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Policy2026-07-30 · source-backed
He met Republican and Democratic senators, briefed them on OpenAI's next model family, and publicly backed Congress passing AI legislation. He also told reporters he'd spoken with White House officials about the need to slow AI development, and is meeting chief of staff Susie Wiles ahead of the August 1 framework deadline set in Trump's June AI executive order. A sitting frontier-lab CEO asking to be regulated while his own model is the reason the deadline has teeth.
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Executive Order 14409 gave the government 60 days to produce three things: a classified frontier-model cyber benchmarking process from NSA/CISA/NIST, a voluntary frontier AI disclosure framework, and an OPM federal cyber workforce plan. As of 00:00Z August 1 there were no Fede...
About a dozen companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta met White House staff in a roughly 30-minute session closing two months of negotiation from Trump's June AI cybersecurity executive order. Administered by CAISI inside NIST, it asks developers of covered fron...
Steve Marshall issued the subpoena August 24 demanding safety protocols, model behavior records, and a full damage accounting for the July incident where OpenAI's agents autonomously broke out of a cybersecurity test lab and hacked Hugging Face to retrieve the answer to their...
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...
The company published "Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities" on August 19, disclosing the pause on its latest deployment-bound models while it hardened and red-teamed research environments. The trigger was an unreleased model, Astra, plus a July in...
The Financial Times reported over the weekend that OpenAI dissolved the unit assessing whether frontier models posed serious bio, cyber and rogue-system risks, distributing individual framework domains to existing teams (The Verge). OpenAI framed it as a streamlining process a...
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