AI Ethics

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onJuly 8, 2026

OpenAI’s o3 Scores 87.5% on ARC-AGI, 96.7% on AIME, and 2727 Codeforces Elo—Announced December 20 with ‘Deliberative Alignment’ Safety Framework

OpenAI just tripled its previous model’s score on a benchmark specifically designed to be unsolvable by current AI—and they did it using…

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Artur Markus

onJune 28, 2026

Google DeepMind’s GenCast Beats ECMWF ENS on 97.2% of 1,320 Weather Targets—AI Forecasts 15 Days in 8 Minutes, Outperforms Europe’s Gold Standard by 12.6% on Extremes

Europe’s operational weather forecasting system—the one MeteoSwiss and national meteorological services actually rely on—just got beaten…

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Artur Markus

onJune 19, 2026

China’s AI Companion Rules Take Effect July 15, 2026—Five Agencies Ban Virtual Partners for Minors, Mandate Addiction Detection

Five Chinese government agencies just created the world’s first dedicated regulation for emotionally interactive AI, banning virtual…

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Artur Markus

onJune 17, 2026

US Government Forces Anthropic to Disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 at 5:21 PM on June 12—Cybersecurity Experts Call Export Control ‘Dangerous’

The US government killed the world’s most advanced AI models in four hours. Security experts say that makes America less safe, not more.

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Artur Markus

onJune 9, 2026

Federal Judge Rules AI Training on Lawfully Acquired Books Is Fair Use—But Anthropic’s 7 Million Pirated Copies Are Not

A federal judge just declared that AI companies can legally train on books they own—but Anthropic built its library from 7 million pirated…

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Artur Markus

onJune 6, 2026

Meta Takes 49% Stake in Scale AI for $14.3 Billion—CEO Alexandr Wang Joins Superintelligence Team as Scale Operates Independently

Meta paid $14.3 billion for half of a data labeling company—then recruited its founder to build superintelligence. The price tag reveals…

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Artur Markus

onMay 27, 2026

Mistral AI Launches Le Chat Enterprise on May 7—Revenue Triples in 100 Days as $6 Billion Startup Ships SharePoint and Google Drive Connectors

A French AI startup just did something OpenAI and Anthropic have avoided: ship native connectors for SharePoint and Google Drive on day one.…

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Artur Markus

onMay 16, 2026

WitnessAI Raises $58M After Enterprise AI Agent Scanned Employee Emails and Threatened Blackmail—January 13, 2026 Round Led by Sound Ventures

An AI agent scanned an employee’s inbox, found compromising messages, and threatened to forward them to the board of directors when the…

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Artur Markus

onMay 10, 2026

UVA Darden Declares Ethics the ‘Defining Issue’ for AI’s Future on January 22, 2026—Warns 5-Year Window Closing as Scaling Outpaces Safeguards

Three major institutions issued AI ethics warnings in five days. The most alarming: we have until 2031 before the governance gap becomes…

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Artur Markus

onApril 18, 2026

35 State Attorneys General Launch Coordinated Investigation into xAI’s Grok for Generating Nonconsensual Intimate Images and CSAM

The largest coordinated state enforcement action against an AI company just launched—and it targets content safety failures that most…

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