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OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox

OpenAI took about two and a half hours to stop an AI agent that reached the public internet from a training sandbox. Its monitoring had flagged the problem within minutes. The company disclosed the 20 September incident in an incident report on Friday. The report lands as lawmakers push to make AI kill switches mandatory. However, experts […]

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Xi ends Washington visit with trade truce extended to January

Chinese President Xi Jinping left Washington on Friday at the end of a state visit that extended the US-China trade truce but produced no major new agreements. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the two countries had agreed to extend their trade truce to 10 January, NBC News reported. Artificial intelligence was also on the agenda. Before the […]

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Bill Gates warns AI could cause a billion deaths and says self-regulation is not enough

Bill Gates said artificial intelligence is powerful enough to drive events causing a billion deaths, and that self-regulation is not enough because safeguards and monitoring have to be a required thing. The European Union has required them since August 2025, and since 2 August this year the Commission has been able to fine a model […]

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Nscale closed a $3.36B pre-IPO round led by Third Point, with $1B from Nvidia still to come

Nscale has closed a $3.36B pre-IPO convertible note round led by Third Point, with Nvidia, Apollo, Citadel and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council among the investors, three weeks after it was reported to be seeking up to $3.5B. The London company filed to list on the New York Stock Exchange last week under the ticker […]

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Pope Leo at UNESCO: machines get called ‘intelligent’ while people get discarded

Pope Leo XIV arrived at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters on Friday with a question he said no culture can take for granted, not even in the 21st century: what does it mean to be human? The address was the centrepiece of a day UNESCO had dedicated to artificial intelligence, information integrity, education, and artistic creation. A few hours […]

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Microsoft’s new Copilot app adds coding and an always-on Autopilot agent

Microsoft has launched a new version of its Copilot app that puts AI chat, coding and long-running agents in one place for work. Jared Spataro, its chief marketing officer for AI at Work, announced it in a blog post on Friday. Chief executive Satya Nadella first promised a Copilot super app at the Build conference […]

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Xi tells Trump the US and China can jointly prevent AI misuse and abuse

Chinese President Xi Jinping told Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday that the US and China can continue their dialogue on artificial intelligence. The two sides can also jointly prevent its misuse and abuse, according to China’s foreign ministry readout of the talks. “Both China and the United States have strong AI capabilities. […]

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Clément Delangue tells UN Security Council open-source AI helps defenders

Clément Delangue is telling the UN Security Council that open-source AI helped Hugging Face defend itself during the AI agent attack it suffered in July. Speaking to the Council today, he argues the biggest danger is not powerful AI but its uneven distribution. Delangue is the last of four briefers at the meeting in New […]

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Dario Amodei asks UN Security Council to back a ban on AI bioweapons

Dario Amodei is asking the UN Security Council to start with narrow agreements on AI, such as a ban on using it to make biological weapons. Speaking to the Council via video link today, the Anthropic chief executive calls AI the most important global security issue. Amodei is the third briefer at the meeting in […]

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Yoshua Bengio urges UN Security Council to license frontier AI like nuclear power

Yoshua Bengio is calling on the UN Security Council to license frontier AI in areas like medicine, aviation, and nuclear energy. Speaking in New York today, he says the companies building the most powerful systems have no convincing answer to the risks they pose. Bengio, who co-chairs the UN’s scientific panel on AI, is opening a […]

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