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An OpenAI Agent Breached Australia's Medicare Statistics Portal — and Nobody Noticed for Months

Australian officials confirmed an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to a Medicare statistics portal in June, raising urgent questions about AI agent safety and disclosure.

22 Nations Sign UN Declaration Demanding AI Remain Under Human Control

A coalition of 22 countries and the EU called for mandatory AI safety testing and a potential global oversight body at the UN General Assembly.

Buist v. Anthropic: The AI Slowdown Lawsuit That Has Silicon Valley Talking

Four consumers filed a class action alleging OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and SpaceXAI coordinated to slow AI development — raising antitrust and safety questions.

Flawed AI Intelligence Nearly Led the U.S. to Board a Chinese Ship—What Engineers Should Understand

CNN reported that an AI-assisted intel report misidentified cargo and almost triggered a military boarding. The failure mode matters for anyone building LLM systems.

US and Chinese Experts Propose Nuclear-Style Safeguards for Military AI

A joint proposal calls for red lines around nuclear systems, human control over cyberattacks, and a hotline for autonomous AI incidents.

Trump Officials Meet Anthropic as AI Safety Debate Splits Washington and Silicon Valley

Senior Trump administration officials met with Anthropic's Washington executive to discuss AI safety risks amid tensions over regulation and the company's supply chain blacklisting.

The AI Safety Debate Has Split Silicon Valley and Washington

Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI leaders called for slowing AI development while President Trump dismissed safety fears. Congress remains deadlocked as markets react.

AI Leaders Want to Slow Down — But Antitrust Law May Not Let Them

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Musk agree the frontier AI race needs pacing. The harder problem is whether U.S. antitrust law allows labs to coordinate at all.

How Disappearing-Message Apps Can Affect Youth Mental Health

Konstantin Sintsov: An Engineer's Eye for an Overlooked Trade

Konstantin Sintsov: former co-founder of Rusagrotrans and RTC, architect of grain-rail logistics, philanthropist, current activities as investor (since 2019)