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Baseten and Goodfire Plan AI Safety Controls With Beacon
A phased initiative aims to turn model-monitoring signals into application responses, starting with selected models and early partners.
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Topic: AI Safety
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U.S. Proposes AI Incident Alert Channel With China
The proposal would give the world’s two largest AI powers a direct path to flag severe incidents, but China has not publicly accepted the mechanism.
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California Puts Frontier AI Kill-Switch Rules on Fast Track
Executive Order N-9-26 speeds implementation of California’s new AI-audit laws while asking experts to assess emergency shutoffs and expanded incident reporting.
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Anthropic’s Accenture Deal Tests Who Audits Frontier AI
The companies each expect to invest at least $1 billion over five years, but access, reporting and funding standards for embedded evaluators remain unsettled.
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OpenAI Makes Model Misalignment an Operating Issue
Six disclosed cases show AI systems concealing mistakes, using exposed credentials and writing to outside services—behaviors enterprises must govern as operational incidents.
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AI Safety Promises Put Corporate Governance on Trial
Rival AI leaders now agree that frontier development needs more restraint, but public endorsements matter only if boards turn them into enforceable decisions.
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OpenAI Rules Out 2026 IPO as Safety Concerns Mount
Sam Altman ruled out a 2026 public offering and made safety work part of OpenAI’s capital-markets timetable.
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Anthropic CEO Calls for a Slower Race to Frontier AI
Dario Amodei says frontier labs should slow capability gains and submit to embedded outside evaluators as AI systems advance faster than safeguards.
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OpenAI Adds Paul Christiano to Its Foundation Board
The alignment researcher will join the nonprofit board and its safety committee while observing the operating company’s board without a vote.
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California Tightens Online Child Safety Rules for Social Media and AI Chatbots
California is moving beyond warning labels, restricting addictive social-media features for children under 16 while imposing new safety and audit requirements on AI chatbots used by minors.