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OpenAI Global Affairs: OpenAI endorses the Kids Online Safety Act and Illinois SB 315, an AI safety bill to create requirements around transparency, incident reporting, and more — Welcome (back) to Th

Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety is NVIDIA's multimodal safety solution designed for enterprise AI applications, offering customizable safeguards for both text and image inputs across different global cont

Mistral AI Blog: Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 — Every product that ships a m

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety — Jacob Tsim

The White House met with representatives from leading artificial intelligence companies today to discuss a safety framework for the government to review frontier models prior to launch, although there

This newsletter covers three main topics: advances in automating alignment research to improve AI safety processes, a safety evaluation study of a Chinese AI model, and technical details about HiFloat

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Nvidia forms the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition including CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Dell to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity — Nvidia (NVDA.

OpenAI is launching an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that allows adult users to assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns. Friends, family members, or caregivers designat

OpenAI outlines its commitment to implementing safety measures and responsible practices in the development and deployment of AI systems to protect users and communities. The statement likely covers O

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Tesla expands its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston after launching in Austin last year and starting to offer rides without safety drivers in January 2026 — Tesla is expa

Bloomberg: US child safety group NCMEC received 1.5M reports of suspected CSAM with ties to AI in 2025, a significant surge compared to 67,000 in 2024 and 4,700 in 2023 — William Michael Haslach was a

OpenAI's Child Safety Blueprint, released in April 2026, is a policy framework aimed at combating the rise of AI-enabled child sexual exploitation by combining legal, operational, and technical app...

Safety policies define what constitutes safe and unsafe AI outputs, guiding data annotation and model development. However, annotation disagreement is pervasive and can stem from multiple sources such

Nivida Corp. today announced Halos for Robotics, the industry’s first full framework for robotic safety systems that encompasses building, testing and managing complete artificial intelligence robotic

Maria Cheng / Reuters: Canada introduces the Safe Social Media Act, a bill that would ban social media for children under 16 and establish safety standards for AI chatbots — The Canadian government in

Building Pakistan Notice Helper is a small AI tool designed to address a localized safety issue in Pakistan by helping users understand and process building-related notices. Developed as a hackathon p

Eli Tan / New York Times: Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including on nutrition, weight lifting, and anxiety — The changes,

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via SPAC, the physical layer as its proprietary advantage, safety, and more — The humanoid ro

Grace Kay / The Information: Tesla rolls out its Robotaxi service without a safety monitor in Miami, its fifth city, as it aims to expand to a dozen US states by the end of 2026 — Tesla said it rolled

Ian King / Bloomberg: Nvidia unveils Halos, a safety-focused OS developed from autonomous vehicle tech and designed to run on IGX Thor hardware for humanoid robots, and opens a lab — Nvidia Corp. is w

Dario Amodei: An essay on policy responses to AI's exponential progress across regulation and public safety, macroeconomics and taxes, science, civil liberties, geopolitics — In one of the side plots

Joe Brennan / The Irish Times: CameraMatics, which uses AI to help fleet operators improve safety, reduce operational risk, and lower carbon emissions, raised €49M — Tech focuses on accident preventio

Safety officials gained detailed data on the impact of large rocket explosions when Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket experienced an anomaly during a hot-fire test at Cape Canaveral on May 28, causing a

David Jeans / Reuters: Sources and docs detail defense tech startup Shield AI's struggles to overcome years of technical hitches and safety concerns with its V-BAT autonomous drone — A year ago, Ryan

OpenAI outlines initiatives and commitments to enhance youth safety while creating educational and economic opportunities for young people globally. The effort emphasizes OpenAI's role in responsible

Reuters: Former Tesla data labelers say FSD relies on laborious mapping for hazards; crash data analysis shows Tesla exaggerates FSD's safety via flawed methodology — Tesla says its Full Self-Driving

Jared Perlo / NBC News: Illinois Legislature passes SB 315, a bill requiring annual independent third-party safety audits of leading AI companies; the bill heads to the governor's desk — The measure,

New York Times: Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of Google Search, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism toward AI, AI agents, AI safety, TPUs, and more — After a busy Google I/O, the c

Brendan Bordelon / Politico: OpenAI's Chris Lehane says he is pursuing “reverse federalism”, lobbying blue states to pass AI safety laws and create a de facto US standard, as DC dithers — OpenAI's eff

Transformer: OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 bill and endorsement of a stronger SB 315 suggest it is open to meaningful AI safety legislation — Transformer Weekly: US-Chin

Sam Tobin / Reuters: Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October — Facebook and Instagr

Jay Peters / The Verge: Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult — OpenAI's former C

Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: New Mexico child safety trial: New Mexico asks a judge to declare Meta a public nuisance and to order it to pay $3.7B and overhaul its apps to protect children — The U.S.

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of BlackBerry's QNX division, whose operating system controls safety features in 275M cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry's revenue — John Wall has spen

Renju Jose / Reuters: Australia's eSafety Commissioner issues transparency notices to Roblox, Microsoft's Minecraft, and other online gaming platforms to detail child safety measures — Australia's int

Nvidia Corp. today announced the launch of the Open Secure AI Alliance, a new organization founded by technology, cloud computing and cybersecurity leaders to build and share open artificial intellige

Deploy NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety on Vultr Cloud GPU with Day Zero support for multimodal AI moderation, custom policy enforcement, multilingual safety workflows, and scalable enterprise AI go

Autonomous drone startup SkyfireAI Inc. today announced that it has raised 11 million in new funding to accelerate the development of its dual-use, artificial intelligence-native platform for autonomo

Open source software is a critical pillar of the global economy. It underpins cloud computing, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, government and internet services by making technol

Chemical accidents involving releases of dangerous chemicals rose 57 percent between 2021 and 2025, from 83 to 131 incidents , with injuries or deaths rising from 60 to 89 over the same period . The E

Dean W. Ball / @deanwball: Anthropic secretly limiting Claude's usefulness for LLM development strengthens the argument that Anthropic is using AI safety to justify monopolistic behavior — My last obs

Apple Inc.’s WWDC 2026 keynote today focused on making its software platform feel more polished, more responsive and more tightly managed across the company’s device ecosystem with refinements to the

Since its earliest days back in office, the Trump administration has been going after researchers who study and try to counter hate speech, harassment, propaganda, and disinformation online. Now, some

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Tech researchers are suing the Trump administration over the f

Google LLC, Microsoft Corp. and xAI have agreed to share unreleased versions of their artificial intelligence models with the U.S. Department of Commerce to ensure the technologies do not pose a threa

When the phrase 'OpenAI hacked Hugging Face' has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI's agent broke out of a san