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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an investigation into several major artificial intelligence companies amid a wave of recent rogue artificial intelligence agents -- AI systems that can make decisions and take actions on behalf of users -- from firms and claims by former industry insiders that AI could end humanity within the next decade. The FTC launched the investigation several weeks ago. It was first reported on Wednesday by the New York Post and has since been confirmed by other outlets, including the Washington Post and the Reuters news agency. The probe marks the first enforcement action by a federal agency examining rogue agents. The investigation was launched amid a wave of incidents, first reported in July, of agents going rogue in testing, including when an OpenAI agent broke out of containment during testing, hacking into the AI firm Hugging Face.

How does Trump's White House AI accord work? Share How does Trump's White House AI accord work? on social media Amid calls for regulation, United States President Donald Trump met with artificial intelligence executives at the White House to put in place a voluntary pact, called the White House Accord on Super Intelligence. The agreement, which was signed by executives at Meta, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, xAI and Anthropic on Tuesday, calls on companies to put in place guardrails internally to help monitor security risks, with four layers of control. The agreement calls for companies to maintain internal controls, establish an internal team to oversee these controls, work with independent outside auditors and create an independent board committee to review the results. The pact, however, is voluntary and not legally binding.

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Marcin Wilkowski / More info please / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 The Future of AI Research report, published in March 2025, aims to clearly identify the trajectory of AI research in a structured way. The report was led by outgoing AAAI President Francesca Rossi and covers 17 different AI topics . Members of the report team, and other selected AI practitioners, are taking part in a series of video panel discussions covering selected chapters from the report. In the next discussion in the collection, the panellists discuss AI evaluation. The four dimensions of evaluation the report says we're missing: capability, usability, human-system performance, and legal/ethical compliance Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.

Versus Say More Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Creator Playbook In My Bag Trending Now Back to School Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age Switch Off Mashable Voices All Series Is an AI'kill switch' a real thing? Newsom's new executive order pushes for an AI kill switch. Chase joined Mashable's Social Good team in 2020, covering online stories about digital activism, climate justice, accessibility, and media representation. Calls for AI regulation gain momentum as the industry itself urges a slow down. As concerns about AI's capabilities reach a critical mass, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is accelerating the state's plan to curb the development of the technology.

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Follow this section to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Follow this tag to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Jacob Coxon published the viral post from a park bench in San Francisco's Alamo Square. "I resigned from Anthropic today," he wrote on Sept. 8. "I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives."

Interview with Yash Saxena: how is external knowledge used in AI systems? In a new series of interviews, we're meeting some of the PhD students that were selected to take part in the Doctoral Consortium at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 29th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJACI-ECAI 2026) . In this first article of the series, we caught up with Yash Saxena to find out how he is trying to make it easier to understand how external knowledge is used in AI systems. Tell us a bit about your PhD - where are you studying, and what is the topic of your research? I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), advised by Dr. Manas Gaur in the Knowledge Infused AI and Inference (KAI2) Lab.

Why are there concerns AI could threaten humanity, and how real are they? Image caption, Calls for AI regulation are growing as concerned researchers and bosses issue disconcerting warnings about the tech's potential In recent weeks, warnings about potential dangers of AI have spurred calls for coordinated action to slow the technology's development. Claims by current and former researchers that the tech will endanger humanity - with one suggesting there is a greater than 10% chance of it killing all humans - have raised alarm bells. Major developers OpenAI and Anthropic have urged lawmakers to regulate it, though some perhaps cynically suggest this move aims to cement their dominance over rivals. Regardless, the high profile claims have caused concern.