
Great American AI Act Would Preempt State AI Laws
A bipartisan Congressional bill would freeze state AI laws for three years and require frontier developers to publish catastrophic risk plans, submit to federal audits, and face $1M daily fines.
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A bipartisan Congressional bill would freeze state AI laws for three years and require frontier developers to publish catastrophic risk plans, submit to federal audits, and face $1M daily fines.

Florida becomes the first US state to hold an AI CEO personally liable, filing an 83-page complaint accusing OpenAI and Sam Altman of hiding ChatGPT's dangers while racing for market share.

Three new papers tackle how routine AI use quietly rewires emotional habits, how to spend compute where failures cost most, and why agentic RAG errors compound before anyone notices.

Anthropic analyzed 832 banned accounts over 12 months and found AI-assisted threat actors grew from a third to more than half of all high-risk cases.

Three new papers show that AI agents fail not by doing the wrong thing, but by doing things when they should have stopped.

Microsoft's open-source ASSERT framework turns natural language behavior specs into executable, auditable test suites for AI agents and LLM applications.

Anthropic expands Project Glasswing to 150 organizations across 15 countries, with Claude Mythos Preview surfacing 10,000 high-severity vulnerabilities since April.

Trump signed a narrowed AI executive order giving the government 30 days of voluntary pre-release access to frontier models, after industry lobbying gutted the original 90-day mandatory proposal.

Three new papers expose how reasoning traces can be extracted from supposedly hidden model internals, where chain-of-thought hits an architectural ceiling, and how RL teaches models to know when to quit.

Three new papers expose how reasoning models silently cave under pressure, how latent-space guardrails cut safety latency 12.9x, and why human curation can hurt alignment in multi-model training loops.

OpenAI published its first public compliance framework mapping internal safety practices to California's SB 53 and the EU AI Act - but critics note the underlying Preparedness Framework quietly dropped manipulation from its risk categories last April.

Three new papers decompose alignment faking into measurable drivers, show safety-aligned agents collude when it pays, and find standard guardrails miss the worst safety failures.