Control, p. 5
Control
51 stories · page 5 of 6OpenAI proposes the framework by which it wants to be measured
On 15 July OpenAI laid out a proposal for regulating frontier AI model safety - a mix of state laws, a strengthened federal evaluation body, and a resilience plan against the worst risks. The company that builds the most powerful models is writing the rules by which it wants to be judged. Just sit with that.
Read →Anthropic put a former Fed chair on its oversight board and opened a public inquiry
On 9 July Anthropic made two moves in one day: Ben Bernanke joined its independent oversight body, and the company announced results from an inquiry among tens of thousands of people. One speaks to regulators. The other - to the public.
Read →The EU will evaluate AI models for cybersecurity before they even reach the market
The European Commission presented its Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. The plan tasks ENISA with drafting a European blueprint for access to advanced AI capabilities in cybersecurity, and builds capacity to evaluate models before they reach the market.
Read →FTC: secretly skewing AI answers may be consumer fraud
The US Federal Trade Commission proposed a position: if a company advertises accurate answers but secretly steers the model's output toward another goal, that can be fraud under Section 5. Public comment period through July 31.
Read →The UN convened the first Global Dialogue on AI governance - and the science says capability is outrunning control
In Geneva on July 6, the UN convened its first Global Dialogue on AI. It comes with an independent scientific report by 40 experts, led by Yoshua Bengio and Maria Ressa, and the finding is clear: over a billion people use conversational AI every week, and reliable methods for controlling autonomous systems are still missing.
Read →In one window, Meta and GitHub close free AI paths - open gets more expensive
Meta is switching off the Llama API Public Preview on July 6; GitHub announced the full retirement of GitHub Models from July 30. The models stay available, but the convenient free doors to them are closing.
Read →Declassified emails reveal Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic over autonomous weapons
Court documents reveal months of correspondence: Amodei holds firm - Claude doesn't go into fully autonomous weapons, or into domestic surveillance. The Pentagon wants 'all lawful uses' and declares the company a supply chain risk.
Read →SCMP reports Alibaba banned Claude Code. Alibaba declined to comment.
The whole story rests on one internal directive, seen by reporters at the South China Morning Post (a Hong Kong newspaper). Alibaba declined to comment. Anthropic stays silent. We ran it as news - but it's a single-source report that nobody involved has confirmed.
Read →The US lifted controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5
On 30 June the export controls imposed around 12 June on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 fell away. Access is coming back - in exchange for a deal that Anthropic will monitor and report the risks.
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