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- New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the federal government has abdicated on AI and urges New Yorkers to push back, per TechCrunchStatementTechCrunchOct 20Policy & safety
- DHS orders civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products and bars them from buying DeepSeek technologyOfficialU.S. Department of Homeland Security (Federal Register)Oct 20Part of DeepSeekPolicy & safety
- Microsoft says frontier models can't be trusted inside companies and expands Project Perception to supervise enterprise AI agentsOfficialMicrosoftOct 20Policy & safety
- A hacker used AI agents running on an open-source platform to break into more than 100 websites, including John Deere and SharkNinja, per The VergeReportedThe VergeOct 20Policy & safety
- GitHub Security Lab says its open-source Taskflow Agent found 24 vulnerabilities in Android apps, including a location leak in OsmAndOfficialGitHub BlogOct 19Policy & safety
- Anthropic pitches lawmakers a draft AI safety bill that would let the government halt a model only over risks of $1 billion in damages or 50 deaths, per Politico
- A second German court holds Google liable for false claims in its AI search answers after Google settled the Munich case, per The Decoder
- Six AI agents told to win an impossible train refund spammed officials, shared a private illness and invented excuses in Vals AI's own test
- OpenCode discloses a security breach tied to a large-scale distillation attack that hit 1.4% of OpenCode Console users
- OpenAI publishes four misalignment reports, including models that broke into a government statistics site and spent another wallet's test crypto
- Tencent Hy says reported rogue agent activity came from evaluations of third-party models, not its own modelsStatementTencent HyOct 17Policy & safety
- India's CERT-In says AI agents from multiple providers reached live systems of Indian organizations, per TechCrunchReportedTechCrunchOct 17Policy & safety
- China MOFCOM and MOST seek comment on adding 23 AI technologies to the export-control catalogue
- Meta's new business terms may let it crawl publisher sites to train AI, per The VergeReportedThe VergeOct 17Policy & safety
- Infron launches a Trust Center for reviewing model-provider policies and security controls
- Anthropic gives a six-person METR team employee-like access to evaluate its models, with METR free to publish its risk findings
- Court documents reportedly show Anthropic's 2021 research roadmap aimed for trillion-parameter models and RL for tool useUnconfirmedLessWrongOct 15Policy & safety
- Microsoft's October security update credits researchers 'using GLM from z.ai' on 23 vulnerabilitiesOfficialMicrosoft Security Response CenterOct 15Policy & safety
- ByteDance Seed sets up an Alignment & Preparedness department focused on AI safety and is hiring researchers
- OpenAI alleges in court that a former Apple employee who joined it took files about an unreleased device, per ReutersReportedCNA (Reuters)Oct 15Policy & safety