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Google, OpenAI and Anthropic AI Safety Group Takes Shape

By Leo Schwartz and Stephanie Palazzolo · Sep 24, 2026 6:00am PDT
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing forward with a plan to create a new AI safety-focused standards body on their own, without government oversight, in hopes of launching it by the end of the year or early in 2027, according to people familiar with the matter. The three companies tentatively plan to name the self-regulatory organization the... Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing forward with a plan to create a new AI safety-focused...
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Trump Administration Executive Order for New AI Regulator Stalls

By Leo Schwartz · Aug 27, 2026 9:11am PDT
The Trump administration has internally circulated a draft executive order in recent weeks, calling for the creation of a self-regulatory organization for AI companies that produce state-of-the-art models, according to two people who have viewed a draft. Drafting of the order represents a significant step toward creation of such a regulator,... The Trump administration has internally circulated a draft executive order in recent weeks,...
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An Open-Source Nonprofit’s Growth and Executive Pay Raise Eyebrows

By Paris Martineau · Jun 9, 2024 7:00am PDT · 6 comments
Open-source software has become a big business, even for some of the nonprofit organizations dedicated to coordinating the far-flung communities of programmers that contribute to open-source projects, usually without pay. That’s especially true of the Linux Foundation. That organization, which oversees the development of the Linux... Open-source software has become a big business, even for some of the nonprofit organizations...
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Altman Describes Three Endgames for AI, Including One Where a Single Firm ‘Melts Everyone Else’s GPUs’

By Stephanie Palazzolo and Amir Efrati · Oct 19, 2026 4:47pm PDT · 2 comments
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week told employees about three proposals the industry has discussed for how to safely develop AI, a stark framing that comes just as the Trump administration sets up its first system for policing “superintelligence” developers like OpenAI. One path involved developing an international organization, similar to the... OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week told employees about three proposals the industry has discussed...
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Hassabis’ AI Standards Idea Gets Support—What’s Next?

By Martin Peers · Jul 14, 2026 5:01pm PDT
Way to go, Demis Hassabis! The Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO won plaudits from much of the AI industry—including rivals OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Block co-founder Jack Dorsey and investors Ashton Kutcher and Chamath Palihapitiya—for proposing the creation of a new AI standards group funded by industry but... Way to go, Demis Hassabis! The Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO won plaudits from much of the...
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Agree to Develop Agent Standards Together

By Aaron Holmes · Dec 9, 2025 6:30am PST · 2 comments
For AI agents to work properly in automating white-collar tasks, the companies developing the agents and the companies running the enterprise apps those agents use will need to agree on technical standards for how these technologies connect to each other.Some leading companies are preparing to do just that. As soon as this week, Anthropic,... For AI agents to work properly in automating white-collar tasks, the companies developing the...