At its 23 September meeting the Council heard AI executives and scientists call for common safety standards. Several member states backed a shared framework; the United States and Russia pushed back.
Roughly 950 AI agents combed genomic data for 21 hours and flagged a previously unrecognised system in bacteriophages. The findings are in a preprint that has not yet been peer reviewed.
According to The Information, the three labs want to launch an industry self-regulation organisation by the end of 2026 or early 2027, without government oversight. Critics fear it could sideline open-source and smaller developers.