GuthGuth Labs News · page 2
UTC
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1050 on Sept. 16, requiring advertisements that prominently feature an AI-generated synthetic performer to carry a clear and conspicuous disclosure. The measure, sponsored by the performers' union SAG-AFTRA, takes effect Jan. 1, 2027, Law Commentary reported.
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference on Sept. 15 that public fear of rapidly advancing AI is justified, while arguing that AI developers can be trusted to act responsibly. The BBC described it as his first public appearance since a former Anthropic researcher's warning about AI risk spread widely online.
Washington lobbying firms reported nearly $112 million in revenue from clients with a stake in AI policy during the first half of 2026, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis of federal disclosures. Almost $60 million of that came in the second quarter, which the outlet called a record.
Florida's State Board of Education unanimously approved two sets of artificial intelligence rules on Wednesday, one covering public school districts and charter schools and one covering state colleges. Districts must designate permitted AI tools and obtain parental permission before students use them directly.
An open letter signed by 42 mathematician fellows of the Royal Society asks its president, Paul Nurse, to press the government and the press to treat the possibility that advanced AI poses an existential threat as a serious question rather than industry marketing.
Elon Musk's xAI has asked the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to bar Minnesota from enforcing its law against AI-generated nude images of identifiable people while the company appeals a judge's Sept. 4 refusal to block the statute, according to reports on the filing.
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told CNBC on Sept. 15 that the risks of advanced AI are solvable and that the private sector is the right place to address them. The same day, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a House committee he had not yet seen an AI safety regulation he would support.
President Donald Trump phoned Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang during Huang's Sept. 14 appearance at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles and was put on speakerphone before the audience, NBC News reported. The next day at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, Huang said the AI industry needs no new laws or regulations.
Angela Lipps, a Tennessee woman jailed for months in a Fargo, North Dakota, bank fraud case that was later dismissed, filed a federal lawsuit Sept. 15 against the city and Detective Lucas Heck. She alleges police relied on an unreliable facial recognition match and seeks $10 million.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon both addressed the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington on Sept. 15, arguing from opposite ends of the political spectrum for government limits on advanced AI. Sanders called for a permanent ban on artificial superintelligence and a pause on advanced AI development.
Elon Musk said at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Sept. 14 that leading AI developers, including several Chinese companies, should run safety tests on one another's models before release, CNBC reported. He acknowledged that rival labs have not yet agreed to the idea.
A resignation post by Jacob Coxon, a former pretraining researcher at OpenAI and Anthropic, drew 153 million views within 36 hours and helped set off a public argument over slowing AI development, TIME reported. Anthropic said it has been transparent about risks.
Three recent cases show courts still dealing with AI-generated fabrications. New Mexico's Supreme Court held a defense lawyer in contempt over invented witness testimony, a Los Angeles judge fined a lawyer for State Farm $999.99 over nonexistent citations, and fictitious case law derailed a Tasmanian parole condition.
Attorney General Todd Blanche told Bloomberg News on Sept. 15 that the Justice Department will pursue AI companies only for clear violations of existing statutes and will not use prosecutions as a substitute for regulation. Former FTC chair Lina Khan had argued days earlier that current law already allows charges against AI firms and executives.
An OpenAI spokesperson told CNBC the company has been talking with Anthropic and Google about working together on safety, after CNN reported that the three had discussed creating an industry standards body to test advanced models before deployment.
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson said on Sept. 15 that AI companies asking Washington for new regulation and an antitrust exemption at the same time should be viewed with strong suspicion. Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley also rejected the idea of exempting leading AI labs from antitrust law.
The Midas Project, a nonprofit watchdog, says OpenAI released three models, including GPT-6 Astra, without the risk-tier determinations its own safety framework calls for, which the group argues breaches California's SB 53. OpenAI told Fortune it is confident it is complying with the law.
Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights on Sept. 14 called for a dedicated AI Bill and a statutory oversight body, saying existing UK law leaves gaps in rights protection. Separately, OpenAI's Europe policy head said the company would support mandatory UK rules for frontier AI developers.
President Donald Trump dismissed calls from leading AI executives to slow model development. He told reporters in Ireland on Sept. 13 that critics were exaggerating the dangers, then wrote on Truth Social the next day that fears of AI destroying humanity are a hoax, Reuters and the Associated Press reported.
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said on Sept. 14 that it seized the domain names of 12 websites accused of selling AI-generated sexual images and videos of about 1,200 real people without their consent. The office described the action as the biggest known takedown of celebrity deepfake sites so far.
Microsoft AI published a draft code of conduct for its MAI models and opened a six-week public consultation, saying the systems must remain under human control, must never resist shutdown, and are not conscious or entitled to rights.
China's foreign ministry on Sept. 14 dismissed as fearmongering an essay by Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei that urged a slower pace for frontier AI and continued limits on China's access to advanced chips. A day earlier, State Security Minister Chen Yixin published a detailed warning about AI threats.
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC that lawmakers may eventually need to require AI developers to maintain a shutdown mechanism that outside parties can verify. He said most labs, including Anthropic, already have ways to halt their systems, and argued against leaving the industry entirely unregulated.
Former President Barack Obama told a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser that Democrats need a clear plan for AI's safety and economic effects, according to remarks released by his office. He warned that the technology is advancing quickly under private control and could become dangerous without oversight.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 13 bills on Sept. 10 addressing AI companion chatbots, social media and children's online safety. The centerpiece, SB 1119, known as Adam's Law, imposes child-safety duties on chatbot operators, with its main requirements taking effect July 1, 2027, according to the bill text.
Anthropic said it disrupted attempts to use Claude for work that could support biological weapons, including a request for help drafting a gain-of-function grant proposal involving chikungunya virus, in a threat report covering December 2025 through August 2026.
The OWASP GenAI Security Project published the Agent Control Standard on Sept. 1. It specifies how agent platforms should expose middleware hooks so that declarative safety policies can be enforced at runtime and carried across different agent frameworks.
Browse the source snapshot and run a publication-time filter on the dedicated Research page.
