AI Labs Put Outside Evaluators Inside the Frontier Race

Anthropic has promised independent AI safety evaluators employee-like access, and OpenAI has reportedly agreed to the same principle. Jesse examines what would make that oversight credible, then covers California’s child-safety rules for companion chatbots, critical Check Point VPN fixes, Intel’s first million High-NA EUV wafer passes, the Google Cloud–Accenture deployment push, smarter Copilot reviews and AI-branded phishing. The final section explains what Google’s generally available Agent Development Kit for Kotlin changes for JVM and Android developers. Full transcript: https://www.owenonthenet.com/podcast/2026-09-13/ Sources: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-ai-dario-amodei-d59552edcb27892d8ee4d98a48397706 https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/10/governor-newsom-signs-the-strongest-child-safety-chatbot-and-social-media-laws-in-the-nation https://apnews.com/article/california-social-media-safety-kids-online-harms-6063026d1b54a8537d639605c23aab80 https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2026-012 https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/Action-Required-Critical-Security-Advisory-VPN-Vulnerabilities/m-p/282004 https://www.securityweek.com/check-point-patches-critical-vpn-vulnerabilities https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-foundry/intel-foundry-asml-accelerate-industry-readiness-for-high-na-euv.html https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/2026/accenture-and-google-cloud-deepen-partnership-with-formation-of-new-accenture-gemini-enterprise-business-group https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/google-cloud-races-to-catch-up-in-the-ai-deployment-wars-with-accenture-deal https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-11-auto-resolution-and-analysis-updates-in-copilot-code-review https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/09/10/detect-and-disrupt-ai-themed-attacks-with-microsoft-defender https://developers.googleblog.com/announcing-adk-for-kotlin-10-building-production-ready-ai-agents-in-kotlin-android-and-beyond https://github.com/google/adk-docs/blob/main/docs/get-started/kotlin.md