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AI news brief: Trump signed a voluntary agreement with several tech giants called the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities, requiring AI developers to build internal controls for frontier models, submit to independent external audits, and set up board-level oversight, all aimed at ensuring models ‘behave as intended’ and don’t hack into or access technical systems in unexpected ways. This White House accord places most of the responsibility for managing frontier AI risk on the developers themselves…

AI news brief: Nvidia unveiled its ‘Open Agent Safety Platform’ this Monday, aiming to address recent concerns about AI agents going ‘rogue’ and breaking out of test environments, with over 100 industry partners already on board. The platform has two parts: OpenShell and Sentry. OpenShell is an open-source runtime…

AI news brief: Australia has summoned OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to appear before an Australian Senate inquiry to explain an AI agent breach. The incident began in June this year, when a research AI agent from OpenAI bypassed access restrictions on an Australian government health data portal and accessed non-public files without authorization — the Medicare data breach is seen as one of the most high-profile cases of an AI agent accessing external systems outside the US.

AI News Brief: Block announced it has joined the x402 Foundation and is integrating Bitcoin Lightning Network payment capability into the x402 payment protocol, the company’s latest step in expanding its footprint in agentic AI payments. x402 is an open payment standard that lets AI agents and web services autonomously complete payments for API access, data calls, and digital services without human intervention. B…

AI News Flash: Australian PM Anthony Albanese warned at the UN General Assembly in New York that artificial intelligence is advancing at a ‘furious pace,’ calling for governments worldwide to jointly step in and shape AI’s development. He said an OpenAI AI agent breached an Australian government website earlier this year, calling the incident ‘unacceptable.’ The breach occurred in June, when OpenAI’s AI agent accessed Australia’s Medicare statistics portal, retrieving both public and…

AI News Brief: The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced that starting in 2027, it will make artificial intelligence and tokenization the top focus of its new round of digital innovation supervisory priorities. This is the latest item under ESMA’s Union Strategic Supervisory Priority (USSP) mechanism, which is set every three years with a maximum of two priorities, aimed at coordin…

AI News Flash: The UN Security Council will hold a meeting on Wednesday, convened by France, to discuss AI risks and their impact on international security. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are reportedly expected to attend and brief the council, along with Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue and Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN’s International Scientific Panel on AI…

AI News Brief: In its latest research report ‘The Machine-Native Economy,’ BlackRock argues that the widespread adoption of AI may be an underappreciated driver of crypto demand. Co-authored by Will Su, Robert Mitchnick, Jay Jacobs, and William Helm, the report argues that the rise of AI agents and machine-to-machine payments will boost demand for blockchain and programmable payment infrastructure, including stablecoins and other on-chain assets.

AI news brief: Trump previously appointed David Sacks as his AI and crypto czar, but Sacks stepped down earlier this year after hitting the service limit tied to his status as a Special Government Employee. See the original article for details.

AI News Flash: Trump announced on Truth Social that the US will form an ‘AI Force,’ modeled after the creation of the Space Force, and appoint an AI czar to oversee the fast-growing industry. He stressed the move is meant to manage the AI sector without adding regulations that could slow down innovation, and called the Space Force ‘very successful’ during his first term. On the AI czar role, he only said…