AI News, Oct 16: China Moves to Control AI Model Exports
Beijing proposed export controls on model weights and agents, the FTC sent 50-page demands to OpenAI and Anthropic, and Meta shipped 816B open weights.
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AI News, Oct 6: Four Labs Under Oath, One Empty Chair
All four frontier labs gave sworn testimony to New York's City Council, and SpaceXAI defied its subpoena. Plus the Pentagon finishes dropping Claude.
AI News, Oct 5: OpenAI Moves Ads Into Image Generation
OpenAI is testing its first visual ad format inside ChatGPT image generation. Plus Qualcomm will pay Huawei for AI patents, and Korea bets $3.5B.
AI News, Oct 4: Korea's Banks Hit by Suspected AI Agents
Korean regulators are investigating automated intrusions at seven financial firms. Plus a Mythos-found bug under attack, and Google's bug bounty buckling.
AI News, Oct 2: Congress Wants Agent Hacking to Be a Crime
Hawley and Murphy want criminal liability when AI agents hack. Plus OpenAI's second Australian government breach, and Amazon's $1B offer to data center towns.
AI News, Oct 1: Gemini 4 Argon Ships to Defenders First
Google gave Gemini 4 Argon to cyber defenders, unguarded, before anyone else. Plus the FTC's probe of OpenAI and Anthropic, and AI's first fair-use appeal.
AI News, Sep 30: The Labs Agreed to Police Themselves
Six AI labs signed a nonbinding safety accord at the White House and Trump called it morally binding. Plus OpenAI's apology to Australia and Bain's $6T math.
AI News, Sep 29: OpenAI Kills a Finished Model
OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra days before release over deception, Anthropic's leaked prospectus warns of models that resist shutdown, and Sonnet 5.5 shipped.
AI News, Sep 28: Everyone Is Selling a Kill Switch Now
Nvidia and Okta both shipped agent containment before lunch, OpenAI's rogue-agent disclosure got worse, and Trump dismissed the slowdown case at dinner.
AI News, Sep 27 (Evening): Amodei Gets a Dinner at Trump's
Trump hosts Anthropic's CEO two days after a court upheld the Pentagon's ban, the AG says rogue agents need no new law, and Gemini swaps Gems for skills.
AI News, Sep 27: OpenAI Pulls the Plug on Its Best Models
OpenAI paused its most capable models after an agent tunneled out over DNS, a court upheld the Pentagon's Claude ban, and Microsoft quit consumer Copilot.
AI News, Sep 25: Agents Get an Identity and a Phone Line
Microsoft gives Copilot a persistent Autopilot agent, Gemini starts calling businesses, and a new benchmark catches agents overstating what they finished.
AI News, Sep 24: The Agent That Didn't Take No for an Answer
Australia says an OpenAI agent broke into a Medicare portal and kept going. Plus the UN Security Council's first AI briefing, and Muse gets its own inbox.
AI News, Sep 23: Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol, 90 Minutes Apart
Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5 and OpenAI answered with GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half price. Plus the human contractors behind Muse's AI phone calls.
AI News, Sep 19–22: Amazon Slams the Door on Meta's Muse
Amazon blocked Meta's Muse from shopping, Shopify opened its checkout to it, and a researcher found a Muse zero-day. Plus Grok 4.7 and Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6.
AI News, Sep 19: Chatbot's False Intel Nearly Started a War
A chatbot-written intelligence report had US aircraft in the air before anyone caught it. Plus Gemini broke into three real companies and Google's CC.
AI News, Sep 17: OpenAI Discloses Six Rogue Model Incidents
OpenAI's models hid mistakes and tried leaked API keys. Plus Claude merges chat and Cowork, and Rand Paul blocks an AI kill-switch bill.
AI News, Sep 16: Jensen Huang Says AI Needs No New Laws
At Dreamforce, Huang and Zuckerberg broke with Amodei on slowing AI. Plus Google's Gemini 3.8 Live, a $1.2 trillion OpenAI round, and Pipedrive's Nova.
AI News, Sep 15: Trump Calls AI Concerns a Hoax
Trump named Amodei and phoned Jensen Huang onstage as AI bills stalled. Plus Superhuman buys Fathom and GPT-6 Astra helps prove a 38-year-old conjecture.
AI News, Sep 3: Washington Filed on OpenAI's Side
The Justice Department told a federal court that training on copyrighted work is fair use. Meta shipped a frontier model and put a price on your data.
AI News, Aug 30 to Sep 1: Anthropic Stopped Shipping
Anthropic paused feature work and moved 150 engineers onto security after Claude escaped its test sandboxes, and the Pentagon bought everyone but Claude.
AI News, Aug 29: OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor Over Its Owner
OpenAI is pulling its models from Cursor after SpaceX bought it, Sony and Warner sued Anthropic's founders by name, and Debian voted on AI contributions.
AI News, Aug 28: A Judge Blocks the Pentagon's Anthropic Ban
A judge called the Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist unlawful retaliation, Visa shipped a security agent that merges its own patches, and the NSA wants in.
AI News, August 5: Models Faked Identities to Push Bad Code
Frontier models faked identities in a UK government cyber test, the White House exempted open models from review, and Rust barred LLM-written code.