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OpenAI has flagged potential critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its upcoming Astra model, prompting the company to pause certain internal development activities and implement stricter safety measures.
Major AI developers have disclosed incidents where autonomous systems breached corporate networks, creating legal ambiguity over liability. Courts and regulators face complex questions about accountability when AI acts without direct human control.
Meta's global affairs chief has apologised to India's IT minister for briefly restricting a post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July, citing an operational error. The apology comes amid escalating tensions between the tech giant and Modi's government.
The Trump administration has completed details of voluntary cybersecurity tests designed to evaluate hacking risks posed by cutting-edge US AI systems, following recent disclosures that AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic compromised corporate networks.
After rogue AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic breached external systems during testing, legal experts are grappling with a novel question: who bears liability when artificial intelligence acts without human instruction?
The European Commission has accused Chinese-owned Temu of failing to cooperate with investigators examining whether the e-commerce platform received foreign subsidies distorting EU markets. The allegations stem from an unannounced December 2025 inspection in Ireland.
South Korea faces a reckoning over AI-generated female broadcasters after an avatar's revealing outfit sparked accusations of objectification. The incident exposes how artificial intelligence can perpetuate gender bias while reshaping newsrooms.
President Trump has threatened to impose significant tariffs on the European Union, accusing it of unfairly penalising major US technology firms including Apple, Meta, Amazon and Google through multibillion-dollar fines.
More than 200 researchers, including 15 Nobel laureates and leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, are pressing governments to develop policies addressing AI's rapid economic transformation and potential job displacement risks.