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Our approach to EU text provenance rules
How OpenAI is approaching text watermarking under EU rules.
2026 Usage Policy update
Each year, Anthropic updates its Usage Policy in response to the evolving capabilities of our models, and the feedback we’ve received from our customers.
Quoting Victoria Kim
Since the Medicare breach, OpenAI has put in place additional monitoring to allow “immediate intervention” by staff to stop training if the company’s models access the internet in ways they’re not supposed to, Mr. Kwon [chief strategy officer at OpenAI] said.
Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out two of five data centers belonging to the Russian tech giant Yandex.
Rethinking access control for RAG with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock
Enterprise organizations are adopting Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to unlock insights from company knowledge sources like Microsoft SharePoint, Google Drive, and Atlassian Confluence.
OpenAI revenue falls short, models play hopscotch and Trump cracks down on tech green cards
OpenAI told investors this week that it actually had $18 billion less revenue than the $68 [...]
She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate
Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people.
Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year.
AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI.
Cited but Not Consulted: A Counterfactual Audit of Legal Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness
Large language models increasingly justify legal decisions by naming the statute or precedent behind a verdict, treated as evidence that the decision follows from it.
COSMIC shuts the door on AI code as GNOME debates letting bug reports in
System76 is banning AI-generated content from contributions to the COSMIC desktop.
🔮 AI & Math 2.0, Pakistan’s solar hedge & who controls computing++
“I’ve worked in the tech industry for the last 10 years, and Exponential View has guided me and helped me think much larger than I otherwise would have.” — Nicky B., a paying member
6 Guidelines for Governing AI
Today I lead enterprise AI transformation at Lowe’s, the Fortune 100 home improvement retailer.
The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken
Western voices saying open weight models are necessary for defense and banning them will make the world less safe, occupied by AI risk moderates to different extremes.
Building a safer path to autonomous industrial AI
Industrial AI is entering a new phase.
ChinAI #376: Around the Horn (27th episode)
...As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here.
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
Figure 1: ThinkingBox runs an agent against isolated MCP tool sessions, then grades the terminal backend state and side effects it leaves behind.
Beijing Will Not Pace the Frontier: China’s Speed-First AI Safety Regime
On 12 September 2026, Dario Amodei published an essay arguing that frontier labs must deliberately slow the pace at which they improve model capabilities.
The United States is Militarizing and Weaponizing AI
It’s not just about the broken culture in companies like OpenAI, but the incentives and cultures of the powers behind it and the Venture Capitalist interests and incentives who have, in part, taken over key areas of tech and AI policy in much of the direction of this U.S. Government, including at the Pentagon.
A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?
In recent weeks, two narratives about AI safety have emerged: either AI existential risk is real and imminent, or AI leaders’ and whistleblowers’ claims to that effect are insincere — a “psyop” or hype or a twisted form of regulatory capture.
Building for good: How civil society organizations are automating on Cloudflare
The goal of Cloudflare Impact is to help ensure that non-profit organizations are among the first to benefit.
Regunow
Turn regulatory research into actionable compliance audits
Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives
The true measure of AI is who it helps.
Quoting The New York Times
— The New York Times, Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept.
Pollo AI turns creative ideas into campaigns with OpenAI
With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‐Image‐2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.
Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on.
Responsible AI governance: How AWS positions customers to align with ISO/IEC 42005:2025
With generative AI adoption moving faster than the personal computer or the internet and global AI-related investment in 2025 representing $581.69 billion, organizations must position their workforce to use AI to power their operations while employing it responsibly.
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Friday's announcement comes two weeks after tech columnist Jason Aten said that Meta’s new general-purpose AI agent Muse sent him an unsolicited notification referencing a thread between him and a co-worker over Apple Messages.
Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations
OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.
DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit
Artists are taking to social media to complain that DistroKid has unceremoniously removed their work without notice.
🔮 The transition is hiding in plain sight #604
We are continuing to push hard on untangling this data and more over at our AI Investment Brief by Exponential View.
📈 Monday data: More AI, more justice?
Latest in our AI Investment Brief: An update on AI revenues + what’s happening with AI spending.
“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
In announcing those new apps on Reddit earlier this week, software developer Brandon Thomas said he used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 to create "clean-room replacements" for Adobe's closed source software in Rust (with WebAssembly versions available for use in a browser).
Right Number, Wrong State? Measuring Cross-Jurisdiction Substitution in LLM Recall of State Policy
When an LLM answers a state-specific policy question wrongly, it may be hallucinating, or it may be returning a real value that holds in another state.
🔮 Quick weekend reads: the big AI questions
AI is really forcing some big questions into the open.
The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up ‘Kill Chain’ AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos
The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
TRACE: A Governance Framework for Measuring Explainability Debt in Production AI Systems
We introduce TRACE (Transparency, Risk, Accountability, Compliance, and Explainability), a seven-instrument governance framework for measuring, tracking, and remediating Explainability Debt in production AI systems.
Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search
In a setback for publishers worried about the effects of AI search, a US federal judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by Chegg and Penske Media against Google.
Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed
Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights.
People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do.
AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Norway has become the first major country to propose a temporary ban on the use of AI glasses in selected public places amid growing privacy concerns over wearable technology.
Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents
Our latest paper, ProvenanceGuard: Source-Aware Factuality Verification for MCP-Based LLM Agents (read it on Hugging Face, or on arXiv in the meantime), targets that gap.
Verdict Without the Rule: Diagnosing and Auditing Regulatory Rule Sensitivity in LLM Compliance Systems
Large language model compliance systems are deployed on the assumption that a verdict depends on the regulatory rule it is given.
The "10th Juror": Open-Set Standpoint Screening for Bureaucratic Bias Detection
We study closed-loop bias governance for Dutch government documents, where a system must detect biased language, ground decisions in legal and contextual evidence, rewrite problematic sentences when intervention is warranted, and verify that the rewrite mitigates harm without distorting meaning.
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
AlphaGo won the game, ultimately triumphing 4-1 over Lee Sedol, one of the greatest professional Go players of all time. “I thought AlphaGo was based on probability calculation and that it was merely a machine,” Lee said afterwards. “But when I saw this move, I changed my mind.
Trump’s attempt to rename AI is looking awfully artificial
President Donald Trump has a knack for turning words against his enemies.
Even ‘Law & Order’ Is Terrified of AI
In its 26th season premiere, the procedural legal drama paints a damning picture of power-mad AI CEOs.