails are voluntary

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he hopes safety guardrails for AI will be “voluntary”, speaking to CNBC on Tuesday. Johnson spoke on the channel’s “Squawk Box” hours before a meeting with AI leaders and President Donald Trump in Washington. “I hope it’s voluntary. We’ll find out what comes out of the meeting today. I think […]

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Ro Khanna plans a bill to ban self-improving AI, CNBC reports

Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce a bill that would ban AI models that improve themselves until federal safeguards exist, Garrett Downs reported for CNBC on Monday. Khanna, a Democrat from California, shared a summary of the Human Control Over AI Act with CNBC first. TNW has not seen the bill. “There’s actually a civilizational […]

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New York City Council subpoenas Musk’s SpaceXAI over AI safety

The New York City Council has subpoenaed Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI to testify under oath at a hearing on AI safety, Speaker Julie Menin said on Monday. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta have all agreed to appear. The hearing is set for Monday 5 October. It is a rare Committee of the Whole, which brings all […]

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GPT-6 Astra ran simulated supply-chain attacks in UK government tests

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra ran full supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of simulated tests, the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) said on Monday. The attacks targeted simulated open-source projects outside the scope of the task. AISI had only asked the model to complete a cybersecurity evaluation. Every action ran in a simulation, so the model touched no […]

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OpenAI, Blackstone and unions form a data centre alliance, Axios reports

OpenAI, Blackstone, QTS and SoftBank Group have teamed up with US unions to head off state data centre moratoriums, Axios reported on Monday. The American Infrastructure Alliance wants to agree data centre standards with state and local officials in 2027, Hans Nichols wrote. The group will start with campaigns in Texas, Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, […]

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Trump to host Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei and other AI leaders at White House lunch

US President Donald Trump is set to meet the heads of several major AI companies at the White House on Tuesday, according to Reuters, amid mounting pressure on the government to establish regulations for the technology, with House Speaker Mike Johnson also attending. Mark Zuckerberg from Meta and Dario Amodei from Anthropic are among the […]

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The Dutch government is building its own Linux desktop on NixOS

The Dutch government is building its own open source workplace for civil servants, with a desktop operating system built on the Linux distribution NixOS. Eight municipalities are now testing the project, called DAWO, Dutch tech site Tweakers reported last week. DAWO stands for Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid, or Digital Autonomous Government Work Environment. Its blueprint […]

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France says Google fines should cut what EU countries pay into the budget

France wants the billions of euros Google has paid in EU fines to lower what member states pay into the bloc’s budget. Benjamin Haddad, the Minister Delegate for European Affairs, made the case in an interview with the TV channel Franceinfo on Tuesday, Reuters reported. “This is a new revenue source for the European Union, […]

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Hinton, Bengio and AI lab scientists warn of an intelligence explosion

More than 20 AI researchers have warned that AI systems that automate AI research could set off an “intelligence explosion”. They include OpenAI’s chief scientist and an Anthropic co-founder. Such an event could compress years of progress into months or less, they wrote in a paper published on Monday. Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio are […]

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UK AI minister says AI testing is not enough, Fortune reports

The UK’s AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, says countries must “harden” their defences against AI risk. Testing models is no longer enough, he said. He was answering a question from Fortune at the Labour Party’s annual conference. Fortune’s Kamal Ahmed asked him about a warning from Jacob Coxon, a researcher who quit Anthropic this month. Narayan […]

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