The AI Agent Accountability Act would establish civil and criminal liability under specified circumstances involving AI-enabled hacking. Also, Trump is expected to name intelligence chief Jay Clayton as his AI adviser, but the White House has not confirmed the selection.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/02/2026
Bill Gates and Timnit Gebru both called for AI oversight, but Gates emphasized preventing catastrophic misuse while Gebru urged accountability for existing harms and questioned whose interests catastrophe warnings served.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/02/2026
Sonnet 5.5’s safeguards can reroute requests to Sonnet 5 or block them, so businesses should evaluate how those limits affect their workflows.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/30/2026
OpenAI announces "Dots," GPT-6 Astra-powered agents that run on their own cloud computers, using connected applications to carry on with assignments between conversations and incorporating users’ feedback as they go.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/30/2026
Nearly all IT and security leaders surveyed by identity security company Delinea said their organizations have policies governing AI access to company data, but only about half said that access is checked against the rules in real time.
Network-provider trust concerns are affecting enterprise AI plans, with AI and data-driven projects the most affected initiatives among respondents reporting disruption.
Four AI leaders briefed the Security Council at UN headquarters in New York during a meeting convened by France. Bengio, Altman, and Amodei called for varying forms of testing and oversight, while Delangue stressed the value of open tools for defenders.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/28/2026
“Superintelligence” has an established meaning in AI discussions that is far narrower than Trump’s proposed use of “super intelligence."
- By John K. Waters
- 09/28/2026
CBTS has introduced an agentic AI deployment blueprint for mid-market companies, drawing on its rollout of Claude Enterprise to 2,300 employees.
TypeSafe AI’s Jev returns predefined decisions and probabilities rather than generating natural-language responses.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/23/2026
California is moving toward a new model of artificial intelligence regulation that would give independent organizations a formal role in evaluating the safety claims made by leading AI companies.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/21/2026
Enterprise firewalls have spent decades deciding which network traffic to allow through. The rise of AI agents is giving them another job: figuring out what those agents are doing and which systems they should be allowed to reach.
Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending will reach $2.67 trillion in 2026, up 49.5% from 2025, with AI infrastructure accounting for nearly $1.5 trillion, or about 56% of the total. For every dollar Gartner expects to be spent on generative AI models, more than $52 will be spent on infrastructure.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/17/2026