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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Have Been in Talks on AI Safety for Weeks

OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed on 15 September 2026 that OpenAI has worked with Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety for several weeks, and said the firms need no antitrust waiver to coordinate. We trace the working group back to July, compare three legal routes for rivals that cooperate, and weigh the critics who call it a cartel.

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US Senate Negotiators Consider Requiring AI Firms to Mitigate Known Major Risks

Reuters, POLITICO, Semafor and Nextgov/FCW reported on 10 and 11 September 2026 that Senators John Thune, Ted Cruz and Amy Klobuchar are negotiating a bill that would put a duty of care on frontier AI developers, give the government a route to stop unsafe releases and preempt some state laws. We compare the four accounts of the unreleased draft, the risks each negotiator names, Senator Maria Cantwell’s testing objection, the 99-1 preemption history and the short calendar before the 3 November midterms.

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