Regulation & safety
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EE TimesSiliconEE Times Magazine – September 2026 The September 2026 edition of EE Times Magazine examines how smarter buildings combine ambient energy harvesting, sensing, AI, and connected systems to improve safety while protecting privacy.
GitHub Changelog
GitHub ChangelogGitHubNew API endpoint provides privacy-safe star history data Track repository star growth over time with the new star history REST API endpoint without exposing stargazer identities. Earlier this year, stargazer listing endpoints were restricted to admins and collaborators…
The Verge AIValleyMicrosoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot Microsoft's Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the company says in new legal filings as it fights copyright cl
Ahead of AIVoicesHow Claude Watermarks AI-Generated Text A 48-minute video walkthrough of token sampling, watermark detection, and removal
Last Week in AI
Last Week in AIVoicesLWiAI Podcast #252 - GPT 5.6, Grok 4.5, Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, AI 2040 GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1, regulatory developments in AI and data centers, interpretability research from Anthropic, and the future of AI policy with AI 2040
Qwen
QwenAsiaQwen3Guard: Real-time Safety for Your Token Stream Tech Report GitHub Hugging Face ModelScope DISCORD Introduction We are excited to introduce Qwen3Guard, the first safety guardrail model in the Qwen family. Built upon the powerful Qwen3 foundation models and fine-tuned
Claude Code releasesToolsv2.1.261 What's changed Added an "Organization policy" line to /status and claude doctor that says why your organization's policy could not be loaded, such as a proxy not passing the endpoint through Added bashOutputMaxChars and
SCMP TechAsiaWhy less visibility into how OpenAI’s new GPT-6 Astra ‘thinks’ is sparking safety concerns OpenAI’s new model, GPT-6 Astra, has less direct visibility into how a model thinks, a development that has sparked concerns coming just weeks after the Hugging Face hacking incident that required a Chinese open model to
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AIValleyOllie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI models or share it with others.
Wired AIValleyThis Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops WIRED rebuilt Flock’s latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officer’s browser. Its AI can keep watch across multiple cameras for anyone fitting a written description.
OpenAI NewsLabsSafety overview: GPT-6 Astra GPT-6 Astra is our most capable broadly deployed model and our first to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under our Preparedness Framework.
Ars Technica AIValleyTrump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing Trump’s secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says.
Microsoft Source
Microsoft SourceLabsHow Kier Group’s Louisa Finlay is using Copilot to drive safety and productivity in the construction industry
The New StackGitHubClaude Fable 5.1 watermark: It has a blind spot developers can’t ignore Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 on Tuesday with a statistical signature embedded in its generated text, but developers shouldn’t expect
Rest of WorldAI safety is designed in the West, and failing users everywhere OpenAI’s pause shows the risks of rapid AI development, as safety frameworks fail to account for non-Western languages and contexts where harms are felt most.
Ars Technica AIValley“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit Lawsuit: Anthropic’s torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts.
Ars Technica AIValleyChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union.
Rest of WorldMeta accepts U.S. safety rules while pitching softer tools abroad As governments consider banning social media for under-16s, Meta is turning to influencers to argue that parental controls are a better solution.
Stratechery
StratecheryVoicesMeta Settles, A Framework For Regulating Content, The Rest of Big Tech Meta's settlement makes sense for all parties, but the entire sage highlights why any solution to regulating technology feels off.
OpenAI NewsLabsOpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safety OpenAI supports California SB 1119, advancing strong, age-appropriate AI safeguards for teens while preserving opportunities to learn, create, and explore.
Ars Technica AIValleyMeta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.
Tom's Hardware AISiliconX busts 200,000-strong Chinese bot farm, including accounts making claims about AI data centers and electricity — suspect accounts posted claims about pricing and grid strain to 'manipulate' debate The X Safety Team said that at least 200 bot accounts have been making posts to influence public opinion data centers and energy policy. The accounts share links to legitimate news stories and then add their own spin des
Tom's Hardware AISiliconClaude nukes a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing deletion safeguards; automatic model safety downgrade may have contributed to the screw-up — Anthropic safety harness downgraded model to Opus 4.8 before fatal variable collision Claude nuked a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing a script to ensure that wouldn't happen, and it's possible that an automatic model downgrade likely contributed to the screw-up
Ars Technica AIValleyElon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
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