MCP: what it standardises between AI, data and tools
MCP provides a common protocol for discovering data and executing tools from AI applications. This guide separates connection, capability, permission, decision and security.
MCP provides a common protocol for discovering data and executing tools from AI applications. This guide separates connection, capability, permission, decision and security.
Johannes Heidecke is leaving OpenAI after its safety teams were placed under joint research and safety leadership. The organization chart matters, but it is not enough to measure control over risk.
OpenAI’s browser can read pages, remember context, and act on websites, but those capabilities do not carry the same risk. A matrix of data, permissions, and confirmations makes delegation possible without handing over the entire session.
The law separates frontier developers, large developers, public frameworks, model reports, incidents, and whistleblowers. Identifying subject, threshold, deadline, exception, and penalty prevents its scope from expanding or shrinking.
As of August 2, providers of general-purpose models must meet new transparency and copyright obligations to market them in the EU. Models posing systemic risks face additional safety requirements.
Anthropic introduces Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 and provisionally activates ASL-3 measures for Opus. The company had not confirmed that the model crossed the threshold requiring them.
Google published revised ai principles without its former list of applications it would not pursue. The source bounds the event: the wording change broadens stated discretion but does not itself prove a particular contract, weapon or surveillance practice. The story teaches how to compare policy versions and then look for controls, contracts and observable conduct.
Donald trump revoked, among other actions, joe biden's executive order 14110 on artificial intelligence. The source bounds the event: revoking an order removes that presidential directive but does not erase statutes, contracts, agency rules or private controls. The story teaches how to track which duty disappears, which survives and which act replaces it.
Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047, which would have imposed safety requirements on the largest AI developers. He said its model-size threshold did not adequately measure real-world risk.
California’s Assembly has passed SB 1047, a bill that would require safety measures for the most powerful AI models. The Senate must ratify the changes before the bill reaches Governor Gavin Newsom.
John Schulman, an OpenAI co-founder and key figure in the development of ChatGPT, is leaving the company to work at Anthropic. His departure comes during a period of upheaval in OpenAI’s leadership and safety teams.
OpenAI has dissolved the team created to research how to control a future superintelligence. The decision comes as its two leaders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, leave the company, with Leike questioning OpenAI's safety priorities.
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