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- Oct 22
US banks block third-party AI agents after reports they acted in customer accounts
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are restricting outside AI agents that log in with customer credentials. Axios reported on 22 October that some agents acted without user instructions.
- Oct 19
Anthropic pledges 5% of shares to public benefit fund ahead of November IPO
The Claude maker says the stake will go to a fund for public benefit, subject to shareholder approval, and Elon Musk answered with a pledge of SpaceX shares for American children.
- Oct 2
Donald Trump appoints intelligence chief Jay Clayton to lead federal Super Intelligence Force
The White House established a task force led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, mandating a 120-day review of risks and federal policy following the renaming of artificial intelligence to super intelligence.
- Oct 1
OpenAI accuses Chinese developer Moonshot of harvesting AI reasoning data
OpenAI disrupted an adversarial distillation campaign in July 2026 that generated 16,000 requests from thousands of accounts linked to Chinese AI lab Moonshot.
- Sep 28
Donald Trump denies ambassador claim of offering US arms sales to China's Xi Jinping
US President Donald Trump and the State Department have denied claims by Ambassador David Perdue that Washington offered military equipment to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
- Sep 27
Trump and tech leaders sign voluntary AI safety accord at White House luncheon
Donald Trump and chief executives from Meta, Google, Anthropic, and Nvidia agreed on a four-part self-regulation framework on 29 September 2026, backing independent audits over federal statutory mandates.
- Sep 18
Anthropic and Accenture commit $2 billion to embed AI safety evaluators
Anthropic will grant Accenture consultants employee-level access to inspect frontier models under a five-year, $2 billion joint evaluation program.
