Top Stories – September 14, 2026
UK Parliamentary Committee Calls for Statutory AISI and New AI Bill
Source: UK Joint Committee on Human Rights | Date: September 14, 2026
The Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report today recommending Parliament put the AI Safety Institute on a statutory footing with mandatory powers to review new AI models before release, and calling for a new AI Bill to fill the human rights gaps left by the UK’s voluntary, sector-by-sector approach.
EU AI Act GPAI Systemic Risk Evaluations Due September 15
Source: EU AI Office | Date: September 14, 2026
Tomorrow marks the first binding compliance deadline under the EU AI Act’s GPAI obligations: providers of models trained above 10^25 FLOPs must deliver systemic risk evaluations covering red-teaming results, energy consumption disclosures, and copyright training-data summaries to the European AI Office.
Silicon Valley Leaders Reverse Course, Back Mandatory AI Safeguards
Source: Artificially Intimidating | Date: September 14, 2026
Major tech industry leaders are now lobbying Washington to impose mandatory AI safety requirements – a notable reversal from the industry’s earlier opposition to regulation – while the Trump administration continues to argue that rules would cede the AI race to China.