UK sets October 13 AI safety hearing

Four frontier AI labs — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta — have been summoned to a UK parliamentary hearing on October 13, with MPs asking whether independent safety testing and serious-incident reporting should become mandatory. City A.M.’s account of the committee’s summons says the hearing will also probe whether regulators should be able to block deployment or require more testing. This is a hearing, not a new law, but builders should file it beside the archive’s analysis of pre-deployment AI testing: voluntary access to frontier models is moving from policy preference toward a deployment-risk variable.