ai-policy
No, the White House Isn't Licensing AI Models - Here's What EO 14409 Actually Sets Up News
Executive Order 14409 creates a voluntary US government pre-release access framework for "covered frontier models," thresholded by a classified NSA-led cyber-capability benchmark, and explicitly does not authorize mandatory licensing, preclearance, or permitting of AI model releases.
LAPD lets its Flock license-plate surveillance contract lapse after false-positive stops News
LAPD allowed its Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader contract to expire on July 11 after false alerts led to innocent drivers being stopped - a rare rollback of already-deployed AI surveillance on civil-liberties grounds.
200-plus experts sign 'WeMustActNow,' urging governments to prepare for AI job displacement News
More than 200 experts including Nobel laureates signed a Stanford Digital Economy Lab statement urging governments to prepare now for AI-driven economic displacement, amid a concurrent survey signaling strong but methodologically thin public appetite for socializing AI gains.
OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 -- and shows it to the government first News
OpenAI previewed a three-model GPT-5.6 family on June 26 and released it only to a small set of vetted partners after briefing the U.S. government, making pre-launch government coordination a routine step for a frontier model.
Five Eyes spy chiefs: the AI cyber threat is months away, not years News
On June 23 the Five Eyes cyber agencies jointly warned that frontier AI will transform cyberattacks on a timeline of months rather than years, and urged organizations to fix foundational security now.
A New Campaign Argues You Have a Right to Run AI on Your Own Computer News
A grassroots advocacy site, Right to Local Intelligence, is campaigning against proposed state laws it says could require a license just to download and run open AI models, framing local AI as the next personal computer.
The ban on Anthropic's most powerful model just partially lifted -- for Americans only News
About a hundred U.S. institutions regain access to Mythos and Fable, while foreign nationals stay locked out and rival labs rush to fill the gap.
OpenAI showed off GPT-5.6 -- then handed the guest list to the US government News
Three new models, strong enough at hacking that OpenAI is only letting about twenty vetted partners in, at the government's request.
Anthropic Wants a Pause Button the Whole World Can Check News
Buried in Anthropic's essay is a concrete proposal: not to stop AI, but to build the machinery that would let rival labs prove to each other they had stopped.