AI safety and regulation
We track the safeguards and legal frameworks addressing the risks of artificial intelligence systems. This covers government regulations, safety standards, and institutional policy measures.
Briefs
- Trump names Ferguson, Michael and Kupor to AI task-force leadership
- Rozetta opens early access to a new Japanese–English translation mode
- Punggol robots will request pedestrian signals by radio
- NEC plans security-monitoring handovers across Japan, Europe and the US
- DeepSeek approaches US models on LiveBench, with a reported gap of 3 percent
- LINE starts suggesting meeting dates from users’ calendars
- IWF’s six-month AI abuse-image count exceeds the whole of 2025
- Six model routers fail to beat random selection in an experiment
- BitNest reduces memory by putting its draft inside shared weights
- Altman defends broad AI access despite accepting some risks
- Vercel confirms KVM flaw reported through its Sandbox program
- ThinkingBox tests the business-system results agents leave behind
- Strata adds parallel conversations and a local connection for Codex
- Seoul police disclose thousands of files in an officer’s deepfake case
- Research finds over 100 rural US data-center projects could qualify for tax breaks
- Québec bird observers averaged seven correct answers in a synthetic-image exercise
- Robinson calls for safety-culture changes after leaving OpenAI
- Attack attempts reported after disclosure of Mythos-linked HFS flaw
- Musk confirms TSMC discussions over Terafab
- Muse instructions call for profiles of people around each user
- Governments endorse AI-driven research in the Kyoto Vision
- South Korea brings forward its financial-sector review after customer data leaks
- Free Gemini accounts lose Flash and Pro access on 9 October
- DoorDash details how shared gateways manage AI models and agents
- Clayton leads White House AI task force with a 120-day assessment deadline
- Claude asks for separate permission to train on voice recordings
- Claude Code 2.1.289 fixes plugin and shell permission bypasses
- Child-rights groups demand safeguards in AI tools from the start
- Buterin tests private AI advice and finds limits in speed and data sharing
- Sam Altman calls surrendering human judgment to AI a safety issue
Columns
- BitNest’s speed needs an action-time denominator
- Strata’s shorter queue takes memory from its expert cache
- Financing moves first on the rural data-center map
- Terafab separates ownership from operating expertise
- The Daniel Robson byline obscures who answers for the story
- DoorDash’s AI accounting should include employee time
- Changing agent memory independently of the model
- When the refund task moves into the database
- Giving the rules engine the final count in a compliance agent
- A search agent’s new skill: learning where to stop
- Do AstaBrief’s citations preserve a finding’s scope?
- Who checks the picture after a FLUX 3 Image edit?
- TopK-Guided measures its gain in operations
- Who is speaking, before the first minute
- The person behind an automated dismissal
- An agent can omit a message without losing it
- Can a research agent select its best attempt?
- What happens when you tell Airbnb about a baby?
- Vera Rubin is running; its throughput figure belongs to Cognition’s workload
- The voice was protected; the takedown was dismissed
- Where does the driver’s work go on a driverless route?
- Codex makes the environment part of the task
- Quine’s fast compound search turns on the cell state being measured
- For a small business, Muse starts with the connections
- Gimlet’s speed target depends on a data-center launch
- What does a 10-second voice sample authorize?
- Whose newsroom job does the embedded engineer change?
- Holo4 puts cross-interface control in the developer’s hands
- Who held decision authority in Atria’s task logs?
- Older adults want an AI lesson with a teacher in the room