This Week in AI Security: AI's Own Employees Ask Washington for a Pause Button
Over 1,100 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta signed a letter asking Washington to build the tools for a coordinated AI slowdown, hours before Anthropic’s held-back model broke a NIST post-quantum candidate on its own. Around that, the EU’s AI Act rules for August 2 finally became clear, a Chinese open-weight model rattled markets, and a federal review framework hit its first deadline.