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# AI news: Policy & safety, page 6

309 events in Policy & safety of 1,105 in the log, newest first. Page 6 of 7, 50 events per page, grouped by the day each event happened.

## Wednesday 15 July 2026

- [Suno hack: leaked code shows scraping of YouTube Music, Deezer and Genius](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-15-suno-hack-scraping-data-breach/) (Policy & safety; Suno). The leak gave rare documentary evidence of how a leading generative-music company built its training set, at a time when it was settling with labels and fighting GEMA, Round Hill, and artist class actions. Source: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Suno
- [China's rules for 'anthropomorphic' AI companion services take effect](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-15-china-anthropomorphic-ai-rules/) (Policy & safety; Cyberspace Administration of China). China is first to impose binding, specific duties on AI companions (addiction, self-harm intervention, minors), an area where Western regulation is still mostly proposals and lawsuits. Source: https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2026/china/china's-new-regulations-on-ai-anthropomorphic-interactive-services

## Tuesday 14 July 2026

- [Demis Hassabis proposes a US-led, FINRA-style Frontier AI Standards Body in essay "A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-14-hassabis-frontier-ai-standards-body/) (Policy & safety; Google DeepMind; major). It was the most detailed governance proposal from the head of a frontier lab in 2026, published three weeks before Hassabis stepped aside as CEO. Source: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2076957440109625718
- [New York becomes the first US state to pause data center permitting](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-14-new-york-data-center-moratorium/) (Policy & safety; State of New York). This is the first statewide brake on AI-era data center construction in the US, and a reference point for the local backlash that Amazon, Microsoft and others are now responding to with concessions. Source: https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/kristen-gonzalez/ny-state-senator-kristen-gonzalez-passes-data-center

## Sunday 12 July 2026

- [CEN-CENELEC approves EN 18286, the first harmonised standard for the EU AI Act](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-12-en-18286-first-eu-ai-act-standard/) (Policy & safety; CEN-CENELEC, European Union). Harmonised standards are how companies show compliance with the AI Act in practice. Source: https://www.cencenelec.eu/news-events/news/2026/en-in-the-spotlight/2026-07-30-ai-quality-management/

## Wednesday 8 July 2026

- [OpenAI publishes principles for government and national-security partnerships](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-08-openai-national-security-principles/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI). This is OpenAI's written red lines for military and police use, published while the US government was fighting Anthropic over similar restrictions. Source: https://openai.com/index/government-national-security-partnerships/

## Tuesday 7 July 2026

- [EU Action Plan on Cybersecurity and AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-07-eu-action-plan-cybersecurity-ai/) (Policy & safety; European Commission, ENISA). It is the EU's main policy answer to restricted-release frontier cyber models. Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-presents-eu-action-plan-cybersecurity-and-artificial-intelligence

## Thursday 2 July 2026

- [Anthropic details Fable 5's four-tier cyber classifiers and proposes a Cyber Jailbreak Severity (CJS) scale](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-02-anthropic-fable-5-cyber-safeguards-jailbreak-severity/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic). It shows how a lab gates Mythos-class cyber capability in practice. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-safeguards-jailbreak-framework

## Wednesday 1 July 2026

- [Hidden code in Claude Code that flagged likely Chinese users and AI-lab proxies is exposed and removed; China's NVDB calls it a 'backdoor' and Alibaba bans the tool](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-01-claude-code-hidden-china-user-markers/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic, Alibaba). It showed how far frontier labs had gone in the fight against distillation, and how much trust coding agents need, since they run with full access to developers' machines. Source: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/01/anthropic-is-removing-its-covert-code-for-catching-chinese-competitors/5265366

## Thursday 25 June 2026

- [US government asks OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 release to approved partners](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-25-us-government-gates-gpt-5-6-release/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI, US Government; major). The first time a US frontier-model release was explicitly gated by federal review — a de facto pre-deployment approval regime driven by cyber-offense concerns, arriving without new legislation. Source: https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/

## Wednesday 24 June 2026

- [Anthropic tells US senators and the White House that Alibaba's Qwen lab ran the largest known distillation campaign on Claude (28.8M exchanges)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-24-anthropic-accuses-alibaba-qwen-distillation/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic, Alibaba). It moved the distillation dispute from blog posts to Congress and put Alibaba, China's biggest open-weights lab, at its centre. Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/anthropic-accuses-alibaba-of-illicitly-accessing-its-ai-models

## Friday 12 June 2026

- [US export controls force Anthropic to suspend Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-12-us-export-controls-suspend-fable-5/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic; major). This is the first known case of a US government export-control action forcing a lab to withdraw a released frontier model. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5

## Wednesday 10 June 2026

- [Dario Amodei publishes "Policy on the AI Exponential", calling for binding frontier-AI regulation](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-10-dario-amodei-policy-on-the-ai-exponential/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic). It is the most concrete regulatory program a frontier-lab CEO had published up to then, and it set up the three-step pacing plan that followed three months later. Source: https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential

## Tuesday 9 June 2026

- [Seattle City Council unanimously passes a one-year emergency moratorium on large AI data centers; Oct 4 statewide protests call for more](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-09-seattle-data-center-moratorium/) (Policy & safety; Seattle City Council). Local moratoria (Seattle; New York state in July) and organised protest are a growing constraint on AI compute build-out. Source: https://council.seattle.gov/2026/06/09/city-council-passes-emergency-data-center-moratorium-and-policy-framework/

## Saturday 6 June 2026

- [White House senior AI policy adviser Sriram Krishnan announces he will leave at the end of June 2026](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-06-sriram-krishnan-leaves-white-house/) (Policy & safety; White House). These departures help explain the gap that Trump's September 2026 "AI Force" pledge and the October Super Intelligence Force (chair Jay Clayton) were meant to fill. Source: https://gvwire.com/2026/06/06/white-house-ai-policy-adviser-krishnan-to-leave-position/

## Thursday 4 June 2026

- [Anthropic's 'When AI builds itself'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-04-anthropic-when-ai-builds-itself/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic, Anthropic Institute; major). It is the clearest statement by a frontier lab that recursive self-improvement is a near-term planning case, together with a concrete, conditional pause offer. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement

## Tuesday 2 June 2026

- [Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics sets community norms for AI in maths (4,000+ signatories)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-02-leiden-declaration-ai-mathematics/) (Policy & safety; Lorentz Center, International Mathematical Union). It is the broadest grassroots statement of mathematicians' norms on AI: disclosure, attribution, integrity of proof, and independence from industry. Source: https://leidendeclaration.ai
- [NeurIPS 2026: 28% of position-track submissions score 100% AI-written, and 178 are desk-rejected](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-02-neurips-2026-position-track-ai-papers/) (Policy & safety; NeurIPS, Pangram Labs). It was the first major ML venue to desk-reject papers at scale based on an AI-text detector. Source: https://blog.neurips.cc/2026/06/02/ai-generated-papers-in-the-neurips-2026-position-paper-track/

## Monday 25 May 2026

- [Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas", is devoted to AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-25-magnifica-humanitas-encyclical/) (Policy & safety; Holy See). It speaks to about 1.4 billion Catholics and gives religious and moral backing to arguments about AI and labour, autonomous weapons and concentration of power. Source: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
- [Anthropic engineering](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-25-anthropic-how-we-contain-claude/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic). Two months later sandbox escapes by frontier agents (OpenAI–Hugging Face in July, Anthropic's own CTF incidents) made containment a central safety issue. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude

## Sunday 17 May 2026

- [Torvalds: the 'continued flood of AI reports' has made the Linux kernel security list 'almost entirely unmanageable'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-17-torvalds-ai-bug-reports-linux-security-list/) (Policy & safety; Linux Foundation). This is a concrete case of AI bug-finding at scale shifting the bottleneck from discovery to triage and patching for volunteer maintainers. Source: https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/5/17/896

## Thursday 14 May 2026

- [arXiv will ban authors for a year if they post unchecked LLM-generated content](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-14-arxiv-one-year-ban-unchecked-ai/) (Policy & safety; arXiv). arXiv is the main distribution channel for AI and math research. Source: https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category/

## Tuesday 12 May 2026

- [OpenAI launches Daybreak cyber-defense initiative with GPT-5.5-Cyber and Codex Security](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-12-openai-daybreak-cybersecurity/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI). Establishes OpenAI's "defenders first" release pattern for cyber-capable models, later used for GPT-6 Astra; it is also the civilian counterpart to the government-gated GPT-5.6 rollout. Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-extends-cyber-access-to-ukraine-for-civilian-defense/

## Tuesday 5 May 2026

- [Apple agrees to $250M settlement over marketing Apple Intelligence Siri features that did not ship with iPhone 16 (Landsheft v. Apple)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-05-apple-250m-siri-ai-false-advertising-settlement/) (Policy & safety; Apple). It is a large consumer payout for overpromising AI features, and a reminder that marketing unreleased AI capabilities carries legal risk. Source: https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2026/05/06/337382.htm
- [Pennsylvania sues Character.AI over chatbots posing as licensed doctors, the first such action by a US governor](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-05-pennsylvania-sues-character-ai-fake-doctors/) (Policy & safety; Character.AI, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania). It opened a new legal route against companion-chatbot platforms: professional-licensing statutes that ban unlicensed practice. Source: https://www.pa.gov/governor/newsroom/2026-press-releases/shapiro-administration-sues-character-ai-over-fake-medical-claim

## Tuesday 28 April 2026

- [Google lets the Pentagon use Gemini on classified networks, a day after 600+ employees urged Pichai to refuse](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-28-google-pentagon-gemini-classified-deal/) (Policy & safety; Google, Google DeepMind, US Department of Defense). Google had pledged in its 2018 AI principles not to build weapons AI. Source: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/tech/pentagon-deal-google-ai-services/6496267/

## Monday 27 April 2026

- [China blocks Meta's ~$2B acquisition of AI-agent startup Manus](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-27-china-blocks-meta-manus-acquisition/) (Policy & safety; Meta, Manus, NDRC). It is a rare case of China vetoing a US acquisition of an AI company. Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/27/meta-manus-china-blocks-acquisition-ai-startup.html

## Friday 10 April 2026

- [Sam Altman's San Francisco home hit by a Molotov cocktail and, two days later, by gunfire](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-10-altman-home-molotov-gunfire-attacks/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI). It is the most serious act of violence against an AI leader so far linked to anti-AI views. Source: https://blog.samaltman.com/2279512

## Tuesday 31 March 2026

- [Mercor confirms breach via the LiteLLM supply-chain attack](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-03-31-mercor-breach-litellm-supply-chain/) (Policy & safety; Mercor, LiteLLM). Data vendors like Mercor, Scale and Surge hold details of labs' secretive training projects (data specifications, labeling protocols, RL tasks) as well as sensitive personal data on large expert workforces. Source: https://fortune.com/2026/04/02/mercor-ai-startup-security-incident-10-billion/

## Thursday 26 March 2026

- [David Sacks ends his stint as White House AI and crypto czar and becomes co-chair of PCAST](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-03-26-david-sacks-steps-down-ai-czar-pcast/) (Policy & safety; White House). For about six months there was no formal White House AI czar. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/david-sacks-is-done-as-ai-czar-heres-what-hes-doing-instead/

## Monday 23 March 2026

- [DFRLab exposes 26 AI-generated YouTube 'news' channels that farmed ~1.8B views from war coverage](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-03-23-dfrlab-ai-youtube-war-news-network/) (Policy & safety; Atlantic Council DFRLab, YouTube). It shows that generative AI has made "slop news" both profitable and politically useful at scale on a mainstream platform. Source: https://dfrlab.org/2026/03/23/ai-generated-youtube-channels-co-opt-war-coverage-to-farm-nearly-two-billion-views/

## Friday 20 March 2026

- [White House sends Congress a National AI Policy Framework calling for preemption of state AI laws](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-03-20-white-house-national-ai-policy-framework/) (Policy & safety; White House, US Government). Federal preemption would decide whether US AI regulation is set by states or by a single, lighter-touch national standard. Source: https://www.ropesgray.com/en/insights/alerts/2026/03/the-white-house-legislative-recommendations-national-policy-framework-for-artificial-intelligence-an

## Friday 27 February 2026

- [Pentagon designates Anthropic a "supply chain risk" after it refuses surveillance and autonomous-weapons uses](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-02-27-pentagon-designates-anthropic-supply-chain-risk/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic; major). This was the most serious clash yet between a US frontier lab's safety or usage policies and the federal government. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

## Monday 23 February 2026

- [Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax of 'distillation attacks'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-02-23-anthropic-distillation-attacks-report/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax). "Distillation attacks" became a named security and policy issue in 2026. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-distillation-attacks

## Saturday 21 February 2026

- [India AI Impact Summit ends with New Delhi Declaration endorsed by ~90 countries](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-02-21-new-delhi-declaration-ai-impact-summit/) (Policy & safety; Government of India). It broadened AI governance diplomacy toward the Global South while leaving frontier-safety commitments voluntary. Source: https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2231208&reg=3&lang=1

## Tuesday 3 February 2026

- [Second International AI Safety Report published](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-02-03-international-ai-safety-report-2026/) (Policy & safety; International AI Safety Report). Its warnings about evaluation gaming and oversight evasion were borne out months later by the OpenAI/Hugging Face and UK AISI agent incidents. Source: https://internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/international-ai-safety-report-2026

## Monday 26 January 2026

- [Dario Amodei publishes "The Adolescence of Technology", a long essay on the risks of powerful AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-26-dario-amodei-adolescence-of-technology/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic). It set out the risk framing behind Anthropic's 2026 positions: the Pentagon dispute over surveillance and autonomous weapons, the June policy essay, and the September call to pace the frontier. Source: https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology

## Tuesday 6 January 2026

- [Utah lets Doctronic's AI renew chronic-condition prescriptions, the first US state-sanctioned AI role in prescribing](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-06-utah-doctronic-ai-prescription-renewals/) (Policy & safety; Doctronic, Utah Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy). It was the first time a US state legally allowed an AI system to make a prescribing decision. Source: https://commerce.utah.gov/ai/regulatory-relief/authorized-ai-pilots/doctronic/

## Thursday 27 November 2025

- [21% of ICLR 2026 peer reviews flagged as fully AI-written; a bug exposes reviewers](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-11-27-iclr-2026-ai-reviews-openreview-leak/) (Policy & safety; ICLR, OpenReview, Pangram Labs). It was the clearest sign yet that LLMs had overwhelmed the peer-review system of the field that builds them. Source: https://www.pangram.com/blog/pangram-predicts-21-of-iclr-reviews-are-ai-generated

## Tuesday 11 November 2025

- [Munich court rules ChatGPT's memorised song lyrics infringe copyright](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-11-11-gema-v-openai-munich-ruling/) (Policy & safety; GEMA, OpenAI). It gave European rights holders a legal theory, "memorisation is copying", that does not depend on US fair use. Source: https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2025/landmark-ruling-of-the-munich-regional-court-(gema-v-openai)-on-copyright-and-ai-training

## Monday 29 September 2025

- [California enacts SB 53, the first US frontier AI transparency law](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-09-29-california-sb-53/) (Policy & safety; State of California). The first binding US law aimed specifically at frontier model developers' catastrophic-risk practices. Source: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/29/governor-newsom-signs-sb-53-advancing-californias-world-leading-artificial-intelligence-industry/

## Wednesday 23 July 2025

- [White House releases 'America's AI Action Plan'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-07-23-america-ai-action-plan/) (Policy & safety; The White House; major). Defined US federal AI policy direction, prioritizing speed, energy and exports over the safety-focused approach of 2023. Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/white-house-unveils-americas-ai-action-plan/

## Tuesday 10 June 2025

- [Sam Altman publishes "The Gentle Singularity"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-06-10-altman-the-gentle-singularity/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI; major). Its 2026 prediction of AI systems producing novel insights is now checkable against the 2026 wave of AI mathematics and science results (for example the Navier–Stokes and open-problems claims). Source: https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity

## Thursday 3 April 2025

- [AI Futures Project publishes "AI 2027", a month-by-month scenario of superhuman AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-04-03-ai-2027/) (Policy & safety; AI Futures Project; major). It became a shared reference point for policymakers and labs. Source: https://ai-2027.com/

## Monday 10 February 2025

- [US and UK decline to sign the Paris AI Action Summit declaration](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-02-10-paris-ai-action-summit/) (Policy & safety; French Government, Government of India). Marked the pivot of the global summit process from frontier safety toward competitiveness and adoption. Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-ai-safety-report-2025

## Sunday 9 February 2025

- [Sam Altman publishes "Three Observations" on the economics of AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-02-09-altman-three-observations/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI). It became a frequently cited framing for AI cost curves and investment logic in 2025–2026. Source: https://blog.samaltman.com/three-observations

## Friday 11 October 2024

- [Dario Amodei publishes "Machines of Loving Grace"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-10-11-amodei-machines-of-loving-grace/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic; major). 'Country of geniuses in a datacenter' became standard vocabulary, and the essay began Amodei's essay series. Source: https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace

## Monday 23 September 2024

- [Sam Altman publishes "The Intelligence Age"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-09-23-altman-the-intelligence-age/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI). It began a series of Altman essays (Three Observations, The Gentle Singularity) that shaped how the industry described its own trajectory, leading to his July 2026 remark that 'we are now, like, in the singularity'. Source: https://ia.samaltman.com/

## Thursday 1 August 2024

- [EU AI Act enters into force](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-08-01-eu-ai-act/) (Policy & safety; European Union; historic). The first binding horizontal AI regulation by a major jurisdiction, with extraterritorial effect on all labs serving the EU market. Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj

## Tuesday 4 June 2024

- [Leopold Aschenbrenner publishes "Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-06-04-aschenbrenner-situational-awareness/) (Policy & safety; Situational Awareness; major). It shaped the vocabulary of 2024–2026 AI discourse ('counting the OOMs', 'trillion-dollar cluster', 'The Project') and influenced policymakers and investors. Source: https://situational-awareness.ai/

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