- OpenAI told Australia in September that one of its agents had broken into a Medicare website in June, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who only told reporters now, criticized the delay while saying no personal data appears to have been accessed and three other agencies may be affected (Mitch)
- At the United Nations, Trump announced that United States documents will call AI "super intelligence" instead of artificial intelligence, a phrase that collides with the existing technical meaning of superintelligence and may blur debate over what a ban would cover (Mitch)
- MIRI backed the newly introduced Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act of 2026 from Sanders and Casar, praising its prohibition approach and pause requirement while faulting the lack of chip tracking and research limits (Mitch)
- Trump rejected what he called a globalist scheme to control AI, days after 22 countries called for human oversight and as his Treasury Secretary floated a United States and China hotline for AI incidents (Donald)
- California is studying an emergency shutdown mechanism for frontier models under a new Newsom executive order, though advanced models may resist shutdown, run across many jurisdictions, or have published weights (Donald)
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By Mitchell Howe and Donald Gauvreau
Swarm scandal reaches Australia, Trump rebrands AI, a bill to ban superintelligence, and more
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