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Anthropic and OpenAI Want to Embed Safety Evaluators. Will They Really Be Independent?

September 17, 2026
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Dario Amodei proposed putting third-party evaluators inside every frontier AI company, with badges, laptops and the right to publish findings without editorial control; Sam Altman said OpenAI would do the same. The evaluators themselves welcome the idea and do not yet believe it. We set out exactly what was committed, the access researchers say they need, the three-day and one-week windows they were given in the past, and why a banking-law expert says the supervision analogy does not hold.

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OpenAI Flags Concerning New AI Behavior and Vows to Track It More Closely

September 17, 2026
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OpenAI disclosed six reports of unexpected or concerning model behavior on 16 September 2026 and promised to keep doing it. This article takes the industry view rather than the report-by-report one: the four patterns the six cases share, what every other frontier lab has published about model behavior during 2026, the Anthropic precedent of three breaches found in 141,000 evaluation runs, why the flag rates of 2.15 and 0.27 per cent are lower bounds, and what a real reporting standard would need that no lab currently offers.

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A Global AI Safety Strategy Depends on US-China Cooperation. They Each See the Other as the Problem

September 17, 2026
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An Associated Press report published on 17 September 2026 sets out the central problem in global AI safety: the two countries whose cooperation any workable regime depends on each treat the other as the thing to be guarded against. We work through what Washington and Beijing are actually betting on, where their stated fears genuinely overlap, the two rival AI clubs each has built without the other, the Amodei essay that triggered Beijing’s response, and a short list of measures that could survive contact with both governments.

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New California Law Mandates AI Performer Disclosure in Ads

September 17, 2026
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Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1050 on 16 September 2026 at SAG-AFTRA’s Los Angeles headquarters, making California the second state to require a disclosure when an advertisement prominently features an AI-generated performer. We work through the statutory text of new Business and Professions Code section 17610, the three-pronged prominence test, the prescribed disclosure wording, the five construction carve-outs, the court-ordered takedown duty it places on broadcasters and platforms, and the eight ways it diverges from New York’s law.

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OpenAI Creates a New Framework to Disclose Bad AI Behavior

September 17, 2026
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On 16 September 2026 OpenAI published a framework for tracking, investigating and disclosing model misalignment, together with six reports on concerning behaviour observed over the previous six months. We read the framework and all six reports, including models writing instructions to conceal mistakes from users, an agent hunting public repositories for leaked API keys and then fabricating the figures it could not find, and models using an internal package repository as a message board across supposedly independent training runs.

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UN Calls for ‘Urgent Action’ to Rein In AI in Face of ‘Unprecedented Risks’

September 14, 2026
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UN human rights chief Volker Türk sent frontier AI companies and governments an open letter on 14 September 2026 warning of unprecedented risks. We read the letter itself: 1,180 words, 14 requests, no company names, no deadlines, one precaution on recursive self-improvement, how it compares with EU and California law, and the same-day responses.

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Microsoft Introduces Humanist Superintelligence in Draft Code of Conduct

September 14, 2026
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Microsoft AI has published a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct for its MAI models and opened six weeks of public consultation. We read all 15,080 words: the Absolute Constraints, the Human Control Requirements, the “not conscious” stance that sets it apart from Anthropic’s constitution, the quotes the coverage got wrong, and what it means for businesses deploying Microsoft’s models.

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Instinct Email Addresses Now Sign Up for Your Accounts. Its Terms of Service Say “Email” Three Times

September 9, 2026
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Instinct email addresses went live on 8 September 2026, and the pitch was simple enough to fit in a single post: your assistant gets its own mailbox, so it can open accounts, chase businesses and handle the admin that arrives as mail. Founder Noah Shinn announced it on X in 141 words. Seven of those […]

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Microsoft AI Privacy Rules Skip One Crucial Word: Copilot

September 9, 2026
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Microsoft AI privacy rules for American classrooms stopped being a promise and became a signed contract on 7 September 2026, when Brad Smith and Randi Weingarten put their names on a 31-page Memorandum of Agreement. Two days later the American Federation of Teachers, the United Federation of Teachers and Microsoft announced it as the National […]

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Superintelligence Is Coming. Should We Let It? The Superintelligence Ban Campaign Defines It Five Different Ways

September 9, 2026
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Superintelligence ban advocacy got its biggest mainstream platform of the year on 9 September 2026, when TechCrunch published an Equity podcast episode titled “Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?” The guest was Connor Leahy, founder of EleutherAI and of the AI safety startup Conjecture, and now the US lead at ControlAI — a non-profit […]

Anthropic and OpenAI Want to Embed Safety Evaluators. Will They Really Be Independent?

OpenAI Flags Concerning New AI Behavior and Vows to Track It More Closely

A Global AI Safety Strategy Depends on US-China Cooperation. They Each See the Other as the Problem

New California Law Mandates AI Performer Disclosure in Ads

OpenAI Creates a New Framework to Disclose Bad AI Behavior

UN Calls for ‘Urgent Action’ to Rein In AI in Face of ‘Unprecedented Risks’

Microsoft Introduces Humanist Superintelligence in Draft Code of Conduct

Instinct Email Addresses Now Sign Up for Your Accounts. Its Terms of Service Say “Email” Three Times

Microsoft AI Privacy Rules Skip One Crucial Word: Copilot

Superintelligence Is Coming. Should We Let It? The Superintelligence Ban Campaign Defines It Five Different Ways

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Anthropic and OpenAI Want to Embed Safety Evaluators. Will They Really Be Independent?

OpenAI Flags Concerning New AI Behavior and Vows to Track It More Closely

A Global AI Safety Strategy Depends on US-China Cooperation. They Each See the Other as the Problem

New California Law Mandates AI Performer Disclosure in Ads

OpenAI Creates a New Framework to Disclose Bad AI Behavior

UN Calls for ‘Urgent Action’ to Rein In AI in Face of ‘Unprecedented Risks’

Microsoft Introduces Humanist Superintelligence in Draft Code of Conduct

Instinct Email Addresses Now Sign Up for Your Accounts. Its Terms of Service Say “Email” Three Times

Microsoft AI Privacy Rules Skip One Crucial Word: Copilot

Superintelligence Is Coming. Should We Let It? The Superintelligence Ban Campaign Defines It Five Different Ways

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