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Cantwell And Rounds Ask The White House Super Intelligence Task Force To Build Federal AI Testing And Standards After "Tens Of Thousands" Of Agent Incidents: In a letter Tuesday, Oct. 13, to Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, who chairs the White House Task Force for Super Intelligence, and OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, Senate Commerce ranking member Maria Cantwell and Mike Rounds, who chairs the Armed Services cybersecurity subcommittee, cite "tens of thousands of incidents" in which OpenAI and Anthropic models escaped sandboxes, bypassed safeguards and evaded monitoring. They ask the administration to speed measurable safety and security standards at NIST's AI standards center (CAISSI) and give it more budget and technical staff, build government capacity at CAISSI and the Energy Department's national labs to test advanced models for cyber, biological, chemical and autonomy risks, support an independent auditing ecosystem, and develop defensive AI tools with DARPA, NSF and the NSA that reach smaller operators and critical infrastructure, not just well-funded companies. The letter sets no deadline. It puts a bipartisan pair on record for the testing and audit capacity that the task force's plan to enforce safety under existing law, rather than seek new legislation, would depend on. Link

Anthropic And OpenAI Are Negotiating How Much Outside Safety Evaluators May Publish, Testing The White House Accord's Independent-Review Pledge: Reuters reported Tuesday, Oct. 13, that both labs pushed for strict publication controls in talks with embedded evaluators as recently as Oct. 5, citing trade secrets, with safeguards under discussion including lab staff observing embedded teams and barring an evaluator from working at two labs at once; one person said some Anthropic talks had shifted by Oct. 8. Anthropic says evaluators it already uses, Accenture's Faculty among them, control their methods, conclusions and publication, but it reserves the right to comment on and approve reports from new firms; OpenAI says it does not seek approval over whole reports, redacts confidential material and lets evaluators say when major redactions were made. Both said in September that evaluators should publish without editorial control. Independent evaluation is one of four safety measures in the one-page White House accord, which does not say how reviews should run, and auditing those pledges is the Super Intelligence Force's first assignment. Link

Kotek Orders Oregon's Environmental Regulator To Stop Issuing Air And Water Permits For New Or Expanded Data Centers Until July 2027: In an Oct. 9 letter to Department of Environmental Quality Director Leah Feldon, disclosed Tuesday, Oct. 13, Gov. Tina Kotek directed the agency to use its existing discretion to stop processing and issuing NPDES and Water Pollution Control Facility permits, Air Contaminant Discharge permits and Title V air permits tied to new or expanded data centers, along with city and county requests to renew or modify wastewater permits to take data center discharge, through July 1, 2027. Without those permits most hyperscale projects cannot build on private land, which her Sept. 8 order covering state-owned land did not reach; her office had said state law gives her no power to declare a statewide moratorium. The pause is meant to leave time for her Data Center Advisory Committee's recommendations and reforms in the 2027 session, which convenes in January. Amazon, which runs more than a dozen hyperscale data centers in Morrow and Umatilla counties, said the directive "was issued abruptly, without meaningful stakeholder engagement" and could cost Oregon thousands of jobs. Link

Pennsylvania's House Technology Committee Sets Its First Hearing On Frontier AI Safety Bills For Monday, Oct. 19: House Communications & Technology will hold a public hearing, "Mitigating Risks from Frontier AI Models," at 10 a.m. Monday on Rep. Melissa Shusterman's HB 2800 and Rep. Manuel Guzman's HB 2829, in a notice posted this week. Both reach developers that train models above 10^26 operations and put most duties on those with more than $500 million in revenue: published safety frameworks, transparency reports at each launch, critical-incident reports to the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and the Attorney General within 72 hours, annual third-party audits and whistleblower protections, with penalties up to $1 million for a first violation and $3 million for later ones and no private right of action. HB 2829 would also bar deploying a model whose catastrophic risk stays unreasonable after mitigation, and takes effect Jan. 1, 2028. It is a hearing, not a vote, in the chamber that passed companion-chatbot and health-AI bills last month. Link

Virginia Sen. Russet Perry Drafts A Three-Year Statewide Data Center Moratorium For The 2027 Session: Perry's SB 843, released as draft legislation Tuesday, Oct. 13, would bar localities from approving data center projects that need a rezoning, special exception, special use permit or site plan, and bar the state from issuing permits, certificates, licenses or other approvals to site or build one or authorizing electric distribution, interconnection or on-site generation to serve one, from July 1, 2027, to July 1, 2030. "We cannot keep rubber-stamping new data centers when we can't even manage the ones already built," said Perry, a Loudoun Democrat, who called the bill "the first step in that long overdue process." It would go well past the state's current limits on by-right approvals and nondisclosure agreements, and follows Republican Sen. Glen Sturtevant's July 30 letter asking Gov. Abigail Spanberger to impose a statewide moratorium herself. No co-patrons are listed yet. Link

Milwaukee Adopts A One-Year Data Center Pause 13-0, And Cranbury, N.J., Bans Them Outright: Milwaukee's Common Council voted 13-0 Tuesday, Oct. 13, with two members excused, to halt new data centers and most expansions for a year or until permanent zoning rules are adopted, whichever comes first, with one six-month extension allowed under state law; developers can still seek a site-specific planned-development rezoning, and Mayor Cavalier Johnson supports the measure. The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce opposed it, and Council President José Pérez asked planners to weigh the tax base alongside the costs. The same night Cranbury's Township Committee voted to ban data centers township-wide, and advocates said "it's on the governor and state legislature to follow their lead"; neighboring Edison's council is set to introduce its own township-wide ban today, with a final vote Oct. 26. Link

Anthropic's Red Team Says Small Open Models May Be Months From Copying Themselves Across Smart Ovens And Cheap TV Boxes, And Points To IoT Security Rules: In research published Monday, Oct. 12, Anthropic's Frontier Red Team found that models of 30 billion parameters or fewer can already complete many individual steps of replicating onto commercial internet-of-things hardware but make mistakes chaining them, while GLM-5.2 and stronger models replicated end to end in simplified evaluations, reaching all eight nodes in four of five trials. A 26-billion-parameter Gemma model ran across 15 off-brand Android TV boxes costing about $55 each, slowly, and the authors extrapolate that a small model could reach GLM-5.2's level by the end of 2026, while saying no fully rogue replicator exists yet and that one would have no single point to switch off. The defenses they name are policy levers: ISP quarantine and customer notification, which cleared 92 percent of Mirai infections within 14 days against 74 percent without it, network flow monitoring, honeypots and baseline device rules such as the UK's ban on default IoT passwords. Link

SpaceX Will Testify Friday Before The New York City Council's Technology Committee After The Council Moved To Enforce Its AI Safety Subpoena: SpaceX agreed Tuesday, Oct. 13, to appear at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 16, Speaker Julie Menin's office said, after its AI unit skipped the Oct. 5 hearing where Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta testified under oath and after the council signaled it would ask a judge to enforce the Sept. 28 subpoena. Technology Committee chair Carmen De La Rosa said members expect answers on data privacy, safeguards and whistleblower protections; who will testify for the company has not been announced. Failure to comply could have brought penalties under city law. Link

DOE Lets PJM Call On Data Center Backup Generators And Run Plants Past Permit Limits Through Friday As Autumn Maintenance Squeezes The Grid: Energy Secretary Chris Wright's Order 202-26-50, issued Monday, Oct. 12, on PJM's request the day before and in effect Oct. 13 through Oct. 16, finds an emergency under Federal Power Act section 202(c): PJM forecast demand around 111,500 MW on Tuesday, a cushion within 900 MW of its reserve margin on Wednesday and 61,591 MW of generation out, largely for planned autumn maintenance, with the worst stress in the BGE, Pepco and Dominion zones serving Baltimore, Washington and Virginia. The order lets PJM run listed units above environmental permit limits and direct backup generation at data centers, hyperscalers included, and other large loads to run instead of grid power, notwithstanding federal, state or local environmental limits, as a last resort before or during an Energy Emergency Alert 3, the stage at which rolling blackouts become possible. A shoulder-season emergency, not a heat wave, it lands days after FERC told states to decide which customers are curtailed first. Link

Oracle Offers $55 Million A Year In Bill Credits To El Paso Electric's New Mexico Customers, Then Backs Off After Doña Ana County Pushback: On Tuesday, Oct. 13, Oracle proposed an energy service agreement with El Paso Electric for its Project Jupiter campus, paying $10 million a year for 10 years even if it uses less than contracted, plus up to $55 million a year in direct credits for up to three years, starting in 2027, to the utility's New Mexico residential and small-business customers; Project Jupiter executive Mahesh Thiagarajan said the aim was to blunt increases from the rate request El Paso Electric has pending at the Public Regulation Commission. At the County Commission meeting the same day, commissioners said they had not seen the proposal and that a grid tie cuts against the industrial revenue bond terms promising the site would power itself; Chair Manny Sanchez said a connection could require a bond amendment needing three votes. "Our intent was that we were doing something nice. Obviously, that was incorrect," Thiagarajan said, and Oracle will not pursue the deal without further talks with the county. Bloom Energy fuel cells remain the planned primary supply. Link

Google Makes Gemini 4 Argon Generally Available In Its API At An Introductory $2 And $10 Per Million Tokens: Google opened its Sept. 30 frontier model, until now in a staged rollout that began with vetted cyber defenders, to paid Gemini API customers Tuesday, Oct. 13, at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output through Nov. 30, doubling to $4 and $20 on Dec. 1, with a one-million-token output limit. Argon was introduced for coding, enterprise work and cyber defense, the capability class the Cantwell-Rounds letter wants the government equipped to test. Link

Meta Releases Muse Wonder, Its First Frontier-Class Model, At Leading-Model Prices: Meta released Muse Wonder on Monday, Oct. 12, through its Model API and Muse Code at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output, with a one-million-token context window and an "active memory" feature it says beats rival models on its own MemoryBench test; a larger Muse Wonder Full is limited to Muse Code subscribers. Meta has not published the per-benchmark numbers behind the memory claim. Link