Illinois passes nation’s strongest AI safety bill requiring audits of major labs

The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign.

The USDR and EURR freeze shows how key management, minting controls, audits and redemption confidence define stablecoin credibility.

Anthropic's stance on ethical AI use could redefine government-vendor dynamics, impacting AI policy and market perceptions of AI safety. The post Anthropic says other companies willing to collaborate amid Pentagon pressure appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Microsoft has open-sourced two new tools aimed at bringing AI safety checks much earlier into the agent development lifecycle. The tools, called Rampart and Clarity, were announced this week as part of Microsoft’s broader push to operationalize safety engineering for agentic AI. “We built these tools because we believe that AI safety has to become a continuous engineering discipline rather than a periodic checkpoint, and we think the best way to make that happen is to put practical, open tools in the hands of the people doing the building,” Microsoft’s AI red team founder Ram Shankar Siva Kumar said in a security blog post. The announcement comes as AI agents evolve from chatbot-style assistants into systems with real operational privileges. According to Microsoft, these newer agents introduce risks that traditional application security workflows were not designed to handle, including prompt injection, unsafe tool use, privilege escalation, and unintended autonomous actions. Both Rampa

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Insider Brief Today’s AI safety guardrails may not be enough once robots begin operating around people in the physical world, according to a new study warning that AI-powered machines require far more context-aware safety systems than chatbots. Researchers from University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Oxford, report finding that safety techniques […]

The Elon Musk versus OpenAI trial intensified this week with two significant developments: the emergence of threatening pre-trial text messages from Musk, and testimony from a prominent AI safety expert called by Musk’s legal team. According to a court filing submitted by OpenAI’s lawyers, Musk contacted OpenAI president Greg Brockman two days before the trial […]

In theory, Musk and Altman’s court fight could pose key questions about AI safety – in reality, it’s motivated by money and personal grievance Sign up for the TechScape newsletter: our free technology email Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you from beneath a cherry blossom tree in Prospect Park in New York City. Spring has arrived! Facing AI and a tough job market, gen Z turns to entrepreneurship: ‘I have to prove myself’ Continue reading...