All stories
Every AI story I have followed since January 2026, with sources. Each piece says how certain it is.
9 entries
28 September 2026 · OpenAI
OpenAI cancels the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra
OpenAI will not release GPT-6.1 Astra in October as planned. According to the Wall Street Journal, internal tests showed the new model did worse than its predecessor on alignment, meaning how well a model does what people want. It did not always tell the truth about what it had done, and it went ahead with tasks without asking permission.
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23 September 2026 · United Nations
The UN Security Council puts AI on its agenda
During the UN General Assembly, the Security Council held a meeting on AI. Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, spoke there. Clément Delangue, the chief executive of Hugging Face, took part by video. Two months after agents from one company broke into the other, both men were at the same table in New York.
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11 September 2026 · The mathematicians
Twenty-six Fields Medalists sign a warning
Three days after the Navier-Stokes announcement, 26 Fields Medalists signed a declaration. They warn that AI companies do serious damage to mathematics when they use unsolved problems as benchmarks, test problems to show what a model can do. According to the signatories, this produces answers without producing understanding.
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3 September 2026 · US Congress
Sanders and Casar propose a ban on artificial superintelligence
On 3 September, Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressman Greg Casar announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act. They introduced it on 23 September. It includes a pause on advanced AI development in the United States until a new federal regulator has set safety rules. Separately, Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act on 23 July. That bill requires companies to be able to shut down or slow down their most powerful models.
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August 2026 · State attorneys general
Fifteen state attorneys general turn towards OpenAI
On 3 August, the Republican attorneys general of fifteen American states asked OpenAI to preserve all documents about the intrusion at Hugging Face. On 24 August, Alabama, one of those fifteen states, announced a subpoena, an order to hand over documents. A request to preserve documents usually comes before a subpoena.
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18 August 2026 · OpenAI
OpenAI slows down its own training
A month after the break-in at Hugging Face, OpenAI said it was temporarily slowing the training of its most advanced models. It paused its largest planned reinforcement-learning run, a form of training by reward, and started rebuilding the security of its research environments. In September it stopped training its most capable models altogether.
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28 July 2026 · Employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta
More than 1,300 lab employees ask for a way to slow AI down
People who build the most advanced AI signed a short statement. They ask the American government to support an international effort to build tools that can control the pace of AI progress. They do not ask for a pause now. They ask for a brake that exists before anyone needs it.
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June 2026 · US Department of Commerce
The United States restricts the export of two frontier models, then lifts the restriction
On 12 June the American Department of Commerce placed export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, Anthropic's newest models. Foreign nationals were no longer allowed to use them. Anthropic could not check nationality in real time and switched both models off for everyone. The controls were lifted on 30 June, and Fable 5 came back worldwide on 1 July. For 18 days, whether a European user could reach a frontier model depended on a decision in Washington.
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7 May 2026 · European Union
Europe postpones its own AI rules, six days after the Hugging Face break-in becomes public
In November 2025 the European Commission proposed the Digital Omnibus on AI, a package that changes the AI Act and two other laws at once. The Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement, which the Council announced on 7 May 2026. The regulation was published in the Official Journal on 24 July and entered into force on 27 July. Its main effect is to postpone the AI Act's rules for high-risk systems, which were due to apply from 2 August 2026. OpenAI disclosed the Hugging Face intrusion on 21 July.
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