Federal policy, executive politics, congressional action, and the dealings between frontier laboratories and the United States government.
The Commerce Department cleared the Sol, Terra and Luna models for general availability on Thursday, ending a preclearance process the company itself has called neither ideal nor sustainable.
Lead reporter · July 9, 2026Sam Altman has taken a sovereign-wealth-fund proposal, modelled on Alaska's, to President Trump and two cabinet secretaries. Rival laboratories have not signed on, and any deal would likely require an act of Congress.
Sam Altman has taken the concept directly to President Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and has floated extending the arrangement to Anthropic, Google, and Meta.
The covert project, code-named 'Cannes' and run through the contractor Covalen, sent more than 45,000 prompts about suicide, sex and drugs to ChatGPT, Gemini and Character.AI — none of which knew the testing was happening.
The first state law to regulate algorithmic discrimination was rewritten this spring after a lawsuit by Elon Musk's xAI and an intervention by the Justice Department. The bill that arrives today is not the one passed in 2024.
The S.B.A. Artificial Intelligence Utilization Act, cleared June 23, would require annual reports to Congress on the agency's machine-learning tools, after years of missed federal deadlines.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick cleared the model for a small set of approved companies and federal agencies after a two-week shutdown, and asked OpenAI to gate its new GPT-5.6 family on the same day.
The company moved its cyber-focused model from preview to limited release on June 22, paired with an updated Codex Security plugin, a 30-vendor partner program, and an open-source remediation initiative co-founded with Trail of Bits.
The bipartisan 'Great American Artificial Intelligence Act,' released two days after President Trump's June 2 executive order and weeks after Colorado repealed its landmark statute, would convert what state legislators have called a floor of accountability into a federal ceiling.
With negotiations between company engineers and Commerce Department officials continuing daily, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — the first commercial A.I. models ever subjected to U.S. export controls — remain dark for customers worldwide.
The Commerce Department's export-control directive — invoked retroactively against a deployed model — bars foreign nationals from accessing Anthropic's two newest systems, forcing the company to take both offline three days after launch.
The Commerce Department invoked export-control authorities on Friday evening to force the suspension of Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide, in what appears to be the first government-compelled takedown of a deployed frontier model.
Six months after the president warned legislatures off the field, California, Florida and Utah have become a patchwork test of whether Washington can still claim primacy over artificial intelligence.
The Great American Artificial Intelligence Act, unveiled by Representatives Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan, pairs preemption with new transparency mandates on frontier model developers — and arrives as 45 states have introduced their own bills.
National Security Presidential Memorandum 11, signed June 5, directs the Pentagon and intelligence community to rapidly onboard frontier models from multiple vendors and authorizes the termination of contracts with A.I. firms that limit military use of their technology.
The 269-page 'Great American Artificial Intelligence Act of 2026,' released by Representatives Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan, would codify a federal standards center and preempt state regulation of model development — drawing immediate condemnation from A.I. safety groups.
The order, signed June 2 after a postponed May ceremony, asks developers to voluntarily submit advanced models for up to 30 days of cybersecurity vetting before public release.
The June 2 directive asks developers to voluntarily submit their most powerful systems for a 30-day national security evaluation before release, a shift from the administration's earlier hands-off posture.
The 269-page Great American Artificial Intelligence Act of 2026, unveiled Thursday by Reps. Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan, drew immediate condemnation from safety and accountability groups who called the preemption provision a 'generational mistake.'
The executive order, signed privately on Tuesday after an earlier draft was pulled under industry pressure, gives the government a 30-day prerelease window — a third of what the scrapped version proposed.
At an invite-only briefing in New York on May 5, the company disclosed production deployments at five of the largest financial institutions and debuted Claude Opus 4.7, a model tuned for financial work.