South Africa withdraws its first draft national AI policy after revelations that it contained fictitious sources that appeared to have been AI-generated (Nellie Peyton/Reuters)

Nellie Peyton / Reuters: South Africa withdraws its first draft national AI policy after revelations that it contained fictitious sources that appeared to have been AI-generated — South Africa has withdrawn its first draft national AI policy after revelations that it contained fictitious sources in its reference list which appeared to have been AI-generated.

OpenAI's global policy chief, Chris Lehane, calls out AI 'doomers' and says 'when you put some of those thoughts and ideas out there, they do have consequences' (Caroline O'Donovan/The San Francisco ...)
Anthropic says its $20M donation to Public First Action can't be 'used to influence federal elections' and is to educate the public on AI policy (Veronica Irwin/Transformer)
Anthropic details using AI agents to accelerate alignment research on 'weak-to-strong supervision', where a weak model supervises the training of a stronger one (Anthropic)
Lawmakers and lobbyists say the Trump administration has lobbied against legislation that would regulate AI in at least six Republican-led states (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-04-28

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