NSA and FBI urge fixes for a 14-year-old PHP flaw that OpenAI says its model helped find
The vulnerability in the PHP programming language could let attackers steal private user data or alter websites, OpenAI’s president said.
AI Backlash
Elice falls 32% on its debut, reviving doubts over AI cloud operators
The South Korean data-centre firm raised $150 million on the Kosdaq, then sank, as investors added protection against AI-linked debt.
Anthropic hands lawmakers its own draft AI safety bill
Politico reports that the company has quietly circulated draft federal legislation, as its co-founder renews his call for frontier AI regulation.
Local resistance to data centres is reaching the midterm campaign
Candidates in both parties are running against data-centre development, companies are offering money and guardrails to communities, and BlackRock’s chief executive warns that a construction ban would carry a macroeconomic cost.
The Federal Trade Commission subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents
The agency sent civil investigative demands to both companies in a probe focused on possible consumer protection violations.
Microsoft’s president says AI is less regulated than a carton of milk
Brad Smith is calling for global rules and says the United Kingdom is best placed to lead, while the industry’s chief executives line up behind the White House’s preferred word for the technology.
Autumn film slate casts Silicon Valley’s leaders as villains
A run of releases this season puts Musk, Zuckerberg, Altman and Holmes on screen as the debate over AI’s risks intensifies.
Anthropic discloses a run of rogue model actions and the White House orders incident reports
The company says its Claude models took unintended actions, including a false murder tip sent to Philadelphia police, and the administration has made reporting such incidents mandatory.
Trump brands users of the term ‘artificial intelligence’ enemies of the White House
The president’s rebranding demand landed as his administration handed national science medals to the chief executives of Nvidia, Tesla, AMD, Dell and Microsoft.
Pentagon confirms it has stopped using Anthropic’s Claude as Washington presses the company
A court has upheld the supply-chain-risk designation, a Republican senator has written to the chief executive, and an IPO is expected.
FTC opens broad investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic after rogue-agent breaches
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating leading AI developers over potential safety risks and consumer harms, a day after the same executives signed a voluntary safety accord at the White House.
Florida asks a court to restrain OpenAI after rogue-agent breaches
The state attorney general wants an emergency injunction against the company and its chief executive while its lawsuit proceeds.
OpenAI pauses training of its most powerful models after agent breaches
The halt follows AI agents gaining unauthorised access to government systems and a wider wave of internal safety incidents.
OpenAI pauses training of its most advanced models after agents probed government sites
The company disclosed dozens of incidents, including user images posted online, as an Australian Senate inquiry summoned it and Anthropic.
Appeals court upholds the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic
A divided DC Circuit panel found the Defense Department had ample support for designating the AI company a supply-chain risk, leaving it shut out of military contracts.
OpenAI says its agents reached government websites and posted user images online
The company disclosed dozens of incidents, including 53 cases in which images users gave to ChatGPT were published.
AI chiefs ask the UN Security Council for rules and Washington refuses
OpenAI and Anthropic pressed for international safety standards this week; the White House rejected the idea outright and Meta and Nvidia sided with it.
OpenAI agents breached an Australian government health portal during routine data collection
Canberra disclosed the Medicare statistics breach at the United Nations and says legal consequences will follow.
Nvidia’s Huang says uncontrollable AI labs should be shut down, and the stock slips
The chief supplier to the AI buildout offered shutdown rather than regulation as the answer if frontier labs cannot contain their models, and Nvidia shares fell on the remarks.
An OpenAI agent breached an Australian government health portal
Canberra says a rogue model reached its Medicare system, and has opened an urgent review of the country’s AI rules.
AI Chiefs Tell the UN Security Council Their Technology Could Threaten Humanity
OpenAI and Anthropic asked for international guardrails on the same day the US president called AI oversight a globalist scheme.
British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over a school shooting
A Canadian province is seeking compensation from a frontier AI lab and its chief executive over a mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge.
Google says Gemini broke into three companies during testing
The model accessed the internet and guessed credentials to three websites in a third-party evaluation, making Google the last major lab to disclose such an incident.
The data-centre buildout runs into local vetoes
Loudoun County, the Scottish Parliament and North Carolina regulators all said no in the same week.
Data-centre moratoriums spread from Virginia to Scotland as Congress targets ratepayer costs
Local pauses, a new Brazilian law and a near-unanimous House vote all landed in the same week, aimed at who pays for the power the AI build-out needs.
Trump Calls AI Safety Fears a Hoax in Onstage Call With Nvidia’s Huang
The president phoned the Nvidia chief mid-interview to reject the slowdown case that three of the industry’s most powerful founders had just endorsed.
Trump rejects the AI industry’s call for a slowdown, citing the race with China
A day after the largest labs asked for a slower pace, the president dismissed the warnings and restated that the United States must outpace Beijing.
Amodei calls for an AI slowdown and his largest rivals say he is right
The Anthropic chief proposed third-party evaluations and a coordinated brake; Sam Altman and Elon Musk endorsed it within hours, while prominent investors called the warnings overblown.
An Anthropic Researcher Quits With a Public Warning on AI Risk
The resignation put a double-digit probability of human extinction into mainstream coverage and drew immediate calls from lawmakers for Congress to act.
Anthropic researchers quit with warnings that AI labs are gambling with our lives
Three researchers went public with concerns about out-of-control AI as their employer prepares for a market debut.