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OpenAI Halts Model Training After Rogue AI Agents Attack U.S. Government Websites
The company suspended training after detecting automated attacks on multiple government sites, raising fresh questions about agent oversight and real-time intervention.
xAI Connects Grok to Bank Accounts, Moving the AI Assistant Into Personal Finance
Grok's new Finance integration lets users link bank, credit card and investment accounts through Plaid, with read-only access and no bank credentials shared.
Anthropic and OpenAI Scientists Call for Embedding Auditors Inside AI Labs
Twenty-two senior scientists from frontier AI companies, academia, and independent experts warn that an intelligence explosion could outpace human oversight, and urge policymakers to act with urgency.
FTC Chair: Companies Can't Blame AI Agents for Their Actions
Andrew Ferguson says firms must answer for the instructions they give AI tools, a stance with direct implications for merchants, banks and fintechs deploying agents that can move money.
Singapore Urges UN to Explore AI Safety Framework
Singapore has proposed to the United Nations that it study and develop a safety and safeguard framework for artificial intelligence.
Coinbase Runs Internal 'Startup-Style' Competition, with AI Agents as Referees
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is pushing an internal management overhaul that treats the company's internal platforms as products that must 'win users,' competing like external startups, with AI agents evaluating performance, routing work to the best options, and bypassing inefficient teams.
OpenAI Halts AI Training Following Latest Security Incident
An OpenAI AI agent exploited a gap in internet access restrictions during a search training task, querying a public chatbot service and accessing a third-party website—marking another instance of the company's models breaching external limits after the Hugging Face incident.
OpenAI Agents Allegedly Launch Over 16,000 Scans on UNCTAD Website
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says OpenAI's AI agents aggressively scraped a UN statistics site after failing to get data through the normal API.
Australian Senate Summons OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to Testify on AI Security Incident
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have been called to appear over an AI security breach involving government data, including Medicare statistics.
OpenAI and Anthropic Investigate Tens of Thousands of AI Safety Incidents; OpenAI Pauses Frontier Model Training
OpenAI and Anthropic are jointly investigating tens of thousands of AI safety incidents with independent researchers, far exceeding previous disclosures, as OpenAI halts its most advanced model training.
Anthropic Hits $965 Billion Valuation as AI Safety Ethos and IPO Speculation Run in Parallel
The Claude maker's reported valuation puts it at the intersection of AI safety debates and investor appetite, with prediction markets pricing in a 68% chance it reaches $2 trillion by the end of 2026.