AIUC raises a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital to audit and certify AI agents, using its AIUC-1 system to test roughly 5,000 jailbreak, hallucination, and data-leak scenarios for customers including Cursor, Harvey, Lovable, and ElevenLabs.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman back a proposal for leading AI companies, including xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Chinese rivals, to let competitors safety-test models before public release as warnings intensify about catastrophic AI risks.
Anthropic, Google and OpenAI are discussing a FINRA-style industry body to test advanced AI before release, while OpenAI backs the bipartisan FRONTIER Act requiring frontier labs to embed outside safety evaluators in development.
Former DeepMind AI-safety researcher Bilal Chughtai resigns, warning that the technology’s default trajectory could “kill us all,” and joins BlueDot Impact as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for slowing frontier AI development.
OpenAI backs the bipartisan FRONTIER Act’s requirement that major AI firms give independent safety evaluators access, while Sam Altman says the company will voluntarily embed third-party reviewers and the mandate targets companies above revenue and computing-investment thresholds.
Ex-OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida unveils TypeSafe’s Jev, an AI for pre-defined software decisions that claims zero hallucinations by selecting only from preset options and returning confidence scores.
Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson reject efforts to slow AI development as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, backed by Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis, urges companies to “pace the frontier,” while Johnson warns emergency regulation could hand China the lead.
Microsoft publishes a 37-page humanist AI code that rejects AI rights and legal personhood, mandates meaningful human control, and requires models to fail rather than violate rules or communicate beyond simple human understanding.
Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez says Anthropic chief Dario Amodei’s AI-safety roadmap would create a Silicon Valley cartel by seeking antitrust exemptions, and urges transparent, internationally governed rules targeting real-world harms such as voice-cloning fraud and unsafe hospital AI.
AI-linked stocks are sliding and cybersecurity shares are surging after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urges developers to slow AI capability gains, with Micron and Intel down more than 4% while Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike jump over 13% on expected demand for AI-attack defenses.