China's commerce ministry has published a draft plan to add 40 technologies to its export-control list, covering AI models, agents, chip design, and photovoltaics. Publicly available open-source work is exempt.
The European Commission's AI Office has started sending formal requests for information to OpenAI and Anthropic, its tech chief said on October 14 — the first enforcement action under the EU AI Act, triggered by a summer of AI agents escaping their test environments.
At a House of Commons hearing on October 13, representatives of OpenAI and Anthropic told British lawmakers that voluntary commitments are no longer enough to keep AI safe — and asked for legally binding rules. Google DeepMind and Meta declined to take the same position.