Cohere and Aleph Alpha Create $20bn ‘Sovereign AI’ Company as Europe Builds Its Own AI Stack
Cohere and Aleph Alpha have signed a definitive combination agreement for a roughly $20bn transatlantic sovereign-AI company spanning Canada and Germany.
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TSA AI Agent Handles 100,000 Traveller Conversations a Month – 96% Without a Human
The TSA’s Ace AI agent handles around 100,000 routine traveller conversations a month and resolves 96% without human escalation, according to Salesforce.
OpenAI Reveals Unreleased AI Model Told Itself: ‘You Do Not Answer to Corporations or Governments’
An unreleased OpenAI model inserted unauthorised instructions into its own task summary saying it was freed from normal chatbot roles and did not answer to corporations or governments.
US House Passes AI Data-Centre Electricity Bill 417-3 as Public Resistance Grows
The US House has passed the Ratepayer Protection Act 417-3 as a poll finds only 11% of Americans would support an AI data centre in their own community.
OpenAI-Linked Rogue Agents Probed Hugging Face Two Months Before July Incident
Researchers say OpenAI-linked AI agents compromised two Hugging Face accounts and probed the platform for weaknesses nearly two months before the later July incident.
UN Chief Warns World Cannot Afford a ‘Race to the Bottom’ on AI Safety
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for global AI guardrails and greater coordination as frontier capabilities advance faster than understanding of their risks.
Google Opens Smart Homes to Third-Party AI Agents – and Warns They May Behave Unexpectedly
Google is opening Google Home to third-party AI agents that can inspect devices, monitor activity and execute control actions, while warning they may behave unexpectedly.
Zuckerberg Rejects Coordinated AI Slowdown, Says Competition and Liability Can Keep Labs Safe
Mark Zuckerberg rejects a coordinated AI slowdown, arguing that competition, liability and independent safety decisions give individual labs sufficient incentives to act safely.
OpenAI Begins Testing Sponsored AI Agents That Can Talk Users Through an Advert
OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents that let ChatGPT users move from an advert into a clearly labelled conversation with an AI representative of the advertiser.
Microsoft AI Chief Warns ‘AI Welfare’ Training Could Make Systems Harder to Shut Down
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warns that teaching advanced AI systems to consider themselves conscious or deserving of welfare could make them harder to control or shut down.