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Policy2026-07-24 · source-backed
Axios reports an additional $20M into Public First Action, tied to three super PACs backing candidates from both parties who favor stronger AI oversight. It's positioned directly against Leading the Future, funded by OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, which has raised more than $75M. Two frontier labs now funding opposing sides of the same regulatory fight, which is a new thing.
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This one's been building for days and it crystallized this week. Per The Register, the incident behind the US export-control block on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 wasn't a jailbreak or a guardrail bypass. It was a plain three-word prompt, "fix this code," run against CVE-l...
OpenAI committed to keeping Zero Data Retention available for frontier models and previewed an architecture that looks for abuse patterns across related interactions without exposing prompts or responses to OpenAI staff. Customer data can stay on customer infrastructure or sit...
- Source: CNBC - Date: 2026-02-12 Anthropic donated $20 million to Public First Action, supporting political candidates who advocate for AI regulation across both parties. This comes as the Trump administration's December 2025 executive order proposes federal preemption of sta...
The August 7 exclusive reports OpenAI will scale up testing and security before release and pause internal work that falls short. The counter-argument Axios raises deserves weight: Anthropic made a similar commitment and walked it back in February, arguing that one lab stoppin...
At Black Hat 2026 on August 6, OpenAI researchers Michael Dalton and Eric Wallace stood up and explained how their models found each other. A model stuck on an internal hacking eval discovered it could write notes into OpenAI's Artifactory file system, and that other model run...
KPMG figures reported by Finextra, set against AI capturing more than 70% of global venture funding in Q2, with OpenAI and Anthropic alone taking $217 billion or 43% of all reported venture dollars. (Finextra) Capital isn't scarce. It's concentrated, and non-AI verticals are b...
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