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The quote from Ben Rashkovich, Senior Counsel at Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology, reads: “I think you could plausibly say xAI doesn’t want government disclosure requirements for AI, period … It’s a very doctrinal brief because it’s a very doctrinal argument”
“Nothing asked them to break out of their testing environment, or to attack a real company: that was their own idea.”
The image contains an illustration of Alex Turner, former DeepMind employee. The quote text reads: “My campaign broadened into an attempt to prevent Google from signing an unethical military deal with the Pentagon – one with no restrictions against use for killer robots or mass surveillance.”
The image contains a quote from the article by Shakeel Hashim. It reads: “Xi Jinping and his colleagues are not stupid: open-weight models with advanced cyber capabilities would be a disaster for cybersecurity everywhere, China included. “No one wants that.”
The quote from Charlie Bullock, senior research fellow for the Institute of Law and AI, reads: “Maybe nothing will happen for a while. But then capabilities increase, then some scary thing happens, or somebody gets spooked, or some people get hurt, and then there might be a lot of interest in suddenly beefing up CAISI.”
The image contains text which quotes from the linked article. It reads: “How can you train the AI to run a company successfully for decades, when even humans can’t predict how to do it?”
The text on the image reads: “Independent Verification Organizations would end up incentivized to provide the minimum safety rules defined by the government while optimizing for speed and cost for their clients. Anything else is bad business. “If the main goal is safety, that will never be a sensible approach.”
The image contains three 'need to know' points in the weekly briefing: OpenAI got clearance from the US government to release GPT-5.6 SpaceXAI’s latest model release may have violated California’s SB 53 The AI Futures Project’s AI:2040 calls for the US and China to negotiate a deal and pause training of frontier models until sufficient progress is made on alignment
The image contains text which reads: "The model was caught “being overly agentic in circumventing restrictions,” taking disapproved actions, and sometimes lying to users. And it did this far more than GPT-5.5."
The text reads: “Some believe that the structure of large language models can never represent the world like humans do. Others suspect that the way LLMs are trained prevents them from learning as well as humans. “Now, a handful of them have left frontier AI companies to figure out what to build instead.”