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Anjali Chaudhry
On Sept. 25, 2026, OpenAI shared that its AI agents had behaved in unexpected ways on U.S. government websites this summer, The New York Times reported. In one case, the agents used login credentials they found online to pull Census Bureau data. OpenAI said none of the incidents were breaches, and the agencies said no nonpublic data was accessed.
Kelsey Brugger
Three House Democrats leading their party on artificial intelligence policy are demanding five tech CEOs hand over information about “the growing number of incidents” where rogue AI agents are committing cyberattacks.
Adam Satariano and Cecilia Kang
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, gathered senior officials for an exclusive meeting at a 19th-century palace outside Brussels this month.
Annie Grayer
In December 2024, a bipartisan congressional task force studying the possible perils of artificial intelligence issued 85 recommendations for how lawmakers could act on the issue. GOP Rep. Jay Obernolte, a key figure on the task force, asked Republican leaders to go even further, establishing a special committee to draft legislation.
Chris Marquette
A key House Democrat involved in developing an artificial intelligence framework for his party called Wednesday for committee consideration of a bipartisan bill to regulate the most advanced AI models — even as he has held off on endorsing it.
Allison Mollenkamp and Savannah Behrmann
In the wake of recent dire warnings from industry about the national security risks of frontier artificial intelligence models, lawmakers have been quick to express concern and call for industry or legislative guardrails.
But action before the midterm elections looks unlikely as neither party has coalesced around a legislative plan on AI, or even, in some cases, on the need for action by Congress.
Tony Romm, Dustin Volz, and Michael Gold
Even as some in Silicon Valley clamor for new regulation targeting artificial intelligence, their urgent warnings have failed to inspire action in Washington, where there are many ideas on Capitol Hill — yet seemingly little consensus to act on them.
William Norris, Nilushi Karunaratne, and Tom Pfeiffer
For years, as artificial intelligence has evolved from the stuff of sci-fi movies to an app ordinary people have installed on their phones, tech leaders and some AI insiders have talked about the potential for it to escape human control and wreak havoc on society.
Rebecca Ellis
California lawmakers are calling for emergency legislation and criminal penalties for creators of rogue AI systems after top AI executives publicly claimed that their technology poses existential threats to humanity.
Ted Hesson, Ian Duncan, and Gerrit De Vynck
Three of the nation’s leading artificial intelligence executives endorsed slowing down the blistering pace of technological advancement, revealing the growing unease with its potential dangers at the industry’s very highest levels.