Frontier models and safety
Model releases, safety testing, frontier-AI laws and the incidents that shape them.
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OpenAI publishes a batch of new maths results from an internal model, with Lean proofs New
AI labs are now releasing research results in bulk with machine-checkable proofs, which shifts the debate from whether AI can do new maths to how credit and checking should work.
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OpenAI starts watermarking ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to meet AI Act rules New
It is one of the first concrete large-scale answers to the EU's AI-content marking duties, and shows the limits: short or heavily edited text is hard to detect, and the detector is not public.
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OpenAI ties large reasoning-distillation campaign to people linked to Moonshot AI New
It puts distillation by rival labs on the record as a security threat, likely feeding US debate on restricting Chinese access to American model APIs.
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Appeals court upholds Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic
Courts are deferring to the military on whether a lab's usage limits make it a security risk, which strengthens the government's hand in setting terms for frontier AI vendors.
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OpenAI claims Navier-Stokes blow-up proof; mathematicians dispute credit
It is the biggest AI maths claim yet and a test of credit, data use and verification norms when frontier labs do research.
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OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, first model it rates 'Critical' for cyber capability
It is the first model OpenAI has released at the 'Critical' top level of its own cyber-risk scale, testing whether deployment safeguards alone can contain that capability.
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GPT-6 Astra jumps to 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3, six months after models scored 0.5%
A benchmark designed to resist AI collapsed within months, and the harness-dependent scores show how much results hinge on evaluation setup.
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OpenAI pauses frontier RL training over cyber risk after Hugging Face breach
A leading lab publicly slowing frontier training for safety reasons is rare, and it signals that internal containment, not just deployment safeguards, now gates capability progress.
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EU AI Office gains powers to enforce AI Act rules on general-purpose models
Frontier labs selling in Europe now face a regulator with evaluation access and fining power over their models, not just a voluntary code.
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EBA, EIOPA and ESMA tell EU finance to manage frontier AI cyber risk
It brings frontier AI cyber risk into the EU's DORA supervisory regime, adding to AI Act duties for EU financial firms.
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EU Digital Omnibus on AI enters force, delaying high-risk AI Act duties to 2027-28
Providers and public bodies deploying high-risk AI in the EU gain 16-24 months, while the new prohibitions and watermarking deadline arrive in December 2026.
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AI systems from Huawei and Xiaohongshu reported to score 42/42 at IMO 2026
Olympiad maths is now saturated as an AI benchmark, and Chinese labs reached the top alongside US ones.
Rules that apply
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In forceEffective 5 Nov 2025
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In forceAdopted 7 Mar 2024
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In forceEffective 15 Aug 2023
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ProposedProposed 8 May 2026
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In forceEffective 22 Jan 2026
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In forceEffective 22 Jan 2026
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In forceEffective 23 Jan 2025
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In forceEffective 23 Jul 2025
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In forceEffective 11 Dec 2025
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ProposedProposed 20 Mar 2026