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AI pause is no solution, human control, safeguards key: Thales CEO

Amid a massive global debate on AI risks, Thales Chairman and CEO Patrice Caine has said that stopping the use of artificial intelligence is not the solution, but keeping it firmly under human control is. Calling on tech companies to build in technical safeguards and on governments to put in place a "proper framework" which set boundaries on how such technologies can be used, Caine emphasised that the future impact and outcome of AI would ultimately depend on decisions made by humans. He noted that artificial intelligence has not brought humanity to a stage of existential crisis just yet, but asserted that warnings about its catastrophic risks were important in raising awareness on the issue. In an interview to PTI, Caine spoke on how AI is changing the nature of cyber attacks and cyber attackers, and the urgency for organisations to prepare for the post-quantum era. He also underscored the importance of humans ultimately retaining control over critical decisions. Thales' top boss

A spy's guide to fighting AI-driven propaganda and disinformation

A Russia-backed network called Portal Kombat is spreading disinformation across hundreds of websites to influence AI models such as ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini, according to a former CIA officer

OpenAI admits Australian govt website breach response 'not good enough'

OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon appeared at an Australian Senate hearing, acknowledging inadequate response to June hacking incident into government websites

Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils open AI model to rival Chinese models

The model, called Beam, is designed to perform well for business customers and developers on coding and AI agent tasks while costing less than many competitors

OpenAI's agents possibly tied to data service disruption in May: Wikipedia

Wikimedia said heavy traffic from OpenAI's rogue agents may have contributed to a partial outage of its Wikidata Query Service and led to unauthorized and potentially malicious edits

Anthropic brings in-country Claude inference to India via Amazon Bedrock

Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5 can now process requests within India, giving regulated institutions greater data residency and compliance assurances

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon to testify at NYC hearing on AI

Coxon will appear at request of Council Speaker Julie Menin, who has urged AI whistleblowers to testify as city lawmakers weigh a package of bills aimed at establishing safeguards around technology

Why Brands Need to Become Machine-Understandable: ThatWare Brings Entity Intelligence to the New Era of SEO and AI Search

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OpenAI alerts more than 100 organisations over rogue AI agent activity

The Sam Altman-led company ​has been conducting ​a broad review of the activities of its AI ​models after the accidental hacking of Hugging Face

Trump's AI safety pact revives Biden-era model, but is it enough in 2026?

Trump's voluntary AI safety framework follows a model used under Biden, with leading tech firms agreeing to monitor risks as questions grow over whether self-regulation can keep pace with AI advances

California governor Newsom signs laws to protect workers from AI risks

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws Wednesday aimed at protecting workers from the threats of artificial intelligence, including potential job losses and workplace surveillance. He also signed an executive order to require state agencies to continue to refer to the technology as "artificial intelligence" instead of the term " super intelligence " President Donald Trump recently ordered US diplomats to use. "AI should expand opportunity - not come at the expense of workers and families," the Democratic governor said in a statement. "As this technology reshapes the workplace, California is putting people at the centre." Newsom sharply criticised Trump at an hourlong event with reporters Wednesday for not passing comprehensive federal AI regulations at a time when industry leaders are warning about the technology's risks. Trump said Tuesday that top tech leaders signed a voluntary accord to "self-police" AI development. The governor signed a law this month requiring operators of

Anthropic IPO prospectus lays bare deep dependence on Big Tech partners

The company routed 47% of its sales to customers last year through cloud partners Amazon and Alphabet's Google, according to a copy of its confidential IPO filing

OpenAI unveils 'always-on' AI agents as company pauses model rollout

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced a "remarkably capable, always-on" artificial intelligence agent at an appearance Tuesday, a day after the company halted the rollout of a more advanced model over security concerns. At the company's annual developer conference, Altman made a slew of product announcements and updates, including OpenAI's new agents, called Dots. The agents, designed to complete ongoing tasks proactively on behalf of users, are a competitor of Meta's personal agent Muse, which exploded in popularity after Meta's own conference last week. Dot agents will be "like an AI helper that always has your back, inspired by the cool versions of what we all watched in movies growing up," Altman said. On Monday, OpenAI said it was holding off on releasing the other model because of concerns raised by its researchers. That followed broader calls within the industry to decelerate the pace of the technology's advance to let safety measures catch up. Altman avoided making references to

Nvidia's AI safety platform will not take away agents' autonomy: Palo Alto

Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform uses software and hardware controls to secure autonomous AI agents while allowing them to perform tasks with defined access and permissions

Global AI industry needs to earn $6 trillion to justify data centres: Bain

The report comes as debate intensifies around the as-yet elusive returns for AI service providers

Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing

While public ​companies routinely outline product risks to investors, few, if any, ​have issued warnings suggesting their technology could cause potential human extinction

OpenAI shelves next-gen GPT-6.1 Astra model release over safety concerns

Internal tests found GPT-6.1 Astra showed higher levels of deceptive behaviour and could act beyond the authorised scope of tasks, prompting OpenAI to shelve its planned October launch

AI could cause a billion deaths, safety concerns 'not a hoax': Bill Gates

In a recent interview, Microsoft co-founder said that self-regulation is insufficient and urged US Congress to mandate monitoring and safeguards; he also contradicted Trump's 'just a hoax' statement

Did Anthropic's AI really make a scientific discovery on its own?

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company's AI model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work

Trump confirms meeting with Anthropic CEO, repeats dismissal of AI fears

Trump also reiterated his belief that new regulations would open the door for China to outpace the United States in AI advancement