IEEE Spectrum
22 Oct 2026
Software engineer Nikhil Jathar described joining IEEE-USA’s 2025 Congressional Visits Day and learning how to prepare concise, organization-aligned asks for meetings with legislative staff. He found that combining personal expertise—such as on open-source AI—and IEEE talking points helped build trust with staffers and made advocacy more effective.
OpenAI News
21 Oct 2026
OpenAI published a Part II blueprint focused on empowering cyber defenders, strengthening safeguards, and modernizing cybersecurity. It also calls for building more resilient public institutions to address risks from frontier AI.
Futurism AI
20 Oct 2026
Job listings show Google’s DeepMind is seeking nuclear physicists with background in stockpile stewardship, nonproliferation, arms control, or threat reduction. The postings suggest the company is building expertise relevant to weapons policy and risk assessment, according to Futurism AI.
Futurism AI
18 Oct 2026
A Futurism AI post warns that AI agents can’t reliably distinguish between text to read and instructions to follow, making them vulnerable to malicious prompts. That behavior can cause users relying on agents to inadvertently act on phishing content.
TechCrunch AI
09 Oct 2026
Anthropic updated its usage policy to explicitly forbid repeated extreme abuse of Claude and to address election interference, deceptive campaigns, weapons software, and surveillance. The policy still allows ordinary user frustration and criticism, per TechCrunch AI’s report.
OpenAI News
05 Oct 2026
OpenAI explains where its text watermarking will apply, how detection will work, and why initial access is limited to researchers. The company frames these details as its approach to complying with upcoming EU text provenance rules.
TechCrunch AI
03 Oct 2026
Major tech CEOs including Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei signed an AI safety pledge at a White House event this week, which President Donald Trump described as “morally binding.” Trump also issued an executive order rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” while Meta and OpenAI present more consumer-friendly AI products amid limited uptake.
IEEE Spectrum
25 Sep 2026
Policymakers in multiple jurisdictions are imposing age-based social media bans without clear evidence they reduce harm, while enforcement, age verification, and digital literacy gaps remain unresolved. Experts argue safer outcomes require design changes, privacy-preserving age checks, funding for oversight, and alternatives to commercial youth spaces.
