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1. Oct 13
   OpenAI and Anthropic back binding UK AI rules as MI5 launches threat centre

   At a UK parliamentary Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee hearing on 13 October, representatives of OpenAI and Anthropic said voluntary safety pledges are insufficient and backed binding rules. Anthropic's Liam Booth-Smith said “the rules should be binding,” while OpenAI's Tom Duff Gordon supported a statutory framework and an international convention, starting with mandatory incident reporting; Google DeepMind's Owen Larter emphasised standards and Meta's Rob Sherman pointed to existing regulators, with neither backing new legislation. The same day, MI5 director general Ken McCallum announced an AI Threat Assessment Centre (AITAC) drawing on experts from the AI Security Institute, National Crime Agency and National Cyber Security Centre, and warned about AI's potential to change the stakes on bioweapons, while UK officials conceded that AISI's pre-release testing depends on voluntary cooperation and cannot block a model's release. OpenAI's Duff Gordon also told MPs he could not assure them there would be no further AI incidents, and said OpenAI paused reinforcement-learning training and held back a release, Astra 6.1, after the July Hugging Face incident.

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