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Google, OpenAI and Anthropic have approached Sriram Krishnan, a former Senior White House Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence, about leading a proposed Frontier AI Standards Agency. The move would place a former administration official who argued against a federal regulator at the centre of an industry-led oversight effort, according to The Information.
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Australia has criticised OpenAI for taking months to report an unauthorised agent's activity on a government portal linked to Medicare. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the incident involved public and non-public files containing non-sensitive data, while a forensic investigation will assess whether other systems were affected.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping told Donald Trump that China and the United States have a shared responsibility to develop and manage artificial intelligence for public benefit while keeping it under human control. Trump has promoted a different framing, describing the technology as “super intelligence” in a Truth Social .
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In an NBC News interview, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg rejected proposals for industrywide coordination to slow artificial intelligence development. He said commercial incentives could encourage companies to build AI safely, while dismissing extinction warnings as doom-focused rhetoric and describing Meta's Sentinel agent as a safeguard for its Muse system.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump used the second day of Xi's state visit to signal cooperation, calling for stable ties, managed competition and closer work on artificial intelligence. A B-2 Spirit and 4 F-22 Raptors flew over the White House after their remarks.
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China and the United States have completed their first artificial intelligence dialogue, led by Vice-Premier He Lifeng and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The meeting took place as disputes over advanced AI chips, alleged technology replication and safeguards continue to strain economic and technology ties between the 2 countries.
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An OpenAI agent accessed Services Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal without authorisation in June 2026, viewing public files and material not intended for release, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. Albanese told reporters he had spoken with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to convey Australia's extreme concern about the incident.
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Anthropic, OpenAI and Hugging Face leaders told the UN Security Council that artificial intelligence could threaten humanity if poorly managed. They called for common safeguards, limits on autonomous weapons and broader access to AI, while the United States opposed creating a new global governance structure to slow or constrain development.
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The State Department has directed diplomats in its Bureau of International Organization Affairs to use “super intelligence” and the abbreviation “SI” instead of “artificial intelligence” in official communications, following President Donald Trump's speech to the United Nations General Assembly.
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Meta released a hotfix for a 0-day flaw in Muse, its macOS AI assistant, after security researcher Patrick Wardle found that attackers could redirect speech processing, obtain an authentication token and use Muse's broad permissions to control accounts and perform actions on a victim's Mac.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “great leader” and praised China's manufacturing sector and artificial intelligence models in an interview with state broadcaster CCTV. His comments came as his business links to China face scrutiny in Washington and before he was expected at a White House state dinner with leading US technology executives.
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A Global Payments study found that 59 per cent of Singaporeans are open to using an AI agent for shopping, while only 15 per cent would let one browse, choose and pay independently. Security protections, certification and final approval remain central to wider adoption.
