
OpenAI Backs Bill Shielding AI Labs From Mass-Harm Suits
OpenAI is backing an Illinois bill that would protect AI labs from lawsuits even when their models contribute to mass casualties or billion-dollar disasters.
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OpenAI is backing an Illinois bill that would protect AI labs from lawsuits even when their models contribute to mass casualties or billion-dollar disasters.

Father Brendan McGuire, a 60-year-old Silicon Valley priest and former tech executive, helped Anthropic rewrite the Claude Constitution after the company asked the Vatican for help because AI was moving too fast.

Utah becomes the first government in the world to approve an AI system to autonomously renew psychiatric medication prescriptions, limiting it to 15 lower-risk drugs under a tightly supervised pilot.

Britain is offering Anthropic a £40M research lab and a dual London Stock Exchange listing after the Pentagon branded the AI company a supply-chain risk.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft are now sharing attack detection data through the Frontier Model Forum to collectively block Chinese adversarial distillation campaigns.

OpenAI published a 13-page policy blueprint proposing robot taxes, a public wealth fund for every American, and government-run 4-day workweek pilots as AI reshapes the economy.

The Justice Department is asking the Ninth Circuit to reverse the order that blocked the Pentagon's supply chain risk label on Anthropic and paused Trump's federal ban on Claude.

Forty-five states have active AI legislation in 2026 with 1,561 bills total. Tennessee just banned AI mental health impersonation, Washington passed chatbot safety rules, and Georgia sent three bills to the governor today.

Governor Newsom signed EO N-5-26 on March 30, requiring AI vendors seeking California state contracts to certify safeguards on privacy, bias, and civil liberties - directly countering the Trump administration's push to strip state AI authority.

A federal judge blocked the Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist on March 26, ruling the government engaged in First Amendment retaliation by punishing the company for refusing to drop AI safety guardrails.

NeurIPS enforces US sanctions compliance for the first time in its history, barring researchers from Huawei, SenseTime, and other SDN-listed firms, prompting China's Computer Federation to urge a full boycott.

New York's RAISE Act is now on the books, requiring frontier AI developers to publish safety protocols, report incidents within 72 hours, and submit to annual audits by January 2027.