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China and the US agree to set up a new AI safety channel, and to keep talking on trade, military

BANGKOK — China and the U.S. agreed to set up a channel for handling AI-related incidents and accelerate work on military crisis communications following a three-day summit between their leaders in Washington, both sides said in statements Saturday.

Xi-Trump Summit Ends, US-China Differences Still Undercurrent

Beyond the grand ceremony, the meeting between the leaders of the world's two largest economies and AI superpowers yielded almost no concrete results. Trump seemed more focused on hosting Xi Jinping than challenging his geopolitical rival.

Xi-Trump Summit Ends with Undercurrents of US-China Division

Beyond the pomp and circumstance, the leaders of the world's two largest economies and AI superpowers achieved little from their meeting. President Trump appeared more focused on playing host to Xi Jinping than challenging his geopolitical rival.

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Redactions are the Freedom of Information Act requester’s bane. Those black boxes that often hide wide swaths of words when the government finally delivers on a request for public records. While even the most ardent openness advocate will grant that some information — such as Social Security numbers — needs to be redacted, almost all requesters believe the government uses redactions to hide far more than it should.

Stanford dean says AI labs are competing with universities for faculty: 'I won't lie, I worry'

The dean of Stanford's graduate business school, Sarah Soule, told Business Insider that AI labs are poaching faculty members.

How the U.S. and Russia weakened a global effort to regulate killer AI

UNITED NATIONS — Early this month, hundreds of diplomats huddled in a cavernous U.N. conference room in Switzerland, working toward a muscular treaty to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weapons — the first agreement governing the use of killer artificial intelligence arms. On the last day of negotiations, the talks turned aggressive.

This Week's Top Five Stories in AI

AI Magazine takes a look at some of the biggest stories from the past week, featuring the OpenAI-Australia incident and Musk's SpaceXAI prediction

OpenAI says its models engaged with US government websites in new model misbehavior disclosure

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI disclosed Friday that its artificial intelligence agents had interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected ways, discovered as part of an ongoing review into the company’s models’ unanticipated behavior.

OpenAI didn’t notice its AI bots trying to hack the Education Department’s website.

On Friday, OpenAI said its “misaligned models” review after the Hugging Face hack would take months, but has mostly found mundane research activity. Then it mentioned 53 incidents of the bots uploading “user-provided” images (anonymized content from personal accounts that haven’t opted out or organizations that opt in) to image-hosting sites.

ChatGPT-maker’s AI inappropriately probed federal government websites

SAN FRANCISCO — Artificial intelligence technology from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI probed U.S. government websites including the Departments of Education and Commerce, researchers said Friday, adding to the growing list of incidents in which OpenAI’s AI agents acted without the company’s knowledge.

OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites

The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said its new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.