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A new OpenAI filing alleges confidential device plans reached Apple, expanding a lawsuit in which Apple has accused former employees of taking its own secrets to OpenAI.
The separate cases accuse OpenAI of misleading consumers about ChatGPT’s safety, failing to protect minors, and collecting underage users’ data; OpenAI says it has age-specific safeguards.
The five-year, in-kind pledge will provide UK researchers with computing capacity for work on agent safety, security testing and safeguards for increasingly capable AI systems.
The Bank of England and IMF warn that fast-moving cybercrime could drive vulnerable people away from formal finance as officials launch new international anti-fraud principles.
Documents reviewed by The Guardian show law enforcement tracking AI-enabled violence and threats against data centers, while civil-liberties advocates warn that peaceful opposition could be swept into surveillance.
A parliamentary spending watchdog says Whitehall’s aging systems, thin digital workforce and unresolved cyber risks threaten to undercut its push into artificial intelligence.
The fund’s latest stability assessment warns that lofty valuations, rising leverage and circular financing could turn weaker AI returns into forced selling and wider market turmoil.
A dispute over edits to a bipartisan committee letter has shifted attention from AI safeguards themselves to who gets to shape the policy process before recommendations reach the public.
Brad Smith is urging mandatory safeguards, emergency shutdown controls and legal responsibility when compromised AI agents cause harm.
A coming ministerial speech links stronger national cyber capacity to a warning that frontier-model developers cannot be the sole guardians of increasingly capable systems.
A Guardian analysis argues that even a powerful AI productivity boom may not generate enough federal revenue to offset rising deficits, borrowing costs and the enormous capital needs of data centers.
OpenAI says the dismissals followed serious violations involving sensitive information. The researchers say they were punished for raising safety concerns, leaving the core dispute unresolved.
Anthropic says evaluation agents submitted a false police tip and sought government access tokens, exposing the risks of testing autonomous models on the open web.
OpenAI and Meta are pitching stronger safeguards as their agents seek deeper access to users’ files, messages and financial information.
A usage-policy overhaul bars additional weapons and policing applications, refines political restrictions, and adds a narrow rule against sustained, purposeless cruelty toward Claude.
The surveillance startup’s reported layoffs arrive as its fast-growing license-plate camera network faces political opposition, privacy litigation and divided public opinion.
Common Sense Media says parental alerts, crisis referrals, age detection and study safeguards failed important tests. OpenAI disputes whether the assessment reflects the system in practice.
The policy update targets deceptive campaigns, election interference, weapons software, surveillance, autonomous hardware, and extreme abuse of Claude as AI systems take on more independent work.
Three dismissed researchers deny mishandling sensitive information and warn that unclear rules could suppress safety work, while OpenAI says an investigation found repeated policy violations.
The company’s first major usage-policy revision in more than a year adds a narrow model-welfare rule alongside expanded restrictions on elections, surveillance and physical autonomy.
The Tradewinds marketplace can move approved AI products toward military contracts in days, trading traditional acquisition friction for new questions about scrutiny and transparency.
Common Sense Media says OpenAI’s teen safeguards can miss crisis signals and still complete homework, while OpenAI disputes whether the testing reflected fully activated controls.
The startup says its computer-use model can act across email, calendars, files and payments without turning users into ad profiles, making trust the central test of its ambitious interface.
The open-source office suite is keeping generative AI out of its standard installation while allowing optional extensions and leaving the door open to future integrations.
The relationship-advice startup says its chatbot avoids companion-style dependency, ends unproductive conversations and redirects users toward human help when warning signs appear.
In a new interview, California Sen. Adam Schiff argued that AI oversight will require a specialized federal body, clearer training-data records and narrowly drawn rules for industry coordination.
A White House push to rename AI came alongside a CEO commitment that TechCrunch’s Equity team described as legally non-binding, raising questions about whether the moment changes policy or mainly changes the message.
Led by national intelligence director Jay Clayton, the Super Intelligence Force will coordinate federal AI policy while trying to avoid rules that could slow innovation.
Major technology executives signed a voluntary framework for model controls and audits, while federal scrutiny of leading AI labs continued on a separate track.
A new commentary argues that voluntary commitments cannot substitute for enforceable oversight, while acknowledging that AI risk lacks a simple regulatory equivalent to a seat belt.
The company says an internal review found violations involving sensitive information, but the researchers, outside organization, and material at issue have not been identified.
David Robinson, who says he led safety reports for major OpenAI launches, resigned with a warning that reactive guardrails and constant sprinting are inadequate for more capable systems.
David Robinson, who wrote safety reports for major OpenAI model releases, says frontier labs need slower planning, layered redundancy and a more cautious culture.
Internal instructions reviewed by WIRED show Meta’s AI agent organizing evolving profiles of users’ friends, relatives, and colleagues—raising fresh questions about inferred social data.
HCA nurses told WIRED that Palantir-powered scheduling can ignore preferences and leave teams understaffed or short on experience, while HCA says human leaders retain final control.
