AI Might Enable the Next Pandemic. Gene Synthesis Screening Could Stop It. New AIPB article from Emily Grundy.

When are open-weight models too dangerous to release? The US and China both lack answers, writes Kar Mun Nicole Wong.

The Case for an International AI Incident Network With or without the US and China, countries should start coordinating to monitor and prevent AI incidents, write Omer Bilgin, Caio Machado, and George Gor @thefuturesoc

Middle powers should invest in AI verification. Verification technologies could give them more transparency into AI models running domestically, and a way to contribute towards an eventual US-China AI agreement. New AIPB article from Zac Richardson @aisafetysg.

Last week on AI Policy Bulletin, @o_j_a_r from @FLI_org made the case for a UK AI regulator: "A major National Health Service breach involving frontier AI systems before Christmas would not surprise me." Now some news from Australia...

New AIPB article: Would an AI Regulator Really Threaten the UK’s Access to Frontier AI? A well-designed regulator could preserve access for AISI and help the UK defend itself against coming AI threats, writes Oliver Ritchie @FLI_org

New AIPB article: Is the EU AI Act Equipped for a Crisis? The European Commission should support a robust AI evaluator ecosystem in the EU and use its AI Act powers with confidence, writes Eliška Andrš @FLI_org

New AIPB article: Don’t Let AI Audits Become a Box-Ticking Exercise New laws should give AI evaluators deeper access to riskier models, enough time to test them, and a standard way to report their findings. By Alejandro Tlaie Boria, @DeepikaRaman8, Jimmy Farrell & Nada Madkour

Does regulation slow access to frontier AI models? A new @GovAIOrg paper finds the UK and EU have seen fairly modest regulatory delays, and none in the first 5 months of 2026. If the Fable/Mythos saga is any indication, US national security concerns may be the bigger barrier.

New AIPB article: Europe Should Bet on Narrow AI Instead of trying to catch up in general-purpose AI, Europe should play to its industrial strengths, writes Tina Wünn @pourdemain_ngo.