
OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global cooperation through the Appia Foundation.
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Advanced AI systems can provide significant benefits like stronger cybersecurity and faster scientific discovery, but they also pose safety and security risks that require careful oversight. A foundation hosted by the Linux Foundation was created to develop practical standards and assessment methods that organizations across different jurisdictions can use consistently to evaluate and secure these systems. This effort aims to create a shared technical language and trusted evaluation practices so that governments and companies can understand and respond to AI risks together. The work builds on existing frameworks and governance proposals that call for stronger institutions, compatible safety approaches across nations, and coordinated responses to incidents.

The AI arms race between China and the US has researchers on both sides worried about a “Chernobyl moment.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) says her staff used AI for "spellcheck" in an amendment summary for a major defense bill, but denies it was used for the bill text itself and says "NO Legislation is ever drafted with AI." Luna issued the response after accounts on X began sharing screenshots of an amendment summary for the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act. It reads: "Identical to H.R. 100 (118th Congress).11:25 AM????Claude responded: Requires the Secretary of Defense to d

At high-stakes meetings with the White House, Anthropic's cofounder—a "weirdo," per one official—has been replaced by cofounder Tom Brown.
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