Policy
Regulation, litigation and the rules forming around AI.
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OpenAI publishes a youth safety blueprint for Australia
A six-pillar policy document aimed at Australian regulators that restates protections OpenAI has already shipped and adds no dated commitments.
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Anthropic will relax Claude’s biology safeguards for verified labs
Verified life science teams will get access to Claude models with looser limits on biology work, monitored against a declared use case…
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Anthropic puts paid outside evaluators inside its own building
Anthropic will give evaluators from Accenture employee-level access to its model development, with no published standard yet for what they may report.
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Cohere to absorb Aleph Alpha, with no price disclosed
Aleph Alpha, Germany’s best-known model developer, is merging into Cohere under the Cohere brand, with no price, valuation or ownership split disclosed.
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Anthropic puts a number on how much AI research Claude leads
Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its own AI research work, up from under 1% in February, and wants rival labs…
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EU AI Board meets for the ninth time as transparency rules bed in
The EU body that coordinates national AI Act enforcement met on 17 September; the published readout lists priorities and dates but no…
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Nineteen EU states move to fund a shared AI stack under state aid rules
Nineteen member states have begun assembling the EU’s first Important Project of Common European Interest in AI, though no funding figure has…
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OpenAI sets out how it will disclose model misalignment, and publishes six cases
OpenAI has published a standing process for investigating and disclosing misaligned model behaviour, together with six cases observed over the past six…
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Congress mandates unmanned combat vehicles
A defence law sets a goal that one-third of ground combat vehicles be unmanned by 2015.
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The EU adopts its first data protection directive
The EU adopts Directive 95/46/EC, governing automated processing of personal data.