… It resulted in a week of total confusion for backers of either policy: AI preemption and child safety might be lumped together in order to ensure preemption gets signed into law, but whose version of child safety gets passed is unclear. …
… Together with the restrictions on games and livestreaming platforms, the UK government said in a statement that its new policy will “go further than any other country” in restricting children’s time online. …
… When Mindgard first reported its findings to Anthropic’s user safety team in mid-April, in line with the company’s disclosure policy, it received a form response saying, “It looks like you are writing in about a ban on your account,” along with a link to an appeals form. …
… Snap said in a blog post last year that it “aligns with and complements our ongoing efforts.” Spokesperson Monique Bellamy told The Verge that it’s continuing to “evolve” safety systems, “including investing in tools and technologies to proactively detect and take action on unwanted nudes and simil… …
… Groups like Brad Carson’s Americans for Responsible Innovation are focused on educating policymakers about AI to prepare them for coming policy debates. …
… One party tells The New York Times that Amazon had found a way to “jailbreak” the safety guardrails preventing users from using Fable for cyberattacks. A second party countered to the Times that one could achieve the same results with OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.5. …
… The European Union is currently debating a revision to the AI Act, and though the EU countries and the European Parliament were unable to reach an agreement in the most recent negotiations, whatever does end up coming out of that legislation will have a direct impact on how frontier AI models are d… …
… She said she and other tech workers had seen examples of data centers built responsibly, with protections like climate mitigation and AI safety committees. But Seattle doesn’t yet hold tech companies to those types of standards. “Let’s not let Big Tech burn Seattle to win the AI race,” Wigand said. …
… There is no federal statute protecting AI company employees who disclose these kinds of safety concerns that are being aired in this piece. We have cases where Jan Leike, who was a senior safety guy at OpenAI, was leading super alignment at the company. …
… Emergency response officials from San Francisco and Austin met with regulators from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in a private meeting last month to clear the air about robotaxis, according to a recording obtained by Wired . …