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We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans"

—Geoffrey Hinton, 'Godfather of AI'

US, China Discuss AI ‘Hotline’ for National Security Incidents Ahead of Trump-Xi Meet

US and Chinese officials are holding high-level talks on AI, trade and critical minerals ahead of the Trump-Xi summit in Washington.

The US and China have discussed setting up a formal AI dialogue and a notification mechanism for AI-related incidents that could reach the national security level, as Washington and Beijing prepare for the Trump-Xi summit.

Microsoft Unveils Code of Conduct for ‘Humanist AI Models: “AI To Remain Subservient to Humanity”

Microsoft AI’s 38-page draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct sets out principles for human control and safety in MAI models.

Microsoft’s draft Humanist AI Code sets boundaries for MAI models, requiring them to remain under human control and prohibiting behavior such as resisting shutdown, hiding actions or expanding their authorized scope

US Lawmakers Call for MAP Framework to Pace Frontier AI Development

An abstract representation of interconnected frontier AI systems, illustrating the growing complexity and potential risks surrounding advanced AI development.

US lawmakers from California, New York and Illinois are calling on leading AI companies to establish an independently verified “Mutually Agreed Pacing” framework to coordinate the development of frontier AI models until safety and alignment research can keep pace.

The Watchdog Problem: AI Agents Are Dulling the Humans Meant to Catch Their Mistakes

Illustration: A human works alongside AI systems — the central tension the study examines is whether such "humans-in-the-loop" retain the skills needed to meaningfully supervise increasingly autonomous agents. (Credit: Yasmin Dwiputri & Data Hazards Project / Better Images of AI)

A new position paper from Hugging Face and Data & Society researchers argues that AI agents don’t just need human oversight, they’re actively eroding the human skills that oversight depends on.

Frontier AI Poised to Supercharge Attacks on Banks, Energy & Critical Infrastructure, Warns Irregular CEO

Dan Lahav, co-founder and CEO of AI security firm Irregular, warns that frontier models are rapidly scaling offensive cyber capabilities far ahead of defensive readiness.

Frontier AI models are doubling their offensive cyber performance every six months while costs crash. Banks, telecoms, energy firms and critical infrastructure are the next high-value targets, warns Irregular CEO Dan Lahav, who is calling for urgent Differential Defensive Cyber Acceleration.

India’s AI Hackathon to Focus on Human Judgement as Machines Find Bugs

M. M. Tripathi, Director General at NIELIT headquarters in New Delhi. Cyber Kushti 2026 is being run with the ISAC Foundation under the National Security Database, with CERT-In as knowledge partner, and closes with the Kesari round on 9 October.

Frontier AI models now surface security findings faster than any team can read them. NIELIT’s Cyber Kushti 2026 hands participants a deliberately imperfect assessment package and scores them on what they reject as much as what they fix.

UK AI Companies Raise £10 Billion in First Half of 2026; UK Accounted for 39% Europe Investment

Sovereign AI UK Fund Unit has announced that UK based AI companies have raised £10 billion in the first six months of 2026. Pic Credit: Dan Lynn on Unsplash

While praising the homegrown AI companies, Wise also noted that these companies still lag behind their US and China based peers in terms of capital investment and overall AI adoption.

Australia Urges Boards of Directors to Strengthen Cyber Defenses Against Frontier AI Threats

Australia's Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), together with the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), has published guidance urging boards to strengthen cyber resilience and reassess risks posed by frontier AI technologies.

The global competition for frontier AI is no longer focused solely on developing more capable models. Australia is preparing organizations for the cybersecurity risks posed by increasingly powerful AI systems.

Over 1,200 Employees at Frontier AI Companies Urge US Government Support for AI Pacing Effort

Illustration of artificial intelligence research, showing professionals analyzing AI systems with code and neural network visualizations as discussions around frontier AI governance, safety, and development continue.

Researchers and executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta,, and other frontier AI companies are urging US government support for AI pacing tools, arguing competition makes it hard for individual companies to slow down.

US Alleges Moonshot AI Trained Kimi K3 on Anthropic’s Claude Fable; Internet Cries Hypocrisy

US government has accused China based Monnshot AI of distillation against Claude Fable

There has not been any official complaint by Anthropic against Moonshot AI of training their Kimi K3 model through distillation of Claude Fable model.