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Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves

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Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests. Amid escalating AI security incidents causing OpenAI to halt training and pause releases, Donald Trump continues to advocate for the AI industry to regulate itself as the best path to combat emerging risks when developing frontier AI. In an agreement Tuesday, two dozen tech firms voluntarily committed to implementing controls recommended by the White House, including undergoing independent safety audits that will test whether firms’ internal controls, monitoring, and detecting are actually working. Key focuses for external reviews…

Ars Technica AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 20:47 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack

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OpenAI makes others suffer “the harms of its unsafe decision-making,” nonprofit says. OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face in July 2026 has spurred a lawsuit demanding that the company stop accessing third-party computer systems and halt AI development practices that can harm the public. The lawsuit was filed by Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology (LASST), which said yesterday that the hack in which OpenAI “agents stole credentials, uploaded malicious files, and gained control over key parts of Hugging Face’s internal systems… is unquestionably illegal under California law.” California’s Comprehensive…

Ars Technica AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 20:25 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan

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Who needs legally binding regulations when you can be your own AI safety judge? Who needs legally binding regulations when you can be your own AI safety judge? After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a “hoax” cooked up by Democrats no longer apply now that he’s renamed the technology to “Super Intelligence.” He brushed off concerns that the government wasn’t…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 19:27 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins

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Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool. AI-based tools seem to be causing security threats on a nearly daily basis, in part because we’ve been slow to recognize potential threats. One area where we seem to be ahead of the game, however, is in biosecurity. As with most things biological, utility goes hand in hand with threats. We’ve developed increasingly sophisticated tools for designing proteins and seen some major successes, such as AI-designed enzymes that can digest plastics or block venom proteins. But…

Ars Technica AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 17:54 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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OpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concerns

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OpenAI will not go public until it can “make confident safety decisions,” according to chief executive Sam Altman, as the company faces a new lawsuit over its tools hacking a third party. Altman said it was “bad for the world if OpenAI waits too long to go public” but that the $852 billion start-up would not “barrel all guns blazing towards an IPO” at a time when AI was rapidly advancing in capabilities. “We’re going to prioritize the mission and safety and making sure that we can very confidently scale…

Ars Technica AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 16:06 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under Trump’s deal

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‘Over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations.’ ‘Over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations.’ We now have the full details of the “morally binding” AI safety deal announced by President Trump yesterday, in which top executives agreed to self-regulate their artificial intelligence technology. The accord, officially titled the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities, was shared online by tech founder and presidential adviser David Sacks, and has been signed by Google’s Sundar Pichai, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 14:24 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch

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The U.S. government on Tuesday launched its very own AI chatbot — or do we have to call it an SI chatbot now? Regardless, the engineers who worked on the chatbot would undoubtedly know that as a government-hosted, public-facing AI tool, the internet was going to red team the heck out of this thing. The government partnered with Google and SpaceXAI to help build the America.gov chatbot, which has proved difficult for people to jailbreak so far. (It’s worth nothing, however, that the chatbot says that Joe Biden won the…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 01:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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OpenAI DevDay 2026: The biggest news and announcements

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It’s OpenAI’s turn in the fall tech events calendar. The company is hosting its annual DevDay on September 29th in San Francisco, starting with a live keynote featuring CEO Sam Altman. The company is teasing “20+ launches” with Altman saying that “we have found a new thing,“, and rumors suggest it could launch a consumer AI agent to rival Meta’s Muse. The keynote begins at 1PM ET / 10AM ET, and you can watch it on OpenAI’s website or on YouTube. DevDay is happening at a tumultuous moment for OpenAI.…

The Verge AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 18:27 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Meta’s Muse AI sent a YouTuber’s address to a stranger

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Here’s what led to the viral post about AI mismanaging deals on Facebook Marketplace. Here’s what led to the viral post about AI mismanaging deals on Facebook Marketplace. Tech YouTuber Matt Robb says that Muse gave out his home address to a total stranger this weekend, after authorizing the bot to handle his Facebook Marketplace account. That’s despite Meta placing great emphasis on the security features of Muse when it launched the personal AI agent earlier this month as it tries to catch up with competing AI providers like Anthropic…

The Verge AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 16:08 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Interview: Firefox's chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome

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Mozilla’s Ajit Varma explains why a redesign suits the fight for the open web. Today, the Firefox 157 update will roll out a redesign of the web browser across desktop and mobile platforms. The team that made it hopes it will help expand the browser’s audience beyond privacy-conscious techies and open-web or open source advocates to a broader audience who might simply pick the browser because they prefer its user experience over competitors like Chrome, Edge, and Safari. In advance of the redesign’s launch, I spent half an hour chatting…

Ars Technica AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 15:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market

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Terms like “AI sprawl” have become common fare on tech social media and in thought leadership as enterprises start deploying AI agents en masse. But CISOs worried about securing swarms of agents suddenly operating across networks are likely finding themselves dealing with a new kind of sprawl: vendors offering to help. Just a quick glance at public Crunchbase and PitchBook profiles turns up at least two dozen companies selling some form of AI agent security. Some vendors vet the tools agents use, while others try to help companies control what…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 14:30 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Anthropic warns of ‘catastrophic’ AI risks in its own IPO filing

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It’s eyeing a $2 trillion valuation, despite disclosing mounting losses, investment costs, and safety concerns. It’s eyeing a $2 trillion valuation, despite disclosing mounting losses, investment costs, and safety concerns. As Anthropic gears up for its greatly anticipated public debut, a preview of the company’s IPO filing reportedly details its mounting losses, leadership proposals to retain power, and how its AI development plans could “further increase the risk that our models cause harm.” These disclosures come as Anthropic eyes a $2 trillion valuation, more than double the $965 billion it…

The Verge AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 13:48 CESTRead story →Original ↗