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AI safety regulation push

The story so far — 31 entries, SEP 11, 2026 to SEP 26, 2026.

SEP 11, 2026 · No. 116 · Lead story
OpenAI asks Congress for binding national AI safety rules
Euronews
SEP 11, 2026 · No. 116 · Lead story
Newsom signs the nation's first AI chatbot child-safety law
Office of Gov. Gavin Newsom
SEP 13, 2026 · No. 118 · Lead story
Dario Amodei tells the industry it must 'pace the frontier'
Dario Amodei
SEP 13, 2026 · No. 118 · Lead story
Sam Altman says an OpenAI IPO in 2026 would be 'ill-advised,' citing safety
TechCrunch
SEP 13, 2026 · No. 118 · Lead story
A bipartisan Senate bill turns AI safety from a pledge into a legal duty
Tech Times
SEP 13, 2026 · No. 118
Obama tells Democrats to build a real AI policy, calls the technology 'dangerous' unmanaged
Obama said AI in private hands is moving too fast for government to track and urged the party to build a framework rather than wait for 2028.

CNBC
SEP 14, 2026 · No. 112 · Lead story
Trump rejects the industry's call to slow AI down
Bloomberg
SEP 14, 2026 · No. 112 · Lead story
Nadella publishes Microsoft's first AI model Code of Conduct, backs 'deliberate pacing'
Dataconomy
SEP 14, 2026 · No. 112 · Lead story
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind have been quietly negotiating a joint AI standards body since July
CNN Business
SEP 14, 2026 · No. 112
Two more AI safety researchers quit Anthropic and Google DeepMind, join METR
Joe Benton and Josh Engels say voluntary disclosure from labs isn't enough and are moving to the independent nonprofit to investigate AI incidents from outside.

NBC News
SEP 15, 2026 · No. 113 · Lead story
Trump mocks Amodei by name, says he's the only AI 'guardrail' the US needs
Axios
SEP 15, 2026 · No. 113 · Lead story
China's Foreign Ministry rejects the AI slowdown call as 'fearmongering'
Bloomberg
SEP 15, 2026 · No. 113 · Lead story
Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI cosign a formal standard for outside AI evaluators
Latent Space
SEP 15, 2026 · No. 113 · Lead story
A Google DeepMind safety researcher resigns, warns AI 'has the potential to kill us all'
Business Standard
SEP 16, 2026 · No. 114 · Lead story
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind confirm weeks of quiet safety talks
TechCrunch
SEP 16, 2026 · No. 114 · Lead story
Congress still can't agree on a guardrail; Johnson says that's not Washington's job
Roll Call
SEP 17, 2026 · No. 115 · Lead story
Zuckerberg rejects Amodei's call for a coordinated AI slowdown
Fortune
SEP 18, 2026 · No. 124 · Lead story
Pennsylvania's governor calls on Washington for 'strict guardrails' on AI
CNN
SEP 18, 2026 · No. 124 · Lead story
Google DeepMind launches an institute to referee the AGI debate
TechCrunch
SEP 19, 2026 · No. 125 · Lead story
US military had a close call after AI hallucinated intelligence on a Chinese ship
CNN
SEP 19, 2026 · No. 125
Anthropic's first embedded evaluator is... Accenture
Anthropic and Accenture will each put up $1B over five years so Accenture's Faculty unit can red-team Claude with employee-level access, the first concrete step on Dario Amodei's 'pace the frontier' plan.

TechCrunch
SEP 20, 2026 · No. 126 · Lead story
Newsom orders California to study an AI 'kill switch' for frontier models
Office of Governor Gavin Newsom
SEP 21, 2026 · No. 119 · Lead story
Trump announces an 'AI Force' and a new AI czar, rejects calls for safety guardrails
Axios
SEP 21, 2026 · No. 119 · Lead story
Four subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Google over alleged 'Pace the Frontier' collusion
CBS News
SEP 22, 2026 · No. 120 · Lead story
UN scientific panel warns AI agent safeguards are 'unravelling'
UN News
SEP 22, 2026 · No. 120
Bipartisan Senate trio moves AI safety from pledge to legal duty
Thune, Cruz, and Klobuchar are drafting a bill letting federal regulators block frontier models over bio- or nuclear-weapon risks.

Tech Times
SEP 22, 2026 · No. 120
OpenAI pushes the US to lead a global AI safety standards effort
The company says international technical standards are needed to define which AI incidents should be reported, and to whom.

Bloomberg
SEP 23, 2026 · No. 121 · Lead story
UN Security Council hears from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and Moonshot on AI risk
Decrypt
SEP 25, 2026 · No. 132
Congress wants to regulate AI; the Senate won't let staff use it
With serious AI bills stalled ahead of midterms, lawmakers debating frontier-model rules are themselves barred from most advanced AI tools.

NPR
SEP 26, 2026 · No. 133
Sanders and Casar want to ban superintelligence outright
The bill would pause frontier development pending a new Cabinet-level AI department and threatens violators with up to 20 years in prison.

Office of Sen. Bernie Sanders
SEP 26, 2026 · No. 133
New York City proposes a mandatory kill switch for AI systems
The package would require a human override for any AI system sold or deployed in the city, plus bounties for whistleblowers who report violations.

New York City Council