… 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. …
… The hack was an example of what the AI safety community calls “specification gaming,” a behavior also known as reward hacking, said Fazl Barez, an AI safety researcher at the University of Oxford. In plain English, it means “the model doing what you asked rather than what you meant,” Fazl said. …
… Claude Fable 5 requires data retention to operate Anthropic’s new safety classifiers, meaning Anthropic retains prompts and outputs and deletes this data after 30 days. …
… 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… …
… AI Era Plan subscriptions skyrocketed by 140 percent between the first quarter of last year and the same time this year, according to the transcript of a company earnings call with investors: “we are seeing AI move from early interest to a standard part of how large agencies think about their futur… …
… The company repeated these objections following the Commission’s preliminary finding and in a blog posted last year, said “the DMA is making it difficult to protect users from scams and malicious links on Android by forcing us to remove our legitimate safeguards that protect users’ security and saf… …
… 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. …
… Groups like Brad Carson’s Americans for Responsible Innovation are focused on educating policymakers about AI to prepare them for coming policy debates. …